The 1977 edition of Mad comics originally published in the 1960s. There are no writers or artists listed, but the "usual gang of idiots" seems well-represented. The top right front cover is a bit creased, the pages are yellowed, and there is a used book store stamp on the inside cover and a price sticker on the front cover. Otherwise, this little gem is completely intact. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Three Ring Mad

John Bradshaw

Sarah Ellis

If you have cats, this book is a very interesting read. There are many facts about cats and their behavior to enjoy. 

A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat

"I have to hand it to Bradshaw and Ellis: Once you suss out their basic cat-training philosophy, their methods totally work." -- Slate

We often assume that cats can't be trained, and don't need to be. But in The Trainable Cat, bestselling anthrozoologist John Bradshaw and cat expert Sarah Ellis show that cats absolutely must be trained in order to enrich the bond between pet and owner. Full of training tips and exercises -- from introducing your cat to a new baby to helping them deal with visits to the vet -- The Trainable Cat is the essential cat bible for cat owners and lovers.

"I doubt you'll find a more well-informed or scientific book on cats that better shows you how feline thinking works." -- Times (UK)

The Trainable Cat

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Drew Beechum

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

All You Need to Brew the Best Beer at Home!

There's no place like home for brewing beer. In this book, you learn the secrets of the master brewers--and how you can brew you own beer yourself. Beginners and more experienced homebrewers alike will benefit from the expert tips and fresh ideas in this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. With this book, you learn how to: Choose among barley, hops, and malts. Master the chemistry of homebrewing. Take the appropriate cleaning and sanitizing steps. Adapt the best recipes to their personal tastes. Enter (and win!) beer competitions. Featuring 100 delicious recipes, this guide is all you need to ferment endless brewing possibilities. Cheers!

The Everything Homebrewing Book

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A very nice edition with intact dust jacket and many color photographs. Exactly what one would expect of a Smithsonian book.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution 

In the Age of Mankind

#paperback #davidmccullough #history #1776 #nonfiction #4thofjuly #unitedstates #unitedstateshistory 

Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that includes the siege of Boston, the American defeat at Brooklyn, the retreat across New Jersey, and the American victory at Trenton.

1776

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Timesaving Ways to Simplify and Improve How You Work

First, award-winning edition sold over 25,000 copies. The new, second edition is completely revised with new chapters & illustrations showing hundreds of easy-to-use ideas to improve productivity & quality. Main selection of Macmillan Book Clubs & Publishers Clearing House. Booklist: "..a practical approach to improving organizational skills...recommended." This "new bible of organization" shows how to master your time, paperwork, computer, office & life. Invaluable resource guides, illustrations, bibliographies & index.

Organized to Be the Best!

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A New York Times Bestseller


The Gargoyle: the mesmerizing story of one man's descent into personal hell and his quest for salvation.

On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but his injuries confine him to a hospital burn unit. There the mysterious Marianne Engel, a sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mercenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man's disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed.

The Gargoyle

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The fourth installment in Attanasio's retelling of the Arthurian legend. #kingarthur #fantasy

The Serpent and the Grail

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The second volume in A.A. Attanasio's retelling of the Arthurian legend. There is a section on the back cover where the coating is wrinkled (see photo), but otherwise this trade paperback is in good condition. I bought it new and only read it once. I'm a fan of Attanasio, and this book does not disappoint.  #attanasio #kingarthur 

The Eagle and the Sword 

#hardcover #business #leadership #nonfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

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1776

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Various contributers to Mad.

Three Ring Mad

John Bradshaw; Sarah Ellis

The Trainable Cat

Drew Beechum

The Everything Homebrewing Book

Roger Lewin

In the Age of Mankind

David McCullough

1776

Susan Silver

Organized to Be the Best!

Andrew Davidson

The Gargoyle

A. A. Attanasio

The Serpent and the Grail

A. A. Attanasio

The Eagle and the Sword

Jim Collins

Good to Great

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