Product Description: Iowa is the most normal place on the planet, so the people and places covered in this book will be as everyday as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, but as twisted as a corn dog dipped in horseradish. As filmmaker David Lynch ("Blue Velvet", "Eraserhead") shows in his movies, it's what's beneath the surface that's really tells the story...read more

Product Description: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!

Product Description: A study of Britain as a capitalism poised between American and European models, exploring themes of legitimation, denial and opportunism via a series of substantial case studies framed by a reinterpretation of Thatcherism's economic contexts and a critical assessment of New Labour...read more

Product Description: Modern structural applications of crystallography make extensive use of statistical methods, in particular the probability density function (pdf) of the magnitude of the structure factor. Similarly, direct methods of phase determination have been responsible for much of the success of crystallography - methods based on properties of joint pdfs...read more

Product Description: Combining case studies with accessible but rigorous production models and historical background, this provocative book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth, but one which sheds light on cultural responses to the attendant stresses of globalization...read more

The creators of Ask Dr. Science, a parody question-and-answer series aired daily on public radio, explain such domestic 'truths' as why we should build fires in the summer to save heat. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

A whimsical collection of scientific gobbledygook--based on the popular radio series Ask Dr. Science--answers forty hilarious questions and includes the Dr. Science Pledge and a radio drama, 'Dr. Science and the Sea Monkeys From Hell.' Performed by Dan Coffey & Merle Kessler.