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Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things: How to Make a Boomerang with a Business Card, Convert a Pencil into a Microphone, Make Animated Origami, Turn a TV ... Create Alternative Energy Science Projects
In the third book in Cy Tymony's Sneaky Uses series you will learn how to turn a piece of paper into a Frisbee, a business card into a boomerang, a TV tray into a robot, and more. * Beginning with a complete list of materials and continuing through easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions paired with helpful illustrations, most projects will be completed in just minutes using common items found around the house. * Teachers, parents, scout leaders, and enterprising youngsters will use their ingenuity to turn ordinary, everyday objects into something extraordinary, like a pencil into a microphone, Walkman ear buds into an intercom, or a telephone cord into a motor. The book also includes bonus alternative-energy projects and a foreword by NPR's Science Friday host Ira Flatow. Author's web site: http://wwwsneakyuses.com.
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Breaking Free from Boomerang Love: Getting Unhooked from Borderline Personality Disorder Relationships
Author Lynn Melville believes that people caught in abusive relationships -- whether Borderline or not -- are stuck in the middle of the Grief Cycle. They are unable to move forward to acceptance of the reality of the abuse they're receiving, because their abuser continues to change, back and forth from the person who acts like they love them -- to the person who hurts them. Melville began writing Breaking Free from Boomerang Love for herself, words to help her stay focused on reality. Over time, her writing began to change into letters to others who were still stuck in abuse. Written in a daily affirmation style, readers will re-feel and finish the grieving of their pain, laugh and then watch their denial disappear, achieve a new strength to stand up for themselves, and re-connect and reach for guidance from the God of their understanding..
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The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who contributed to the development of this amazing machine, and pays tribute to the selfless heroism of pilots and crews. A virtual flying lesson and scientific adventure tale, The God Machine is more than the history of an invention; it is a journey into the minds of imaginative thinkers and a fascinating look at the ways they changed our world.
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The American Boy's Handy Book: Build a Fort, Sail a Boat, Shoot an Arrow, Throw a Boomerang, Catch Spiders, Fish in the Ice, Camp without a Tent and 150 Other Activities
Originally published in 1890, The American Boy’s Handy Book is the ultimate collection of timeless boyhood activities Written and illustrated by America's founding father of scouting, this book shows how to have fun while being constructive, creative and daring. The American Boy’s Handy Book is packed with tips, instructions, and illustrations for things boys don't learn while playing video games and surfing the Internet. From making fireworks, shooting arrows, and fighting war kites, to building a raft, riding a sled and training a dog, the author encourages boys to be boys, be active, enjoy some innocent mischief, and develop their self confidence and character (although they probably won't realize these last two are happening). .
Price: $10.85
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The Boomerang Kid: A Novel
"More ably than most any contemporary queer writer, Jay Quinn is crafting novels that neatly integrate gay lives with straight lives. Rich and profound " -Richard Labonte for Book Marks on The Beloved Son Maura Donovan Ostryder is coming into her own professionally and privately as she begins her fifty-first year. Maura has always been the master of her own life and has reared her son Kai to be the same. Unfortunately, life-and especially motherhood-hasn't been as easily managed as Maura would have planned when she became pregnant. Named for the Hawaiian word for "sea," Kai Michael Ostryder, at twenty-seven, is both charming and remote; he has struggled with bipolar disorder from the time he was a child. Creative, dreamy, and utterly impractical, he has a long history of going off the medications that barely control his mental stability and then self-medicating with illegal drugs. As he comes home to Maura, he has spent most of his money on a month's supply of the opiate painkiller Oxycontin. He's fled his complicated emotional attachments to a young man and a young woman, with plans to wean himself off the drug, return to treatment for his bipolar disorder, and get his life back on track from the comfort of "home." Exploring issues of motherhood, addiction, and sexual identity, Jay Quinn continues to bring to vivid life the emotional drama of the modern-day family. Jay Quinn is also the author of Back Where He Started, The Good Neighbor, and The Beloved Son. .
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Boomerangs: How to Make and Throw Them
Since--as it is stated in this outstanding book--each boomerang possesses its own unique character, there is always the feeling of magic each time a new one is made and thrown. With this book, those interested can learn to make nearly every known type of boomerang, learn how to throw them, and add a new area of skill and recreation to their lives..
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The Way Toys Work: The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball, Etch A Sketch, Boomerang, and More
A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club Profiling 50 of the world’s most popular playthings—including their history, trivia, and the technology involved—this guide uncovers the hidden science of toys. Discover how an Etch A Sketch writes on its gray screen, why a boomerang returns after it is thrown, and how an RC car responds to a remote control device. Leaving no detail unrevealed, the guide includes original patent-application blueprints and photos of the “guts” of several devices. Inventors and museum curators also offer their observations of favorite gizmos while dispelling (or confirming) several toy legends. Complete with explanations of do-it-yourself experiments and tips on reverse engineering old toys to observe their interior mechanics, this entertaining and informative reference even provides pointers on how budding toy makers can build their own toys using only recycled materials and a little ingenuity. .
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