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The Last Single Woman in America
The funniest, freshest essayist since David Sedaris, Cindy Guidry examines American culture and present-day gender relations in all their confusing, heartbreaking, and hilarious glory. After losing both her job and a potential husband, Cindy sets off to figure out why on earth she’s so happy and soon must combat an onslaught of unsolicited advice from her mother, her “have it all” friends, and a Yoda-like waxing lady, and the guy next door. Making pit stops along the way to ponder everything from the satanic origins of the Internet to her disturbing discovery that men are the new women, Cindy ultimately finds inspiration in her CD collection and renewed hope via a love letter from an Indian gas station attendant. Cindy Guidry is a self-aware woman with a razor-sharp wit, and in The Last Single Woman in America she takes us on an outrageously funny romp through her own unique mind, uncovering universal truths along the way..
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Telegram!: Modern History as Told Through More than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
There was a time when the sight of a Western Union delivery boy coming up the walk filled Americans with a sense of excitement or trepidation Between its invention in the mid-nineteenth century and its post-1960s relegation to money transfer and congratulations, the telegraph served as the primary medium for urgent messages. Telegram! collects the most poignant and revealing examples of this earliest form of instant communication. Organized into categories such as "Parents and Children," "Hooray for Hollywood," and "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," the telegrams range from such moving personal notes as W.C. Fields's wire to his dying friend John Barrymore, "You can't do this to me," to political advice, such as one voter's telegraphed suggestion to President Herbert Hoover: "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous." The communication compiled here also provides a novel and engaging perspective on modern history. Abraham Lincoln virtually conducted the Civil War over the telegraph wires, financial nabobs used them to discuss (and fail to predict) the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Japanese diplomats in Washington sent a flurry of encoded telegrams to Tokyo in the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. This handsome volume blends history, sociology, wit, and creativity as captured and dispatched by the telegram in its golden age. .
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Compilation of Amazing, Hilarious and Poignant True Parrot Stories
For over a decade, I have been interviewing and meeting many top parrot breeders from all over the UK - and Spain - while working as a freelance writer for Cage & Aviary Birds, Bird Keeper magazine, Parrots magazine and Australian Bird Keeper. This put me in the unique position of having an amazing collection of truly wonderful parrot stories. So, I decided to put together a compilation of 64 of the very best 'real-life' parrot stories that I have - along with 42 full-colour and 32 black and white photographs - to create this unique book of amazing short stories dedicated completely to parrots. Parrots are complex, intelligent and awe-inspiring creatures and what they are capable of will simply astonish you. As I collected hundreds and hundreds of stories, I realized that no two parrots - whether kept in breeding pairs or as pets - are the same. All parrots have strong, individual characters and a remarkable deep sense of intuition and resourcefulness that certainly goes beyond our comprehension. Even if you do not keep parrots yourself, you could not help but be amazed at some of the things that parrots get up to - or the things that have happened to them! But, there is one thing for certain; as you make your way through this book - jumping from one incredible story to another - it will make you realize that there is a lot more to parrots than first meets the eye..
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Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of “all the uncivilized races in existence ” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States. They were displayed as “cannibals” in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds, and other showplaces in America and Europe and examined and photographed by anthropologists. Roslyn Poignant tells the fascinating and often searing story of the transformation of the Aboriginal travelers into accomplished performers, professional savages who survived at least for a short time by virtue of the strengths they drew from their own culture and their individual adaptability. Most died somewhere on tour. A century later, the mummified body of Tambo, the first to die, was discovered in the basement of a recently closed funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. Poignant recounts how Tambo’s posthumous repatriation stimulated a cultural renewal within the community from which he came, exposing the roots of present social and economic injustices experienced by indigenous Australians. .
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Catalysts for Fine Chemical Synthesis, Hydrolysis, Oxidation and Reduction (Catalysts For Fine Chemicals Synthesis)
Catalysts are increasingly used by chemists engaged in fine chemical synthesis within both industry and academia Today, there exists a huge choice of high-tech catalysts, which add enormously to the repertoire of synthetic possibilities. However, catalysts are occasionally capricious, sometimes difficult to use and almost always require both skill and experience in order to achieve optimal results. This series aims to be a practical help for advanced undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, as well as experienced chemists in industry and academia working in organic and organometallic synthesis. The series features: * Tested and validated procedures. * Authoritative reviews on classes of catalysts. * Assessments of all types of catalysts. * Expertise from the Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catalysis, Liverpool, UK. The review section in the first volume of the series contains a report by Stanley M. Roberts on the integration of biotransformations into the catalyst portfolio. The procedure section contains a wide variety of synthetic protocols, such as epoxidations of unsaturated ketones and esters, asymmetric reductions of carbon-oxygen double bonds, asymmetric hydrogenations of carbon-carbon double bonds and other types of reaction. The featured catalysts include a wide range of different materials such as poly-D-leucine, D-fructose-based dioxiranes, oxaborolidine borane, some important titanium and ruthenium complexes as well as baker's yeast. For each reaction there are one or several detailed protocols on how to prepare and employ the various catalysts..
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The Quotable Woman: Witty, Poignant, And Insightful Observations From Notable Women
More than 300 celebrated women share their insights on a wide range of timeless topics, from love and friendship to ambition and the gender gap. .
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Now That's Poetry!: It's Feisty, It's Poignant, And It Rhymes.
This is a book that delivers a punch, at times with a whiff of salty humor. It is what its title says - "Feisty!" It is one man's 'class action suit' against everything that's wrong with the world..(and with poetry) that he wants to put right. Although he lashes out at today's norms and standards, and openly shows his utter disdain for political skullduggery on a global scale, he also writes about the poignant and funny sides of life and a free spirit that just will not quit. In his words, "I know what life is like. Let me show you what it should be like." However else a reader may view this work, it is an outpouring of Life experiences - personal wins, losses, love, joys, sorrows......and future wins! The entire work could best be described as ballads expressed in quatrains, which enables almost every poem's message to be delivered with a punch line. He believes that "a poem should make one sit up and take notice. It should produce laughter, anger, indignation, annoyance, tears, and joy, but above all it must provoke thought.".
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Loons in the Kitchen: Humorous & Poignant Short Stories from the Dakotas
After 11 years—arguably as North Dakota's most widely read columnist—Tony Bender has finally done it. The Ashley newspaperman compiled the `Best of Bender' into one book, Loons in the Kitchen. Subtitled Humorous and Poignant Short Stories from the Dakotas, Bender's work between 1990-2000 ranges widely in emotion from serious and thoughtful to buoyant and witty. From Lives Collide, the beautifully haunting story of a plane crash in Prairie City, SD, to the dignified anguish of Dreams For Sale, the tale of a North Dakota farm auction, Tony Bender rivets the reader to the page with masterful story-telling. His classic essays about family will tug heartstrings. And in raucous pieces like The Redhead's Tractor and Jukebox Blues, Bender proves he is a first-rate humorist. Loons in the Kitchen is great entertainment..
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Your Point Being?: Powerful and Poignant Stories for Preachers, Teachers, Speakers, and Writers
Three hundred one stories to help speakers and writers make their points memorable. Includes cross references, useful Bible passages, and Bible and thematic indexes..
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