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Ripley's Unbelievable Stories for Guys

By: Robert LeRoy Ripley

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Ripley's Unbelievable Stories for Guys

By: Robert LeRoy Ripley

One for the grown-ups, this quirky new Ripley's book is filled with bizarre and hilarious 'Believe It or Not!' stories, trivia and lists - perfect for any fan of the unusual, and the ideal Father's Day gift. Some of the utterly stupefying stories within include: - The craziest true CIA plots, including the cat secret agent and the pigeon guided missile - A gambler who broke Monte Carlo - The secret US nuclear launch codes that were reportedly set at '00000000' for 16 years during the Cold War. - A man who successfully removed his own appendix while on an Antarctic expedition

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Random House

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ISBN 10

1847946925

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9781847946928

Running Wild

By: Robert LeRoy Ripley

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Running Wild

By: Robert LeRoy Ripley

Join the Ripley's Bureau of Investigation - a group of teen agents with special gifts - as they embark on a series of action-packed adventures, travelling the world in pursuit of extraordinary events and tales. These wonderful new stories are perfect for adventurously minded children between the ages of 7 and 11. In Running Wild, a plane crash ten years ago and reports of a strange wolf boy lead the RBI to the wilds of western China and to a girl who thinks that the creature might be her long-lost brother. But the mountains and surrounding jungle are full of dangers. Can the team brave hungry tigers, snarling wolves and treacherous ravines to uncover the truth? A dangerous mission for the RBI!

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Arrow

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ISBN 10

0099544261

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9780099544265

Whales and Dolphins

By: Robert Ripley

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Whales and Dolphins

By: Robert Ripley

This lavishly illustrated book will fascinate you with its incredible facts and full-colour pictures of dolphins and whales. Expect a wacky blend of stories and information with bite-size facts to amaze and delight your friends. Informative, off-beat and fun, Dolphins and Whales will introduce you to the unexpected side of the ever-changing world beneath the waves.

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009959658X

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9780099596585

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 2011

By: Robert LeRoy Ripley

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Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 2011

By: Robert LeRoy Ripley

Following hot on the heels of last year's best-selling edition, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2011 offers a whole new feast of bizarre facts and features to enthrall and entertain. Be amazed at the pink dolphin, the girl no bigger than her schoolbag, and the island of lost dolls. Gasp at extraordinary true tales about vampires, the Ripley's waxwork gallery, and the feats of sword swallowers past and present. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and two pullouts featuring astounding lifesize images, this fascinating book is a must-have for anyone who loves jaw-dropping images and unbelievable facts.

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Ripley Publishing

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1847945864

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9781847945860

Legend Tripping

The Ultimate Adventure

By: Robert C. Robinson

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Legend Tripping

The Ultimate Adventure

By: Robert C. Robinson

Look outside the box and go on the ultimate adventure! Enter the exciting world of myth and monsters, the paranormal, UFOs and extraterrestrials, lost treasures and mysterious places. Delve into these awesome legends and learn how easy and inexpensive it is to search for the subjects of these stories, and what you’ll need to look for them. Robert Robinson presents this epic guide to the stranger sites in America and gives you some valuable pointers on legend tripping out your back door. Chapters include: Legend Tripping; Bigfoot; Other Cryptids; Bigfoot Legend Trip; Aquatic Cryptids; Aquatic Cryptid Legend Trip; Haunted Sites and the Paranormal; Paranormal Legend Trip; UFO Sites and Ghost Lights; Extraterrestrial Legend Trip; Treasure Legends; Treasure Legend Trip; Critical Thinking; Legend Trip Location; Outdoor Survival; Equipment and Tools; Your Legend Trip Begins Now!; Who’s Who in Legend Tripping; Legend Tripping in Popular Fiction; more.

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SCB Distributors

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193914969X

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9781939149695

Freak Show

Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

By: Robert Bogdan

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Freak Show

Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

By: Robert Bogdan

This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.

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University of Chicago Press

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022622743X

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9780226227436

Ripley's Believe it Or Not!

By: Robert L. Ripley

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Ripley's Believe it Or Not!

By: Robert L. Ripley

Robert Ripley spent over 40 years exploring the world, travelling to remote places that included the Temple of Heaven in China and a town in Norway called Hell. The stories he gathered later featured in a series of cartoons called Believe it or Not which are the subject of this book.

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1853043680

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9781853043680

101 Amazing Stories of Hope and Faith

By: Robert Petterson

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101 Amazing Stories of Hope and Faith

By: Robert Petterson

Life takes the strangest sharp turns--and sometimes, U-turns. Robert Petterson--popular speaker, storyteller, and author--has been a student for his entire life of what God is teaching us through those real-life U-turns. In this short book, he compiles amazing stories that teach lessons you won't easily forget. Each entry is written in the rest-of-the-story style popularized by Paul Harvey"--Amazon.com

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1496446674

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9781496446671

Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington,

By: Robert S. Pohl

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Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington,

By: Robert S. Pohl

A carving of General Lee on the back of the Lincoln monument, the birth of lobbying at the Willard Hotel, a romantic gesture that built the distinctive homes of Capitol Hill--these are legends of Washington, D.C. The capital is home to all manner of colorful rumors and tall tales. According to local lore, the missing J Street was L'Enfant's snub to Supreme Court justice John Jay, and the course of history could have been changed if only a young baseball player named Fidel Castro had accepted a contract with the Washington Senators. In search of the truth behind these legends and more, local guide and writer Robert S. Pohl takes readers on a tour of the historic lore and urban legends that surround the monuments, neighborhood streets and even the Metro stations of Washington, D.C.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625846649

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9781625846648

1000 Questions About Canada

Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture

By: John Robert Colombo

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1000 Questions About Canada

Places, People, Things and Ideas, A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture

By: John Robert Colombo

What are "snow worms"? Are there more moose than people in the Yukon? What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"? Where will you find the world's largest perogy? Does Elvis have a street in Ottawa named after him? What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau's favourite snack food? Which province was the last to shift traffic from the left-hand side of the road to the right? These are some of the questions that are asked - and answered - in 1000 Questions About Canada. Every reader with an ounce (or a gram) of curiosity will find these intriguing questions and thoughtful answers fascinating to read and ponder. This book is for people who love curious lore and who want to know more about the country in which they live.

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Dundurn

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1459718208

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9781459718203

Canadian Literary Landmarks

By: John Robert Colombo

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Canadian Literary Landmarks

By: John Robert Colombo

Canadian Literary Landmarks

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Dundurn

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0888820739

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9780888820730

Great Sports Performance

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Mind Teasers

By: Robert L. Ripley

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Great Sports Performance

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Mind Teasers

By: Robert L. Ripley

Presents surprising facts about football, basketball, baseball, golf, and other sports.

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516350633

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9780516350639

Hours, Days, and Years

By: Robert L Ripley

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Hours, Days, and Years

By: Robert L Ripley

Presents surprising facts about time, clocks, and calendars.

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1560650656

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9781560650652

Journalists of the United States

Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present

By: Robert Bingham Downs,Jane B. Downs

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Journalists of the United States

Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present

By: Robert Bingham Downs,Jane B. Downs

Hundreds of men and women who have shaped the news world throughout the course of U.S. history are in this book. Newspapers, magazines, books, radio and television are all covered. Also covered are illustrators, muckrakers, etiquette columnists, sports reporters, war correspondents, and others. Certain names stand out--Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly), Katharine Meyer Graham, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Samuel McClure, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Pulitzer, Edward Morrow--but many lesser known figures are included.

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089950549X

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9780899505497

The Taft Court: Volume 10

Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930

By: Robert C. Post

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The Taft Court: Volume 10

Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930

By: Robert C. Post

This work will serve as the authoritative reference text on the Supreme Court during the period of 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. It will become a point of common reference across multiple disciplines, including history, law, and political science.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009336223

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9781009336222

INTERNATIONAL LEGEND TRIPPING

Adventure Outside the Box

By: Robert C. Robinson

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INTERNATIONAL LEGEND TRIPPING

Adventure Outside the Box

By: Robert C. Robinson

Look outside the box and go on the ultimate adventure! Enter the exciting world of myth and monsters, the paranormal, UFOs and extraterrestrials, lost treasures and mysterious places. Robert Robinson presents this epic guide to the stranger sites around the world and gives you some valuable pointers on legend tripping around the planet. There are large hairy creatures roaming all parts of the world like the Yeti, the yeren, the Alma, and the wildman to name few. England might be the most haunted country in the world but there are haunted places in every part of the world that include castles, old prisons and hotels. Visit places that have a reputation for not only being haunted, but cursed as well. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are not just seen in the US, but are a worldwide phenomenon, with people from all over looking toward the skies. There are still hundreds of lost treasures in the world, just waiting to be discovered, and you might be the one to find them. The world is full of mysteries of the unexplained and this book will show you not only where to go, but what to take with you. A great compendium of travel advice and weird sites!

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SCB Distributors

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1948803356

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9781948803359

The Bye Bye Man

And Other Strange-but-True Tales

By: Robert Damon Schneck

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The Bye Bye Man

And Other Strange-but-True Tales

By: Robert Damon Schneck

The True Story behind the Terrifying Movie Don't think of his name... In 1990, three college students spent a long Wisconsin winter experimenting with a Ouija board; it turned out to be the deadliest mistake of their lives. The board brought them into contact with a psychic serial killer, known only as the Bye Bye Man. Learning his name makes you vulnerable, but thinking about it draws the Bye Bye Man to you. He is a relentless traveler, moving night and day, coming ever closer until the shrill sound of a steady whistle announces his arrival. He might turn up outside your bedroom door, speaking in the voice of a trusted friend, someone who would never hurt you… Here is the authentically terrifying, true-life story recounted by historian Robert Damon Schneck in a chapter of his classic underground collection of weird Americana, which formed the basis for the major motion picture, The Bye Bye Man. This unsettling tale is accompanied by seven more chapters of twisted history, and includes the author’s new afterword, “Searching for The Bye Bye Man.”

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Penguin

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1101993367

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9781101993361

Gunfighter in Gotham

Bat Masterson's New York City Years

By: Robert K. DeArment

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Gunfighter in Gotham

Bat Masterson's New York City Years

By: Robert K. DeArment

The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New YorkSun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of history’s great ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging new book. William Barclay “Bat” Masterson spent the first half of his adult life in the West, planting the seeds for his later legend as he moved from Texas to Kansas and then Colorado. In Denver his gambling habit and combative nature drew him to the still-developing sport of prizefighting. Masterson attended almost every important match in the United States from the 1880s to 1921, first as a professional gambler betting on the bouts, and later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled into writing about the sport. In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career from a column in the New YorkMorning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers. This follow-up to DeArment’s definitive biography of the Old West legend narrates the final chapter of Masterson’s storied life. Far removed from the sweeping western plains and dusty cowtown streets of his younger days, Bat Masterson, in New York City, became “a ham reporter,” as he called himself, “a Broadway guy.”

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806189096

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9780806189093

Who Owns America's Past?

The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

By: Robert C. Post

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Who Owns America's Past?

The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

By: Robert C. Post

When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides? Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public History In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. As the largest such complex in the world, the Smithsonian cares for millions of objects and has displayed everything from George Washington's sword to moon rocks to Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Why did this particular object arouse such controversy? From an insider’s perspective, Robert C. Post’s Who Owns America’s Past? offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history. Never before has a book about the Smithsonian detailed the recent and dramatic shift from collection-driven shows, with artifacts meant to speak for themselves, to concept-driven exhibitions, in which objects aim to tell a story, displayed like illustrations in a book. Even more recently, the trend is to show artifacts along with props, sound effects, and interactive elements in order to create an immersive environment. Rather than looking at history, visitors are invited to experience it. Who Owns America’s Past? examines the different ways that the Smithsonian’s exhibitions have been conceived and designed—whether to educate visitors, celebrate an important historical moment, or satisfy donor demands or partisan agendas. Combining information from hitherto-untapped archival sources, extensive interviews, a thorough review of the secondary literature, and considerable personal experience, Post gives the reader a behind-the-scenes view of disputes among curators, academics, and stakeholders that were sometimes private and at other times burst into headline news.

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JHU Press

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1421411016

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9781421411019

Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

Applications with R

By: Robert Fletcher,Marie-Josée Fortin

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Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

Applications with R

By: Robert Fletcher,Marie-Josée Fortin

This book provides a foundation for modern applied ecology. Much of current ecology research and conservation addresses problems across landscapes and regions, focusing on spatial patterns and processes. This book is aimed at teaching fundamental concepts and focuses on learning-by-doing through the use of examples with the software R. It is intended to provide an entry-level, easily accessible foundation for students and practitioners interested in spatial ecology and conservation.

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3030019896

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9783030019891

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