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  The Mind of the Middle Ages - An...

  Frederick B. Artz

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  "This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of the age of faith. Artz on the arts, as on philosophy, politics and other aspects of culture, makes lively and informative reading."—The Washington Post

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  Planet Funny - How Comedy Ruined...

  Ken Jennings

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  A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year: An “impressive and highly entertaining” history of humor by the New York Times–bestselling Jeopardy! host (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 
   
  Record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings knows a lot of things about a lot of things, and in this “lively insightful” book (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette) he takes on a fascinating subject—the evolution of humor from fart jokes on Sumerian clay tablets to today’s Facebook memes. 
   
  Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the rails, it is being funny. Humor—and attempts at it—seem to have taken over the planet. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. And thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day. 
   
  In Planet Funny, Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing comedy from the caveman days to the bawdy medieval antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, he explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor. 
   
  “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important.” —A.J. Jacobs, New York Times–bestselling author of The Year of Living Constitutionally 
   
  “Smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny.” —Booklist (starred review) 
   
  “Full of good sense and meaningful interviews . . . it would be difficult to find a smarter or more satisfying treatment of a subject so evanescent and idiosyncratic as comedy.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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  Make Do and Mend

  Information Ministry of

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  The delightful reminder of the techniques for household economics extolled by the wartime government was published in 1943, as part of the Make do and Mend campaign. Includes tips to spruce up your wardrobe such as remedies for washing silks, mending your clothes and repelling the "moth menace".

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  The Master Key System

  Charles Haanel

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  Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first to exist as a thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive. Human thought is the spiritual power of the cosmos operating through its creature, man. "The Master Key" instructs the reader how to use that power, and use it both constructively and creatively. The things and conditions we desire to become realities we must first create in thought."The Master Key" explains and guides the process.

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  White House Warriors - How the...

  John Gans

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  When Congress originally created the National Security Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small administrative staff was established to help keep its papers moving. President Kennedy was, as John Gans documents, the first to make what became known as the NSC staff his own, selectively hiring bright young aides to do his bidding.Despite Kennedy's death and the tragic outcome of some of his decisions, the NSC staff endured. President Richard Nixon handed the staff's reigns solely to Henry Kissinger, who micromanaged its work on Vietnam. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan's NSC was cast into turmoil by overreaching staff members who, led by Oliver North, nearly brought down a presidency in the Iran-Contra scandal. Later, when President George W. Bush's administration was bitterly divided by the Iraq War, his NSC staff stepped forward to write a plan for the Surge in Iraq.Gans demonstrates that knowing the NSC staff's history is the only way to truly understand American foreign policy. As this essential account builds to the swift removals of advisors General Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon in 2017, we see the staff's influence in President Donald Trump's still chaotic administration and come to understand the role it might play in its aftermath.

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  Under the Influence - The...

  Preston Peet

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  This myth-busting anthology cuts through the propaganda to tell the true story of drug use, abuse, and the costly war on friends, families and communities.   Author and regular High Times contributor Preston Peet assembles an all-star cast of writers to shine a harsh light on the misinformation peddled by prohibitionists who profit from the War on Some Drugs and Users. Despite the anti-drug hysteria, drugs have been an integral aspect of human life for thousands of years. They cure diseases, ease pain, enhance intelligence, calm nerves, open the doors of perception and alter consciousness. Yet, even with the easing of marijuana restrictions, the War on Some Drugs and Users continues to persecute huge swaths of the population. The reasons why can be found in Under the Influence.   The decades and trillions of dollars spent waging war on neighbors, friends and families have done nothing to eradicate drug use and abuse, but they have succeeded in overthrowing governments, tearing apart families and communities, and ensured the rise of international criminal cartels. Under the Influence explains how we came to this state of affairs and how we can bring about real reform.   Contributors include Tom Robbins, Paul Krassner, Rick Doblin, Mike Gray, Lonny Shavelson, Daniel Forbes, Steve Wishnia, Cynthia Cotts, Russ Kick, Dr. Stanislav Grof, Daniel Pinchbeck, Paul Armentano, Jacob Sullum, Peter Dale Scott and Robert Anton Wilson.

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