In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints
A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son." The bartender replied, "New policy. Everyone has to show their ID."
Here is a compendium of also-rans and never-made-its. We're talking Betamax, the Sinclair C5, puffball skirts, sporks, the Millennium Dome... and countless other products that never quite cut it.
Melanie Stokes learns from a reporter that she is the biological daughter of a serial killer executed years ago--the same killer who murdered her adoptive parents' young daughter. When the reporter turns up dead, Melanie must make a choice: run from the past, or face a grisly truth that could cost her her life.
Written and illustrated with the advanced beginner in mind, Victorian Decorative Painting features a range of projects that show how to decorate plates, boxes and other items using delicate Victorian designs and motifs.'
Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the lives of the great apes, monkeys, and other primates. Superb color photographs of gorillas, orangutans, macaques, baboons, lemurs and numerous other primate species offer a unique "eyewitness" look at some of the world's most intelligent animals. See a great silverback gorilla, the monkey with the biggest nose, multicolored marmosets, and a day in the life of a gorilla family. Learn about the knuckle walk, how a tail becomes a hand, why gorillas build nests, and how orangutans got their name. Discover why mountain gorillas are endangered, how chimpanzees communicate, which monkeys can run like cheetahs and much, much more.
