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From turn-of-the-century novelties and Depression-era distraction, through wartime comfort, to Hello Kitty and Jeff Koons, cuteness has thrived in the fertile soil of American modern-age media and pop culture. What is it about fluffy bunnies with bows, baby ducks splashing in puddles, kittens snuggled in baskets, and little lambs on their way to school? Happy Kitty Bunny Pony celebrates America's "cult of the cute" in all its campy, kitschy, ironic glory.

With more than 200 images from the print and advertising archives of the Charles S. Anderson Design Company, this collection is an amazingly rich testament to America's fascination with cute things. The hilarious commentary by Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Mike Nelson, spiked with fun and curious facts, bits of sarcasm, and dry and not-so-dry wit, is as surprising and bizarre as the images themselves. So go ahead and join the fun-everyone from art students to your grandma is already shouting the cult-of-the-cute battle cry: "Happy Kitty Bunny Pony!" AUTHOR BIO: The Charles S. Anderson Design Company is ranked by Graphis magazine as one of the world's 10 most influential design firms. Their clients include Ralph Lauren, Warner Brothers, Coca-Cola, Levi's, and Nike. Michael J. Nelson, an actor and writer, was the head writer and on-air host of the legendary television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. He is the author of Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, Mind Over Matters, and the novel Death Rat..
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To the outside world Julie Davis has it all--wealth, a doting husband, an apartment on the Upper West Side, and an adorable new baby boy. But underneath the perfect exterior, she is paralyzed by an over-whelming sense of shame and inadequacy. A Mouthful of Air begins a few weeks after Julie's suicide attempt and on the eve of her son's first birthday. Desperate to lead a "normal" life, Julie tries to be thankful for the good things, but her emotional demons persist. In the midst of her struggle, she discovers that she is pregnant for a second time, and is forced to come off the medication that has given her the buoyancy to survive. Through sparse, elegant prose, Amy Koppelman's brutally honest portrayal of family and self shows the reader that real problems are indiscriminate of money or birthright. A Mouthful of Air brings to light the complexity and fragility of the human psyche. Amy Koppelman's gracious personality belies her bold nature as a writer. She took on a tough subject, perhaps one of the toughest, and produced a book that is as graceful as it is uncompromising. In a time when redemption is almost a required device in literature written by women, Amy has instead chosen reality because that is what is needed. Being a small part of her shattering debut makes me proud to be in publishing.--P.W. I guess I started writing this book a little after one o'clock in the afternoon on April 8, 1994. I didn't take pen to paper. But that's the day I started writing this story. I was twenty-four years old at the time. I had been married for a little over two years to my husband. We had a great apartment on the Upper West Side. There were even a few trees on our block, so it was nice forme; I got to see the seasons change. On this day, I had gotten up early, fixed my husband breakfast, waved him off to work. Then I tidied up the place, drew the shades, and crawled into bed. This was how I spent each day. "He's dead." "Who's dead?" "Kurt Cobain." I have to do this in three hundred words, so I can't go line for line, but you know how the conversation went. What about Rome? But Frances? Why? We hung up and I turned on MTV. Nothing like a visibly shaken Kurt Loder to make you really feel like shit. Anyway, soon after Cobain died, I read Anna Karenina and it struck me that despite being born in different centuries and on different continents, Anna and Kurt were very much alike. I know, you're probably rolling your eyes, that's quite a reach, honey. But this is part of the problem. Most of the time, even for me, it's easier tow write "depression" off, to think of it as just another word for sadness. But depression, not the "I'm so depressed, I hate mushrooms and they're everywhere in my salad" depression, but the illness that Kurt, Anna, and Julie, the protagonist of my novel, suffer from, is a whole different kind of thing. For them, no amount of love, no amount of passion, no amount of heart is enough to see them through. Today there are medicines that help. And there are countless worthwhile books that document that journey toward recovery. I think it's fair to tell you, though: this isn't one of them. Readers always ask me if the book is fiction, and yeah, this is fiction. I'm still married. I have two beautiful kids. And I don't spend my days hiding in a dark room. You should see me; I could give Rodin a run for his money with the Play-doh. But who I am today is a longway from who I was when I first started writing. So the feelings in my novel, the fear, the endless self-doubt, well, all that stuff is pretty close to the bone..
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A survey of language describes how it reached its present state, how it operates, and how it will develop in the future, discussing such topics as Shakespeare's pronunciation, low-life language, and English's place in the world. 30,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo..
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He's a simple cat. He enjoys long naps, big dinners, and watching Jon fall flat on his face. But whether he's setting a trap for the mailman, stalking the chips bag, or helping Jon discover his artistic side, Garfield knows what to do and he knows how to do it with style..
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A Mouthful of Rivets is the oral history of the women who took part in World War II on the homefront In more than one hundred interviews, Nancy Baker Wise and Christy Wise create a textured portrait of the challenges and triumphs these powerful women experienced. Each woman vividly describes how she overcame discrimination, harassment, emotional and physical challenges, and inadequate training to successfully meet the needs of defense production while bringing the American economy to its height.

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In his new novel, A Mouthful of Tongues, Paul Di Filippo, cult author of Ciphers, The Steampunk Trilogy, and Ribofunk, makes his boldest fictional statement yet. Writing in the tradition of Kathy Acker and Samuel R. Delany, but with a subversive brio all his own, Di Filippo here imagines a true erotic revolution, a crusade of the libido that will topple a corrupt and jaded future world order, and possibly much besides . . . Kerry Hackett is just another corporate pawn in the urban cauldron of 2015, besieged on all sides by those who would possess and exploit her. Driven to desperation, she undergoes a mysterious transformation into an alchemical goddess, wanderer of the timelines. In a magnificently evoked parallel Brazil, a place of seedy splendor and charismatic lusts, Kerry, or that which she has become, tests her carnal arsenal on targets deserving and undeserving; but the attention of a more powerful agency has been attracted, and a yet stranger metamorphosis awaits. A tale of heartbreak, revenge, and liberation, written in Paul Di Filippo's most fantastically effervescent prose, A Mouthful of Tongues is a work of science fiction which crosses boundaries and breaks taboos with brilliant savage abandon. It can only add to its author's rapidly growing following, and will shake the world of speculative fiction to its very foundations. "Out of a rich impasto of language, a story that is sensual, sexual, and hot takes shape around one of the most engaging heroines since Southern and Hoffenberg's Candy." --Samuel R. Delany "Sacred sin, that's Di Filippo's force here. We have participated in a transpersonal act that lifts our consciousness above the situational polarities of morality and into the psyche's unknown, where objective energetic processes fuse dream and matter--and make us us. A ruthless fantasy of aggressive sexuality and archaic intentions." --A. A. Attanasio.
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Joey Reynolds is one of America's most beloved radio personalities. Spinning records as a teenager in Buffalo, Joey quickly became one of the trendsetters of early rock radio. From Miami to Philly to Detroit to New York, wherever Joey went his show was always at the top of the charts. After a detour to Hollywood and a long battle with the bottle, Joey's career went into a long, slow slide. Filled with humorous anecdotes and stories of the many celebrities and rock stars Joey has met, this is the story of a man whose rise, fall, and rise again was fueled by the power of laughter. After finding sobriety, Joey bounced back as always. He now has the number one rated overnight radio talk show in the country and his "stream of consciousness" style and sense of humor are winning new fans every day..
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Money By The Mouthful is the first and only book ever written that tells the public what they really need to know about all of the unfair treatment that they are faced with at the hands of dentists…. Shocking exposes of the methods dentists use to extract your money while pretending to be concerned about your dental well-being. If you are tired of drilling, patching and pulling the only way to protect yourself is to read this book before ever going to the dentist again..
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W.B. Yeats wrote of one of his poems that he "made it out of a mouthful of air." Truly, all language is made this way. Although we tend to think of it as a scratching of signs on paper, the essence of language is primarily so much air, a mouthful at a time, evanescent and yet essential. Speech is language's primary manifestation; writing and printing are secondary. Arguing from this standpoint, Anthony Burgess presents a fascinating survey of language, how it operates now, how it got to be that way, and how it will develop in the future. Written with grace and brilliance, his book is highly readable and full of riveting information - for instance, on Shakespeare's pronunciation, on English newly generated abroad, on everyday speech, and on the place of English in the world family of languages. As a novelist whose obsession with language has been central to his work (to the extent, in A Clockwork Orange, of inventing a vocabulary for the teen gangs terrorizing a future England), Burgess has always wished to tackle this subject. This is his most profound and considered statement to date on language, and one of the most important books he has written..
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