Is Fred Dead?
Title | Is Fred Dead? PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Baer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | People with disabilities |
ISBN | 9780805964448 |
Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes and the Good Luck Circle
Title | Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes and the Good Luck Circle PDF eBook |
Author | Frank McKinney |
Publisher | Health Communications Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-02-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780757313820 |
Bestselling author Frank McKinney boldly enters young reader fiction in this deeply imaginative fantasy sure to race and gladden the hearts of all readers. The story was inspired by the more than one thousand walks to school the author has shared with his daughter and her friends in real life. Come along with them into the imaginative world of Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes, and the Good Luck Circle! Thirteen-year-old Ppeekk (pronounced 'Peekie') finds a very small, very flat, very dead fish. When he comes to life in her hand, he has an amazing story to tell. In the brilliant underwater world called High Voltage, manatees talk, starfish sing, and practical-joking clownfish encourage children to launch their lunchboxes off the bridge. Now the fiendish Megalodon, a fifty-foot prehistoric shark, has laid siege to High Voltage and dethroned King Frederick the Ninth (whom Ppeekk calls "Dead Fred"). The monster reigns amphibiously under the old drawbridge with his army of crabs and blood-red remora fish, whose suckers drain victims' joy and imagination. Ppeekk hides Dead Fred in the only safe place she can think of: the usher's coat room at church. As she grows to know Fred, she learns to trust and love him. Unlike her parents, he listens to her and counsels her. Dead Fred trusts Ppeekk, too. In fact, he has a big favor to ask. Can she help him save High Voltage from the evil Megalodon? Ppeekk and her friends use everything they've got to lure the evil beast to his demise—exploding coconut bombs, strangler fig lassos, even themselves as human bait—to vanquish Megalodon and his rogue army. In the climactic scene, they fight the battle of their lives in a Category-5 hurricane . . . Will they be able to save Dead Fred and High Voltage? Read Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes, and the Good Luck Circle to find out!
Fred
Title | Fred PDF eBook |
Author | Posy Simmonds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780140509656 |
Drop Dead Fred
Title | Drop Dead Fred PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 103 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Comedy films |
ISBN | 9781556585678 |
A young woman who has just split from her husband returns to her childhood home and discovers her childhood imaginary friend, Fred.
Merchants of Doubt
Title | Merchants of Doubt PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Oreskes |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2011-10-03 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1408828774 |
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
Dead Fashion Girl
Title | Dead Fashion Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Vermorel |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2023-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1907222081 |
A crime and a six-decade cover-up: the death of a fashion designer in the cesspit of vice and violence that was 1950s London. In 1954, Jean Mary Townsend was strangled with her own scarf and stripped of her underwear but not sexually assaulted. The subsequent police investigation was bungled, leading to a six-decade cover-up, ensuring that this twenty-one-year-old fashion designer was effectively killed twice: first bodily, and then as her significance and her memory were erased. Fred Vermorel's forensic, troubling (and trouble-making) investigation digs deep into Jean Townsend's life and times, and her transgressive bohemian milieu. It disentangles the lies and bluffs that have obscured this puzzling case for over half a century and offers a compelling solution to her murder and the official secrecy surrounding it. More than just a true crime story, Vermorel's investigation deploys Townsend's death as a wild card methodology for probing the 1950s: a cesspit of vice and violence, from coprophiles to bombsite gangs and flick knives in the cinema. Densely illustrated with archival material, Dead Fashion Girl is a heavily researched, darkly curious exposé of London's 1950s society that touches on celebrity, royalty, the postwar establishment, and ultimately, tragedy.
Red Fred's Dead
Title | Red Fred's Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Angelo La Jolla |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2017-05-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1525507281 |
This is a highly entertaining, fast -moving, vibrant account of the life of a man who didn't always take the obvious pathways, but always made the most of the pathways he found himself along. This book offers a great deal of colorful detail about the boy's earliest days as a hardscrabble kid growing up in a big California family, through his high-spirited youth and all through his adult years, including great swaths of thrill-seeking time spent in South and Central America. We meet a great many characters from his life and are privy to the various escapades in which the lot of them engage.