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Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth. The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a note in my Moleskine that I will later recount in the guidebook review, saying that the restaurant “is a pleasant surprise . . . and the table service is friendly.” –Thomas Kohnstamm, professional travel writer and author of numerous Lonely Planet guidebooks WANTED: Travel Writer for Brazil QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED Decisiveness: the ability to desert your entire previous life–including well-salaried office job, attractive girlfriend, and basic sanity for less than minimum wage Attention to detail: the skill to research northeastern Brazil, including transportation, restaurants, hotels, culture, customs, and language, while juggling sleep deprivation, nonstop nightlife, and excessive alcohol consumption Creativity: the imagination to write about places you never actually visit Resourcefulness: utilizing persuasion, seduction, and threats, when necessary, to secure a place to stay for the evening once your pitiable advance has been (mis)spent Resilience: determination to overcome setbacks such as bankruptcy, disillusionment, and an ill-fated one-night stand with an Austrian flight attendant As Kohnstamm comes to personal terms with each of these job requirements, he unveils the underside of the travel industry and its often-harrowing effect on writers, travelers, and the destinations themselves. Moreover, he invites us into his world of compromising and scandalous situations in one of the most exciting countries as he races against an impossible deadline..
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Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
It was a time of innocence, nuclear families, traditional values . . . and BAD FOOD. In an era where cooks wanted to put their best foot forward, there was no end to the creative, cost-efficient, and cream-based dishes that disgraced the family dinner table, the cocktail party, or the neighborhood BBQ. Recipes involving ingredients like ground meat, bananas, and cottage cheese sound innocent enough—unless you mix them all together in a strange attempt to cover every food group at once. In Gastroanomalies, James Lileks gathers another remarkable assortment of dishes that once inspired cooks to brave new heights but now inspire sour stomachs and thoughts of “how did I survive?” Highlighted with excerpts from bizarre cookbooks (like Joan Crawford shilling for Bisquick), dubious images (is it meat or chocolate ice cream?), ads heralding the latest in kitchen technology (how about a bacon-egger?), and Lileks’s acerbic, off-the-wall commentary (“Put your ear close, and you can actually hear the meat screaming in terror”), Gastroanomalies is an irresistible retro documentation of a bygone era when artisanal cheese and vegetables lightly steamed (not boiled to mush) were still light-years away. Gastroanomalies will have foodies, baby boomers, and lovers of kitsch in stitches..
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Scientifically Guaranteed Male Multiple Orgasms and Ultimate Sex: Restart natural penis enlargement, Eliminate forever premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, impotence and Enjoy daily orgasms
The Absolute #1 Bestseller in 6 Very Competitive Categories for 20 Straight Months!Leading scientist and best-selling author at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com reveals the results and scientific breakthroughs from 110 landmark clinical studies, and 10 years of dedicated work, which guarantee that you will always have massive "steel erection", full ejaculation control, great endurance and multiple orgasms due to The VIP Muscle(R) in the safest, fastest, easiest and cheapest possible ways. Hello, I am Alan Ritz. If you are like most of my friends, you may be searching for the perfect blend of science-based recommendations and simple step-by-step plans for fast and effortless achievement of better erection, performance and multiple orgasms. If you become increasingly discouraged in the search for simple, safe and clinically proven approaches, my "very good book" J. Gilbert, ForeWordreviews.com reveals all scientifically guaranteed methods and solutions. The book contains everything you will ever need to know and use. Discover step-by-step how to achieve and maintain for the rest of your life significant stamina, hardness, ejaculation control and volume, sensitivity, libido and number of multi-orgasms with or without a partner. The recommendations are fool-proof. You don't have to learn or practice any exercises as most of the similar books require. What is more, all of my competitors use "may" when talking about the results. Save weeks and even months of workouts and dieting for not guaranteed results. Take advantage of my breakthrough discovery- The VIP Muscle(R), which is the real generator of male multiple orgasms. It takes less than 15 seconds to find it and any sexually healthy man can use it for multi-orgasms in a matter of days. Experience daily this exclusive euphoric pleasure very few men know about. Achieve the ultimate in multi-orgasmic (solo) sex quickly and effortlessly. 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I have recommended science-based ejaculation frequency for each age group to prevent overejaculations. They lead to more than 24 major health problems, incurable by medical doctors, which seriously undermine their sexual life. The list includes premature ejaculation, anxiety, emotional eating, aggressive/depressed behavior, low back pain, lack of libido and power, dizziness, hot flashes, blurry vision, etc. They are usually caused by deficiencies of little-known substances in your biochemistry and nervous system. The book's content is focused mostly on them. You can solve naturally all of these problems for up to 100% with time by following the advice from the book. More little-known information and solutions provides my "excellent" H. Froeschl, Bookreview.com, simple and very effective lifestyle program Your Scientific Diet(R) for Men, which guarantees fast and permanent weight loss and natural prevention/solutions to obesity-related hypertension, impotence, and other challenges in the healthiest, cheapest and easiest possible ways. Your Scientific Diet(R) for Women was just released. Discover how exactly popular "jelqing techniques", "penis enlargement devices", and "sex pills" will severely harm your sexual health. Some of my competitors recommend them but I only expose them! As a scientist, I stick to exact numbers, verifiable scientific data, clinically proven methods and guaranteed results. That's why all of the recommendations include only substances approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and the essence of 110 references to leading medical, urological and research journals. This guarantees 100% safety, reliability and credibility of the provided in some cases scientific breakthrough information. I guide you step-by-step what, when and how to use. Thanks to feedback, I had anticipated most of the concerns and objections that may arise. The book is professionally edited and organized for fastest access to any part that interests you the most. There are also numerous step-by-step plans and examples from real people, including me as well. So rest assured that everything is simple, enjoyable to read and easy to understand and follow. That's why you will never get stuck, especially when there is nothing to learn or practice. Any apprehension from understanding science-based information will quickly disappear and you can benefit from it right from the first day. (continues below).
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Questionable Remains: A Lindsey Chamberlain Novel (Lindsay Chamberlain Mysteries)
Man's eternal quest for gold proves as enduring as it is fatal when forensic archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain unearths a four-hundred-year-old mystery -- and a mondern-day murder. Vacationing in Tennessee, Lindsay studies the bones of a centuries-old corpse hiding a fascinating secret. She's also asked to look into the suspicious deaths of two adventurous cavers whose fatal foray into Hell's Slide spells murder for one family member. But bones don't lie, and before long, Lindsay knows she's digging up trouble. Someone wants the case to remain closed -- and the mounting threats tell her she's getting closer to the truth. But as murder old and new come together in shocking ways, Lindsay finds herself digging for her life -- to survive the clever trap of a killer..
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Quack!: Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
The curator of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices shares his collection of hilarious, horrifying, and preposterous medical devices that have been foisted upon the gullible in their quest for good health. These modern-day snake oil salesmen, with their dubious devices, have preyed on the medically ignorant with ridiculous and sobering results. From the Prostate Gland Warmer to the Recto Rotor, from the Nose Straightener to the Wonder Electro Marvel, these implements reveal the desperate measures sought for magic cures. With period advertisements, promotional literature, and gadget instructions, this book offers a wealth of past-and present-medical fraud..
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Questionable Creatures: A Bestiary
Pauline Baynes, whose original line illustrations for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are known to millions, has revived twenty medieval and mischievous beasts, basing her tongue-in-cheek descriptions on various English bestiaries. Her delightful recreations of these fabulous beasts hop, swoop, and gallop through the pages in antique splendor, and will charm today's readers as readily as they astounded audiences centuries ago..
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