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Save Yourself! How You CAN Troubleshoot Your Own Audio/Video Problems

By: Fred Whissel

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Save Yourself! How You CAN Troubleshoot Your Own Audio/Video Problems

By: Fred Whissel

You really can find and fix many of your own audio/video problems, and this book not only shows you how but claims it can be fun! The author spent more than 20 years troubleshooting the same problems for his Jackson Hole, Wyoming customers -- many of whom were "rich and famous" celebrities. Harrison Ford, Gerry Spence, Bo Derek, Bob Ballard -- you'll read about them (and others) here. Plus, you'll find real troubleshooting tips. But if you somehow screw up a repair and end up dead, don't come running back to us to complain.

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130

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Lulu.com

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ISBN 10

0615155650

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9780615155654

In Light of Fires and Foggy Mornings: Stories from a Small Town in the 1950s That Are Absolutely, Positively True. Sort of.

By: Fred Whissel

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In Light of Fires and Foggy Mornings: Stories from a Small Town in the 1950s That Are Absolutely, Positively True. Sort of.

By: Fred Whissel

This very readable book will get you all fired up about small-town life in the 1950s! Flaunting a Dave Barry brand of humor, dozens of period photos, 50 unique drawings, 31 stand-alone stories, and often a literary level of writing, it rides the reader on a metaphorical Whizzer motorbike journey through life, from days of innocence through forsaken virtue. Along the way, village fires are both personal tragedies and popular roadside attractions. Actual events and historical personages mist over like foggy mornings. How much of each account is fact, how much is fiction? The author asks the reader to decide--and offers help with two different beginnings and endings! Everything in this book is, of course, absolutely, positively true. Sort of.

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262

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Lulu.com

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0615151779

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9780615151779

Bear Edges

By: Fred Whissel

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Bear Edges

By: Fred Whissel

Fly a hairy helicopter rescue mission through the snowlogged mountains of Jackson Hole-at night-with one of the world's "scruffiest" movie stars as your pilot! In this fast-paced thriller, the world's worst outbreak of forest fires forces animals and humans alike to flee Yellowstone National Park. When thousands of recovering elk soon undertake their annual migration southward to the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, Wyoming, they are followed by four hungry grizzlies. At first feared, the big bruins unexpectedly turn around the area's sagged tourism economy when they become nationally famous. But then all of the grizzlies mysteriously disappear-along with a local newspaper photographer and a couple of skiers. Who will be next? Can the bears be stopped? Is anyone in charge? And who will wax the floors when Mayor Elvis leaves the building?

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286

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Lulu.com

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0615151760

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9780615151762

Home is where the Wind Blows

Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life

By: Fred Hoyle

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Home is where the Wind Blows

Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life

By: Fred Hoyle

In Home Is Where the Wind Blows, Sir Fred Hoyle, one of this century's most eminent scientists and author of dozens of successful books, both fiction and nonfiction, offers a revealing and charming account of his life and work. Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist - Sir Fred is perhaps best known, in scientific circles, for his brilliant explanation of the origin of the elements from hydrogen nuclei in stars (a process known as nucleosynthesis) and for developing (with Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold) the elegant but controversial steady-state theory of the Universe (which assumes the continuous creation of matter). In 1950, in the last of a series of radio lectures on astronomy that he delivered on the air for the BBC, Sir Fred coined the term "Big Bang" to characterize the competing expanding-Universe theory, which has since become the dominant paradigm. Ironically, the term has become a permanent addition to the language of cosmology. Sir Fred's name has become well known to the general public because of his unusual ability to describe the ideas of science in a simple and accessible way. In addition to his scientific work, he has written more than a dozen works of popular science (many of them widely translated) and more than a dozen works of science fiction (most of them in collaboration with his son, Geoffrey). In all his work, Sir Fred has shown himself to be ready and able to challenge established thinking. In the author's amusing and memorable account of his childhood in Home Is Where the Wind Blows, the reader will see how this came to be true. Possessed since infancy with a strong streak of independence, he was encouraged by his parents, throughout his schoolyears, to trust his own judgment and to think for himself.

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502

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University Science Books

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093570227X

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9780935702279

50 HITS on BARACK OBAMA (and his distanced associates)

By: Fred Whissel

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50 HITS on BARACK OBAMA (and his distanced associates)

By: Fred Whissel

If you are a Barack Obama/Joe Biden supporter, you will HATE this book of political cartoons. On the other hand, if you support John McCain and Sarah Palin, you will probably LOVE it. Either way, you most likely will find at least SOMETHING in here to laugh about -- after all, if America's presidential elections aren't intended to provide this nation and the world with a few good laughs, why in the world do we hold them every four years?

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