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Published: 2012
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ISBN-13: 9780867198508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Blab World' defies description - neither book nor magazine, it is simply a work of art. Over the last decade, 'Blab!' has accrued countless design awards and honours. Founded in 1986 by acclaimed Chicago-based graphic designer and art director Monte Beauchamp, it has evolved from a comic into a printed keepsake.
Author: Monte Beauchamp
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780867197464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlab World No.1 defies description - neither book nor magazine, it is simply a work of art. Over the last decade, Blab! has accrued countless design awards and honours. Founded in 1986 by acclaimed Chicago-based graphic designer and art director Monte Beauchamp, Blab! has evolved from a digest-sized comics magazine into a beautifully designed and printed keepsake.
Author: Monte Beauchamp
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: 2023-06-06
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 150673524X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBLAB!—the Harvey Award-winning anthology of cutting-edge comics, art, and culture—has returned to its comics roots with a stellar lineup of contributors. Noah Van Sciver depicts the tragic demise of Crime Does Not Pay editor Robert Wood. Ryan Heshka recounts the rise and fall of Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. Sasha Velour portrays the making of film director F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Children’s book illustrator Giselle Potter examines Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter’s passion as a naturalist. Illustrated articles include the history of the gorilla and a report on UFOs. All this and much more in Comics and Stories That Will Make You BLAB!
Author: Ryan Honeyman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1626560447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Business as a Force for Good Join a Growing Movement: Learn how you can join more than 1,000 Certified B Corporations from 80 industries and 35 countries—led by well-known icons like Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's and disruptive upstarts like Warby Parker and Etsy—in a global movement to redefine success in business. Build a Better Business: Drawing on interviews, tips, and best practices from over 100 B Corporations, author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman shows that using business as a force for good can help you attract and retain the best talent, distinguish your company in a crowded market, and increase customer trust, loyalty, and evangelism for your brand. More than 1,000 companies from 80 industries and 30 countries are leading a global movement to redefine success in business. They're called B Corporations—B Corps for short—and these businesses create high-quality jobs, help build stronger communities, and restore the environment, all while generating solid financial returns. Author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman worked closely with over 100 B Corp CEOs and senior executives to share their tips, advice, and best-practice ideas for how to build a better business and how to meet the rigorous standards for—and enjoy the benefits of—B Corp certification. This book makes the business case for improving your social and environmental performance and offers a step-by-step “quick start guide” on how your company can join an innovative and rapidly expanding community of businesses that want to make money and make a difference.
Author: Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995-02-23
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0195357760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.
Author: Drew Gerber
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Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780989457507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntrepreneurs can t afford to get stuck! And when they do, they need fast, simple, practical tools to get them out of the quicksand. In his entertaining book, Destination Aha!, Drew Gerber takes you from the hot pots of Crestone, Colorado to the not-so-well-marked alleyways of Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he discovers and shares the basic truths about getting yourself un-stuck in both life and business and how to listen to the universe to avoid that 2 by 4 upside the head! Chemical engineer turned PR whiz Drew Gerber knows that sometimes you can t think your way, work your way, or avoid your way out of stuckness. He offers fresh, new perspective to get you out of stuck and on to your next aha! In Destination Aha! You ll discover: -That the mind is not such a wonderful thing when it s running around in its own traps and what to do about it. -How to discover your life purpose without tea leaves, agonizing soul searching, or yet another costly seminar (Hint: you might find it in Starbucks). -When new technological bells and whistles are really the answer or when that good ol additional human resource is a better bet. -The keys to a successful, productive, satisfying business that gives back to you as much as it takes out of you! Grab your copy today to begin a life of ever-expanding aha s!
Author: Brendan Mathews
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 0316382205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal follows three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal). June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past. When Tom Cronin, an erstwhile assassin forced into one last job, tracks the brothers down, their lives begin to fracture. Francis must surrender to blackmail or have his family suffer fatal consequences. Michael, lost and wandering alone, turns to Lilly Bloch, a heartsick artist, to recover his decimated memory. And Martin and his wife, Rosemary, try to salvage their marriage and, ultimately, the lives of the other Dempseys. Meanwhile, with the Depression receding, all of New York is suffused with an electric feeling of hope, caught up in the fervor of the World's Fair and eager for good times after a decade of deprivation. From the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the opulent Plaza Hotel, from the garrets of vagabonds and artists in the Bowery to the backroom warrens and shadowy warehouses of mobsters in Hell's Kitchen, Brendan Mathews brings the prewar metropolis to vivid, pulsing life. The sweeping, intricate, and ambitious storytelling throughout this remarkable debut reveals an America that blithely hoped it could avoid another catastrophic war and focus instead on the promise of the World's Fair: a peaceful, prosperous "World of Tomorrow." One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal following three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal) "A masterfully crafted novel . . . Comic, violent, and moving in equal measure."-John Irving "As rich and raucous as the city it celebrates."-O., The Oprah Magazine "Admirably fearless . . . Mathews has talent in buckets."-New York Times Book Review
Author: Drew Friedman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1560979143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comical collection of of Jewish comedian portraiture is a sequel to 2006's wildly successful Old Jewish Comedians, which earned Friedman raves from Jerry Lewis, Howard Stern, The Believer,Entertainment Weekly and many more, and earned Friedman his own roast at New York's legendary Friar's Club. This all-new collection includes the famous (Woody Allen, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Soupy Sales, etc.), the not-so-famous (Jerry Stiller, Zeppo & Gummo Marx, Larry Storch, Zero Mostel, etc.) and the largely unknown (Molly Picon, Herbie Faye, Jan Milton, etc.). The Reuben Award-winning Friedman, one of the great caricaturists of his age, presents a thorough visual history of the 20th Century's greatest Borscht-Belt comedians.
Author: Paul Buhle
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2005-04-17
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781844675258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vibrant history in graphic art of the Wobblies, published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Author: Greg Clarke
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0062696394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen’s beer brewing to James Joyce’s passion for Guinness to E.B. White’s cure for writers’ block—a dry martini—by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp. “The tools that I need for my trade are simply pen, paper, food, tobacco, and a little whiskey.” —William Faulkner “I keep a dictionary, a Bible, a deck of cards and a bottle of sherry in the room.” —Maya Angelou “A writer who drinks carefully is probably a better writer.” —Stephen King Throughout history, there has been no greater catalyst for creativity among writers, so they claim, than a good, stiff drink. In this graphic volume, the authors take us on an unforgettable literary bar crawl, packed with historical factoids, anecdotes, booze trivia, and fascinating detours into the lives of our favorite writers, along with literary-themed cocktail recipes such as Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and Philip Larkin’s Gin and Tonic set to verse. For the literary-minded drinker, whether wine, gin, vodka, beer, whiskey, or tequila is your elixir of choice, A Sidecar Named Desire will whet your appetite. Bottoms up!
