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Author: Jack Gray Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451641362 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 176
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From television producer Jack Gray comes a generational account of finding one’s way at work, at home, and even across the street. There are a lot of unforgettable characters in these pages: a loveable if possibly alcoholic dog; a set of grandparents who crush on Alex Trebek and obsess about death; Golden Girls and blue bloods, anchormen and Supreme Court justices; divas and wags—but the best character of all is the author himself. To read Jack Gray’s musings is to enter the company of a young man of titanic wit and talent. As he observes and echoes the fixations and neuroses of his generation and our times, he will make you squirm, guffaw, and ultimately marvel.
Author: Jack Gray Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451641362 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
From television producer Jack Gray comes a generational account of finding one’s way at work, at home, and even across the street. There are a lot of unforgettable characters in these pages: a loveable if possibly alcoholic dog; a set of grandparents who crush on Alex Trebek and obsess about death; Golden Girls and blue bloods, anchormen and Supreme Court justices; divas and wags—but the best character of all is the author himself. To read Jack Gray’s musings is to enter the company of a young man of titanic wit and talent. As he observes and echoes the fixations and neuroses of his generation and our times, he will make you squirm, guffaw, and ultimately marvel.
Author: Jack Gray Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451641346 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 218
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From Emmy Award-winning television producer Gray comes a book that blends pop culture fixations and interludes of humor with the heart of a young man wise beyond his years.
Author: Pamela Bannos Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022659923X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 393
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Many know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. When the news broke that Maier had recently died and had no surviving relatives, Maier shot to stardom almost overnight. Bannos contrasts Maier's life has been created, mostly by the men who have profited from her work. Maier was extremely conscientious about how her work was developed, printed, and cropped, even though she also made a clear choice never to display it.
Author: Rosemary Mosco Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1523515570 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 249
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Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we’ve taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. “Rats with wings?” Think again. Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.
Author: James A. Michener Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback ISBN: 0812969804 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 978
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“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
Author: Kim Coles Publisher: Hyperion ISBN: 9780786883226 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 262
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In her hilarious book, I'M FREE, BUT IT'LL COST YOU, Kim Coles explores everything from the potentially treacherous first date to tired pickup lines and finally the answer to the question, "Where are all the good men" From finding Mr. Right On, to just settling for Mr. Right Now, Kim has been through it all and is here to give us sistah friends some advice we can really use. Whether you're hoping to find the man of your dreams or, more important, avoid the man of your nightmare, I'M FREE, BUT IT'LL COST YOU is just what you need to make some sense out of the single strife.
Author: Andrew Garn Publisher: powerHouse Books ISBN: 9781648230745 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Humans have always bred, farmed, raced, and lived alongside pigeons. Some of us shoo them away and others care for them as the city’s most famous wildlife. The New York Pigeon, now in its second edition with spectacular new images, is a one-of-a-kind, intimate study of this worldwide neighbor. The New York Pigeon reveals the unexpected beauty of the omnipresent pigeon as if Vogue devoted its pages to birds, not fashion models. In spite of pigeons’ ubiquity in New York and other cities, we never really see them closely and know very little about their function in the urban ecosystem. This book brings to light the intriguing history, behavior, and splendor of a bird so often overlooked. While The New York Pigeon is primarily a photography book, it also tells the five-thousand-year story of the feral pigeon. Why are pigeons so successful in cities and not in the countryside? Why do they have such diverse plumage? How have pigeons adapted to survive on almost any food? Why are pigeons able to fly up to 500 miles per day but rarely do? How did Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner teach pigeons to do complicated tasks, from tracking missile targets to recognizing individual human faces? Why can pigeons see in the ultraviolet light spectrum, and why is half of their brain used for visual perception? The second edition of The New York Pigeon, with its fresh portraiture and new essay from Catherine Quayle of the Wild Bird Fund, presents dramatic, hyper-real studio portraits capturing the personalities, expressiveness, glorious feather iridescence, and deeply hued eyes of the New York pigeon.
Author: Dr. Roger C. Andersen Publisher: LifeRichPublishing ISBN: 1489702695 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 97
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"Twenty years ago, The Humor Project published Roger's first book, Some Days You're The Pigeon. Some Days You're the Statue. By sharing his own true stories, Roger invites us in turn to be able to laugh at ourselves-and to learn something about ourselves as "humor beings" along the way. He has a wonderful gift in helping us see the humor in the little things in life. My hope is that this book will also inspire you to look for the humor in your own (sometimes serious) reality. Roger's stories suggest that we can move from a grim and bear it mentality to a grin and share it orientation." -Dr. Joel Goodman; director of The Humor Project, Inc. Are you someone who... - Has ever been hit by a pigeon (literally or figuratively)? - Feels like the statue today? - Takes your job seriously but would like to take yourself lightly? - Likes to laugh? - Ever says, "Someday, we'll laugh about this!" If you answered, "Yes," to any of the above, then this book is for you! More Droppings is the much anticipated sequel to the 1994 jest-selling Some Days You're The Pigeon. Some Days You're the Statue.
Author: Sharon Bell Mathis Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140321659 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 65
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Council on Interracial Books for Children award winner From the award-winning author of The Hundred Penny Box comes a sweet story about how one girl can make a difference. Lilly Etta didn't know the men, but she knew those yellow chairs. They were Tanya's, and they were being taken out of her building. Tanya was being put out - Tanya, her mother, her six brothers and sisters. Their things would be piled on the sidewalk and left there to be had for the taking. It didn't matter if nobody else in the city cared; Lilly Etta did. She knew what friendship was, and she wasn't going to let her friend be thrown out without a fight. “An affecting, sensitive story.”—Booklist
Author: Jack Gray
Author: Jack Gray
Author: Jack Gray
Author: Pamela Bannos
Author: Rosemary Mosco
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Author: James A. Michener
Author: Kim Coles
Author: Andrew Garn
Author: Dr. Roger C. Andersen
Author: Sharon Bell Mathis