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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad students, and their salvation has arrived in this witty look...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pinball's history is America's history, from gambling and war-themed machines to the arcade revolution and, ultimately, the decline of the need to leave your house. The strangest thing about pinball is that it persists, and not just as nostalgia. And pinball didn't just stick around-it grew and continues to evolve with the times, reflecting the zeitgeist of every era it passes through. Somehow, in today's iPhone world, a 300-pound monstrosity of wood...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a story about a young boy and his journey into the world of anxiety. In there, he must face his fears – a scary monster called Boo who keeps telling him that bad things will happen and that the world is full of hatred and rage. Like most of us would the boy first tries to escape. To run away from it. But no matter how much he struggles the monster is always there. Exhausted and terrified the boy stops doing all the things he loves to do....