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Freaks Out! - Luke Haines - Bog - Bonnier Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Freaks Out! - Luke Haines - Bog - Bonnier Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

'Dividing pop sheep from out-there GOATS with spite and guile, it's part SCUM manifesto, part insane hot or not list.' SUNDAY TIMESThe followers - this book is not for you.The salt of the earth - this book is not for you.The worthy - this book is not for you.The ideologists - this book is not for you.Hedonists and bohemians - this book is not for you.The middlebrow - this book is not for you.The highbrow - this book is not for you.Dilettantes - this book is not for you.1970s middle school RE teachers - this book is not for you.The England football team (women's and men's) - this book is not for you.The litanists - this book is not for you.Gatekeepers - this book is not for you.Gamekeepers - this book is not for you. (Not even for the poachers...)The curators - this book is not for you.The left, the right - this book is not for you.The list-makers - lists are for shoppers not rockers, and this book is not for you.This is not a list - this is a manifesto, and this book is for ... the Freaks.Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock 'n' roll wars - only to lose to the rise of Cool Britannia and TV 'talent' shows that turned the strange and the outsiders into fodder for laughter.In this ultimate celebration of freakdom, Haines tells the story of pivotal freaks - including Johnnie Ray, Gene Vincent, Hank Marvin, Syd Barrett, the Incredible String Band and Big Youth - through the prism of rock 'n' roll and explains how freaks infiltrated wider culture through history in the form of the Cathars, the Ranters, Hells Angels and the Yippies.Part memoir, part manifesto, Freaks Out! is a righteous alternate history of rock 'n' roll.

DKK 211.00
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Feathered Freaks - Declan Peckman - Bog - Smith Street Books - Plusbog.dk

Feathered Freaks - Declan Peckman - Bog - Smith Street Books - Plusbog.dk

A photographic compendium of glorious avian oddities. A visual guide to the most eccentric creatures of the skies, Feathered Freaks captures the most bizarre and beautiful feathered friends from across the globe. From the jaw-dropping red throat of the magnificent frigatebird to the peculiar plumage of the flightless southern cassowary, these pages are filled with truly dumb-looking birds that will turn any frown upside down.

DKK 155.00
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Famous Freaks - Deborah Warren - Bog - Skyhorse Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Famous Freaks - Deborah Warren - Bog - Skyhorse Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Did you know Thomas Edison proposed to his wife in Morse code? Or that the CIA considered covering Castro’s shoes in thallium to get rid of his iconic beard? The strange facts and foibles of history’s famous figures are divulged in Famous Freaks . The book is a fun, bite sized compendium of the weird and unbelievable. Big names—small disclosures. Important historical data—little to none. This book can be picked up and read anywhere, from any starting point. Skim a section or just peruse a page, but you may find yourself hooked after reading a few of the hilariously strange entries inside. Deborah Warren, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review , deals out the strange facts of history’s famous with a poetic style and a sense of humor. The collected details, those which history might rather have forgotten, are given their place in the spotlight. Start from the front, but if it’s not your thing, flip around the pages. There are plenty of Famous Freaks inside .

DKK 155.00
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Freaks of the Heartland - Greg Ruth - Bog - Dark Horse Comics,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Freaks of the Heartland - Greg Ruth - Bog - Dark Horse Comics,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Trevor''s monstrous little brother lives in the barn behind the house. The boy''s only six years old, but he towers over his older brother, and possesses incredible strength. For years, Trevor has looked after his baby brother, keeping him from the light, but now that''s all about to change. His family''s secret is about to be revealed, uncovering the horrible truth of the small Midwestern town the boys have grown up in. Collects Freaks of the Heartland #1-6.

DKK 182.00
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Freaks of Fortune - Jonathan Levy - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Freaks of Fortune - Jonathan Levy - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions—insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets—while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk’s rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one’s own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name “financial services industry.” Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century’s waning faith in God’s providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.

DKK 212.00
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek - Thea Glassman - Bog - Running Press,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek - Thea Glassman - Bog - Running Press,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows ( The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , My So-Called Life , Dawson’s Creek , Freaks and Geeks , The O.C. , Friday Night Lights , and Glee ) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever. The modern television landscape is defined by influential and ambitious shows for and about teenagers. Groundbreaking series like Euphoria , Sex Education , and Pen15 dominate awards season and lead the way when it comes to progressive, diverse, and creative storytelling. So how did we get here from Beverly Hills, 90210 ? In Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson’s Creek , entertainment journalist Thea Glassman takes readers behind the scenes of seven of the most culturally significant series of the last three decades, drawing on dozens of new interviews with showrunners, cast, crewmembers, and more. These shows not only launched the careers of such superstars as Will Smith, Michael B. Jordan, Claire Danes, and Seth Rogen, but they also took young people seriously, proving that teen TV could be smart, revolutionary, and “important”—and stay firmly entrenched in pop culture long after it finished airing. And while many critics insist that prestige dramas like The Sopranos and Mad Men paved the way for television, some of the most groundbreaking work was actually happening inside the fictional hallways of high schools across America in teen shows whose impact remains visible on our screens today.

DKK 229.00
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Freaks of Nature - Mark Blumberg - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Freaks of Nature - Mark Blumberg - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In most respects, Abigail and Brittany Hensel are normal American twins. Born and raised in a small town, they enjoy a close relationship, though each has her own tastes and personality. But the Hensels also share a body. Their two heads sit side-by-side on a single torso, with two arms and two legs. They have not only survived, but have developed into athletic, graceful young women. And that, writes Mark S. Blumberg, opens an extraordinary window onto human development and evolution.In Freaks of Nature, Blumberg turns a scientist''s eye on the oddities of nature, showing how a subject once relegated to the sideshow can help explain some of the deepest complexities of biology. Why, for example, does a two-headed human so resemble a two-headed minnow? What we need to understand, Blumberg argues, is that anomalies are the natural products of development, and it is through developmental mechanisms that evolution works. Freaks of Nature induces a kind of intellectual vertigo as it upends our intuitive understanding of biology. What really is an anomaly? Why is a limbless human a "freak" but a limbless reptile-a snake-a successful variation? What we see as deformities, Blumberg writes, are merely alternative paths for development, which challenge both the creature itself and our ability to fit it into our familiar categories. Rather than mere dead-ends, many anomalies prove surprisingly survivable-as in the case of the goat without forelimbs that learned to walk upright. Blumberg explains how such variations occur, and points to the success of the Hensel sisters and the goat as examples of the extraordinary flexibility inherent in individual development.In taking seriously a subject that has often been shunned as discomfiting and embarrassing, Mark Blumberg sheds new light on how individuals-and entire species-develop, survive, and evolve.

DKK 307.00
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The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth - Chris Brogan - Bog - John Wiley & Sons Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth - Chris Brogan - Bog - John Wiley & Sons Inc - Plusbog.dk

Do you ever wonder where you fit in? Do you sometimes get that feeling that you have something much bigger to offer the universe, but then it fills you with fear and anxiety, so you think maybe I’ll just pay it safe? But what is safe? The factory job? The cubicle job?Factories all over have been converted to open spaces for startups. Skyscrapers have entire floors open for lease because the “same as everyone else” class of jobs have dried up. Many of us were raised to seek out a job that required us to fit in, to conform, to adapt until we fit the mold. The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth is a guide for the kind of person who wouldn’t normally pick up a business book.The personal business revolution is upon us. Here’s your recipe book for starting your revolutionary business, including some of what you will learn: - - How to be as weird as you want while providing a viable business structure to support it - - What most people are missing from the basic frameworks of doing business - - How to turn passions into businesses - - How to build out the Digital Channel - - What Kickstarter and Square mean for the future of business) - Take the plunge. Learn to fail and then win. Dare to do something that “everyone else” doesn’t. The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth will help.Bestselling author and successful entrepreneur Chris Brogan explains step-by-step how to build your business from the ground up, all without compromising the unique mindset and personal values that make you a freak in the first place.

DKK 180.00
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Scary Monsters and Super Freaks - Mike Sager - Bog - Thunder's Mouth Press - Plusbog.dk

Scary Monsters and Super Freaks - Mike Sager - Bog - Thunder's Mouth Press - Plusbog.dk

Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his long-classic Rolling Stone story "The Devil and John Holmes" (which helped inspire the upcoming Val Kilmer film, Wonderland) and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a major film starring Cate Blanchett), Scary Monsters and Super Freaks is a wonderful rogue''s gallery of up-close pieces about the most public failures of the American dream. From Rick James and his drug-fueled detour into white slavery to the life and suicide of porn starlet Savannah, from deep inside the beating of Rodney King and the Heaven''s Gate cult suicides to Chuck Berry''s sexual predilections, this book brings to high-profile true crime a highly identifiable voice and style. Currently Esquire''s Writer-at-Large, Sager takes us along for the ride with a raft of other figures including the late NWA Rapper Easy E. Winner, the FBI agent who fell in love with his informant, and the highest ranking DEA agent to be busted for drug trafficking. This is a brilliant debut collection by one of America''s most respected and stylish crime writers.

DKK 190.00
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Travelers - Brett Riley - Bog - Imbrifex Books - Plusbog.dk

Travelers - Brett Riley - Bog - Imbrifex Books - Plusbog.dk

Falling in love. Evading the authorities. Chasing the rabbits. Now high school sophomores, the self-styled “Freaks” are back in class in quiet Quapaw City, Arkansas. They grapple with the ordinary challenges of everyday teen life: cliques, cars, and crushes. While everything appears normal on the surface, looks have rarely been more deceiving. A secret government task force—fully aware of the unusual powers the Freaks have acquired—is determined to capture them. Even as the mysterious Baltar Sterne shares ancient wisdom and offers hope, a new menace silently emerges in the woods outside of town. Clever, inexorable, and far more lethal than the Freaks’ first superhuman foe, this traveler from another world possesses powers that can only be described as godlike. The Freaks and their town will be tested in horrific ways they are powerless to predict or even imagine.

DKK 159.00
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Freakery - - Bog - New York University Press - Plusbog.dk

Freakery - - Bog - New York University Press - Plusbog.dk

A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal. Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.

DKK 278.00
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Junior High Horrors Vol. 1: Freaks & Geeks - Rob Potchak - Bog - Keenspot - Plusbog.dk

Junior High Horrors Vol. 1: Freaks & Geeks - Rob Potchak - Bog - Keenspot - Plusbog.dk

Horror archetypes mashed up with a Saturday Morning cartoon and sent back to middle school! Featuring special lettering meant to improve reading for people with dyslexia, as seen on ABC's Localish . This all ages horror parody brings you back to junior high school and all the craziness around it, from visiting King Stephen's Petting Zoo, to The Walking Flu, all the way to beans and their effects on bellies. These kids live life and bond through not fitting in, and show that you can win while looking like a cinematic monster. Virtually every page includes a classic movie "Easter Egg" for Moms and Dads to enjoy as well! Created and written by Rob Potchak with art by Eric Kent and Billy Parker, this volume collects comic book issues #1-6 of Junior High Horrors -- five original stories of weirdness, friendship and overcoming adversity. Features industry first "Dyslexia friendly" lettering as seen on ABC's Localish .

DKK 197.00
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Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome - Luke Jackson - Bog - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome - Luke Jackson - Bog - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Part of the Reading Well scheme. 27 books selected by young people and health professionals to provide 13 to 18 year olds with high-quality support, information and advice about common mental health issues and related conditions.Winner of the NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children''s Book Award 2003Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of emotions, transitions and decisions and when a child has Asperger Syndrome, the result is often explosive.Luke has three sisters and one brother in various stages of their adolescent and teenage years but he is acutely aware of just how different he is and how little information is available for adolescents like himself.Drawing from his own experiences and gaining information from his teenage brother and sisters, he wrote this enlightening, honest and witty book in an attempt to address difficult topics such as bullying, friendships, when and how to tell others about AS, school problems, dating and relationships, and morality.Luke writes briefly about his younger autistic and AD/HD brothers, providing amusing insights into the antics of his younger years and advice for parents, carers and teachers of younger AS children. However, his main reason for writing was because "so many books are written about us, but none are written directly to adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. I thought I would write one in the hope that we could all learn together".

DKK 198.00
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Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome (ASD) - Luke Jackson - Bog - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome (ASD) - Luke Jackson - Bog - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Luke Jackson''s unabridged and sparkling sequel to his best-selling user guide to adolescence Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome is the must-read handbook for teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum. With devastating clarity, Luke focuses on the pitfalls involved in navigating the transition to adulthood, and the challenges of adult life. He covers everything from bullying and drugs to socialising, sex, negotiating relationships, and finding and keeping your first job.

DKK 224.00
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Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome (ASD) - Luke Jackson - Bog - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome (ASD) - Luke Jackson - Bog - Jessica Kingsley Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Luke Jackson''s unabridged and sparkling sequel to his best-selling user guide to adolescence Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome is the must-read handbook for teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum. With devastating clarity, Luke focuses on the pitfalls involved in navigating the transition to adulthood, and the challenges of adult life. He covers everything from bullying and drugs to socialising, sex, negotiating relationships, and finding and keeping your first job.

DKK 228.00
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