Where the Hell Is Tesla? a Novel

Where the Hell Is Tesla? a Novel
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Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0692370668
ISBN-13 : 9780692370667
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Where the Hell Is Tesla? a Novel by : Rob Dircks

"I found the journal at work. Well, I don't know if you'd call it work, but that's where I found it. It's the lost journal of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors and visionaries ever. Before he died in 1943, he kept a notebook filled with spectacular claims and outrageous plans. One of these plans was for an "Interdimensional Transfer Apparatus"--That allowed someone (in this case me and my friend Pete) to travel to other versions of the infinite dimensions that make up the multiverse. Crazy, right? But that's just where the crazy starts." [back cover].

Welcome to Hell World

Welcome to Hell World
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Publisher : OR Books
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781682192153
ISBN-13 : 1682192156
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Welcome to Hell World by : Luke O'Neil

When Luke O’Neil isn’t angry, he’s asleep. When he’s awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author’s words, a “fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory.” It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you’re likely to read anywhere.

Tesla

Tesla
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Publisher : OR Books
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 1682192822
ISBN-13 : 9781682192825
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Tesla by : Michael Almereyda

Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations - vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art - enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.

The Invention of Everything Else

The Invention of Everything Else
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780547085777
ISBN-13 : 054708577X
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invention of Everything Else by : Samantha Hunt

Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.

Power Play

Power Play
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781984898241
ISBN-13 : 1984898248
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Power Play by : Tim Higgins

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road. Tesla would undergo a hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals—pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers. Musk often found himself in the public’s crosshairs, threatening to bring down the company he had helped build. Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, breakdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of impossible wagers and unlikely triumphs, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of innovators beat the odds—and changed the future.

The Wrong Unit

The Wrong Unit
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 173301795X
ISBN-13 : 9781733017954
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The Wrong Unit by : Rob Dircks

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HUMANS ARE SO CRANKY ABOUT. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over a thousand calories per day, and they're allowed to mate. Plus, they have me. An Autonomous Servile Unit, housed in a mobile/bipedal chassis. I do my job well: keep the humans healthy and happy. "Hey you." Heyoo. That's my name, I suppose. It's easier for the humans to remember than 413s98-itr8. I guess I've gotten used to it. Rob Dircks, bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla?, has a "unit" with a problem: how to deliver his package, out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to guide him. Oh, and with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. It's a science fiction tale of technology gone haywire, unlikely heroes, and the nature of humanity.

In the Matter of Nikola Tesla

In the Matter of Nikola Tesla
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Publisher : Diversion Books
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9781938120916
ISBN-13 : 1938120914
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Matter of Nikola Tesla by : Anthony Flacco

A fictionalized story of a true-life genius that “reads . . . like one of John le Carr[é]’s espionage novels” (New York Journal of Books). This account of the inner life of Nikola Tesla—arguably the most influential inventor in history—is a work of speculative fiction that reveals a genius whose greatest desire was to share his inventions with the world. It offers a compelling portrait of his passionate side, especially his secret love for his muse Karina, a woman no one else can see who brings him life-altering inspirations. Tesla’s love and obsession with Karina are the forces driving his work and motivating him in the face of a doubting world. Tesla maintains a loner’s life while working alongside some of the greatest financial and scientific powerhouses of the age, and faces constant temptation to stray from Karina and his life’s work. This portrait of a larger-than-life genius brings to light his very human side. “Flacco does an admirable job of showing us a man who was sometimes the brilliant, prescient Master—the man with an eidetic memory—and sometimes the helpless dupe of lesser, venial men. . . . A beautifully crafted handling of a difficult—and not always sympathetic—subject.” —Historical Novel Society

You're Going to Mars!

You're Going to Mars!
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1733017941
ISBN-13 : 9781733017947
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis You're Going to Mars! by : Rob Dircks

Rob Dircks creates a near-future filled with family, pop divas, mobsters, and the world's first trillionaire -sending them all on a scifi odyssey/comedy/love story/adventure that'll change their world forever.

Tesla's Attic

Tesla's Attic
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Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781423155126
ISBN-13 : 1423155122
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Tesla's Attic by : Neal Shusterman

After their home burns down, fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. When Nick opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's just the beginning of his weird experiences with the old junk stored up there. After getting rid of the odd antiques in a garage sale, Nick befriends some local kids-Mitch, Caitlin, and Vincent-and they discover that all of the objects have extraordinary properties. What's more, Nick figures out that the attic is a strange magnetic vortex, which attracts all sorts of trouble. It's as if the attic itself has an intelligence . . . and a purpose. Ultimately Nick learns that the genius Nikola Tesla placed the items-his last inventions-in the attic as part of a larger plan that he mathematically predicted. Nick and his new friends must retrieve everything that was sold at the garage sale and keep it safe. But the task is fraught with peril-in addition to the dangers inherent in Tesla's mysterious and powerful creations, a secret society of physicists, the Accelerati, is determined to stop Nick and alter destiny to achieve its own devious ends. It's a lot for a guy to handle, especially when he'd much rather fly under the radar as the new kid in town. Fans of intrigue, action, humor, and nonstop surprises are guaranteed a read unlike any other in Tesla's Attic, Book One of the Accelerati Trilogy.

Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential by Doing Less

Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential by Doing Less
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Publisher : Goldfinch Publishing
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : 0615659268
ISBN-13 : 9780615659268
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential by Doing Less by : Rob Dircks

It's the self-help book you've always wanted. The one that tells you're fine just the way you are - and that you can probably get away with doing even less. It sounds like a paradox, I know. But just look at the mighty sloth, who makes no excuses for who he is - and becomes everything he needs to be. And now it's your turn. Take a nap instead of mowing the lawn. Save yourself a few steps and jaywalk. Save yourself a few pen strokes and replace your signature with an X. Make life easier, and you'll find that you'll be just as lovable, productive or unproductive as you would've been anyway - but without all the unecessary stress and guilt. Now THAT'S what I call reaching your potential!