Author: Leigh H. Irvine
Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
Keywords: courts, follies
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 1987-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0837722403
ISBN-13: 9780837722405

Author: John Phin
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: science, follies, seven
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0766141969
ISBN-13: 9780766141964

1906. A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them, so which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions and marvels. The author presents a simple account of the problems which have occupied the attention of the human mind since the beginning of time in a method utilizing simple language and avoiding the use of mathematical formula.

Author: Gilbert Sorrentino
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: follies, lunar
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1566891698
ISBN-13: 9781566891691

"If it were possible, after reading a book as excoriatingly funny and purifying as Lunar Follies, to engage once again in the blurb business; if I didn’t feel, as I always do after reading the great Gilbert Sorrentino, unsure of my every word, I might say this to you: Lunar Follies is an hilarious, playful, and protean book, resplendent with the qualities that have made Sorrentino a writer like no other. He’s learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino’s books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional

Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Picador USA
Keywords: follies, brooklyn
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 2010-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312941579
ISBN-13: 9780312941574

 National Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore--a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom had begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom’s boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman--a.k.a. Harry Dunkel--once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Br

Author: Paul D. D.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: follies, amp, friends, family
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2009-07-16
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1438997671
ISBN-13: 9781438997674

GRAB A BOWL OF POPCORN, GET YOUR FAVORITE BEVERAGE AND SETTLE IN FOR A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT ONE MAN’S FAMILY THAT HAS MORE "NUTS AND SCREWS" THAN A HARDWARE STORE.

Author: Gwyn Headley
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: america, follies, architectural
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1996-04-26
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0471143626
ISBN-13: 9780471143628

An illustrated guide to 130 of the most unusual and madcap structures in America No, this is not a book about musicals or extravagant floor shows, but rather structures that are not ordinary buildings. These are edifices that transcend the banal, the commonplace, the simply utitlitarian. They are constructions of character dignified by the name of folly. Architectural follies spring from those most human emotions: vanity, pride, passion, and obsession. There’s the replica of the grotto of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Maryland. There’s the house built of glass bottles at the entrance t

Author: Justin Rosenberg
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: theory, globalisation, follies
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2002-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1859843972
ISBN-13: 9781859843970

Rosenberg argues that fashionable preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions among globalization theorists: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their arguments the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become. After first looking at the broad field of international relations, Rosenberg submits Anthony Giddens’s influential The Consequences of Modernity to a thorough, often highly entertaining interrogation, and concludes by drawing out the implications of his critique for globalization theory in general.