Disney`s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World, Snow Richard
Автор: Snow Richard Название: Disney`s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World ISBN: 1797103377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781797103372 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 33710.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people "could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever." Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company's finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin. But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it. On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates...and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. Eight hundred million visitors have flocked to the park since then. In Disney's Land, Richard Snow brilliantly presents the entire spectacular story, a wild ride from vision to realization, and an epic of innovation and error that reflects the uniqueness of the man determined to build "the happiest place on earth" with a watchmaker's precision, an artist's conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler.
Автор: Snow Richard Название: Disney`s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World ISBN: 1501190806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501190803 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people "could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever." Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company's finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin. But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it. On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates...and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. Eight hundred million visitors have flocked to the park since then. In Disney's Land, Richard Snow brilliantly presents the entire spectacular story, a wild ride from vision to realization, and an epic of innovation and error that reflects the uniqueness of the man determined to build "the happiest place on earth" with a watchmaker's precision, an artist's conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler.
Автор: Luftig Richard Название: A Grammar for Snow ISBN: 1947021958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947021952 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "A Grammar for Snow" discovers forgotten leaves and honors places; real and imagined. Those fly-over-states and off-the-map places: small towns, cities and farms where people struggle, work and love while quietly living out their lives the best they can.
Автор: Mabey, Richard Название: The Owl and the Snow Cat ISBN: 0701181087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701181086 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 16710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: `One of our greatest nature writers` GuardianFor over fifty years, Richard Mabey has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing.
Автор: Otero Richard Название: How I Got My Snow Cone ISBN: 1480956384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781480956384 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 21150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
When a little boy spends the night with his abuelita, a big storm rolls in, and he hears Boom Rattle Rattle Rattle Thud on the roof all night long. How scary But in the morning he finds something not scary at all: fresh, ripe mangoes that fell during the storm Fresh mangoes that can be made into snow cones
About the Author
Richard Otero was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Waukegan, Illinois. His life is all about faith, family, and friends. As long as you have these in your life, all will be fine.
Автор: Richard Michele, Gray Lindsey Название: Melting the Snow ISBN: 0615940994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615940991 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Powell II Richard A. Название: Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Zombie Infection ISBN: 0615668186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615668185 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Snow Richard F. Название: I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford ISBN: 1451645589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451645583 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 15330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who writes with verve and a keen eye ("The New York Times Book Review"), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new technology: 170 years ago the railroad changed Americans conception of space and time; in our era, the microprocessor revolutionized how humans communicate. But in the early twentieth century the agent of creative destruction was the gasoline engine, as put to work by an unknown and relentlessly industrious young man named Henry Ford. Born the same year as the battle of Gettysburg, Ford died two years after the atomic bombs fell, and his life personified the tremendous technological changes achieved in that span. Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry. In many ways, of course, Ford s story is well known; in many more ways, it is not. Richard Snow masterfully weaves together a fascinating narrative of Ford s rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T. When Ford first unveiled this car, it took twelve and a half hours to build one. A little more than a decade later, it took exactly one minute. In making his car so quickly and so cheaply that his own workers could easily afford it, Ford created the cycle of consumerism that we still inhabit. Our country changed in a mere decade, and Ford became a national hero. But then he soured, and the benevolent side of his character went into an ever-deepening eclipse, even as the America he had remade evolved beyond all imagining into a global power capable of producing on a vast scale not only cars, but airplanes, ships, machinery, and an infinity of household devices. A highly pleasurable read, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford s life, particularly during the intense phase of his secretive competition with other early car manufacturers, "I Invented the Modern Age "shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it."
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