Tough Guys Don't Dice
Author : James A. Thorson
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 1991-09-01
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ISBN : 9780517075630
Author : James A. Thorson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 1991-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780517075630
Author : James A. Thorson
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780688082208
This pared down reference teaches those with little or no knowledge of cooking how to begin, offering such simple but hearty recipes as stew, turkey soup, corned-beef hash, French toast, and meatloaf
Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812986113
“Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—People Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure. Stunningly conceived and vividly composed, Tough Guys Don’t Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers. Praise for Tough Guys Don’t Dance “As brash, brooding and ultimately mesmerizing as the author himself . . . [Mailer strikes a] dazzling balance between humor and horror.”—New York Daily News “A first-rate page-turner of a murder mystery . . . full of great characters, littered with dead bodies and replete with plausible suspects.”—Chicago Tribune “[Tough Guys Don’t Dance] has that charming Mailer bravado.”—The New York Times
Author : Michael Lieberman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1680030566
In this savage yet beautiful book length poem Michael Lieberman captures the rage of men in modern society. He reimagines the characters of Homer's Iliad, recasts them, and sets them in conflict in today's Houston. Unflinching is its descriptions of violence, The Houstiliad implicitly contrasts the rage of Homer's Achilles which was specific and focused with the free-floating rage of contemporary men. Though unsparing in its descriptions, Lieberman's portrait is leavened by lovely lyric passages, reflection, and humor. For those who care about the complicated role of men in modern society this book is revelatory without promising an easy path to redemption or honor. Achilles' wrath is where our tale begins then spools out venom and men's mortal sins. It's tempered true yet riffs on Homer's style, suffused with guile, grit, and mordant wile. * * * Men savage men in violent travails though in the end it's humor that prevails.
Author : Bruce Kraig
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1780238827
The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and why? In A Rich and Fertile Land, Bruce Kraig investigates the history of food in America, uncovering where it comes from and how it has changed over time. From the first Native Americans to modern industrial farmers, Kraig takes us on a journey to reveal how people have shaped the North American continent and its climate based on the foods they craved and the crops and animals that they raised. He analyzes the ideas that Americans have about themselves and the world around them, and how these ideas have been shaped by interactions with their environments. He details the impact of technical innovation and industrialization, which have in turn created modern American food systems. Drawing upon recent evidence from the fields of science, archaeology, and technology, A Rich and Fertile Land is a unique and valuable history of the geography, climate, and food of the United States.
Author : Monica Ferris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425255433
As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has unraveled more than her share of tangled clues in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries. But a cryptic embroidered message on a dead woman’s blouse may prove her greatest challenge yet… When an elderly homeless woman is found dead on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, she’s wearing a blouse embroidered with her will, which bequeaths everything she owns to her niece, Emily Hame—a member of the Monday Bunch at Betsy Devonshire’s Crewel World needlework shop! But Emily’s aunt is the second homeless woman to be found dead in Excelsior, Minnesota. Is someone targeting the homeless, or is it related to a sizable inheritance? Emily seeks the help of her fellow needlecrafter Betsy to discover the common thread between the deaths—and to determine if a murderer may strike again…
Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1587293323
Who cooks dinner in American homes? It's no surprise that “Mom” remains the overwhelming answer. Cooking and all it entails, from grocery shopping to chopping vegetables to clearing the table, is to this day primarily a woman's responsibility. How this relationship between women and food developed through the twentieth century and why it has endured are the questions Sherrie Inness seeks to answer in Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture. By exploring a wide range of popular media from the first half of the twentieth century, including cookbooks, women's magazines, and advertisements, Dinner Roles sheds light on the network of sources that helped perpetuate the notion that cooking is women's work. Cookbooks and advertisements provided valuable information about the ideals that American society upheld. A woman who could prepare the perfect Jell-O mold, whip up a cake with her new electric mixer, and still maintain a spotless kitchen and a sunny disposition was the envy of other housewives across the nation. Inness begins her exploration not with women but with men-those individuals often missing from the kitchen who were taught their own set of culinary values. She continues with the study of juvenile cookbooks, which provided children with their first cooking lessons. Chapters on the rise of electronic appliances, ethnic foods, and the 1950s housewife all add to our greater understanding of women's evolving roles in American culinary culture.
Author : Richard Marcus
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466852402
In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind. With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart.
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Publisher : Lenny Manzo
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Eddie Maloney
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This is the true story of Crazy Eddie Maloney, a contract thief and enforcer for the likes of John Gotti, Joey Gallo, Vinnie The Chin Gigante and the Lucchese family. Now, still carrying a bullet in his back, hunted by the mob, unprotected by the FBI, and forced to live his life on the run, Eddie spills his guts for the first time. Includes 12 pages of photos.