Floyd: 426 books

This book discusses the challenges of running an advertising agency in the early part of the twentieth century and examines the organization and operation of such agencies in great detail. One of the earliest "manuals" on planning and operating an advertising agency, this book was also one...

Do helicopters need more or less energy to stay in the sky than an airplane? What pushes a rocket to leave the atmosphere? Why can airplanes have smaller motors than helicopters? Help your students learn the answers to these and other questions! Written for educators, homeschoolers,...

Want something? Print it–with your own 3D printer!   Right now, you can print practically any 3D object you can imagine–from toys to gadgets to replacement parts, and beyond! All you need is a 3D printer…and they’re simpler and cheaper than you ever imagined. This full-color, step-by-step...

A gentle fancy for the Christmas Season—an oft-told tale with a wistful twistful of Something that left the Earth with a wing and a prayer.

A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...

They lived with professors and waited on former presidents. They were masons and nurses, school teachers and field hands, 246 people owned by a man who struggled with the institution of slavery. Yet, almost no one knows their names. When a white woman begins to study the history of the plantations...

Best anthology of Portland literature ever published. Local interest will be through the roof.

With most sci fi showcasing aliens as either hostile or condescending towards humans, Do Not Pet the Humans wishes to create an anthology geared towards aliens that treat humans as equal, even maybe being as awe-inspired by humans as humans are by them.

Nine tales of horror beginning with a novella about a married couple who decide to move to the country to get away from the pollution, noise and the crime only to find that the peaceful village of Jacobs Crossing has its own secrets and problems. Some of the other stories include: The...

Ames wasnt sure if he was a hired thief or a hired assassin. For this job, he supposed he would be both. He wasnt happy about the arrangements: he was far from home, freezing cold, and teamed with people he neither liked nor trusted. And, this morning, he had found an anonymous note in his coat pocket...

From the darkest places imaginable, both outside and inside the mind, comes 19 tales that will drag you into places you never dreamed of seeing, not even in your worst nightmares. Come along as these tales open up 19 gates into hell and experience the supernatural, the darkness of night, and...

Libri per bambini hanno la funzione di introdurre, nei vostri figli di routine quotidiana, l'abitudine e l'interesse per la lettura. Essi amano incontrare gli animali ed i suoi nomi. Il libro porta 45 animali, splendidamente illustrati, e introdotto dal adorabile Monstro Kid, l'accogliente...

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Written by experts in vocal and holistic practice, the book is divided into four sections:...

Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs...