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China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the myriad travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and explains how to avoid them! Possible danger zones debunked include airports, hotels, hospitals, taxis, and bathrooms. Readers will learn essential skills like how to haggle, exchange currencies, cross the street, decipher menus, say useful phrases in Chinese, and more. The guide comes complete with survival tips on etiquette, a map, and resource lists. Don't leave home for China without it! Veteran travelers Qin and Larry Herzberg are Chinese language and culture professors at Calvin College in Michigan. .
Price: $5.30
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Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog (Magic Carpet Books)
Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall--the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway. Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butler--and into a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever.
Includes an interview with the author. .
Price: $1.94
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The Big Black Book of 100 Most Common Medical Blunders - and How to Avoid Them All!
NEW & URGENT! The FDA says these medical mistakes are murdering more Americans than auto accidents or breast cancer! Let our blue-ribbon team of doctors show your loved ones how to dodge "death by error"... 1) Avoid the new, drug-defying superbugs breeding in doctors' offices. They're even lurking on stethoscopes! Over 100,000 have died in recent months. 2) Protect yourself now from the next big drug scandals! Don't wait for Big Pharma to pull their "ticking time bombs" off the market. 3) Don't die of an undiagnosed heart attack! Seniors often have "silent symptoms". 4)Get the first-class care you deserve when the system shrugs you off. 5) Before you let anyone jab or inject you, ask these simple, lifesaving questions. 6) Insist on a second opinion when your doctor proposes these risky procedures. 7) Whoops, replaced the wrong hip! Make sure your surgeon knows where to cut. 8) Tired? Weak? Don't wind up in a nursing home! Demand this hormone test now. 9) Believe it or not, these new antibiotics can disrupt your brain!. 10) WHAT?! This one dumb blunder caused 180,000 cancer deaths last year. And much more..
Price: $7.89
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I Learned About Flying From That: First-Hand Accounts of Mishaps to Avoid from Real-Life Pilots (I Learned about Flying from That)
“I Learned About Flying From That” has consistently been one of the most popular features in FLYING magazine since the column began running in 1939. These first-hand accounts of flying disasters, from the pilots who lived to tell their tales, re-create some of the most exciting moments of flying. The fascinating stories are at times harrowing, humorous, embarrassing, and thrilling, but always informative. Every pilot will appreciate the lessons learned, and the adventures make fascinating reading for even non-pilots..
Price: $9.88
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Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders
Most self-help computer books speak in technobabble as if they were written for rocket scientist or computer geeks who live and breathe technology. Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders takes a different approach. This engaging and very accessible guide covers the types of problems all PC users will likely face at one time or another-so don't be caught off guard without it. The authors calm the fearful with easy to follow solutions and a humorous style. (Let's fact it-at some point all disasters, mishaps, and blunders appear humorous once you've gotten past them!) For a PC that is smashed, hacked, in flames, has come down with a nasty virus, or just isn't working as it should, this book covers it all with helpful tips to prevent problems from occurring in the first place. Nothing strikers horror into the heart of a PC user faster than the words "Permanent Fatal Error" or seeing a PC that was working perfectly well seconds before melt down and send bizarre error messages. Surviving PC Disasters, Mishaps, and Blunders covers a wide range of problems including security issues and theft, blunders arising from general clumsiness, disasters such as fire and floods, techniques for protecting important data from scammers and hackers, disasters that can be caused by nasty viruses, tips on buying devices without getting ripped off, techniques for avoiding hard drive crashes and recovering lost data, mishaps and potential disasters that can be caused by identity theft, and much more. You'll learn simple and practical ways to use and protect you PC and other support devices (like printers and scanners), and how to cope if disaster does strike. The book is cleverly organized by disasters, mishaps, and stupid blunders that can occur as you use your PC..
Price: $15.98
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Vintage Car Wrecks: Motoring Mishaps 1950-1979
Following in the tire tracks of the popular ANTIQUE CAR WRECKS and OLD CAR WRECKS, this volume chronicles wrecks of the1950s, 60s, and 70s automobiles More than 400 post accident images are accompanied by detailed captions providing relevant model and technical information. The text examines the automobile industry's progress in the development and implementation of mandatory and voluntary safety features throughout the years. Automobile enthusiasts, collectors, and restorers will enjoy the wealth of model information and follow the evolution of safety standards that affected the design, styling, and engineering of the 20th century's most beloved cars..
Price: $48.49
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Haps & Mishaps
Collected here for the first time are the best of Carol Burdick's "Haps & Mishaps" column, a favorite feature in the Alfred SUN newspaper in Western New York. Rob Price, Editor of the Bath Courier, writes, "These finely chiseled essays offer vivid representations of Carol Burdick's natural world, ranging from a reedy beagle in search of a free lunch to an antique bed loaded with memories; from a doomed road trip through Naples to the ups and downs of operating a wood-burning stove. But they are also much more: each piece is grounded in the rueful, ironic, sensitive perspective of Carol Burdick. To read them is to enter a uniquely wonderful world." And Sharon Hoover, Professor Emerita of English at Alfred University, observes, "Carol Burdick's column helps us to remain sane in the midst of the world's madness. More importantly, it reminds us what we desire for every person in our world: a home place, an appreciation of the local, rich life experiences, friends and family.".
Price: $9.95
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