Author: Michael Hunt
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: tales, amusing, turkeys, perfect
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2003-10-27
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0595295622
ISBN-13: 9780595295623
Perfect Turkeys is the second in a series of books, that examines (through short stories) the often hilarious, and always funny life and times of Michael Devin Hughes. Whether searching for the Perfect Turkey for Thanksgiving, or trying to locate the Fig Queen’s House in Brewster Hollow, or reserving a hotel room with a chain hotel, Michael Devin Hughes complicates the most simple of tasks. Though quadruple-divorced, Hughes maintains relations with his ex-wives and children, as the short stories, "Dancing With My Daughter," "A Walk at Sunset With My Son," and "Chief of Personal Appearanc
Author: J. Cabell Brown
Publisher: Goldstein Press
Keywords: city, arizona, recollections, amusing, calabazas
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1443709026
ISBN-13: 9781443709026
Calabazas, Or, Amusing Recollections Of An Arizona City, By J. Cabell Brown. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Authors:Neil Postman, Andrew Postma,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: show, business, discourse, public, ourselves, death, amusing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014303653X
ISBN-13: 9780143036531
Originally published in 1985, Neil Postmans groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic mediafrom the Internet to cell phones to DVDsit has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining controlof ou
Author: Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: techniques, nontoxic, housekeeping, gardening, useful, amp, bread, beheaded, thistles, amusing, slug
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-05
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0767905423
ISBN-13: 9780767905428
Off with their heads!Many homemakers and gardeners take the easy way out when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs--they use toxic chemicals that may be harmful to their families and the earth. Ellen Sandbeck has discovered that the all-natural alternatives are just as easy and effective to use, and that they are wickedly fun. Sandbeck’s way of banishing thistles from her backyard kingdom is a case in point: she chops off their heads and lets them bleed to death. Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles reveals all of her best tricks. From bedroom to bathroom, garden to lawn, your home
Author: John F. Kasson
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: century, american, island, coney, million, amusing
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1978-08-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0809001330
ISBN-13: 9780809001330
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America’s changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he ampli
Author: Charles J. MacColla
Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
Keywords: breach, promise, law, amusing, pages, glance, considerations, history, social, added
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 1993-10
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0837724457
ISBN-13: 9780837724454
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