The Night the Wheels Fell Off: More Tales about Family, Growing Up, and Other Goofy Stuff

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Mike Redmond returns with a follow-up to his Indiana bestseller Six of One, Half Dozen of Antoher. This time, on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, the hilarious stories center on change. The changes you bring upon yourself. The need to embrace change. the need to count your change before you leave the drive-through window. Mike's detailed reminiscences and spot-on funny stories are sure to win him a new legion of readers, especially among those old enough to remember rotary telephones, black-and-white televisions, and ashtrays on airplanes.


Crystal Clear: The Struggle for Reliable Communications Technology in World War II

Quartz crystal— a technology that changed the tide of World War II

Some of the defining leaps in technology in the twentieth century occurred during the Second World War, from radar to nuclear energy. Often left out of historical discussions are quartz crystals, which proved to be just as pivotal to the Allied victory— and to post-war development— as other technologies. Quartz crystals provided the U.S. military, for the first time, with reliable communication on the front lines, and then went on to become the core of some of the most basic devices of the post-war era, from watches, clocks, and color televisions, to cell phones and computers.

In Crystal Clear, Richard Thompson relates the story of the quartz crystal in World War II, from its early days as a curiosity for amateur radio enthusiasts, to its use by the United States Armed Forces. It follows the intrepid group of scientists and engineers from the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army as they...

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Colorado: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, then The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado should be your constant companion.
Colorado is known for the Rockies, cobalt skies, deep forests, and snow-fed mountain streams, but there are other attractions as well: Mesa Verde, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the Great Sand Dunes near the Sangre de Cristo Range, the Uncompahgre Plateau, and more.
The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado is a guidebook for tent campers who like scenic and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching your tent on a concrete slab and waking up to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs.
The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in the Centennial State. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of camping options, each profiled campground is rated for beauty, noise,... Colorado: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos
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Crime Fiction

"Crime Fiction" provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:
*presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel
*explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as "Rational Criminal Investigation," "The Hard-Boiled Mode," "The Police Procedural" and "Historical Crime Fiction"
*locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context
*outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory
*considers contemporary television series like "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation" alongside the "classic" whodunnits of Agatha Christie. Crime Fiction
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Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast

It was an ordinary night in October of 1938 until a news bulletin interrupted the dance music on "CBS radio-aliens were invading the United States!
Meghan McCarthy's hilarious "Aliens Are Coming! tells the true story of the Halloween radio prank that duped much of the country into believing that Martians had invaded. The book uses excerpts from the actual "War of the Worlds radio broadcast and includes information about the importance of radios in the 1930s (before the time of televisions and computers) as well as facts about Orson Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the novel on which the broadcast was based. Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
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Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation

"An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media."
-Kara Swisher, author of aol.com
The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices. Drawing on unprecedented access to entertainment insiders, technology innovators, and digital provocateurs-including some who play on both sides of the war between digital pirates and entertainment conglomerates-the book shows how entertainment companies are threatening the fundamental freedoms of the digital age. Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, ISBN 1572702443

When Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is confined to a hospital bed, a friend brings him an assortment of pictures of famous historical figures. Grant is captivated by a portrait of King Richard III and wonders how such a sensitive-appearing soul could have murdered his own nephews to secure the British crown for himself. Grant reconsiders 500-year-old evidence pertaining to one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time. Who really killed the princes in the Tower of London? Josephine Teys answer to this question has fascinated readers since the books publication in 1951. This classic mystery has been ranked fourth by the Mystery Writers of America on its list of the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Fans of public televisions Cadfael or I, Claudius know Jacobis work and he is unsurpassed here in his rich reading. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, ISBN 1572702443
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Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast

It was an ordinary night in October of 1938 until a news bulletin interrupted the dance music on "CBS radio-aliens were invading the United States!
Meghan McCarthy's hilarious "Aliens Are Coming! tells the true story of the Halloween radio prank that duped much of the country into believing that Martians had invaded. The book uses excerpts from the actual "War of the Worlds radio broadcast and includes information about the importance of radios in the 1930s (before the time of televisions and computers) as well as facts about Orson Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the novel on which the broadcast was based.

"From the Hardcover edition.

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