Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Robby the taxi is a very special cab. He is special because he has dyslexia. Even though he has trouble reading the street signs, he has a wonderful memory and does a great job driving his passengers around the city. One day, a customer asks him to go somewhere he's never been before... the airport! Follow Robby as he uses his unique outlook and creative skills to find a solution to this surprise challe...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist...

Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Suzy the taxi is starting a new job. She has ADHD, which means she sometimes gets distracted. She doesn't let this challenge stop her from being the best sightseeing cab in the city though! Follow Suzy as she discovers a unique, creative, and fun way to do her job well.Printed in a dyslexia-friendly font, this lively picture book invites toddlers, early readers, and primary school students to di...

Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Robby the taxi is a very special cab. He is special because he has dyslexia. Even though he has trouble reading the street signs, he has a wonderful memory and does a great job driving his passengers around the city. One day, a customer asks him to go somewhere he's never been before... the airport! Follow Robby as he uses his unique outlook and creative skills to find a solution to this surprise challe...

Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Suzy the taxi is starting a new job. She has ADHD, which means she sometimes gets distracted. She doesn't let this challenge stop her from being the best sightseeing cab in the city though! Follow Suzy as she discovers a unique, creative, and fun way to do her job well.Printed in a dyslexia-friendly font, this lively picture book invites toddlers, early readers, and primary school students to di...

In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes frauds, debunks ideals, binds communities, starts arguments, and evokes unconscious fantasies. It has been a central literary genre since ancient times, and has become especially popular and provocative in recent decades. This new introduct...

This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore ...

In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. ...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, the never-fully-told, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, the long-running reality series that catapulted him to the White House.Here for the first time is the definitive untold story of Donald Trump’s years as a reality TV star. Trump himself ...

**A singular, warm-hearted, and inspiring look at life from beloved writer, critic, and pundit Roger Ebert—and the inspiration for the award-winning documentary."A captivating, moveable feast." —New York Times Book Review"Thoughtful, entertaining, and emotional." —Entertainment Weekly**Roger Ebert was the best-known film critic of his time. He began reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times in1967, and was the first film critic ever to win...

A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology and much more.For years, the Chicago Tribune's "10 Things You Might Not Know" column has been informing and entertaining readers on a diverse range of subjects. This volume collects the best of these columns, offering readers obscure, fascinating facts on universal topics that will appeal to everyone from sports fans ...