Product Description: No area of Portland, Oregon, played a more important role in street railway history than Northwest Portland and the neighborhood known as Slabtown. In 1872, the city’s first streetcars passed close to Slabtown as they headed for a terminus in the North End...read more

Product Description: Aaron Recess is a glazier for Cape Verdean Glass. Until his co-worker introduces him to cocaine, weed is the only drug that Aaron does. He snorts the cocaine in his frontroom while being watched by Danielle, a firebrand woman with frightening normalcy despite her otherworldly evilness...read more

Product Description: This book is a step by step illustrated guide to planning and writing dissertations and theses for undergraduate and graduate science students. Topics covered include advice on writing each section of a thesis as well as general discussions on collecting and organizing references, keeping records, presenting data, interacting with a supervisor and avoiding academic misconduct...read more

Product Description: (Homespun Tapes). Learn from a man listed by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest guitarists in popular music history. Richard Thompson's playing encompasses Celtic and British traditional music, American country, rock 'n 'roll and his own indefinable but widely admired style...read more

Product Description: The ability to read people's body language and send out the right signals yourself, is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Geoff Ribbens and Richard Thompson, leading experts on body language, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order give a successful appraisal...read more

Product Description: Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more - this is the story of A. L. (Bert) Lloyd's extraordinary life.A. L. Lloyd played a key part in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s, but that is only part of his story...read more

Product Description: Cartoonists are passionate about Richard Thompson’s work, and his is the only cartoon to be endorsed by Bill Watterson.Cul de Sac is a lighthearted comic strip about the suburban life of a precocious preschooler named Alice Otterloop...read more

Product Description: The Tiger Cruise is a novel about a Los Angeles Class nuclear attack submarine, the USS Woodbridge, which leaves Norfolk on a routine two day tiger cruise. The tiger cruise is a navy tradition whereby family and friends are invited to sail aboard a naval vessel to get first hand experience of navy tradition at sea...read more

Product Description: Now updated for the 21st century with the very latest on NLP and other cutting-edge research Not restricted to the workplace, but covering every social and domestic situation, this guide offers readers the knowledge and understanding to be able to use and interpret body language more effectively...read more

Why do cows have four stomachs? Where – and how – do plants survive in conditions of extreme aridity? Howdo animals plan complex hunting strategies? How many elephants are too many?This compelling book explores and finds answers to some of nature’s most intriguing mysteries, from evolution todeath, predation to communication, feeding to reproduction, adversity to that most contentious of issues – animalconsciousness. Drawing on the southern African landscape for his research and examples, the author reveals the workings, both in detail and on a grand scale, of life in the natural world. Playful line drawings illustrate the clear text, to make a bumper read for the burgeoning popular science market.

Product Description: The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest.  Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide...read more

Product Description: On January 21, 1968 a B-52 Boeing Stratofortress, carrying four 1.1 megaton H-Bombs, caught fire and crashed in the Arctic Circle near Thule, Greenland. The Strategic Air Command’s (SAC) Arctic Circle route was an airborne alert operation, referred to by the pilots of these large bombers as the "Chrome Dome," and was a 24-hour round-the-clock strategic undertaking...read more

Product Description: Richard Thompson’s wonderful watercolor and fun, imaginative drawings have garnered the attention of highly-acclaimed illustrators all over the world, including Bill Waterson and Mo Willems, who have each written the forewords for his first two collections...read more

Product Description: A HARD KNOCK LIFE

Product Description: Cartoonists are passionate about Richard Thompson’s work, and his is the only cartoon to be endorsed by Bill Watterson.The Cul de Sac Golden Treasury is a hilarious and beautiful omnibus of cartoonist Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac comic strips, bringing together strips from the first collection, Cul de Sac, and the 2009 collection, Children at Play...read more

Product Description: Jackson doesn't admit he's from Detroit, much less that he used to run a bookie operation there. His bail-bond business in St. Paul was much safer. And if Charlie Victor wasn't his best client, he was at least a steady one, paying his bonding fee out of a secret stash he called his frag box...read more

Product Description: Richard Thompson reminds us that being a 40-year-old isn't hard, but being a four-year-old is. His warm, welcoming reminders are wonderfully lighthearted and funny as he brings home Alice's life in a fun, new Cul de Sac collection...read more

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