Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets (Andy Warner's Oddball Histories, 1)

Did you know that 32 pigeons have received medals for wartime valor? And a dog named Laika was the very first creature in space? Did you know that there is an island in Japan entirely overrun by bunnies? And -- for a brief time -- rats adorned with ribbons were a popular lap pet in upper-class London? In Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets, you can find out more than you ever thought possible about creatures both cute and weird, both large and small, while discovering new stories about human history from the perspective of our animal companions. Did you know that bees communicate with each other using special dances? Or that a popular anime called Rascal the Racoon may be largely responsible for Japan's huge raccoon population? Packed with incredible facts and charming stories like these, this is the perfect book for curious readers.

Children's Books

Warner, Andy

Animals

Little, Brown Ink

<div>The bestselling author of Brief History of Everyday Objects explores the animals we love, the ones we make use of, and the ones that make use of us in this hilarious, informative mix of storytelling and factbook.</div> <div> <div>Did you know that 32 pigeons have received medals for wartime valor? And a dog named Laika was the very first creature to orbit the Earth? Did you know that there is an island in Japan entirely overrun by bunnies? And -- for a brief time -- rats adorned with ribbons were a popular lap pet in upper-class London? &nbsp; In Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets, you can find out more than you ever thought possible about creatures both cute and weird, both large and small, while discovering new stories about human history from the perspective of our animal companions. &nbsp; Did you know that bees communicate with each other using special dances? Or that a popular anime called Rascal the Racoon may be largely responsible for Japan's huge raccoon population? Packed with incredible facts and charming stories like these,&nbsp;this is the perfect book for curious readers.</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div>

Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds: How Plants Made Our World (Andy Warner's Oddball Histories, 2)

History

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects is a graphic tour through the unusual creation of some of the mundane items that surround us in our daily lives. Chapters are peppered with ballpoint pen riots, cowboy wars, and really bad Victorian practical jokes. Structured around the different locations in our home and daily life―the kitchen, the bathroom, the office, and the grocery store―award-nominated illustrator Andy Warner traces the often surprising and sometimes complex histories behind the items we often take for granted. Readers learn how Velcro was created after a Swiss engineer took his dog for a walk; how a naval engineer invented the Slinky; a German housewife, the coffee filter; and a radical feminist and anti-capitalist, the game Monopoly. This is both a book of histories and a book about histories. It explores how lies become legends, trade routes spring up, and empires rise and fall―all from the perspective of your toothbrush or toilet.

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Picador

An intimate graphic memoir by a New York Times–bestselling writer about his semester abroad in Beirut as he grows close to a crowd of mostly LGBTQ students, and suffers a mental breakdown while the city erupts into revolution.
"An evocative memoir" ―Joe Sacco
In 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different cultures and embracing the freedoms of the multicultural city. Warner and his friends party, do drugs, and hook up, even as violence breaks out in the city―the scars of a fifteen-year civil war reopening with a series of political assassinations and bombings. As the city descends into chaos and violence, Warner feels his grasp on reality slowly begin to slip as he confronts traumas in his past and anxiety over his future.
Illustrated in beautiful and intricate detail, Spring Rain is an absorbing and poignant graphic memoir of a young man’s attempt to gain control over his life as well as a portrait of a city and a nation’s violent struggle to define its future.

Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

St. Martin's: Griffin

"A fun, intriguing book that is sure to please a variety of readers." –School Library Journal The stories of 30 self-made places around the world: Tired of your country's bad politics? Feeling powerless to change things? Start your own utopia instead! This nonfiction graphic novel collects the stories of 30 self-made places around the world built with a dream of utopia, whether a safe haven, an inspiring structure, or a better-run country. These are the empowering and eccentric visions of creators who struck out against the laws of their homelands, the approval of their peers, and even nature itself to reshape the world around them. <ul>
<li>Travel around the globe, from the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands to the Indian rock garden of Nek Chand, the micronation of Sealand to the pirate-founded, anti-slavery community of Libertatia. </li>
<li>Organized into 5 chapters: intentional communities, micronations, failed utopias, visionary environments, and strange dreams. </li>
<li>Andy Warner is the New York Times bestselling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects. </li>
</ul>
Fans of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Bryan Caplan's Open Borders will love the graphic novel This Land is My Land. The hope that tomorrow will be better than today is shared universally and depicted through the stories of people who were dissatisfied with the status quo, so they chose to build something better. <ul>
<li>Makes a great coffee table book and a starter to interesting, thought-provoking conversations</li>
<li>Extremely fun and informative to read and share</li>
</ul>

This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States (Graphic Novel, World History Books, Nonfiction Graphic Novels)

Dam, Sofie Louise

Chronicle Books+

An analysis of multi-classing between anarchist and nerd identities, No Gods. No Dungeon Masters. provides an adventurous peek into the world of one â€œun-elected bastard ambassadorâ€ for two cultures that rarely overlap. The full-color comic gorgeously reflects how radical leftist values and geek predilections can inform one another, the weird things it makes you do, and the struggle to feel comfortable in either community. Io and Rachel Dukes deliver a funny and thought-provoking comic sure to be a (critical) hit (get it?) with anarchists and Dungeons &amp; Dragons fans alike.

No Gods. No Dungeon Masters.

Clast, Io

Silver Sprocket

Este libro es una colección de entretenidas e hilarantes tiras cómicas sobre el origen de muchos objetos y productos de uso cotidiano, como el cepillo de dientes, el Monopoly, el Tupperware, el té, las bicicletas o la famosa historia de la invención casual de los post-its, entre otros. El libro está dividido en secciones correspondientes hogar, como el cuarto de baño, el salón, la cocina y los dormitorios, o a la calle, como la cafetería, la tienda de alimentación, la oficina, el bar, entre otros lugares. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAward-nominated illustrator Andy Warner traces the surprising and sometimes complex histories behind the items we often take for granted. Readers learn how Velcro was created after a Swiss engineer took his dog for a walk and how a naval engineer invented the Slinky, among many other whimsical histories.

Historia breves de objetos cotidianos / Brief Histories of Everyday Objects (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Ediciones B.

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Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets (Andy Warner's Oddball Histories, 1)

Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets (Andy Warner's Oddball Histories, 1)

Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds: How Plants Made Our World (Andy Warner's Oddball Histories, 2)

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects

Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions

This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States (Graphic Novel, World History Books, Nonfiction Graphic Novels)

No Gods. No Dungeon Masters.

Historia breves de objetos cotidianos / Brief Histories of Everyday Objects (Spanish Edition)