Robert Mankoff

Another one of Robert Mancoff’s delightful themed collections of cartoons selected for th me New Yorker

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

School is a mixture of joy, terror, mischief , excitement, anxiety, fun and eveeything else

School is a mixture of joy, terror, work, excitement, boredom, anxiety, fun, and bedlam day after day, year after year. If this is true for students, it is exponentially true for teachers-those hearty souls who have taken on the education of the youth of the world.

This wonderful collection of the best and funniest cartoons published over the last eighty years in The New Yorker takes a wry look into the classroom-at the students, at their blindly devoted but demanding parents, and, especially, at the teachers who negotiate the delicate balance between those forces every day.

With 118 cartoons, this is a perfect gift for teachers and a treasure of laughs for all!

The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

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Marina WARNER

This book is full of enchantments and charms, frights and fascinations. It will thrill you.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock

Examines the figure of the bogeyman, monster and other figures of male terror in literature, mythology, folk tale, jokes and lullaby.

No Go the Bogeyman

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Mike Whicker

This is one of the ultimate books of suspense; spies, love, Hitler Himmler.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Unrelenting suspense, World War II

An amateur HAM radio operator intercepts a garbled shortwave transmission that indicates the Gestapo's top henchman is coming to America to kill Erika Lehmann, the Nazis' top spy.

Invitation to Valhall

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How to get yourself out of those embarrassing and frustrating situations when your mathematical brain looses its number system. Herein are hundreds of quick solutions to problems of personal finance, outdoor math, indoor math, bills, tips, mpg, CPI, time zones, meter readings, etc etc etc.

Practical, step-by-step Solutions to everyday Math Problems

The Only Math Book You’ll Ever Need

Ian McEwan

Mr. McEwan is a master of the taciturn macabre and his books are a stranglehold on the reader. Here are three of his best.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ian McEwan, the master of the Taciturn Macabre

"It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come..." - Back cover.

“On Chesil Beach” and two others: “The Comfort of Strangers” & “First Love Last Rites”

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Daniel J. Boorstin

A History of Heroes of the Imagination

Examines humanity's search for knowledge, discussing the writers, painters, musicians, and architects who have contributed to civilization

The Creators

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David Lindsay

Fascinating stories about the inventors who were also showmen. In the years without television and business shows and papers and without rapid travel many times the best way to get an idea noticed was to put on a show. Please note that this is an ex-library book but it is clean and has been well taken care of.


The Triumphant Rise and Untimely Fall of America's Show Inventors

Explores the history of inventions in the United States and discusses inventors who combined innovation with showmanship to capture the public's imagination

Madness in the Making

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Locher

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

As seen in the major feature film “Dick Tracy” starring Warren Beatty

Dick Tracy Casebook: Favourite Adv.

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Edward H. Julius

Math

30 Days to Number Power

Demonstrates a slew of time-saving tips and tricks for performing common math calculations. Contains sample problems for each trick, leading the reader through step-by-step. Features two mid-terms and a final exam to test your progress plus hundreds of exercise problems ranging from simple to more sophisticated. Also includes sections on ``Mathematical Curiosities'' and ``Parlor Tricks'' for math lovers.

Rapid Math Tricks and Tips

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Rick Beyer

100 tales from military history to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy

100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder and Stupefy



Rick Beyer returns with a book similar to The Greatest Stories Never Told, filled with great, easily-digestible stories and illustrated with photographs from around the globe centered on war stories not usually told in the classroom. Impeccably researched, all the stories within The Greatest War Stories Never Told have multiple sources and have been reviewed by distinguished historians.

The Greatest War Stories Never Told

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Philip B. Kunhardt

Peter W. Kunhardt

America's Greatest Showman

One of the earliest practitioners of "the show business, " P.T. Barnum built his reputation largely on the exoticism of others. A man of complex motives, Barnum possessed a unique genius and his influence on popular culture is evident to this day. Barnum will be a three-hour Discovery Channel special airing in October. Illustrations, 260 in color.

P. T. Barnum

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Dan Rather

Co-editor of 60 minutes. CBS News long time journalist.

Adventures of a TV Journalist

This controversial autobiography is by one of the bet known and most respected TV newscasters.

The Camera Never Blinks

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John McEnroe

The Autobiography

John McEnroe enjoyed tremendous success at all levels of tennis and owns 77 career singles titles, including 7 Grand Slams. He joined the circuit in 1978 and it took him only three years to attain the No. 1 ranking. The 1980 Wimbledon final, between McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, is considered by many tennis experts to be the best match ever, a five-set thriller which McEnroe avenged the following year for his first Wimbledon title. In doubles, McEnroe is recognised as the best player of all time. He was ranked No. 1 for a record 257 weeks and captured a total of 74 titles, including eight Grand Slams.

Serious

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Douglas Preston

Mario Spezi

A true story

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston's thrillers, The Monster Of Florence, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide-and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi, caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.

The Monster of Florence

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William H. Calvin

An imaginative interpretation of evolution while passing through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River

A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain

The River That Flows Uphill

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Jacob. Burckhardt

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

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A good teacher or coach must not only understand others, but himself as well.

Life lessons from an All-American Journey

My Personal Best

Terry Hunt

Carl Lipo

A very thorough study of the island and it’s Miao statues of several tons. Non traditional explanations that the people were environmental and efficient stewards.

Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works? No such astonishing numbers of massive statues are found anywhere else in the Pacific. How could the islanders possibly have moved so many multi-ton monoliths from the quarry inland, where they were carved, to their posts along the coastline? And most intriguing and vexing of all, if the island once boasted a culture developed and sophisticated enough to have produced such marvelous edifices, what happened to that culture? Why was the island the Europeans encountered a sparsely populated wasteland? The prevailing accounts of the island’s history tell a story of self-inflicted devastation: a glaring case of eco-suicide. The island was dominated by a powerful chiefdom that promulgated a cult of statue making, exercising a ruthless hold on the island’s people and rapaciously destroying the environment, cutting down a lush palm forest that once blanketed the island in order to construct contraptions for moving more and more statues, which grew larger and larger. As the population swelled in order to sustain the statue cult, growing well beyond the island’s agricultural capacity, a vicious cycle of warfare broke out between opposing groups, and the culture ultimately suffered a dramatic collapse. When Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo began carrying out archaeological studies on the island in 2001, they fully expected to find evidence supporting these accounts. Instead, revelation after revelation uncovered a very different truth. In this lively and fascinating account of Hunt and Lipo’s definitive solution to the mystery of what really happened on the island, they introduce the striking series of archaeological discoveries they made, and the path-breaking findings of others, which led them to compelling new answers to the most perplexing questions about the history of the island. Far from irresponsible environmental destroyers, they show, the Easter Islanders were remarkably inventive environmental stewards, devising ingenious methods to enhance the island’s agricultural capacity. They did not devastate the palm forest, and the culture did not descend into brutal violence. Perhaps most surprising of all, the making and moving of their enormous statutes did not require a bloated population or tax their precious resources; their statue building was actually integral to their ability to achieve a delicate balance of sustainability. The Easter Islanders, it turns out, offer us an impressive record of masterful environmental management rich with lessons for confronting the daunting environmental challenges of our own time. Shattering the conventional wisdom, Hunt and Lipo’s ironclad case for a radically different understanding of the story of this most mysterious place is scientific discovery at its very best.

The Statues That Walked

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Prolific science writer, a collection of his essays. Ex-library book.

Table of Contents, nature

Richard F. Townsend

The Aztecs, Ancient Peoples and Places series, 2

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Bob Woodward

The inside story of America’s secret wars of the CIA from 1981-1987.

The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987

The story of the covert wars that were waged in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.

Veil

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Peter M. Coan

Great biography of the beloved heroic poet laureate  to cabdrivers, housewives, social activists, and many others. He was dedicated to solving the problem of world hunger but died too young in 1981.

The Harry Chapin Story

Taxi

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Nancy Gibbs

Michael Duffy

Inside knowledge of the goings on within the White House from Truman and Hoover, Kennedy and his club, Johnson ans Eisenhower, Nixon and Regan, Mixon Ford and Cater, Obama and his club and ten other fascinating and accurate studies done by Nancy Gibbs (Yale, Oxford, Berkeley- presidential historian.

Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

Examines presidential power within the context of U.S. history and the ongoing relationships presidents and ex-presidents formed with one another.

The Presidents Club

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Bob Newhart

And Other Things That Strike Me As Funny

The first book ever from an icon of American comedy -- a hilarious combination of stories from his career and observations about life

That stammer. Those basset-hound eyes. That bone-dry wit. There has never been another comedian like Bob Newhart. His comedy albums, movies, and two hit television series have made him a national treasure and placed him firmly in the pantheon of comedy legends. Who else has a drinking game named after him And now, at last, Newhart puts his brilliant and hysterical world view on paper.

Never a punch-line comic, always more of a storyteller, he tells anecdotes from throughout his life and career, including his beginnings as an accountant and the groundbreaking success of his comedy albums and The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, which gave him fifteen years on primetime television. And he also gives his wry, comedic twist to a multitude of topics, including golf, drinking, and family holidays.

Today, Newhart appears on Desperate Housewives, in hit movies such as Elf, and in theaters around the country. Reruns of his shows air constantly on Nick at Nite -- have recently been released with great success for the first time ever on DVD. With this book, Bob Newhart gives his millions of fans a first ever opportunity to sample his unique brand of humor -- including excerpts from some of his classic routines -- on the printed page.

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