Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Book Soup Publishing, 2000 This is a fine copy of the Hallmark publication collection 50 years of holiday comics. The book is arranged by century, and it is interesting to see the Peanuts characters become more refined through to the 1990's. A very fun book, comic strips reproduced as they were originally published in black & white and color. 119 pages with a brief biography about Charles Schulz at the end. The binding is slightly bent at the bottom spine, no blemishes or... more information

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Fairfield, CT: Aslan Publishing, 2004 In 1970, author Robert Clifton Goodman Jr., was order by a superior officer to don a mop-beard and entertain village children in the jungles of Vietnam. It was a casting triumph, destined to be repeated thousands of times over the next 30 years with growing passion. People of all ages will enjoy this birds eye view and tribute to the thousands of Santa's helpers who donate their time each holiday season by wearing red velvet suits and curly white beards, making appe... more information

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New York: Free Press, 1992 With the continuing prospect that Roe v. Wade may be overturned, the war in our society over reproductive rights is continuing to gain momentum. The author provides a lively and dramatic account of how abortion first became a political issue, beginning in the early 1970s when a disaffected group of young Republican party strategists had the idea of trying to forge a new conservative coalition out of previously disparate single-issue constituencies. They scored numerous successes. ... more information

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Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.A.: Antique Trader Books, 1998 In this beautifully illustrated volume, author/collector Daniel E. Hodges provides an informative, entertaining, colorful and nostalgia-evoking look at the most popular marionettes ever produced for the consumer market. You'll find a wealth of special features, including: Descriptions and values for more than 300 of the most highly sought marionettes and string puppets; striking color photographs, including detailed close-ups, of many memorable and belov... more information

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New York, NY: St Martins Press, 1979 In this, James Herriot's fourth book, he responded to thousands of letters expressing the wish to see the places he wrote about. This is a guided tour, walks and drives through his favorite places. Illustrated with over two hundred color photographs, they depict the glorious Dales, the snowy hills, the farms, becks, and towns that the author has brought vividly to life in all of his stories. Responding to letters he received, Herriot wrote "If this book can reac... more information

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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Natl Geographic Society, 2003 Susanna Moore's narrative begins with Captain Cook, whose arrival in 1778 fulfilled a time-honored Hawaiian legend, but who quickly fell victim to the first of many misunderstandings that would shape Hawaiian history. Soon American missionaries would arrive, bringing Christianity, colonialism, and capitalism to forever change island life. The story that unfolds in these pages is not the tale of savagery that characterized so many chronicles of the ... more information

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New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995 Out of the darkness, out of the primeval forest, comes the hero who will save the world. He is the protector, the man of invincible might. The greatest names in history and mythology of all races are those of heroes - Herakles and Samson, Perseus and St. George - who fought with monsters to rescue the eternal Woman, the princess, the anima. But the nature of these monsters changed. First, the quest turned inward, taking love, intimacy, and moral self-improvement as its ai... more information

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London: British Film Institute, 1997 There is no shortage of opinion about how the media affect children, but surprisingly little evidence about what children themselves choose to watch, or about the production and marketing choices made on children's behalf. This fascinating anthology breaks away from the usual agenda of moral panics and cultural pessimism which has dominated discussion of film, television, computer games, merchandising and comics on both sides of the Atlantic. Just what is the appeal ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2003 Everyone knows about the Nobel Prizes, those prestigious awards that recognize the world's most talented and innovative minds. Unfortunately, not all of the hopeful thinkers and academics areound the globe can become Nobel Laureates, but some are lucky enough to win the esteemed Ig Nobel Prize instead. Their unbelievable accomplishments are now documented in glorious detail, in this book. Drawn from the world's wackiest actual achievements in science, eco... more information

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2005 Ever since explorers first ventured upriver, the possibility of navigating the Nile from beginning to end has been a tantalizing dream, but it remained one of the last gret incomplete journeys of exploration. Many perished trying by drowning, shooting, or simply disappearing. Renowned adventurer Pasquale Scaturro with his partner, Gordon Brown, made history in 2004. Leading an expedition that completed the epic first descent of the Blue Nile and Nile ... more information

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Gareth Stevens Pub, 1989 This is a magnificient visual history of the circus parade as well as the first complete written history of the tradition. It brings together the very best and examples of the old circus wagons with the excitement and pageantry of contemporary artists, animals, and entertainers in the parade today. The book includes a vivid account of the Milwaukee Circus Parade and it's revival. This history is primarily from Wisconson's Circus World Museum in ... more information

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New York, NY: Cooper Square Pub, 2004 According to Library Journal, 1929 rivals the dozens of histories that have been published about this era. An examination of one of the turning points in American history, 1929 reveals how important figures - Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Herbert Hoover, H. L. Mencken, and many others - redirected the twentieth century in America's last period of enterprise and energy before the Great Depression. Includes biographical notes, bibliography, and index, with sixteen pages ... more information

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Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2000 Booklist review: "Swartz artfully achieves his purpose of showing 'that the infiltration of the Wizard of Oz story into our cultural bloodstream was not an overnight process' by tracking the influences and popularity of the many stage and screen productions of the story that preceeded the 1939 Judy Garland film. Swartz briefly profiles L. Frank Baum but focuses his spirited account on the variety of those stage and film adaptations. He vi... more information

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Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Rutledge Hill Press, 2003 The music of Johnny Cash spoke to and for Americans of all ages, backgrounds, and social settings for nearly half a century. He was the first artist to be inducted in both the Rock and Roll and country Music halls of fame. This book is a celebration of the many facets of Cash. It features tributes sometimes moving and sometimes funny from Dolly Parton, Trish Yearwood, Rodney Crowell, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Kris Kristofferson and others. This volu... more information

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Herndon, VA: Brassey's, 1999 In this illustrated war volume, the authors show the battles, leaders, weapons, heroism, and pain of the Vietnam War, from its earliest beginnings to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Through more than 450 official and personal photographs (both U.S. and Vietnamese), they reveal the courage, the loneliness, and the fears of the three and a half million U.S. soldiers, Marines, airmen, and seamen who served in America's longest war. Here are the Marines battling house to house i... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004 NEW - This is a thrilling account of the Great Fire of London that makes terrific use of a vast array of first-person acounts and forensic investigation. The result is an impeccable achievement in historical storytelling. The book follows the conflagration from its beginning in a Pudding Lane baker's kitchen in 1666 through the extreme devastation in wreaked. Adrian Tinniswood recounts the horror and wonder that gripped the city as the flames spread, des... more information

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Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press, 2004 Kirkus Reviews (starred review) said of this book: "One of the best forays into the Days of Rage - event, prequel, and sequel - to have appeared in years." In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Undergraound and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacificsts, and civil right... more information

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Great Britain: Chameleon Books, 1999 The daytime sky turns an eerie, deep, dark purple and then black. Earth's tides are thrown into confusion. This is the moment a solar eclipse becomes total, the moment that has frightened and fascinated mankind since prehistoric times. This book reveals the story of solar eclipses through time, and describes and explains how they work. We meet the eclipse chasers, a band of men and women who track this natural phenomenon all over the world. From cave man and woman to... more information

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Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Rutledge Hill Press, 2002 This book is a celebration of Patsy Cline the friend, the legend, and the role model. Patsy's friends and peers such as Loretta Lynn, Jan Howard, Brenda Lee, and Bill Anderson share stories both touching and funny about the star who left well before her time. Performers who never had the opportunity to meet Cline (in fact, many weren't born when she died) such as Lee Ann Womack, k.d. lang, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, and Patty Griffin explain w... more information

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Ivan R Dee, 1998 In this stimulating and original book, Martin Wain provides the first coherent view of the roots of Freudian psychoanalysis. He has written not an attack on Freud and his theories but an intellectual history of the highest order. In the new urban industrial age of the late 19th century, Wain shows that Freud and his colleagues were social, political, and economic therapists in the broadest sense. Their patient was modern Western culture at a time of disorder and m... more information

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