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<b>DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT …</b> Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously ...

The Prohibition Hangover examines the modern American temperament toward drink amid the $189-billion- dollar-a-year industry that defines itself by the production, distribution, marketing, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Based on primary research, including hundreds of interviews, Garrett Peck provides a panoramic assessment of alcohol in American culture and history.

Tom Perrotta made his literary debut with his short story collection Bad Haircut, earning critical praise and comparisons to Salinger, Carver, and Roth by taking readers to New Jersey in the 1970s as a boy named Buddy struggles with the timeless mysteries of sex, death, parents-and of course, bad haircuts.

In his second in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the lives and kitchens of rising star ...

Enjoy what you eat. <P>From the author of the national bestseller <i>The Culture of Fear</i> comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating. <P>For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of celebrity chefs. We raise our children ...

This work, based on the propositon that roads exhibit typical command economy characteristics (congestion, chronic lack of funds), then shows roads in a market economy framework, employing concepts of ownership, market pricing and profitability to achieve a commercial basis of provision.

National Bestseller <P> National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist <P> A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book <P> One of the Best Books of the Year <i>The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The ...

Isabel Spellman may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism -- but she's good at her job as a licensed P.I. with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations. Invading people's privacy comes naturally to Izzy and all the Spellmans. If only they could leave their ...

A non-lawyer’s guide to the worst Supreme Court decisions of the modern era<BR><BR> The Dirty Dozen takes on twelve Supreme Court cases that changed American history—and yet are not well known to most Americans. <BR><BR> Starting in the New Deal era, the Court has allowed breathtaking expansions of government power ...

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.