The Golden Spanner
The Golden Spanner

Author: Ian Hill-Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780976128991

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This novel is a dramatic human saga of the lives of Brian & Julie from 1937 to 1964. From their exciting escapes from Singapore to Brian's heroic Air Force career and his infidelity. His involvement with Mario Cidini during & after the war when building up his business to the point of near collapse. Drawn into Mario's scheme to export stolen gold, Brian seeks his old friend Bill Brady who is in charge of intelligence. Learning that the main mission is the importation of drugs to which Brian is abhorrant they plan Mario's downfall This leads to an exciting chase through the Pacific Islands where nearly all their team including Julie are kidnapped. Excitement---War---Drama---Infidelity---Drugs A page turner that will keep you up at night.

The Golden Spanner
The Golden Spanner

Author: Ian Hill-Smith

Publisher: Nightengale Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781933449258

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The Golden Spanner is a dramatic human saga of the lives of Brian and Julie, from their exciting escapes from Singapore to Brian's heroic Air Force career and his infidelity. He becomes involved with Mario Cidini during and after the Second World War, while building up his business to the point of near collapse. Drawn into Mario's scheme to export stolen gold, Brian seeks his old friend Bill Brady, who is in charge of intelligence. Learning that the main mission is the importation of drugs, which Brian finds abhorrent, they plan Mario's downfall. This leads to a hair-raising chase through the Pacific Islands where nearly all their team, including Julie, are kidnapped.

Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle
Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle

Author: Philip Dodd

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1326191071

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On the planet Ankor, Klubbe the turkle lives as a hermit. A marine mishap inspires him to be an inventor. His inventions and explorations change his life, his entire planet. Turkles are close cousins of turtles. Unlike them, they have yellow golden skin and back shells, walk on their hind legs, have the gift of language, and the ability to create their own culture. The life of Klubbe may read like a light-hearted science fiction story, but it actually happened to him. Princess Corka thinks his invention is sublime. Ubbtosh, the pyramid priest, promises to guide him to the core of the cosmos. In space, there are no sign posts, he finds, but there are other beings. And on Ankor, there are mysteries to be solved. Is the Great Glom more than a myth? And what about the Great Archy Eopta?

National Express
National Express

Author: Peter Robinson

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 139811362X

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Published in partnership with the company, this illustrated book celebrates 50 years of National Express.

Dear Popsy
Dear Popsy

Author: Eric Bishop-Potter

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1783061596

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Welcome to St Cloud’s, an exclusive public school where the boys prefer rouge to rugger and bondage to bunsen burners. Here, courtesy of new boy Basil Leaf and the postcards he writes to his long-suffering father, you’ll meet the ‘criminally pretty’ Gemini Tarqquogan, who paints his nails scarlet and wears frocks and feathers; Courtney Durham, who runs up curtains on his sewing machine; Hugo Bletchworth, keen on leatherwear and flagellation; Father Absolute, Basil’s gin-swilling Father Confessor; Rory O’Brien, St Cloud’s rugger coach and Courtney Durham’s ‘close companion’. Then there are Basil’s camp followers, so to speak: Nipper Thompson, a spirited jockey sacked by his guv’nor for wearing earrings at the morning gallop; Maurice Le Vere, a former ballet dancer and owner of The Last Faerie, a notorious watering hole; Sir Geoffrey Grassington, a local magistrate and the proprietor of a palace of pleasure, wherein Basil and his chums bring comfort to wealthy gentlemen of unusual tastes, until the men from MI5 move in... Dear Popsy is an outrageous, madly comic book, brimming with zip and exuberance. Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame, said: ‘Very, very funny, wonderful turns of phrase, carries on where Decline and Fall left off, I think I am jealous.’* And Goodreads’ reviewers have given it five-star ratings. Dear Popsy was first published by Andrew Deutsch and later by Penguin. This is the third edition of this popular book

ANT FARM: LIVING ARCHIVE 7
ANT FARM: LIVING ARCHIVE 7

Author: Felicity Scott

Publisher: Actar D, Inc.

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1638409404

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Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¨super-radical activist environmentalists.¨ Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline, as well as Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout (1969) and an archival dossier on Ant Farm's Truckstop Network (1970-1972). The Ant Farm architects produced experimental works on the "fringe of architecture" (1968-1978) and were influential video artists. Felicity D. Scott is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and a founding editor of Grey Room.

Ant Farm 1968-1978
Ant Farm 1968-1978

Author: Constance Lewallen

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0520240294

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This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective that brought us Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, and The Eternal Frame. Established by several young renegade architects in 1968, Ant Farm was a collaborative art and design group eager to bring to its practice a revolutionary spirit more consistent with the times. Its vision encompassed creations for a nomadic lifestyle, including inflatable structures and radical environments that culminated in projects such as the organically appointed House of the Century and the unrealized aquatic edifice The Dolphin Embassy. Ant Farm 1968-1978 explores the sweeping career of this inspired and inspiring visionary collective as its architectural projects broadened to embrace a range of undertakings that challenged the visual architecture of image, icon, and power. Constance Lewallen provides an in-depth, anecdotally rich interview with founding members Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier. An essay by Michael Sorkin gives the multivalent cultural context for Ant Farm's radical architecture. Steve Seid takes a comprehensive look at Ant Farm's influential videotapes. Caroline Maniaque's "Searching for Energy" details the group's inflatable structures in relationship to contemporaneous architects working in a similar vein. The catalog also includes a substantial excerpt from Chip Lord's 1976 meditation on car culture, with a new epilogue; a graphically playful timeline recounting Ant Farm's essential art projects; and a rich montage of images and ephemera capturing the humor, originality, and prescience of this feisty enterprise. A joint publication with the Berkeley Art Museum

Leonora Bolt: Eco Engineer
Leonora Bolt: Eco Engineer

Author: Lucy Brandt

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2023-04-20

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0241622093

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Book 3 in the LEONORA BOLT: SECRET INVENTOR series Leonora Bolt makes amazing gadgets from any old junk. And her inventions have already stopped villainous Uncle Luther TWICE, though she hasn't rescued her super-scientist parents from him - yet. Leonora and her pals find clues that lead them to Luther's latest evil plan. It's an amusement park called Brightworld built in a desert, under a massive snow globe - and it's terrible for the environment! But when all their fancy-pants gadgets fail in the hot-hot heat, it's down to Leonora to use her eco-engineering imagination. Can she invent something to shut down Brightworld and save her parents - before there's a meltdown? With nothing but courage and Leonora's trusty tool belt to hand, the gang must battle swirling sandstorms, navigate plunging canyons and finish Uncle Luther...FOD GOOD! Praise for LEONORA BOLT: 'A hilariously silly adventure' - The Guardian 'Fizzing with fun, friendship and fabulous inventions!' - Maria Kuzniar, author of The Ship of Shadows 'A joyous story' - i

Distributed Computing
Distributed Computing

Author: David Peleg

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0898714648

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Gives a thorough exposition of network spanners and other locality-preserving network representations such as sparse covers and partitions.