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  The Classic Mantle

  Buzz Bissinger

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  Filled with stunning photos, this book by the #1 New York Times–bestselling sportswriter tells the story of Mickey Mantle’s legendary career. 
   
  Mickey Mantle has long been considered one of baseball's most memorable figures—playing his entire eighteen-year baseball career for the New York Yankees (1951-68), winning three American League MVP titles, playing in twenty All-Star games, and winning seven World Series.  
   
  Today, decades after his retirement, he still holds six World Series records, including most home runs (18). Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August, goes beyond the statistics to bring Mantle to life, and striking photographs by Marvin E. Newman make this book a fitting tribute to Mantle’s career and his lasting impact on the sport of baseball.

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  27 Thoughts on Steampunk

  Travis I. Sivart

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  Travis I. Sivart draws on his passion of steampunk as an aesthetic and a hobby to offer his personal insights for helping others to begin to delving into this fascinating culture and genre. Each thought is a single page, keeping the ideas simple and to the point. This book offers twenty-seven thoughts on the basic questions and concepts that often crop up when someone is beginning to explore this incredible movement. 
  Travis I. Sivart is a published steampunk author, as well as having hosted a weekly radio show on the subject, and is often a guest at conventions to speak on the topic of steampunk. He does not claim to be the ultimate or complete authority in this beloved genre, and wrote this book hoping to help new folks find their way into the hobby. 
  Book 1 in the "27 Thoughts on Social DIY" series.

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  Do Not Adjust Your Set - Volume 3

  Humphrey Barclay, Terry Jones,...

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  Do Not Adjust Your Set is a 60s comedy show comprised mostly of satirical sketches, often presented in a bizarre, surreal and disjointed manner- much like that of Monty Python, a succeeding show which several of the cast became part of. 
  An important Monty Python predecessor and arguably one of the finest children's sketch comedies ever produced, DNAYS is certainly something you do not want to miss... 
  This volume features a compilation of classic sketches from the show, including: 
  -How to Eat-Musicians at Work-Happy Grin Insurance-Flying Doctor-Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band-The Equestrian Statue-Take Your Clothes Off-Bus Stop-Cookery Class-Help!-Captain Fantastic-Sailor's Song-A Personal Note

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  Framing a Lost City - Science...

  Amy Cox Hall

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  An “engaging” study of Machu Picchu’s transformation from ruin to World Heritage site, and the role a National Geographic photo feature played (Latin American Research Review).   When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed by a few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Bingham’s article were published in National Geographic magazine, which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered.   Focusing on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham’s three expeditions to Peru in the first decade of the twentieth century, this book makes a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham’s expeditions relied on the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fashioned from a distinct way of seeing.   Drawing on science and technology studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demonstrates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the “lost city” took on different meanings—especially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national patrimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham’s.

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  NPR Driveway Moments Moms -...

  NPR

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  Stories from the National Public Radio archives celebrate moms and motherhood. Stories so compelling you’ll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you’re sitting in your own driveway. Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal captures your attention with colorful tales for and about moms. Heard on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, News & Notes, and other NPR programs, these stories and more are for moms, moms-to-be, and anyone who has ever known or had a mother.What is a Driveway MomentSM? Maybe it’s happened to you as it has to countless others. . . . You’re driving home, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself in your driveway (or parking space or parking garage). Rather than turn the radio off, you stay in your car to hear the piece to the end. It’s a Driveway Moment.The NPR Driveway Moments Series collects these “best of” stories so that you are never more than a “play” away from a Driveway Moment.Contents:Introduction by Peter SagalMore Messages from Amy’s Answering MachineSolving the Mystery of Mother-Daughter SpeakMommy as a Role Model? Get RealBad MommyJust Mom and Me and Chuck E. CheeseSurprised by MomKnitting for Life, and for Life’s MilestonesLegislator Offers First-Person View of WelfareStoryCorps: Mother’s Magic, Stretching a Christmas DollarTamale Recipe Proves Hard to Keep Secret‘Chickenbutt’ and Other Lessons from GrandmaWho is Singing Me Lullabies?Mementoes Honor Sons Lost to WarIn Memoir, Allende Reveals Life to Late DaughterI Love My Kids—But Give Me a BreakMother’s Day vs. Fishing Season OpenerHidden Kitchen MamaMother’s Day RecipesStoryCorps: Special Memories of a Final Thanksgiving MealYoung, Single and Raising a ChildRocket ScienceMom Remembers Her Olympic PastTurning Into Your Mother Isn’t So Bad After AllA Partially Empty Nest, with Mixed FeelingsGrandmother: A Story of Aging, Decline and LoveThis I Believe: The Power of Love to Transform and to Heal

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  Southern Steam Recollections - A...

  Don Benn

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  This collection of historic photographs showcases the steam trains of England’s Southern Railway from Devon and Cornwall to Wimbledon and beyond.   Train enthusiast Don Benn photographed steam locomotives along England’s Southern Railway from 1960 until steam engines were retired in 1967. In his most prolific years, between 1961 and 1963, Benn captured the last of the classic ex Southern Railway designs, such as the King Arthurs, Lord Nelson and Schools classes. Beloved trains such as the Bournemouth Belle and Lymington Pier boat trains are shown to good effect.   The 150 black and white photos presented in this volume, many published here for the first time, span the Southern Region from the east to the ‘withered arm’ in Devon and Cornwall. Special focus is paid to the areas just south and south west of London, including such historic locations as the footpaths at South Croydon and Wimbledon.

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