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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Amulet Books ISBN13 9780810983915 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a It s summer vacation the weather s great and all the kids are having fun outside So where s Greg Heffley Inside his house playing video games with the shades drawn R R Greg a self-confessed indoor person is living out his ultimate summer fantasy no responsibilities and no rules But Greg s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer one packed with outdoor activities and family togetherness R R Whose vision will win out Or will a new addition to the Heffley family change everything SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance William Morrow ISBN13 9780060889579 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a lockquote The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world / / lockquote Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner return with Superfreakonomics and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freak quel is even bolder funnier and more surprising than the first / SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as / ul li How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa / li li What do hurricanes heart attacks and highway deaths have in common / li li Can eating kangaroo save the planet / li / ul Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else By examining how people respond to incentives they show the world for what it really is good bad ugly and in the final analysis super freaky Freakonomics has been imitated many times over but only now with SuperFreakonomics has it met its match / Book Description / r/ The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world Now Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder funnier and more surprising than the first / Four years in the making SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions but the unexpected ones Whats more dangerous driving drunk or walking drunk Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if its so ineffective Can a sex change boost your salary / SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as / / ul li How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa / li li Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands / li li How much good do car seats do / li li Whats the best way to catch a terrorist / li li Did TV cause a rise in crime / li li What do hurricanes heart attacks and highway deaths have in common / li li Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness / li li Can eating kangaroo save the planet / li li Which adds more value a pimp or a Realtor / li / ul / Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically By examining how people respond to incentives they show the world for what it really is good bad ugly and in the final analysis super freaky / Freakonomics has been imitated many times over but only now with SuperFreakonomics has it met its match / span class h1 From Superfreakonomics Where do you stand on the freak-o-meter / / span r mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ harpercollins-ems/ levitt-dubner300 jpg border 0 hspace 5 vspace 5 align right Four years ago you were cool You read Freakonomics when it first came out You impressed family and friends and dazzled dates with the insights you gleaned Now Steven D Levitt Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government Threshold Editions ISBN13 9781416595014 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a ig center FUNNY / center / ig / ig center FRIGHTENING / center / ig / ig center TRUE / center / ig / It happens to all of us Youre minding your own business when some idiot informs you that guns are evil the Prius will save the planet or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes Just go away you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious Your heart rate quickens You start to sweat You cant get away Your only hope is center this book / center / Glenn Beck author of the 1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Becks Common Sense has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds knowing the facts center And this book is full of them / center / The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence youll tell them all about Englands handgun ban see page 53 When they tell you that we should copy the UKs health-care system youll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244 And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers youll stop saying no they wont and youll start saying actually eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just 8 a year more on produce See page 139 Idiots cant be identified through voting records they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes embrace partisanship and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense If you know someone who fits the bill then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon the truth A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity Broadway Books ISBN13 9780767928823 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The year was 1957 the month September and I had just turned eight years old Dwight Eisenhower was President but in my life it was the diminutive intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive For reasons you will soon understand my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St Brigid s School in Westbury New York a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one r r Already I had barely survived my first two years at St Brigid s because I was well a little nitwit Not satisfied with memorizing the Baltimore Catechism s fine prose which featured passages like God made me to show his goodness and to make me happy with him in heaven I was constantly annoying my classmates and of course the no-nonsense Sister Lurana With sixty overactive students in her class she was understandably short on patience For survival she had also become quick on the draw r r Then it happened One day I blurted out some dumb remark and Sister Lurana was on me like a panther Her black habit blocked out all distractions as she leaned down looked me in the eye and uttered words I have never forgotten William you are a bold fresh piece of humanity r r And she was dead-on / One day in 1957 in the third-grade classroom of St Brigid s parochial school an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O Reilly and said William you are a bold fresh piece of humanity Little did she know that she was early in his career as a troublemaker defining the essence of Bill O Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir r r And this time it s personal In his most intimate book yet O Reilly goes back in time to examine the people places and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family his neighborhood his church and his schools and how his views on America s proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent What will delight his numerous fans and surprise many others is the humor and self-deprecation with which he handles one of his core subjects himself and just how O Reilly Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) Harper Perennial ISBN13 9780060731335 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a lockquote Which is more dangerous a gun or a swimming pool / What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common / How much do parents really matter / / lockquote These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask But Steven D Levitt is not a typical economist He studies the riddles of everyday life from cheating and crime to parenting and sports and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J Dubner an award-winning author and journalist They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang the truth about real estate agents the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan and much more Through forceful storytelling and wry insight they show that economics is at root the study of incentives how people get what they want or need especially when other people want or need the same thing / Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace literature or physics But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull or that economists are concerned only with finance itself Steven D Levitt will change some minds In Freakonomics written with Stephen J Dubner Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life dont need to be so mysterious they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections For example Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and digging further to the Roe v Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship Elsewhere by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonalds where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents Levitt argues that parenting methods dont really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubners 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine which led to the book being written In a book filled with bold logic such back-patting veers Freakonomics however briefly away from what Levitt actually has to say Although maybe theres a good economic reason for that too and were just not getting it yet --John Moe Good Eats: The Early Years Stewart, Tabori & Chang Alton Brown is a foodie phenomenon a great cook a very funny guy and underneath it all a science geek who s as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating Well almost Here finally are the books that Brown s legion of fans have been salivating for two volumes that together will provide an unexpurgated record of his long-running award-winning Food Network TV series Good Eats From Pork Fiction on baby back ribs to Citizen Cane on caramel sauce to Oat Cuisine on oatmeal every hilarious episode is represented Each book the second will be published in fall 2010 is illustrated with behind-the-scenes photos taken on the Good Eats set Each contains more than 140 recipes and more than 1 000 photographs and illustrations along with explanations of techniques lots of food-science information of course and more food puns food jokes and food trivia than you can shake a wooden spoon at R Last Words: A Memoir Free Press ISBN13 9781439172957 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a As one of Americas preeminent comedic voices George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century blending his signature acer-bic humor with never-before-told stories from his own life In 1993 George Carlin asked his friend and bestselling author Tony Hendra to help him write his autobiography For almost fifteen years in scores of conversations many of them recorded the two discussed Carlins life times and evolution as a major artist When Carlin died at age seventy-one in June 2008 with the book still unpublished Hendra set out to assemble it as his friend would have wanted Last Words is the result the rollicking wrenching story of Carlins life from birth -- literally -- to his final years as well as a parting gift of laughter to the world of comedy he helped create George Carlins journey to stardom began in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of New Yorks Upper West Side in the 1940s where class and culture wars planted the seeds for some of his best known material including the notorious Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television His early conflicts his long struggle with substance abuse his turbulent relationships with his family and his triumphs over catastrophic setbacks all fueled the unique comedic worldview he brought to the stage From the heights of stardom to the low points few knew about Last Words is told with the same razor-sharp honesty that made Carlin one of the best loved comedians in American history The Glass Castle: A Memoir Scribner ISBN13 9780743247542 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children In the beginning they lived like nomads moving among Southwest desert towns camping in the mountains Rex was a charismatic brilliant man who when sober captured his childrens imagination teaching them physics geology and above all how to embrace life fearlessly Rose Mary who painted and wrote and couldnt stand the responsibility of providing for her family called herself an excitement addict Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever Later when the money ran out or the romance of the wandering life faded the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape He drank He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days As the dysfunction of the family escalated Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves supporting one another as they weathered their parents betrayals and finally found the resources and will to leave home What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity Hers is a story of triumph against all odds but also a tender moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms For two decades Jeannette Walls hid her roots Now she tells her own story A regular contributor to MSNBC com she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor Jeannette Wallss father always called her Mountain Goat and theres perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically In The Glass Castle Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric nomadic parents--Rose Mary her frustrated-artist mother and Rex her brilliant alcoholic father To call the elder Wallss childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly As Rose Mary and Rex motivated by whims and paranoia uprooted their kids time and again the youngsters Walls her brother and two sisters were left largely to their own devices But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes they themselves never seemed to do so repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family from the embarrassing wearing shoes held together with safety pins using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants to the horrific being told after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity that sexual assault is a crime of perception and being pimped by her father at a bar Though Walls has well earned the right to complain at no point does she play the victim In fact Walls removed nonjudgmental stance is initially startling since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive and unquestioningly neglectful But on the contrary Walls respects her parents knack for making hardships feel like adventures and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover --Brangien Davis The Time of My Life Atria ISBN13 9781439158586 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a In a career spanning more than thirty years Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage the screen and television Known for his versatility passion and fearlessness hes become one of our most beloved actors But in February 2008 Patrick announced he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer Always a fighter he refused to let the disease bring him to his knees and his bravery has inspired both his legion of fans and cancer patients everywhere Yet this memoir written with wisdom and heart recounts much more than his bout with cancer In vivid detail Patrick describes his Texas upbringing his personal struggles his rise to fame with North and South his commercial breakthroughs in Dirty Dancing and Ghost and the soul mate whos stood by his side through it all his wife writer and director Lisa Niemi A behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood life and a remarkable love this memoir is both entertainment and inspiration Patrick and Lisas marriage is a journey of two lives intertwined and lived as one--throughout their years in Hollywood and at home on their working ranch outside Los Angeles and culminating in the hope and wisdom theyve imparted to all who know them This book will open the door for families individuals and husbands and wives to grow bond and discover entirely new levels of love and sharing proving that life shouldnt be lived as a series of endings but rather as the beginning of greater strength and love The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Penguin ISBN13 9780143038580 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question What should we have for dinner Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us whether industrial or organic alternative or processed he develops a portrait of the American way of eating The result is a sweeping surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet