A handy and comprehensive reference to the 300 most interesting celestial objects. This book provides a tour through the galaxy, from its solar core to its outer limits, with all the highlights and the very latest data about the universe. Convenient data sidebars with each entry provide facts and figures on every object- including mass, magnitude, density, radius, rotation period, and surface and core temperatures. An annotated cross-section of the object enhances this information, and a full-page photograph brings the object to life. Additional spreads bring together and explain related objects or phenomena. For example, the corresponding pages for the sun include solar power, sunspots and solar flares. Others examples include: Mercury: Mercury's surface The asteroid belt: Eros 433 Jupiter's moons: 10, Europa, Callista Uranus: Uranus' rings, Ariel and Titania Outer belts and comets: Halley's comet; Deep Impact Space telescopes: International Space Station. 300 Astronomical Objects is a handy reference for the amateur astronomer.

Product Description: In this thoroughly researched book, National Horseshoe Pitching Association Historian Bob Dunn documents the fascinating forty-year history of the Amateur Athletic Union's involvement with horseshoe pitching. Fans of the sport will enjoy learning about the great stories behind the program and its champions...read more

Product Description: Forget the title of one of Robert Dunn's previous books, Cannon Fodder. His poems aren't that. It's just Mr. Dunn being humble again. They're real gems. For example, "'Fig Leaf Rag: Adam and Eve, when banished from Eden/donned their finest traveling fig leaves...read more

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Product Description: Willie Lee Reed, a young guitarslinger from Detroit, blows into the South Side of Chicago to challenge the master of the blues, Heddy Days, in a cutting session—only to be beaten by one perfect note. But Willie Lee's genius is clear; it's just that he has a lot to learn...read more

Analyzes the plot, characters, themes, style, and structure of The Sun Also Rises and offers tips on tests and term papers dealing with the novel

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Other than dealing with lingering anger from clients who lost money in ill-conceived real estate ventures, investment advisor Joe Harper is leading a reasonably quite life. Everything changes when the accountant of a murdered real estate promoter drops a load of cash and a key to a safety deposit box onto his conference room table...read more

Product Description: Horse Latitudes is another outrageous collection by Robert Dunn, arguably the most irritating poet in New York City. If you've ever been to a dinner party where you yearned to pull the chair out from behind someone you can't stand while he's sitting down, this is the book for you...read more

Product Description: From orphan to nationally acclaimed sports idol while still in high school, fans and pundits followed Bud Houser's career through the "Chariots of Fire" 1924 Olympic Games, the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, three gold medals, honors by the University of Southern California as "The Greatest Trojan of all Time," and a sizzling romance with beautiful coed, Dawn Smith...read more

Five chapbooks make up I HEAR AMERICA SINGING, Volume I of WALKING TO WINDWARD: POETS OF NEW ENGLAND (20 poets in 4 boxed volumes) Robert Dunn sets the tone in his 55 page chapbook I HEAR AMERICA SINGING: SOMETIMES IT TROUBLES ME with his incisive observations on American life, the creativity of the artists, the sound that distinguishes the wind in the trees, in contrast to the unthinking, fast-moving life on the freeway. The entire series takes its title from Dunn's poem where the poet "...was walking to windward, with newspapers/up my trousers and down my belt and various/places where the rude wind would blow/if it weren't for a Free/Press..." Included are also Pat Fargnoli's LIVES OF OTHERS (an encounter with a construction worker, the couple fighting upstairs, and who have inadvertently entered her life), Catherine O'Brian's LUCKY TO BE BORN IN A HOUSE OF MILK & THE WHITE NIGHTGOWN (on being brought up in the Philippines), Mark DeCarteret's in THE GREAT APOLOGY (a magnificent aunt, an immigrant uncle, a pencil for a tail, and an interchange with a mouse) decries our consumerist society, and Julia Older's CITY IN THE SKY relates her time in Native American Indian country, like the Tewa Indian song "My words are joined as one with the Mountains, with the Rocks, with the Trees, as one with my body and my heart."

Product Description: After the Japanese attack on our fleet at Pearl Harbor, troops, guns and planes are strategically placed and many anti-aircraft installations are camouflaged along our West Coast. Jim Tong and his ten-man Long Beach Vice Squad face a much friendlier invasion...read more

Product Description: Passion in Wyoming. Tyrell Blaylock came home to find peace---not to wrangle with Celine Lomax, the hot-mouthed firebrand who'd invaded his mountaintop retreat. She would stop at nothing to reclaim her family's land that she believed stolen by the Blaylocks years ago.

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!

Product Description: It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!