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  How to Swear - An Illustrated Guide

  Stephen Wildish

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  “Those who grew up with the taste of soap in their mouths are bound to find this book both charming and hilarious.” —Imboldn 
   
  Even the most profane practitioner of the vulgar tongue must sometimes wonder, “Am I doing it right?” This highly entertaining and crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs a variety of quick-read charts and helpful strategies to take salty skills to the next level. Offering history and etymology along with guidance, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more, How to Swear celebrates the rude ingenuity of using a naughty word to express surprise, excitement, anger, joy, or disgust, limited only by the imagination. It’s inspiring. It’s educational. It’s dirty. It’s here to change lives or, at the very least, add some f*#&ing color to the conversation. 
   
  “A book of lavatorial language made for the smart lavatory . . . entertaining and informative and, if nothing else, remind[s] you of the mysterious pleasure of using words that are not meant to be said.” —The Guardian 
   
  “A book dedicated to the art of swearing, complete with quick-read charts, diagrams, explications, and strategies to take readers’ salty skills to the next level.” —Medium

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  Bronze Age Military Equipment

  Dan Howard

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  “A very valuable piece of work, providing a splendid overview” of the weapons, armor, shields and chariots used in warfare from 3000 BC to 1200 BC (HistoryOfWar.org).   This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard describes the development of weapons, armor and chariots, how they were made and their tactical use in battle. Spanning from the introduction of massed infantry by the Sumerians (c. 26th century BC) through to the collapse of the chariot civilizations (c. 12th century BC), this is the period of the epic struggles described in the Old Testament and Homer’s Iliad, the clashes of mighty empires like those of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hittites.   In Bronze Age Military Equipment, Howard provides “an able and readable review that is supported in the text by drawings and sketches, but there is also an excellent full color photographic section that shows replica weapons and armor created in bronze” (Firetrench).

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  CBS Radio Mystery Theater

  E. G. Marshall

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  In 1974 long-time radio producer Himan Brown convinced CBS to green-light a new anthology of Radio Dramas, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (CBSRMT). Radio Drama had been declared "dead" twelve years before.  CBS Radio Mystery Theater was meant to appeal to an audience that remembered when old time radio drama was a popular form of family entertainment. Riding on the wave of nostalgia fever, the radio show attracted many younger listeners who would stay up late, hidden under their covers to hear the program on their bedroom radio (and many of them were not able to go to sleep after listening to the frightening program!)  CBSRMT was able to attract a wide array of talent. Many of the voices that were popular during the Golden Age of Radio made appearances on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and younger talent, often from CBS Daytime Television and NY area stage appeared in the radio broadcasts.

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  Designing the Doll - From...

  Susanna Oroyan

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  The author of Anatomy of a Doll “gives us a gift by distilling the spirits found in doll/figure art . . . then explains the fundamentals to pave the way” (Barbara Campbell, editor of Soft Dolls & Animals!). 
   
  Advance your dollmaking skills with this in-depth guide by master-dollmaker Susanna Oroyan! Susanna introduces you to her concept of “imaginative engineering” with a collection of design directions and technical processes that will help your ideas translate into reality.Expands on concepts presented in Anatomy of a Doll and Fantastic Figures.Covers a wide variety of construction methods, such as applications of wire armature in body construction, general concepts of mold making, sculpture mechanics, in-depth discussion of jointed figures, and methods of assembling your doll.More than 250 full-color photos of dolls from 130 of the world’s top doll artists. Over 200 detailed illustrations.Explains elements of design, such as focal point, scale, harmony, style, and the use of color, texture, and pattern. Learn techniques of proportion for working with the human figure.An excellent technical resource and reference book that will teach you how to develop ideas, then construct advanced art figures or dolls. 
   
  “The doll world has only just recovered from the excitement of having Anatomy of a Doll which showed us what was possible. Now we can learn to get it with this new effort, the fabulous Designing the Doll. Thank you, Susanna, where would we be without you?” —Elinor Peace Bailey, author of Storytelling with Dolls 
   
  “Demystifies the creation of dolls by offering techniques, basic construction and some very good thoughts on design . . . Filled with diagrams and color photos of dolls from some of the top contemporary doll-makers, inspiration is on every page.” —Polymer Clay

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  Abbott and Costello: Costello in...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Lou has been out planting in the garden. Lou shoots at a crow in the garden. He hits Mrs Niles and she threatens to sue him. Lou has to go to court. He goes looking for character witnesses. Lou is in court. Bud gets him Melonhead for a lawyer.

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  The Interior Circuit - A Mexico...

  Francisco Goldman

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  The Pulitzer Prize–finalist shares an intimate memoir of grieving his lost wife—and confronting the troubled Mexican city where she grew up. Five years after his wife’s untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to fully embrace his late wife’s childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them. In The Interior Circuit, Goldman chronicles his personal and political awakening to the nuances of this unique city as he learns to navigate the “circuito interior,” its crisscrossing network of highway-like roads. Many regard Mexico’s capital—then known as the “DF” or Distrito Federal—as a haven from the social ills that plague the rest of the country. Goldman’s account reveals a more complicated truth as he explores the effects of Mexico’s raging narco war, the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI), and new eruptions of organized crime-related violence. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part political reportage, The Interior Circuit “is so sneakily brilliant it’s hard to put into words. . . . It is also, in the finest sense, a book that creates its own form” (Los Angeles Times).

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