The King from Ashtabula

The King from Ashtabula
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3961696
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Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The King from Ashtabula by : Vern Sneider

A satire, on some of today's ideas and attitudes, recounting the adventures of a Southeast Asian boy who goes to college in Ashtabula, Ohio, but is called home to be king of the Nakashima Islands.

The Life and Crimes of Don King

The Life and Crimes of Don King
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Publisher : UNET 2 Corporation
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780974020105
ISBN-13 : 0974020109
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life and Crimes of Don King by : Jack Newfield

A new, updated edition of Jack Newfield's hard-hitting unauthorized biography of boxing kingpin Don King, source of the Emmy-winning film starring Ving Rhames. With a new epilogue. Working his way out of a life of street crime and numbers running - and jail time for manslaughter - King rose to become a powerhouse in the fight game, outnegotiated corporate giants, fleeced the treasuries of entire countries, and amassed a vast personal fortune while ruining the lives and careers of some of boxing's greatest champions. The dying words of the man King stomped to death on the streets of Cleveland in 1966 - Don, I'll pay you the money! - became the motif for Don King's ascendancy.

The Image

The Image
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780307819161
ISBN-13 : 0307819167
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Image by : Daniel J. Boorstin

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.

Class Photo

Class Photo
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9781606998861
ISBN-13 : 1606998862
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Class Photo by : Robert Triptow

Robert Triptow stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage and his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly charming, completely original graphic novella Class Photo. Using the photo as a springboard, each student’s fictionalized life is depicted in one-page installments. Triptow weaves these imagined lives in and out like so many dedications in a yearbook, mixing in social satire, elegant cartooning, occasionally disgusting hilarity, and plenty of good, clean fun. What began as a self-motivating formal exercise has yielded one of the more whimsically engaging, original, and entertaining graphic books in recent memory.

American Gas Journal

American Gas Journal
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 710
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105001150957
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis American Gas Journal by :