Provides humorous excuses to avoid cleaning bedrooms, visiting relatives, going to the dentist, etc.

Product Description: Since its publication in 1985, Editing Early Music has been the guide to editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages to about 1830. For this revised edition, Caldwell has made a number of corrections, brought the bibliography up to date, and added a Postscript on stemmatics and textual criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year. Eager to reach his destination and unable to secure any other form of transport, he had to resort to singlehanded seamanship.After an ignominious scene in the harbor, where a tangled anchor led him to take an early dip, he spent ten days learning the rudiments of navigation and sailing from a book, before embarking on the 9,000 mile journey aboard the 20-foot Pagan. Ahead lay a mission that was to reveal in him elements not only of astounding courage and determination, but also of incredible foolhardiness. Within 500 miles of Panama John Caldwell had already been shipwrecked once and had his boat's engine and cockpit destroyed by an angry shark. Indefatigable, he decided to press on towards his goal.He endured the terrors and discomforts of life on the high seas and enjoyed the triumphs of fighting and winning against the elements. This is more than an exciting tale of sea-adventure. It is as compelling and unpredictable as a thriller. It is the story, witty and moving, of a man, motivated initially by love, and ultimately by his own fierce determination to survive.

Product Description: Oblong quarto. Tan wraps. 96 pp, illustrations. Near Fine, narrow band faded on front cover.

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Product Description: Nationally syndicated cartoonist John Caldwell solves the problem of how to make your fax stand out in a sea of unfurlingpaper with over 100 reusable, attention-getting cover sheets for every kind of business correspondence. Each page is certifiably photocopiable and faxable; perforations on the left margin make for clean removal...read more

Product Description: Like the VCR, microwave, PC and answering machine, the fax has come home to America. Sales of fax machines nearly doubled again last year, and they are everywhere: in offices, homes, cars, hotels, even built into computers. This collection of 101 faxes offer greeting cards for every occasion--birthdays, anniversaries, invitations, thank-yous, congratulations, and holiday wishes--that do so much more than just a phone call...read more

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Product Description: The first american painting to enter the Museum's collection, Henry Peters Gray's Wages of War, was received in 1872, two years after the Museum's founding. Since then over 1600 American paintings by about 800 artists have entered the collection through purchase, gift, and bequest...read more