In the 1980s Douglas Coffin's syndicated cartoon "Fletcher's Landing" graced the comics sections of newspapers all over the northeast. Running daily for 5 years, the comic strip revolved around two sisters, Emma and Winona Randall, and the comings and goings at their general store. Recall a slower, and certainly funnier, way of life in this selection of 250 timeless panels that are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Frank Burroughs has lived and knocked around on Merrymeeting Bay for three decades, gaining a familiarity with its natural and human history--with its birds, fish, and mammals, and with the local people who know it best. His wonderfully fluid essays explore the ecology, environment, and activities in this unusual bay, as Heather Perry's beautiful photographs show us the details.

Explore Wisconsin with this all-in-one guidebook, packed with more than 300 of Wisconsin's best destinations organized by theme.If you've ever asked, "What should we do today?" then grab a copy of Wisconsin Day Trips by Theme. You'll discover hundreds of unique attractions around the Badger State, including the fun, the fascinating, and the downright unusual. This comprehensive guide by Brian Blair is jam-packed with Wisconsin's top spots for fun and entertainment. Take a simple day trip, or string together a longer vacation of activities that appeal to you. Useful for singles, couples, and families--visitors and residents alike--this guide encompasses a wide range of interests.Features You'll AppreciateSections divided by theme for easy reference--decide what to do, then figure out where to do itDestinations based on such themes as Extreme Adventures, Family Days, Lighthouses, and WaterfallsTips for other things to do in the areaHandy size that's perfect for travelingYou'll find cheese factories and Amish country, as well as the best things to do in Door County, Wisconsin Dells, and more. So find an adventure that feels handpicked for you. With Wisconsin Day Trips by Theme at your fingertips, you'll always have something to do!

This new study of nineteenth-century American photography presents a bottom-up history of the United States, featuring works by lesser-known practitioners that capture the changing scene across the country

Embark on a dazzling odyssey through the world's most iconic wine regions as the Wall Street Journal uncorks the secrets, stories, and sensory wonders behind the finest vintages.

Swing into Spiderman's web of wisdom and explore inspirational moments, unforgettable characters, and profound life lessons of Marvel Comics.

Aninteractive, personal approach to Indian cooking with step-by-step recipes, photos and links to videos that will help you prepare incredible Indian mealsat home! Author, blogger, and cookinginstructor Rinku Bhattacharya offers a fun, modern and sustainable way to learnthe basics of Indian cooking in this unique volume. The SpiceChronicles Cookbook includes over 120 recipes and photos for favoriteIndian dishes alongside links to many additional recipes and QR codes todetailed videos that show step-by-step techniques and variations. As a busy working mom andcooking instructor, Rinku has years of experience with simplifying andstreamlining recipes. Now she helps readers demystify Indian ingredients andtechniques and answers many of the questions her students posed over the yearsabout different types of dal, spice combinations and the nuances ofregional Indian cooking. The recipes include both classic and modern Indianfare, many with make-ahead sauces. She also utilizes short cuts and practicalequipment like the air fryer, pressure cooker and slow cooker in many recipes.Sections like meal-planning cheat sheets and freezer friendly recipes helpreduce waste and make the most of fresh, seasonal vegetables and fruits. Rinku's Spice Chronicles blogdetails her immigrant story as a girl from Kolkata, India who learned to makeNew York her home. Links and references to the blog, social media posts andeven TikTok videos will give readers a fuller sense of the culinary story andtechniques behind each recipe. Sample recipes: Butter Chicken Biryani"Flexible" DosasScallops with a Saffron-Fig SauceMurgh Kofta (Chicken Meatballs)Spiced Green Beans with CarrotsSaag Paneer (Creamy Greens with Paneer)Kachumber (Indian-style Chopped Salad)

This first of it's kind volume explores the changes in Maine's coast over the centuries, focusing on how geology, glaciation, and climate change have all affected sea levels. Readers will discover the geologic history of the famously rocky coast and the learn about serious issues to be confronted as climate change and human decisions alter the landscape.

A compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's more than thirty-year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska

The long-lost true story of an American whaler, Robert Armstrong, who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific in the mid-nineteenth century in search of absolution and redemption. Armstrong's gripping personal account is bookended by thoroughly researched contextual background compiled by his great-great-grandson, Alexander Brash, shedding further light on a turbulent historical period, his ancestor's religious milieu, and the importance of saving our oceans' wildlife. A fascinating dive into both human morality and America's maritime history.

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (MI) into evidence-based psychotherapy and counseling. Readers learn how MI concepts and tools can enhance their foundational skills as helpers--and can be tailored for clients with depression, anxiety disorders, addictions, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other frequently encountered problems. Chapters are grounded in research on what works for particular disorders. Vivid case examples illustrate the role that MI can play in helping clients at any stage of treatment to resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change. New to This Edition *Chapters on culturally responsive MI, trauma-informed practices, and MI in child welfare. *Chapters on treating chronic pain and serious mental illness. *Key developments in MI as well as current psychological research. *Extensive annotated sample dialogues throughout the chapters. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.

UNFRAMED is a unique combination of two beautiful books, presented in a new format, featuring the brilliant projects of the creative mind of interior designer Gert Voorjans

It Starts When you Walk Through the Door...You immediately realize that this is different, special, and without yet knowing why, you get the feeling this is going to be a night to remember. Then you look around Dan Tana's and you understand. This is not the hot new fusion cooking restaurant du jour everyone is talking about, the one that will close down within a year and never be mentioned again. No, this is a timeless restaurant, a perfect combination of Old Hollywood and new Hollywood...a seven-night-a-week social scene full of stories and secrets.Built in 1929, and sandwiched between Beverly Hills and the residential Norma Triangle, the location was not a traditional restaurant location in any sense of the word, as it was basically a bungalow housing fast food joint with names that changed over the years but whose fare stayed the same: Black Lucky Spot Café, Domenico's Lucky Spot, Dominik's Hamburger Stand. The primary clientele for this diner location were streetcar maintenance workers, on break from the Santa Monica line.But by 1964, change was coming to Los Angeles. Freeways were replacing street cars, the backlot of 20th Century Fox had been sold, and inits place Century City was rising, smog was everywhere, and every year hundreds of thousands of people were moving to LA. Still, the little house on Santa Monica Boulevard looked out over empty lots and vast undeveloped space, forever stuck in time—or so it seemed.Dan brought the location for $30,000 soon after opening the restaurant. It was a leap of faith by both Tana and the seller, given their agreement: a three-year payment schedule of $10,000 a year. In the very beginning it wasn't a roaring success. The challenge was intense competition in the LA dining scene. There were old favorites such as Musso & Franks, Villa Capri, La Scala, The Formosa Cafe, and Chasen's, plus a new restaurant, Matteo's, started by Dan's fellow La Scala staff compadre, Matty "Matteo" Jordan.For the first two years, the restaurant averaged only twenty-five dinners a night. At one low point, Joe DiMaggio stopped by to eat, and Dan Tana offered him 50% ownership for $15,000. No dice. So Tana did something The Yankee Clipper rarely did—he struck out. But Tana's tenacity and mission eventually succeeded in making Dan Tana's a legendary Hollywood mainstay that thrives to this day.

From the foreword by Quentin Tarantino:"One of the reasons Michael's work has such meaning for me is he's writing about feelings and emotions that it seems at times the last few generations have become blind to. Some of Michael's work is about family remembrances. A moment he saw his mother wrap her arms around his father's waist, or how his sister looked in one dress in particular. Some of them are thought jazz. Some are the best recordings of the gypsy life of a movie actor I've ever read. Michael stuck on some location, on some crappy movie, bored out of his mind with too much time on his hands and not enough per diem is Michael at his funniest. But for me, the real journey that Michael the writer is exploring is what it means to be a man in a world where the notions of manhood that some of us grew up with are barely remembered. But then if everybody embarked on the hero's journey, everybody would be a hero, wouldn't they?"Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts & Poems explores not only Madsen's remarkable life and experiences in and out of Hollywood, but also his familial influences that have participated in crafting and shaping him, including thoughts on his father; his mother and the rumor that he was born without a left hand; ghosts, whiskey, and payback; Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and "sensitive sons of bitches"; the mentality of actors and growing up to be a man; his first audition; drunken behavior; epic drinkers; and much, much more.

A beautiful, full-color tribute to the story of public housing in America, told through reminiscences about emblematic objects by former and current public housing residents Over the past century, more than 10 million people across the nation--including well-known figures from Barbra Streisand to former Chicago DA Kim Foxx--have called public housing home, yet since the 1990s, thousands of public housing units across the United States have been demolished. Today, housing insecurity is one of the most pressing social issues facing the nation. Building on an exhibit at the brand-new National Public Housing Museum, We Are All Family Here is designed to help facilitate national dialogue about the history and importance of public housing through the intimacy of residents' memories of prized, and ordinary, everyday objects. The book will include full-color photos of over two dozen objects--from a championship boxing belt owned by Lee Roy "Solid Gold" Murphy and the leather motorcycle jacket of legendary Cabrini-Green organizer Marion Stamps, to a camera, a Pyrex dish, and a wedding dress--along with photos of the individuals who have provided them, as well as brief essays by the objects' owners, describing each object's significance with respect to the time the owner resided in a public housing building. The book also includes essays by experts on housing and homelessness in America. Together, these objects will tell both the beautiful and troubled history of public housing, and the diverse experiences of those who have survived and thrived in those communities.

An impassioned argument for the essential role of the community college system in a more just and equitable vision of American higher education Over forty percent of all undergraduate students in the United States attend community colleges, including a majority of Black and Latinx students. What do we know of their experiences, or the role this vibrant yet quiet wavelength of the American experiment plays both in the lives of these students and in shaping the landscape of American higher education writ large? Essayist, novelist, and scholar Keenan Norris has spent his career teaching creative writing at community colleges across the country. In a work blending policy analysis, cultural criticism, and personal narrative, The Two-Million-Person Experiment examines the perennial dearth of resources, precarious labor conditions, and complex challenges of teaching students left behind by an increasingly stratified economy. With a keen eye and morally resonant voice, Norris argues for a radical refashioning of American higher education through greater attention to community colleges, including specific alterations to their curricula and institutional structure. For readers of Mike Rose and Paul Tough, The Two-Million-Person Experiment offers an eye-opening tour of a little-known but vital part of higher ed--and a bold argument that community colleges hold the hidden key to an educational system that serves all students.

A smart and accessible dissection of twenty-first-century fascist politics, providing general readers with the tools to understand, and defeat, today's resurgent far right Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stoking widespread fears of the revival of fascism. What to make of this terrifying drift? In this timely, deeply researched, and deftly argued examination of far-right politics today, the political scientist David Ost shows that to grasp the very real threat of resurgent fascism, we must look beyond the extreme examples of Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy lest we miss the growing strength--and the distinctly populist appeal--of today's far right. Instead, drawing on a wide range of compelling contemporary and historical examples, Ost shows that we must understand the current global movement as part of a new political category, which he calls "Red Pill Politics" in reference to the right-wing meme which purports to peel back the facade of liberal hegemony. While Red Pill Politics exhibits many features of classical fascism--racial exclusion, xenophobic fearmongering, enforcement of rigid gender roles--contemporary far-right parties have won power not through violence and mass repression, but through anti-elite, populist rhetoric and elections. For readers of Jason Stanley's How Fascism Works, Red Pill Politics draws on meticulous historical research and analysis of contemporary far-right politics to help us understand and fight one of today's most pressing political threats.

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern society and technology, inspiring everyone from J.R.R. Tolkien to Kurt Vonnegut to Jeff Bezos. "We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne." --Ray BradburyHis stories inspired the greatest literary minds--J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula K. le Guin. He inspired real-world expeditions and discoveries, compelling undersea explorers, aviation pioneers, and astronauts to seek out the unknown. He's one of the most widely translated authors in the world, outmatched only by Agatha Christie and Shakespeare. Jeff Bezos's rocket factory includes a two-story replica of the spaceship from one of his novels.Few writers have left such an enduring legacy on the world as Jules Verne. Widely considered the "father of science fiction," Verne stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. His novels--including such revered classics as Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth--not only thrilled and entertained, but also predicted innovations and technological advancements that in time would become everyday realities. Brimming with intellect, science, adventure, and paradoxes, his work dared to imagine a world beyond the limits of what was thought possible and, in turn, inspired future generations to achieve the unthinkable. From acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen, Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future is an engaging, vibrant, and richly researched account of a singular visionary who profoundly shaped our modern world.

At the intersection of reverse innovation and design thinking, you can find opportunities to create innovations that are Global by Design.We are living in an era when innovators must turn their sights to the global stage as never before, to both solve wicked problems facing the world and capture the economic opportunities presented by emerging markets. Thoughtful, innovative solutions can be truly global in scope, providing the value necessary for large-scale adoption in developing countries and disrupting equivalent products in wealthy markets by offering high performance at low cost.But it will require a diligent, targeted design process to make these innovation growth opportunities a reality, and Winter and Govindarajan deliver the practical approach you need in Global by Design.A book born from the mutual appreciation, and interdependence, of their backgrounds--Winter is a rock star in engineering design and Govindarajan a longtime leading expert on strategy and innovation--Global by Design provides what you need to get started, whether you work in a C-suite, an engineering cubicle, the workshop floor, a classroom, the halls of government, or an NGO field office.No matter your discipline, level of training, or location in the world, you have valuable knowledge and perspective that can be leveraged to spot consequential problems, leverage innovation to solve them, and create an ecosystem for driving the creation of high-value, low-cost solutions that have global appeal--that are Global by Design.

Pre-order the brand new chilling read from Queen of Horror, C. J. Tudor . . . --October 5th, 2005:Four pupils at the elustrius boarding school, Cutters Hill, discover a hidden chamber. When they emerge, they find their school abandoned except for the hungry killer that prowls the corridors hungry for his next victim.October 6th, 2005:DI Fred Dunn is called to investigate the case of four missing pupils. As a string of undelivered messages on one of their mobiles inexplicably appear, he realises something unearthly is at play here.--PRAISE FOR C.J. TUDOR'If you like my stuff, you'll like this' - STEPHEN KING'The wildest thriller of the year. Buckle up' - LINWOOD BARCLAY'A truly terrifying, ice-cold chiller from the master of macabre. C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list' - CHRIS WHITAKER'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' - LEE CHILD'runaway train of a book' - JANE FALLON

This book examines the soap opera ratings in the U.S., UK, and Australia to identify the trends and analyze the discussions on soap opera blogs and interviews to gauge the audience reception of the soap opera storylines.Over the years, the soap opera genre developed and became very successful - especially between the 1960s and 1990s - in the US, the UK, and Australia. In the early 2000s, due to the US soap operas' declining ratings, those that were once successful, including Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and All My Children, were cancelled. For example, during the 1996-1997 season, there were 12 soap operas on air. During the 2008-2009 season, this number dropped to eight, and currently (2014-2015 season), only four soap operas remain on US television networks. Nonetheless, the genre is still widely popular in Australia and the UK. Shows such as Neighbours and Coronation Street consistently draw high ratings, suggesting that different factors affect the soap operas' success in different countries, such as production and budgetary issues, the nature of the stories, and changing viewership demographics. Understanding the reasons behind the genre's popularity and decline through a comparative analysis is crucial to make sense of its current status.