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Tom Wolfe
The first Americans in space–Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn–battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in…
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Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed ‘Master of the Universe’. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. This…
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The Bonfire of the Vanities author, Tom Wolfe, ingeniously dissects the turbulent heart of America’s racial vortex in this exhilarating tale of sweltering Miami As the police boat speeds across…
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Tom Wolfe’s genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKER In the…
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"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole…
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Now featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
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Reissued with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of…
As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running.
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Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965.
Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex–all through the eyes of Charlotte Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University.
Tom B Free
The greedy Wolf prowls alone. His schemes -- clever. The bored Shepherd Boy loves tricks. His lies -- sharp. When their worlds collide, a tangled mess of lies unfolds. Will…
Tom Fletcher
Help defeat the Big Bad Wolf in this interactive story from bestselling children's author Tom Fletcher!
Help defeat the Big Bad Wolf in this interactive tale from Tom Fletcher -…
Literary journalist, lowly social historian , chronicler of his times , and champion of realism are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe. In this collection of interviews spanning…
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Tom Velcovsky, Stepanka Sekaninova
Age range 9 to 12
This engaging book for young adventurers features 40 historical discoveries, from tiny artifacts to entire cities, including the people and circumstances behind their uncovering.
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To help carvers with the challenge of carving the head and face, Tom carves busts, about 8 inches tall. One figure is carved step-by-step, with clear color photographs illustrating each…
Bottlestoppers offer a great opportunity for caricature carvers, and Tom Wolfe shows the process in his unique way. Preparing the wood block, carving, painting, and applying the hardware are covered…
Step-by-step instructions for carving an amusing golfing figure from wood, painting it, and displaying it. Full of original personality and a spark of wit, the design will delight all who…
Santimals capture all the charm of the season in a delightful way. Tom takes the reader step-by-step through the carving of the raccoon Santimal, from the pattern to the painting…
These fanciful figures let the imagination run wild. You can make them friendly or sinister, young or old, comic or deadly serious. Tom gives patterns and step-by-step instructions illustrated in…
The almost limitless medium of polymer clay and Toms eye for character and caricature combine to produce some endearing and delightful creatures. Fully illustrated with beautiful color photographs, it takes…
Clowns are the ideal subjects for caricature carvers. They give the carver a limitless variety of faces and situations to create. The only boundaries are the carver’s ability and imagination…
From a caricature Texas Troubadour Humidor to a simply elegant decoy humidor, Tom opens a new range of carving for both novice and experienced carvers. The results are useful objects…
In his own special way Tom Wolfe leads the carver through each step of the carving process. The result is a traditional Santa in stride, heading for the reindeer pen…
A roughout is the start of a carving that skips the first few steps to take you right into the good part. In his friendly, laid-back way, Tom Wolfe guides…
Tom Wolfe guides the reader through the carving of a particularly clever cane, a fancy bird that doubles as a nutcracker. He explains carving, painting, and finishing the piece, as…
Tom Wolfe’s cane carving books have been popular with readers. in this new one, Tom starts with a sapling straight from the hillside and takes the carver through each step…
Tom Wolfe’s Santa Claus carvings have enchanted carvers and collectors alike with their joviality and character. By popular demand, he revisits Old Saint Nick with a carving of the jolly…
After the big Christmas flight, what does Santa do with his spare time? Tom Wolfe has come up with a number of ideas. Over 260 color photographs and easy to…
Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, is on a full scholarship. She learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement…
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Tom Wolf
Carl Wolf and Grace Hecker lived in a changing world, one of acute dislocation, migration, factories, cities, assimilation, and world war. In 1872, Carl was born in a poor mountain…
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who…
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In this book, Tom Wolfe undertakes a provocative first-hand examination, on the ground, of contemporary sacred monsters, the institutions of the age of pop and the protagonists of a new…
Have you heard about Cryptocurrency or Blockchain Technology, but you are still vague about what they are and how they work? Then this book is for you!Blockchain Technology is the…
"Melodies of Identity" is a poignant and powerful memoir that explores the complexities of identity and belonging in a world that often seeks to define us by our differences. The…
Presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity’s complex societies and achievements.
Edward T. Topping IV, the very white, Anglo and Saxon member of a small dynasty the fourth generation of his family to have that name and to have studied at…
Antigua estrella del futbol americano, dueno de un negocio inmobiliario, Charlie Croker ha cumplido los sesenta y tiene una segunda esposa de solo veintiocho anos. Pero su vida se empieza…
In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited…
A retrospective collection of Wolfe’s work, twenty-one essays and extracts, from 1964 to 1981, running through the whole mad circus of his American subcultures - from Surfers, Acid Freaks, West…
In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the ‘lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000’ - everything from…
Tom Wolfe’s second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here…
A captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity’s complex societies and achievements. Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds…
In Hooking Up , Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard…
