WARNING: Contents of this book are cooler than they appear. From the masterminds responsible for the beloved, award-winning podcast, Stuff You Should Know, comes a gut-busting and brain-bursting nonfiction book for young readers. You know the deal. There's Language Arts, Math, Science and History. You have the color-coded folders and notebooks; you know the material. The classic subjects. But why isn't there a Stuff That Knocks Your Socks Off class, or Random Facts To Rock Your World? Well, luckily, with Stuff Kids Should Know, an incomplete compendium of only the most interesting topics, you will find fascinating stories and facts that will melt your mind! From demolition derbies to Mr. Potato Head to the history of facial hair, this book is full of funny, surprising information that sparks curiosity and reveals the magic of knowledge. For Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, the founders of the massively popular podcast Stuff You Should Know, the everyday world can be extraordinary when you dig a little deeper into the “whys” and the “hows”. With plenty of clever insights, silly illustrations, and an array of topics, this book digs deeper into stuff we all wish we knew more about. After all, who thought a rock would be a good idea for a pet? Well, let’s find out...
From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious—curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time—featuring a completely new array of subjects that they’ve long wondered about and wanted to explore. Each chapter is further embellished with snappy visual material to allow for rabbit-hole tangents and digressions—including charts, illustrations, sidebars, and footnotes. Follow along as the two dig into the underlying stories of everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost. Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there’s something interesting about everything (...except maybe jackhammers).
Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes and thus allow spatial and dynamic relationships to be observed in a new way useful to understanding these processes. CSNB mapping presents a new approach to visualization that produces maps markedly different from those produced by conventional cartographic methods. In this approach, any body can be represented by a 3D coordinate system. For a regular body, with its surface relatively smooth on the scale of its size, locations of features can be represented by definite geographic grid (latitude and longitude) and elevation, or deviation from the triaxial ellipsoid defined surface. A continuous surface on this body can be segmented, its distinctive regional terranes enclosed, and their inter-relationships defined, by using selected morphologically identifiable relief features (e.g., continental divides, plate boundaries, river or current systems). In this way, regions of distinction on a large, essentially spherical body can be mapped as two-dimensional ‘facets’ with their boundaries representing regional to global-scale asymmetries (e.g., continental crust, continental and oceanic crust on the Earth, farside original thicker crust and nearside thinner impact punctuated crust on the Moon). In an analogous manner, an irregular object such as an asteroid, with a surface that is rough on the scale of its size, would be logically segmented along edges of its impact-generated faces. Bounded faces are imagined with hinges at occasional points along boundaries, resulting in a foldable ‘shape model.’ Thus, bounded faces grow organically out of the most compelling natural features. Obvious boundaries control the map’s extremities, and peripheral regions are not dismembered or grossly distorted as in conventional map projections. 2D maps and 3D models grow out of an object’s most obvious face or terrane ‘edges,’ instead of arbitrarily by imposing a regular grid system or using regularly shaped facets to represent an irregular surface.
Truth is, there is never a good time for tragedy to occur. A loss is a loss, and the time of the year really doesn't matter all that much.' Bad things happen. Really bad things happen. They happen to everyone, but somehow you hoped tragedy wouldn't happen to you. It did. The pain is unbearable and you can't seem to get yourself together. You feel the life you had is over and nothing will ever be good again. Tragedy makes us feel that way, but there is hope. Just Breathe deals with tragedy from a new perspective. Whether it's suicide, a terrible car wreck, or a terminal disease, terrible things happen to people we love and we don't know what to do next. This book helps you confront tragedy from different angles so you can live the great life God wants for you. The true stories in the book are devastating. You will sympathize with their pain and identify with their hurt. You will wonder if it's possible to live a good life again after tragedy destroys it. It is indeed possible; Jesus shows us how as this book follows two disciples on the worst day of their lives. Has tragedy knocked the wind out of you? Do you desperately need to take a deep breath? This book is about learning how to take a deep breath after something really bad happens to you. It's about turning your tragedy into triumph, and enjoying the life God has for you.
Whether it was a whirlwind romance or you've known each other for years, you are entering a new stage of life. Now that you're married, it's time to think about the new life and traditions you'd like to create.
Music librarianship offers meaningful and fulfilling work to people from varied backgrounds. As libraries adapt to everchanging economic, demographic, cultural, and technological landscapes, it is essential for music library workers to possess a keen understanding of what is needed to remain relevant and to thrive. Whether contemplating a new career in music libraries, expanding liaison responsibilities in music, seeking paths for professional development, or feeling eager to reinvigorate a music library career, readers can turn to this book to gain practical and approachable guidance to succeed. In this substantially expanded edition of Careers in Music Librarianship III, experienced expert professionals have updated their pragmatic advice and insight from the previous edition to reflect the realities and challenges of today’s landscape. Since music library work takes place in both traditional and non-traditional settings, this edition incorporates advice on a wide range of topics not covered in earlier editions, including paraprofessional employment, liaison work, archives settings, and transitions from performance-based careers. Geared toward workers in music libraries, rather than simply to those who are, or aspire to be, librarians, this volume is intended to support people on an array of potential career paths. All who work in music libraries will find both inspiration and straightforward guidance in this indispensable book.
Somewhere along the line we manage to do something that leaves us feeling ashamed, worthless, or dare I say dirty. These awful scars on the face of our life can generate such disgust within us that living happily, victoriously, and free may seem like a fairy tale reserved for those who have something left to dream about. For the rest of us we have to live with that filthy, disgusting five-letter word--guilt. Guilt is a significant roadblock to your life. You can't move forward in life lugging around your past failures. Trying to live life under the bondage of past mistakes, failures, sins, and poor choices is both frustrating and futile. We try to deny its power over us, but deep down we know guilt is lethal to us. Guilt is a ruthless dictator who refuses to allow its citizens even the remotest hope of moving forward and embracing the victorious life God created for us. Guilt stalks us like a lion in the tall grass waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting zebra and devour it. The universal bloodshed caused by guilt begs an answer to the question how do we get rid of it? The Day God Wore Sneakers is about discovering freedom and getting rid of your guilt once and for all. This book will help you gain your freedom from the guilt of your past mistakes. Far too many people suffer from guilt who shouldn't, and it's not because of their innocence. It's because God willingly offers to take our guilt away if we let him. Chuck Clark reveals God's deep love for his children through the compelling story of his friend Valerie intertwined with the Prodigal Son. Find freedom from your guilt and embrace a new life of forgiveness. Guilt isn't permanent when God gets involved. Are you ready to get rid of guilt for good?
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.
This is the first of three volumes in a series of booksthat provide daily entries from the journals of Lewis & Clark for the year 1804.To celebrate the Bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, we invite you to enjoy daily entries taken from their journals, abridged to include the most exciting portions of their great exploration. This is a must for every home, classroom, and desktop. Lewis & Clark were not just two men who wandered out west. This Expedition was planned by President Thomas Jefferson and funded by Congress. It was an exploration by a team of 45 men, 1 woman, and a baby, with the most sophisticated equipment of their day, including a 55 specially built keelboat, led by the qualified experts, Captain Meriwether Lewis & Captain William Clark. Their expedition ventured 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back across a land unknown to all but the Indians. You will love the drama, the exact history they recorded, and the heroic & tender stories of Sacajawea. Take A Daily Walk With Lewis & Clark and participate in the adventure and excitement of the early history of the U.S. Here you will find true courage, heroism, kindness, gratitude, commitment and humility. There are 3 volumes, one for each year they were out, 1804, 1805 & 1806. Each book in this set is spiral bound at the top with a built-in desk stand to make it easy to display on a desktop, countertop or dinner table. Each book is only 41⁄2 x 51⁄2. The determination and good fortune of Lewis & Clark, along with their party of skilled people, carved a place in the history books of the United States and in the hearts of people for centuries to come. Among their many accomplishments are the following:They traveled 8,000 miles across an unknown territory and safely back home having faced tremendous dangers.They recorded more than 3,000 pages of detailed descriptions of their experiences with people, plants, animals, geology, geography, astronomical observations and many other forms of pertinent information, much of which was unknown to the world at the time.They discovered and documented scores of plants and animals that were not then known to the civilized world.They ventured among countless Indians, not knowing beforehand the reception of each tribe. In most cases, their generous nature allowed them to make loyal friends with the Indians.They learned how to survive with little or no food, in conditions that ranged from sweltering, humid and mosquito filled air, to bitter cold, windy conditions laden with heavy snowsTime and again, they showed their resourcefulness as they produced salt, designed and built various forms of watercraft, made use of the major parts of game they hunted, communicated with Indians who had never spoken their language, recorded with great accuracy, the latitudes and longitudes of numerous locations and much more.One of their main goals was to meet with the Indians and promote peace among the tribes as well as to inform the Indians of the care and concern the President of the United States had for them and their tribes.Sacajawea, the Indian woman, actually gave birth to a baby in what is now North Dakota and carried him to the Pacific Ocean and safely back again.After having read of their experiences, you might wonder how they could have endured all that they did and still have taken time to record their every detail. Their tireless efforts resulted in an enormous amount of written information that is available today. We have abridged their journals to enable you in your busy life to take A Daily Walk With Lewis & Clark. This effort simplifies their writings into short, small, daily entries, and can help people of all ages gain a vivid understanding and appreciation of the magnanimous work by those great men, one woman and a baby of two centuries ago. Enjoy!
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything.
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.
This is the third of three volumes in a series of booksthat provide daily entries from the journals of Lewis & Clark for the year 1806.To celebrate the Bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, we invite you to enjoy daily entries taken from their journals, abridged to include the most exciting portions of their great exploration. This is a must for every home, classroom, and desktop. Lewis & Clark were not just two men who wandered out west. This Expedition was planned by President Thomas Jefferson and funded by Congress. It was an exploration by a team of 45 men, 1 woman, and a baby, with the most sophisticated equipment of their day, including a 55 specially built keelboat, led by the qualified experts, Captain Meriwether Lewis & Captain William Clark. Their expedition ventured 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back across a land unknown to all but the Indians. You will love the drama, the exact history they recorded, and the heroic & tender stories of Sacajawea. Take A Daily Walk With Lewis & Clark and participate in the adventure and excitement of the early history of the U.S. Here you will find true courage, heroism, kindness, gratitude, commitment and humility. There are 3 volumes, one for each year they were out, 1804, 1805 & 1806. Each book in this set is spiral bound at the top with a built-in desk stand to make it easy to display on a desktop, countertop or dinner table. Each book is only 41⁄2 x 51⁄2. The determination and good fortune of Lewis & Clark, along with their party of skilled people, carved a place in the history books of the United States and in the hearts of people for centuries to come. Among their many accomplishments are the following:They traveled 8,000 miles across an unknown territory and safely back home having faced tremendous dangers.They recorded more than 3,000 pages of detailed descriptions of their experiences with people, plants, animals, geology, geography, astronomical observations and many other forms of pertinent information, much of which was unknown to the world at the time.They discovered and documented scores of plants and animals that were not then known to the civilized world.They ventured among countless Indians, not knowing beforehand the reception of each tribe. In most cases, their generous nature allowed them to make loyal friends with the Indians.They learned how to survive with little or no food, in conditions that ranged from sweltering, humid and mosquito filled air, to bitter cold, windy conditions laden with heavy snowsTime and again, they showed their resourcefulness as they produced salt, designed and built various forms of watercraft, made use of the major parts of game they hunted, communicated with Indians who had never spoken their language, recorded with great accuracy, the latitudes and longitudes of numerous locations and much more.One of their main goals was to meet with the Indians and promote peace among the tribes as well as to inform the Indians of the care and concern the President of the United States had for them and their tribes.Sacajawea, the Indian woman, actually gave birth to a baby in what is now North Dakota and carried him to the Pacific Ocean and safely back again.After having read of their experiences, you might wonder how they could have endured all that they did and still have taken time to record their every detail. Their tireless efforts resulted in an enormous amount of written information that is available today. We have abridged their journals to enable you in your busy life to take A Daily Walk With Lewis & Clark. This effort simplifies their writings into short, small, daily entries, and can help people of all ages gain a vivid understanding and appreciation of the magnanimous work by those great men, one woman and a baby of two centuries ago. Enjoy!
A collection of 24 crossword puzzles relating to the events of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Each puzzle relates to a particular period of time or setting of the expedition. Solutions are included.
Tell-All is many things: A Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Grand Dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.
Grinders: Baseball’s Intrepid Infantry tells the tales of the game's unheralded foot soldiers who took the hard knocks road, bouncing between the Show and obscurity, never quite achieving their dreams, all for a chance to play the game they love. On a brutally humid summer night in 1960, a nine-year-old Mike Capps was sitting with his grandfather in the rickety, mosquito-infested Burnett Field across the Trinity River from the twinkling lights of the concrete and steel towers of downtown Dallas. When he glanced at his grandfather’s scoresheet, something caught his attention. His grandfather had made check marks alongside names of six or seven players for both clubs. “I also want you to pay attention to the names I have checked here,” his grandfather said. “These guys will travel back and forth between Dallas and Kansas City and Minneapolis and Boston all summer. You’ll even see their names in the box scores. They aren’t stars, but they are the engine that drives baseball’s bus.” “Drives baseball’s bus, drives baseball’s bus?” The comment buried itself in Capps’ psyche for decades, and, sixty years later, formed the basic idea for this book. What his grandfather called baseball’s “engine” we now call “grinders.” The back-and-forth roller coaster ride between professional baseball’s minor leagues and its nirvana, Major League Baseball, remains perplexingly difficult for a multitude of great players and their families. Players like Deacon Jones, Brian Mazone, and Lorenzo Bundy battled their way to a chance in the big leagues and hung on as long as they could. Some shared the love of the game with their sons, who became Grinders in their own right. Grinders fill every roster at every level, plugging away year after year. Without their grit, determination, and persistence, there would be no stars. These are their stories.
For the first time in hardcover, an expanded, radically refashioned "director's cut" of a favorite Chuck Palahniuk novel. Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all—boyfriend, career, loyal best friend—until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book’s characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design, embarking on a ride they’ll never forget. All type irregularities in the text are intended.
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.
Chuck Miller "After playing on the trumpet the school's fight song, Our Boys Gonna Shine Tonight by ear, they put me in the high school band. It all happened so fast, I was only in the sixth grade." Of all the musicians/teachers to be associated with the instruction of youth in the Omaha community, Chuck Miller was the most influential and the most controversial. Despite his seeming less impossible task of developing the raw unused musical talents of at-risk children and developing them into singers and performers in popular bands, many of the youth taught by him have grown up into productive professional musicians. As a result of his teaching, they have performed all over the world. Few musicians in the Omaha community would seem to have been more deserving of a job well done than Chuck Miller.
Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Non-Fiction prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.
This limited edition hardcover in slipcase features 90 pages of bonus content and new cover art by David Mack. Some imaginary friends never go away . . . Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won't last long, the wife has seen to that. He's back where he started, but this go-round he's got more at stake than his own life.The time has arrived . . . Rize or Die. New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2015--the return of Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club 2 might be not to talk about it, but Fight Club 2 is generating international headlines and will introduce a new generation of readers to Project Mayhem. Praise for the comics that comprise Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk's freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon.... In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."-THE ATLANTIC "The book is fantastic, my highest recommendation.... Excellent work by Cameron Stewart and David Mack, and by our awesome friends at Dark Horse Comics."-Brian Michael Bendis "If Tyler Durden needed a resurgence, there's no time like the present for his return... Fight Club 2 is a comic that taps back into everything great about the source material, and one that makes Tyler Durden's warm nihilistic embrace a welcome draw back into a familiar world of cynicism, violence, and anarchy...."Tyler Lives," and I couldn't be happier by the prospect of more bedlam."-NEWSARAMA "Palahniuk is delivering a worthy sequel to his most beloved story."-THE NERDIST "Entertaining."-COMIC BOOK RESOURCES "Excellent."-THE BEAT "An amazing piece of work. You do not want to miss out on this."-COMICVINE "Perfect."-FORCES OF GEEK "We have a worthy sequel on our hands.... A must read."-COMICOSITY "Cameron Stewart truly outdoes himself on every level in this book."-BLOODY DISGUSTING "Clever and beautiful."-COMICS ALLIANCE
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. "A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.
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