Time-travel through the Automobile Age with a collection that puts you in the driver’s seat. 20th Century Classic Cars offers a lush visual history of the automobile, decade by decade, via 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection.
Using imagery culled from a century of auto advertising, this book traces the evolution of the auto from horseless carriage to rocket on wheels—and beyond. With an introduction and chapter text by former New York Times automotive writer Phil Patton, as well as an illustrated timeline, this volume highlights the technological innovations, major manufacturers and dealers, historical events, and influence of popular culture on car design.
A chilling YA thriller told through 21 sealed letters, with the suspense building day by day.
What would you do to bring your sister back from the dead?
After Lucas’s sister mysteriously disappeared ten years ago, his family was torn apart. His mother has been lost in a deep depression ever since, his father has been unable to speak of what happened and Lucas has been trapped in his guilt . . . until he receives a note that changes everything.
Lucas has twenty-one days to find out the truth about what happened to his sister, and save her life . . . . if she really is still alive.
Every action is watched, every choice counted. Can he save his sister without losing himself?
Open one sealed letter each day and experience the mystery as a real-time countdown - or tear through all twenty-one, if you can’t bear to wait.
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In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?
The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change.
Faced with a litany of existential and real crises, are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?
'[Harari] has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century' Bill Gates, New York Times
'21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book' Adam Kay, author of Undoctored