Author: Harry Bruce
Publisher: Douglas Gibson Books
Keywords: famous, writers, fetishes, foibles, fright, page
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 077101712X
ISBN-13: 9780771017124

A witty round-up of writers’ habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, HemingwayAt public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All the great writers are here — Dickens, dashing off his work; Henry James dictating it; Flaubert shouting each word aloud in the garden; Hemingway at work in cafés with his pencil. But pencil or pen, trusty typewriter or computer, they all have their advocates. Not to mentio

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: foibles, firsts, american, presidents, families, fates, trivia, revised, updated, feats, presidential
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2009-02-19
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1423606019
ISBN-13: 9781423606017

Presidential Trivia The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated From the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book-Presidential Trivia. In it you’ll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our tallest?

Author: Robert W. Lucky
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Keywords: engineers, foibles, feats, strikes, lucky
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1993-01-04
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0780304330
ISBN-13: 9780780304338

""" Lucky’s book... makes me laugh again and again...""--Bill Moyers, Public Affairs Television, Inc. Bob Lucky, author of the widely acclaimed ""Reflections"" column in Spectrum magazine, provides a humorous, nostalgic collection of ten years worth of his own reflections on typical situations engineers encounter during their careers. Spiced with 20ew anecdotes and personal experiences, LUCKY STRIKES...AGAIN takes good-natured gibes at corporate bureaucrats while offering some not-so-subtle advice on ways to circumvent the bureaucracy and gives the bureaucrats some hints on when to

Author: Benedict le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Keywords: bradt, guide, britain, travel, foibles, follies, eccentric
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1841621226
ISBN-13: 9781841621227

A guide to offbeat people, places, and events in Great Britain.