David Bowers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Discover the tremendous pleasure of learning how to do it yourself-- how to cook, sew, clean, and more, the way it used to be taught in Home Ec class. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy graphics, Hom Ec for Everyone offers a crash couse on learning 118 practical life skills-- everything from frosting the perfect birthday cake to fixing a zipper to whitening a dingy T-shirt to packing a suitcase (the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you had them. Features practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There's a kitchen crash...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There used to be a time when pretty much every high svchool offered Shop class, where students learned to use a circular saw or reqire a busted lamp-- all while discovering the satisfacion of being self-reliant and doing it yourself. Shop Class for Everyone now offers anyone who might have missed this vital class a crash course in these pracrical life skills. Packed with illustrated step-by-step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention. This family's cross-country adventure turns into an experience the Heffleys will never forget.
5) Flushed away
Language
English
Description
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a pampered pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes out of the sink, he desides he had hit the jackpot. Roddy schemes to rid himself of Sid by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, but it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Greg Heffley's dad threatens to send him to military school if he doesn't stay out of trouble, Greg finds all-new ways to land himself in the doghouse! For starters, Greg's in over his head when he pretends to work at the swanky country club where Rowley's family has a membership. Things don't go much better on a father-son camping trip with the Wilderness Explorers, and then there's the Heffley's new dog, Sweetie, who fetches even more trouble...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Did you remember your goggles?
There used to be a time when pretty much every high school offered Shop class, where students learned to use a circular saw or rewire a busted lamp- all while discovering the satisfaction of being self-reliant and doing it yourself. Shop Class for Everyone now offers anyone who might have missed this vital class a crash course in these practical life skills. Packed with illustrated step by step instructions,
...9) Astro Boy
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc includes special features from Diary of a Wimpy kid. Rodrick rules movie. 6 bonus shorts: "My magick summer" by Greg Heffley, "My summer romance" by Fregley, "Beat it, bully" by Chirag Gupta, "My zoo-wee vacation" by Rowley Jefferson, "Water and all that jazz" by Greg Heffley, "Heaven on wheels" by Patty Farrell; deleted scenes with optional commentary by David Bowers; gag reel.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 228 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raye Montague was an ambitious little girl in segregated Little Rock. She grew to be a woman who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she could become the person and professional she aspired to be. Where some saw roadblocks, Montague only saw hurdles that needed to be overcome. Her mindset helped her become the first person to draft a Naval ship design by computer, using a program she worked late...
