Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, and 50s

Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s, and 50s Review

C. Dianne Zweig is taking you on an informative and nostalgic journey back to the colorful eras of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Readers who enjoyed going up and down the dimestore aisles or cherished their catalogs from Montgomery Ward or Sears will have just as much fun once again. This charming and well researched resource will capture your attention with over 700 full-color photographs of your favorite kitchen and home collectibles including kitchenware and pottery; everyday textiles; laundry, sewing, washday products, and accessories; bath and beauty essentials; vintage recipe and appliance booklets; magazines, advertising, and prints; and nursery and baby notions and décor. Readers will find that Hot Kitchen & Home Collectibles of the 30s, 40s & 50s offers a fresh approach to collecting retro housewares, textiles, and décor.

The Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex: Secrets and Techniques to Keep Your Relationship Red Hot

The Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex: Secrets and Techniques to Keep Your Relationship Red Hot Review

Make every night a Passion Party with this intimate bedside guide that delivers the secrets of mind-blowing sexual pleasure.

On any given night, thousands of Passion Consultants roll into driveways across America with sensuous goodies and frank advice to rekindle the relationships of women everywhere. Passion Parties® are the Tupperware parties of the new millennium, a place where women can get together to talk, laugh, and swap the secrets of great sex. Passion Parties president Pat Davis knows that every woman has a Passion Diva inside of her—it doesn’t matter what you look like or how old you are, if you’re a boardroom superstar or a stay-at-home mom. And in The Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex, she reveals a treasure trove of spicy tips and techniques that will elevate your lovemaking to extraordinary new heights.

Beginning with a lesson in the art of RomantaTherapy—creative ways to set the scene for an incredible night (or morning, or afternoon!) of sexual pleasure—The Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex shares a delicious variety of tantalizing moves, tricks, and sensual enhancements from the mild to the wild. With tastefully explicit, step-by-step, how-tos for steamy foreplay, intercourse, and more, this ultimate pleasure handbook offers innovative sex positions, tips for sweetening oral sex, and the keys to stronger, longer, more frequent orgasms. It also invites you to explore the world of Passion Parties products—from lotions and potions, to safe and sexy toys that will bring further bedroom bliss.

Flavored with real-life stories and confessions from Passion Party-goers around the country, and complete with a Seven-Day Passion Challenge (a week-long journey you and your partner will never forget), The Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex gives you everything you need to surprise and excite the one you love—and reach new levels of intimacy and ecstasy in your relationship.

Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, No. 6) (Stephanie Plum Novels)

Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, No. 6) (Stephanie Plum Novels) Review

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.

Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio and no known address. He moves in mysterious circles. He's Stephanie's mentor--the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension. And he's more than her friend.

Now he's the hunted and Stephanie's the hunter, and it's time for her to test her skills against the master. But if she does catch him...what then? Can she bring herself to turn him in?

Plus there are other things keeping Stephanie awake at night. Her maternal grandmother has set up housekeeping in Stephanie's apartment, a homicidal maniac has selected Stephanie as his next victim, her love life is in the toilet, she's adopted a dog with an eating disorder, and she can't button the top snap on her Levi's.

Experience the world of Plum--in Janet Evanovich's new thriller. It's surreal, it's frenetic, it's incendiary. Hot Six. It's the best yet.

Hot X: Algebra Exposed

Hot X: Algebra Exposed Review

In her two bestselling books, Math Doesn't Suck and Kiss My Math, actress and math genius Danica McKellar shattered the "math nerd" stereotype by showing girls how to ace middle school math-and actually feel cool while doing it!

Sizzling with Danica's trademark sass and style, Hot X: Algebra Exposed tackles algebra: the most feared of all math classes and the most common roadblock to high school graduation. McKellar instantly puts her readers at ease, showing teenage girls-and anyone taking algebra-how to feel confident, get in the driver's seat, and master topics like square roots, polynomials, quadratic equations, word problems and more . . . without breaking a sweat (or a nail).

Danica provides illuminating, step-by-step math lessons combined with reader favorites like personality quizzes, popular doodles, real-life testimonials, and stories from her own life, so girls feel like she's sitting right next to them. As hundreds of thousands of girls already know, Danica's irreverent, light-hearted approach opens the door to higher grades and higher test scores. Now, with Hot X: Algebra Exposed, the scary veil of algebra is finally lifted, making it understandable, relevant and maybe even a little (gasp!) fun for girls.

Cal Ripken, Jr.'s All-Stars: Hothead (Cal Ripken Novels)

Cal Ripken, Jr.'s All-Stars: Hothead (Cal Ripken Novels) Review

Connor Sullivan is an All-Star shortstop on his Babe Ruth team, the Orioles. He can hit and field with the best of them, but he's got one big problem: his temper. When he strikes out or makes an error, he's a walking Mt. Vesuvius, slamming batting helmets and throwing gloves. His teammates are starting to avoid him, even his best friend Jordy. His coach is ready to kick him off the team.

 

To make matters worse, things aren't much better at home. His dad is having trouble finding a new job after being laid off. Money is tight. Connor's dream of attending the prestigious Brooks Robinson Baseball Camp this summer seems like just that now - a dream.

 

When the sports editor of the school paper threatens to do a big story on his tantrums - complete with embarassing photos - Connor realizes he has to clean up his act. But can he do it in time to regain his teammates'  trust and help the Orioles win the championship against the best team in the league?

The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History Review

In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber’s payload–four unarmed thermonuclear bombs–across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history.

Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America’s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations.

As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks.

The Day We Lost the H-Bomb is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons–and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.


From the Hardcover edition.

Red-Hot Cold Call Selling: Prospecting Techniques That Pay Off

Red-Hot Cold Call Selling: Prospecting Techniques That Pay Off Review

This guide contains proven tips and techniques for successfully employing the "cold call" in the selling cycle, giving readers the competitive edge they need for achieving big profits. The book is filled with ideas for increasing success, ideas that have worked for the author time after time. It outlines a step-by-step approach to developing a complete selling system that works, including: how to become "rejection proof"; how to dissect the cold call; how to create a personalized script; and how to enhance the probability of success by following the "ten commandments of prospecting".

What the Night Knows: A Novel

What the Night Knows: A Novel Review

In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy.

Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating
in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer.

As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return.

Here is ghost story like no other you have read. In the Calvinos, Dean Koontz brings to life a family that might be your own, in a war for their survival against an adversary more malevolent than any he has yet created, with their own home the battleground. Of all his acclaimed novels, none exceeds What the Night Knows in power, in chilling suspense, and in sheer mesmerizing storytelling.

Pimp My Site: The DIY Guide to SEO, Search Marketing, Social Media and Online PR

Pimp My Site: The DIY Guide to SEO, Search Marketing, Social Media and Online PR Review

A complete course in do-it-yourself digital marketing in 14 bite-sized lessons

The global recession has sent tens of millions scrambling for alternative employment opportunities, and a great many of them have taken the leap into becoming their own bosses. As a result there is a crying need among small business startups, entrepreneurs, and independents working on a shoestring for expert guidance on marketing themselves and their businesses online. Pimp My Site fills that void. It is a complete, do-it-yourself toolkit structured as a fourteen-day course. Rather than fry readers' circuits with a lot of jargon-heavy technical descriptions, Paula Wynne, a successful publicist, marketer and award-winning online entrepreneur, takes a show-and-tell approach. Her step-by-step descriptions are concise and in plain English, and each step is illustrated with vivid screenshots and illustrations, making the coverage eminently digestible, even for complete novices. From keywords and YouTube to search marketing and optimization, Pimp My Site, offers much for beginners and advanced users alike.

• Notable experts describe, in their own words, quick, easy techniques for driving traffic to your site and achieving online success
• An excellent do-it-yourself resource for complete beginners as well as experienced users looking to plug a few holes in their online marketing know-how
• Provides practical coverage of all important trends and technologies, including optimization, search marketing, social media, YouTube, keywords, email marketing, and more

How to Swap GM LS-Series Engines into Almost Anything (S-A Design)

How to Swap GM LS-Series Engines into Almost Anything (S-A Design) Review

How to Swap GM LS-Series Engines into Almost Anything (S-A Design) Feature

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In 1997, the LS1-powered Corvette hit the streets. At the time, the new LS1 garnered much fanfare, but in reality, its release marked a seismic advance in V-8 engine technology that ushered in a new era of performance. The LS1, featuring ground-breaking architecture, was the first of the third generation of LS engines, which delivered towering performance and efficiency from its compact design. High-performance enthusiasts quickly gravitated to the wide range of Gen III and IV LS engines that followed, and these engines were transplanted into hot rods, muscle cars, sports cars, and many other vehicles.
How to Swap GM LS-Series Engines into Almost Anything shows how to fit these powerhouse engines into popular GM
F-Body cars, such as the Camaro and Firebird, and also how to install these powerplants into non-GM muscle cars, sports cars, trucks, and of course, hot rods. This book includes a historical review, complete specs, and detailed information so you can select and fit the best LS engine for a particular vehicle and application. A section on mounting kits, explaining how to install these engines into a variety of cars using readily available motor mount kits, universal engine mounts, or fabricated mounts. In addition, the book shows you how to perform necessary oil-pan modifications and adapt accessory drivers as well as choose the most suitable fuel pump, exhaust system, wiring harness, and electronic control module. This guide takes it a step further, revealing how to select the best reprogramming equipment and software for a vehicle and its application. Finally, the book covers the range of compatible transmissions for LS engines.
How to Swap GM LS-Series Engines into Almost Anything is your complete guide for swapping the legendary GM LS Gen III and IV engines into any vehicle and creating a truly unique ride.

Condomania: boaters get bumped by hot real estate market; What are the three biggest issues facing boating today?: An article from: BOAT/U.S. Magazine

Condomania: boaters get bumped by hot real estate market; What are the three biggest issues facing boating today?: An article from: BOAT/U.S. Magazine Review

This digital document is an article from BOAT/U.S. Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2149 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Condomania: boaters get bumped by hot real estate market; What are the three biggest issues facing boating today?
Author: Ryck Lydecker
Publication:BOAT/U.S. Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Page: 26(3)

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Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana: What to Name Your Baby Now

Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana: What to Name Your Baby Now Review

Quoted everywhere from Parenting to The Wall Street Journal, with more than a million copies of their books in print, bestselling authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran are the baby-name experts. In this fresh and expanded new edition of "the best baby-naming book ever written" (The News Journal), they offer irresistible lists of names you won't find anywhere else, along with their trademark wit and insight on the most important questions---and answers---for expectant parents:

Style: What's hot and what's cool---including Honest Names, Spiritual Names, Kreeatif Names, The Two-Syllable Solution, Word Names, The Exotics, and a Girl Named Boy

Popularity: The most popular names in America and around the world, and what
celebrities are naming their babies

Image: What's really in a name, and why Briyana spells trouble

Sex: What's it like for a girl to grow up with a traditionally feminine name like Abigail or Blossom; a no-frills name like Alice or Jane; or a unisex name like Dylan or Dakota? And are there any decidedly masculine names left for boys?

Tradition: A concise history of American baby naming, plus inspired ways to reflect your own cultural heritage

Family: Whose name is it, anyway? And other vital considerations

What is Goth? Music, Makeup, Attitude, Apparel, Dance, and General Skullduggery

What is Goth? Music, Makeup, Attitude, Apparel, Dance, and General Skullduggery Review

What Is Goth? is a humorous, self-deprecating look at Goth culture from the inside out. Imagine The Preppy Handbook colliding with Charles Addams. Then add a lot more melancholy and a lot more spooky. What Is Goth? dispels the false stereotypes and reinforces the true ones surrounding Goths and Goth culture. "To the mundane," Voltaire writes, "Goths are weird, black-clad freaks who are obsessed with death; they are sad all of the time. Take a closer look at the Goth scene, however, and you will find a rich tapestry of ideas and practices and a menagerie of colorful characters. Oh, dear. I said 'colorful.'" Yes, Goths are pale, wear black clothing, love black makeup (on men and women), mope, listen to real downer music, and perfect the art of living in a perpetual state of ennui and melancholy. But there's so much more to being Goth. Goths come from all walks of life. Many are teenagers who live with their parents; others are doctors, lawyers, musicians, and so on. Most Goths are highly literate and creative, but all real Goths have to dress the part. In other words, "Abandon all hope ye who enter a Goth club in khakis!" Eerily illustrated, What Is Goth? is the perfect book for any Goth, Goth wannabe, or "mundane" who is hopelessly confused by all the gloom.

Celebrity Leverage: Insider Secrets to Getting Celebrity Endorsements, Instant Credibility and Star-Powered Publicity, or How to Make Your Business - Plus Yourself - Rich and Famous

Celebrity Leverage: Insider Secrets to Getting Celebrity Endorsements, Instant Credibility and Star-Powered Publicity, or How to Make Your Business - Plus Yourself - Rich and Famous Review

Throughout the pages of Celebrity Leverage, you'll discover creative strategies for getting your products in celebrities' hands, getting low-cost and free celebrity endorsements, linking your business, product or service to celebrities in other ways, and even making yourself into a celebrity in your field. All of these strategies are what I collectively call "Celebrity Leverage." This book is divided into two parts. The first, "Making Your Business Famous," shows you how to get other celebrities to promote your business, your products, and your services. The second section of Celebrity Leverage, "Making Yourself Famous," reveals how to turn yourself into a celebrity in your area, your niche and your field. Along with insider secrets from myself, you'll also hear advice from some of today's top marketing and publicity experts like Susan Berkley, Alex Carroll, Jeff Crilley, Donna Cutting, Mike Esterman, Brian Patrick Flynn, Rick Frishman, Drew Gerber, Jake Halpern, Bill & Steve Harrison, Susan Harrow, Paul Hartunian, Craig Hirschfeld, Dan Janal, Gavin Keilly, Dan Kennedy, John Kremer, Rebecca Lightsey, Ann McIndoo, Brian Reich, Rhonda Rees, Nick Romer, Penny Sansevieri, Yanik Silver, Robyn Spizman, Joan Stewart, Amy Stumpf, Joe Vitale and more.

The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Review

The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Feature

• one of funniest, most original novels

The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."

Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.

Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?

As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.

Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, THE PRINCESS BRIDE was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world--and he turnsout to be a son of a bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, THE PRINCESS BRIDE secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.

X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters Of The 60S And 70S

X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters Of The 60S And 70S Review

Sex sells! It's no secret that since moving pictures were invented, distributors and theater owners realized that nothing really promotes a movie better than blatantly sexual advertising. X-rated adult movies reached their peak in the 1960s and 70s, with films like Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat. While some films were hard-core and left nothing to the imagination, most enjoyed the art of innuendo, which is to say, you couldn't tell whether the participants who were getting it on were faking it--or doing it for real. Even though most of the adult movies of the 60s and 70s have faded into cinematic history--and their stars have retired into elderly care homes for the well-endowed (giving new meaning to the term "nursing home")--what remains, as a lasting legacy, are the posters. If the poster art in this book evokes those far-off days of suspender belts, stockings, and eye-popping, gravity-defying brassieres, not to mention outsize Y-fronts, then that alone is worth the cover price. It's practically cheaper than a movie these days, anyway.

Julie's Gift: Memories of London

Julie's Gift: Memories of London Review

Kevin and Julie travel to London. Kevin loathes sightseeing. Julie is the quintessential tourist. Kevin ends up enjoying the trip but doesn't tell Julie. He secretly writes a book about his fond memories to surprise her and express his love.