Product Description: African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor from Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond Paperback - August 26, 1989 by Denis Boyles (Author) Product Details: Paperback: 225 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books Ballantine Books edition (August 26, 1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0345356667 ISBN-13: 978-0345356666 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0...read more

The author relates his adventures on a railroad journey through East Africa and explores both the romantic past and the turbulent present of Zanzibar and Kenya

A humorous look at male/female relations contains the true-life wisdom that usually comes from fathers and uncles and details how the way men act sometimes is less than manly. Original. National ad/promo.

The popular columnist and coauthor of Modern Man's Guide to Life presents a rich array of wisdom and advice for men on topics including health and fitness, money, work, marriage and divorce, fashion, and much more. Original. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Collects bits and pieces of knowledge on outdoor recreation, including fishing and hunting

Fresh advice from a popular columnist of America's leading health magazine, Men's Health, presents reasoned guidance on a variety of men's issues, including sex, work, children, and local football teams, and offers useful lists of insults, barbecue spots, and more. Original. 50,000 first printing.

An information-packed pocket reference to a difficult topic features important advice on how to read the financial news, evaluate a budget, read key economic indicators like inflation, and understand the bull and bear cycles of the stock market. Original. (view table of contents)

A crash course on this important branch of science explains such meaty matters as matter, gravity, and Einstein's theory of relativity, as well as many other topics related to the study of physics. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Time-honored instruction on all the essential skills of farm blacksmithing.

Product Description: Over 700 practical projects (and over 800 illustrations).

French anti-Americanism has recently gotten our attention, and caused an equal and opposite reaction. As Denis Boyles writes in the introduction to Vile France, 'What we mistakenly see as a craven, anti-Semitic, hypocritical, hysterically anti-American, selfish, overtaxed, culturally exhausted country bereft of ideas... is actually worse than all that. It's vile.' In this funny and insightful polemic, Boyles, who has lived and worked in France for several years, examines the internal crises--a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige--that have changed what was once 'La Belle France' into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. He explains how a country that endlessly repeats its credentials as America's oldest ally has become one of our most resolute enemies, wielding the biggest weapon in its arsenal--the European Union--against the interests of an America that it fears and envies.

Product Description: This massive collection was originally published by Popular Mechanics in 1931, with projects for the home, garden, transportation and recreation. Clear, illustrated instructions show readers how to:*build a porch swing*make a telescope*make a leather belt *and more!More than 700 projects and more than 800 illustrations, this redesigned paperback is slated to have a new introduction by David Stiles...read more

An enlightening study of the politically savvy inhabitants of the American Midwest refutes the myth that conservatives have tricked Midwesterners into supporting backward cultural values over their economic interests, clarifying and analyzing the attitudes and values of voters in the small towns of the Midwest, and linking their needs and aspirations to those of America's urban centers. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Way back before man abandoned the woods for the cities—and traded his hunting rifle for a BlackBerry—he had to know how to do certain things to survive. He had to trap and build and grow things, using his calloused hands and valuable knowledge passed down through the generations...read more

Product Description: The Man’s Playbook is more than just a how-to guide; it’s a way of life. Learn timesaving, life-improving, woman-impressing tips that will last a lifetime. Want the sleek charm of James Bond? Inside, you’ll find out how to shake a martini just like he would...read more

Product Description: This is Oswald Sickert's delicate examination of two middle-class, late-Victorian characters – an ambitious writer and his wife, a freshly liberated woman — and their rather modern relationship. It has been more than a century since this book first appeared (in 1894, in Unwin's 'Pseudonym Library' — where Sickert's pseudonym was simply ‘Oswald Valentine') but the anxieties of modern lives lived in a period of transition will be quite familiar to most twenty-first century readers...read more