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Author: Bruce Watson
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780142003534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the man who invented the Erector Set.C. Gilbert was all of these, but he made his name by refusing to grow up.
Author: Barry Lyga
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0547076347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his follow-up to "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl," Lyga delivers a disturbing, ripped-from-the-headlines novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher.
Author: Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2000-10-24
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780801865268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo previous collection of criticism has focused on gender in the broad range of children's literature. No previous collection has embraced both children's literature and material culture. Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men? How do the socially scripted plots for boys and girls change through time and across cultures? Have critics been blind to what women write about "masculine" topics? Can animal tales or doll stories displace tired commonplaces about gender, race, and class? Can different critical approaches—new historicism, narratology, or postcolonialism—enable us to gain leverage on the different implications of gender, age, race, and class in our readings of children's books and children's culture?
Author: Patrice Farameh
Publisher: Editions Tectum
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789076886329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighly customized accessories, esthetic electronics and extraordinary engines are presented in over 400 pages of this beautifully illustrated book. From private submarines to diamond-encased USB sticks and MP3 players, the highly personalized characteristics of each object is what gives it that luxury aura. The Most unique luxury products created exclusively for those status-seeking consumers where money is no object are showcased in this stunning book.
Author: Bill Adler
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: 2006-12-11
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0814429734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe key to understanding men is in understanding how they relate to their gadgets. Just because they may seem to show more interest in their computers...or their remote controls...or their fancy watches or their power mowers or their stereos...doesn't mean that their toys are really the most important things in their life. In Boys and Their Toys, bestselling author Bill Adler, Jr. explains how men use toys to assert their independence and freedom, relieve stress, connect to their lost childhood, and even express their nurturing side (without having to admit it). Written in Adler's fun, humorous style, the book reveals how women can: * learn how a man's interest in particular ""toys"" can be used to predict his behavior * know when a guy's passion for gadgets crosses the line into obsession and what to do about it * take advantage of the human-gadget relationship to improve the human-human relationship. Smart and funny, Boys and Their Toys helps readers understand what makes their men tick...and grow closer with them in the process.
Author: Thomas W. Holland
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you're like most of us, the mailman's annual delivery of Sears, Roebuck and Company's Christmas Catalog was a holiday event in years past. Most American children watched the mailbox carefully for those wondrous old catalogs. They were chock full of childhood fantasies... enough toys, dolls, trains and bikes to make any kid start writing his or her letter to Santa Claus. That's probably why the nickname "Wishbook" stuck. And if you grew up during the Baby Boomer years of the Fifties and Sixties, there's big news. Those lost Wishbook pages full of wonderful toys targeted to boys have been reproduced in Boys' Toys, an exciting new book containing authorized reproductions of the very best boy-toy pages from 1950 through 1969. Boys' Toys and its companion book Girls' Toys are two in a series of Sears catalog re-issues covering the spectrum of toys, dolls and other popular collectibles of the Fifties and Sixties. This 8 fi x 11 softcover book's 192 pages illustrate hundreds of now-collectible toys. All the best are represented: Lionel trains, Marx playsets, Remco's "Toys for Boys" G.I. Joe, Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks... all the way to Sixties space-age robots, rockets, and flying saucers! Included too, is a year-by-year commentary on the toys, their manufacturers and historical relevance. So put on your Davy Crockett coonskin cap and settle in for hours of fond childhood memories. Boys' Toys is fun reading for anyone... male or female... toy fan or not. It's an invaluable reference source for serious collectors and history buffs, too. -- Jam-packed with warm and happy childhood memories. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations with accompanying commentary -- A "must have"reference volume for all toy, antique and memorabilia enthusiasts
Author: Cara Lockwood
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1460334388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery girl has a goody drawer. Sex toy party hostess Liv Tanaka has a collection. Vibrating purple rabbits, cherry-flavored edible underwear, flavored oils… Hey, wearing a leather corset and stilettos (while selling dildos) pays the bills. Just don't tell her very conservative parents. Because if they discovered Liv's sex-toy-selling "Asian Elvira" alter ego, her parents would disown her. So far, Liv's doing a bang-up job of keeping her two worlds separate…until Porter Benjamin shows up at her party. Tall and too-tasty-to-resist Porter, who works for her father. Porter, who wants Liv to host a party just for him. And oh, she's tempted. But getting involved with Porter means mixing those two worlds that Liv desperately needs to keep separate. And now Liv's Naughty Toybox is starting to look a lot like Pandora's box….
Author: Will Self
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0747539065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a collection of short stories that explores the 'muddy foreshore and abysmal depths' of the human psyche.
Author: Roger Horowitz
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415929332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Sonya Hartnett
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2013-11-20
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1743483252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest-selling author Sonya Hartnett writes a beautiful children's fable about love and acceptance, suitable for children 4 and older. One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. It could do anything! But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy. Was it really the best toy in the world?
