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Just in time for the 20th anniversary of Spys creation comes the definitive anthology, inside story, and scrapbook Spy: The Funny Years will remind the magazines million readers why they loved and depended on Spy, and bring to a new generation the jewels of its reporting and writing, photography, illustration, design, and world-class mischief-making. It will demonstrate Spys singular niche in American magazine and cultural history. But mainly it is intended to be enjoyed on its own: one beautiful, comprehensive volume containing Spys funniest and most creative work, along with the ultimate insiders account of how it all came to be. All the best of it is here: Separated at Birth?, Naked City, The Fine Print, Log-Rolling in Our Time, the Blurb-o-Mat, those hilarious (and now ubiquitous) charts, the inside stories on the New York Times and Hollywood by J.J. Hunsecker and Celia Brady, the covers, investigative features, and the hilarious stories on pretty much everyone who was anyone during the late 80s and early 90s. Not to mention the often grisly but always entertaining regular cast of characters from Spys pagesthe churlish dwarf billionaires, beaver-faced moguls, bull-whip-wielding uber-agents, knobby-kneed socialites and, of course, short-fingered vulgarians. During its heyday, from 1986 through 1993, Spy broke important ground in journalism and design, defining smartness for its generation. It was a once-in-a-lifetime creation that shaped the zeitgeist and succeeded (for a while) against all odds. Spy: The Funny Years will be the fun, stylish, hilarious holiday gift of the year..
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Big, high routes at the edge of a climber's ability are not the places for inventing technique or relying on old habits. Complacency can lead to fatal errors. So where does the hard-core aspirant or dreamer turn The only master class in print, Extreme Alpinism delivers an expert dose of reality and practical techniques for advanced climbers. Focusing on how top alpine climbers approach the world's most difficult routes, Twight centers his instruction on the ethos of climbing the hardest routes with the least amount of gear and the most speed. Throughout, Twight makes it clear that the two things he refuses to compromise are safety and his climbing ethics. In addition to the extensive chapters on advanced techniques and skills, Twight also discusses mental preparedness and attitude; strength and cardiovascular training; good nutrition; and tips on equipment and clothing.FeaturesThe most advanced climbing how-to on the marketTechniques and mental skills needed to climb at a more challenging levelIllustrated with full-color photos throughout.
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Advertising is pervasive A typical North American child views a staggering 40,000 ads every year on TV alone! With such a vast number of commercials out there, who's helping kids decode the messages? Media maven Shari Graydon, that's who!

Made You Look offers an intriguing exploration of advertising's inner workings. From the earliest roots of advertising to the guerrilla marketers of the 21st century, this revealing book shows kids where ads came from, where they're going, and how they work.

Bursting with behind-the-scenes secrets, thought-provoking Try This at Home activities, and plenty of tips to empower young consumers, Made You Look is any child's ultimate guide to the advertising universe.

Key Features:

• Dynamically written by an experienced media authority
• Concrete examples drawn from familiar, contemporary ads
• Thought-provoking tips and easy-to-do activities encourage critical thinking

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This book traces step-by-step the fundamental principles and processes involved in acquiring and interpreting aerial photographs and then in applying the data from these images to specific situations. Extensively revised to include more color plates, line drawings and photographic images this book is ideal in introducing readers to remote sensing and photographic interpretation. Overview of Remote Sensing, Photo-Optical Remote Sensing, Principles of Airphoto Interpretation, Principles of Photogammetry, Aircraft and Satellite Photography, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Microwave and Acoustical Remote Sensing, API Applications in Geography, API Applications in Archaeology, API Applications in Agriculture and Pedology, API Applications in Forestry, API Applications in Geology, API Applications in Engineering and Environmental Science, Computer Applications in Remote Sensing. This book is designed for anyone interested in learning more about the detection, identification and analysis of objects and features through remote sensing and photographic interpretation..
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85 color photos, 85 b/w photos 8 x 11

"No tier of that period was as creative in designing patterns or tied better quality, more lifelike streamers than Mrs. Stevens. This biography has been carefully researched and beautifully written."- Keith Fulsher, master fly tier, originator of the Thunder Creek series

Carrie Stevens (1882-1970) of Upper Dam, Maine, created some of the most beautiful and enduring streamer patterns ever, including the legendary Gray Ghost, which she designed to catch the giant brook trout and landlocked salmon of the Rangeley Lakes. This long-awaited book is both a history of the woman and the region, as well as a guide to the Stevens method. It includes color plates of original patterns, some only recently discovered, along with a biography illustrated with archival photos. The tying section lists dressings for more than 100 streamers, 65 of which have never been published.

Graydon R. Hilyard has been studying Carrie Stevens and collecting her work for fifteen years. His son Leslie, a champion fly tier, tied patterns for the book and contributed to the research..
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From the first Academy Awards black-tie dinner dance in 1929 to the glittering Vanity Fair gala in 2004, from the 1940s gatherings at the most fashionable nightspots in Los Angeles–Ciro’s, Mocambo, Romanoff’s, Chasen’s–to the star-studded parties thrown by legendary agent Swifty Lazar from the 1960s to the 1990s, here is a photo history of all those events, presented by Graydon Carter and David Friend. More than five hundred archival and personal black-and-white and color photographs–many never seen before–have been collected in Oscar Night. There is an afterword by Dominick Dunne and a look at every detail, from menus to matchbooks to seating charts.

You’ll see intimate and unposed photographs of such classic icons as Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, Gloria Swanson, David O. Selznick, and Alfred Hitchcock, among many others, at the formal dinners of the 1930s through the 1950s. Here also are amazing photographs of another generation of icons at the exclusive Governors Balls: Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, and John Belushi, Dennis Hopper with Michelle Phillips, and a very young Ali MacGraw dancing with Robert Evans. And here is a mix of New York and Hollywood at Swifty’s parties, with pictures of Bianca Jagger, Sam Shepard, Michael Caine, David Geffen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Ahmet Erteguns. Here, too, is the Hollywood that gathers today at the Vanity Fair Oscar party: Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, Sofia Coppola, Sigourney Weaver, Fran Lebowitz, Sean Combs, and Renée Zellweger.

Irresistibly sumptuous–and juicy–Oscar Night is a book full of elegance and egos, of glamorous pictures that you will want to look at again and again..
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