Author : Aaron Reynolds
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1580891500
One hot summer day, a man who makes sculpture out of junk helps a boy create what he sees in his mind's eye.
Author : A. Craig Copetas
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1497626285
This true story of the multibillionaire who fled to Switzerland “reads like a mystery novel” (USA Today). How did Marc Rich make over ten billion dollars while paying hardly any taxes? Journalist A. Craig Copetas infiltrated the inner circle of the commodities market and Rich’s associates to show not only how the metals and minerals trader pulled off the scam, becoming one of America’s most wanted criminals, but also how other traders have used the same model to evade taxes as well. A continuing figure of controversy even after his death, Rich, a hedge fund manager and the founder of Glencore, was wanted for evading almost ninety million dollars in taxes and if caught, could have spent life in prison. From a former staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Metal Men is a story of international intrigue spanning the globe, from the inside of the White House to the Kremlin, a brilliantly researched work that exposes the inner workings of one of country’s largest scams. “Mr. Copetas is at his best evoking the high-stakes, fast-paced life of the commodities traders: the greed and corruption that consume them are the stuff of high drama.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : Ollivier Dyens
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2001-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262262422
A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
Author : Christopher Rowley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 142994904X
Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the theme, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine. Following the explosive events of book one, Pleasure Model, Detective Rook Venner, Mistress Julia, and Plesur are on the run from the government troops trying to kill them and from a shadowy group that wants to capture Plesur alive for its own purposes. What secrets have been implanted in Plesur's head—and why are they worth killing for? Caught between these two powerful rivals, the trio hides out in the lawless New Jersey territory. Betrayed by gang members looking to collect the bounty on Plesur's head, the three are separated, and Rook and Mistress Julia find themselves in mortal danger. Julia, given as a prize to a gang member, finds herself in chains, but not without her own means of fighting back. Rook, forced to fight for his life in the gang's bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, must stay alive long enough to rescue Plesur, but time is running out. The Bloodstained Man is a fast-paced, adrenaline-filled ride through a future where pleasure has a price, and Plesur holds the key to a secret that could rock the country to its very core. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Robert Kanigher
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781401238674
One of the most colorful super-hero teams of the early 1960s, the Metal Men are six shape-shifting robots whose personalities are based on their metals: Hot-tempered Mercury, timid Tin, thick-headed Lead, etc. Invented by eccentric scientist Dr. Will Magnus, the team is ready to give their all - including their artificial lives - to protect mankind. In these tales, never before reprinted in color, the Metal Men take on the Gas Gang, including Helium, Oxygen, Chloroform and more, save lives at the "Playground of Terror," try to stop the deadly rain of "The Missile Men," and battle Chemo, a giant, human-shaped vat filled with deadly chemicals.
Author : Dan DiDio
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
It’s the final issue in this epic adventure with Doc Magnus and the Metal Men! Is there more for the Metal Men out there in the world that can give them purpose? And what’s the fate of Nth Metal Man, belonging neither on his world nor ours? Everything will be answered, including some unanswered questions Tina has for Magnus!
Author : Dan DiDio
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
After Platinum finds out that she is based on a real woman Magnus used to know in college, she sneaks away to search for her human counterpart…and learns the twisted reason for why she “loves” Magnus so much. Meanwhile, back at Magnus Mountain, Nth Metal Man seems to have some bigger plans of his own with someone else from the Dark Multiverse…
Author : Dan DiDio
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 177951302X
The Metal Men are back! And back and back and back again, as we take a deep look into Doc Magnus’s lab as he experiments with what it means to be sentient. Meanwhile, a mysterious liquid Nth metal has appeared in the science site at Challengers Mountain that appears to have come through from the Dark Multiverse-and will destroy anything that stands in the way of it trying to stay in our world! As Magnus, Gold, Platinum, Iron, Lead, and Mercury rush to Dr. Jenet Klyburn’s aid, one of them will meet their fate at the hands of the Nth Metal Man! Collects Metal Men #1-12.
Author : Richard Preston
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The story of Nucor's billion dollar gamble to build a steel mill in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Author : Duncan Rouleau
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Androids
ISBN : 9781401222123
Gold, Platina, Mercury, Iron, Lead, Tin and Copper are the amazing androids who combine their unique abilities--and clashing personalities--to fight for justice under the watchful eye of their creator, Doc Magnus. But within the "responsometers" that give them life lies an ancient weapon that can control the very fabric of the world. To keep their scientific secret, Magnus and his Metal Men must mine a mother lode of villains.
