Spike Cook's Books

Connected Leadership

It’s Just a Click Away

By: Spike Cook

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You’re at the top—but never alone! Take the leap and connect with other educators and leaders through social media. Educators learn to transform relationships with their students, staff, parents, and with the overall community in this simple guide to social media. With real-life examples from K12 educators who’ve integrated social media technology and education, this guide helps educators to harness the power of connectedness and change the way you lead. Jump in and you’ll learn how to: Develop a personal learning network Tell your school’s story through blogging Use connections to transform your leadership

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Corwin

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1483371689

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9781483371689

The Good Stuff Cookbook

Burgers, Fries, Shakes, Wedges, and More

By: Spike Mendelsohn,Micheline Mendelsohn

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The Good Stuff Cookbook

Burgers, Fries, Shakes, Wedges, and More

By: Spike Mendelsohn,Micheline Mendelsohn

“With The Good Stuff Cookbook, Spike Mendelsohn applies his limitless imagination to classic American comfort food” (Tom Colicchio, chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality). “Spike knows how to bring the fun to bun.” —Rachael Ray One of the most popular contestants ever on the hit television show Top Chef, Spike Mendelsohn is now one of the hottest celebrity chefs on the scene. His restaurant in Washington, DC, Good Stuff Eatery, has been a resounding success and even claims Michelle Obama as a fan. In The Good Stuff Cookbook, Chef Spike serves up fast, fun, and fresh recipes for classic fare like burgers, sides, shakes, and desserts, as well as menu suggestions for all types of events, from big parties to casual family dinners. You’ll find old favorites with a twist: unique and tasty sauces and mayonnaises like Good Stuff Sauce and Curry Mayonnaise; fan-favorite sides like Baked Sweet Potato Fries and Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus; the famous Toasted Marshmallow Milkshake, malts, and floats; and, of course, Chef Spike’s crowd-pleasing burgers made with beef, turkey, chicken, pork, and even lamb. Featuring 120 fresh and delicious recipes and 140 full-color photos, this is the perfect all-American cookbook for anyone who loves great casual comfort food like burgers, fries, and shakes, but wants to mix things up with a gourmet touch. “Chef Spike Mendelsohn has a pulse on the American heartbeat for delicious, soul-satisfying comfort foods.” —Art Smith, chef and author of Back to the Table

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544186656

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9780544186651

Poorcraft

By: C. Spike Trotman,Diana Nock

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Poorcraft

By: C. Spike Trotman,Diana Nock

Poorcraft is the essential comic book guide to practical urban and suburban frugality! Whether you're new to independent living, a recent college graduate or just downshifting to a simpler lifestyle, Poorcraft can help you with everything from finding a home to finding a hobby, dinner to debt relief, education to entertainment. It's time to cut your expenses! Or just make sure they never pile up.

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Iron Circus Comics

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1945820012

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9781945820014

The Only Way Was Essex

Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

By: Spike Mays

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The Only Way Was Essex

Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

By: Spike Mays

In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War. In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates the village, its travelling parson, local poacher and even the local drunkard. And in the bustling backstairs world of the squire's house where Spike served his apprenticeship we see a more privileged side to life. This warm and nostalgic portrait of a very different Essex opens a door to a distant past.

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Abacus

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0349001103

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9780349001104

Delver

By: MK Reed,Spike C. Trotman

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Delver

By: MK Reed,Spike C. Trotman

In this fantasy adventure story we follow Temerity Aster, a 15-year-old girl who lives with her large family in a small village of goat herders in the tiny hamlet of Oddgoat. The world she lives is shaken up when random doors to living dungeons appear, including one that has appeared in her cellar. Now her family must deal with the introduction of “Delvers”—adventurers who are looking to explore these dungeons and escape with treasure. Soon life for her and her family changes forever, and she must face two choices: abandon the only home she's ever known to carpet baggers and sellswords, or carve out a place for herself and her family in this new and dangerous world of delving. Collects Delver #1–#5.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506724523

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9781506724522

'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

A Confrontation in the Desert

By: Spike Milligan

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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

A Confrontation in the Desert

By: Spike Milligan

VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times ______________ 'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.' 'That's how I got in, sir.' 'Didn't we all.' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them . . . ______________ 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian

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Penguin UK

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0241966175

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9780241966174

Treasure Island According To Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

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Treasure Island According To Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

In this last of Spike's hilarious reinterpretations of the classic works of litarature, all the familiar faces of Robert Louis Stevenson's original version appear: Squire Trelawney, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver. But they are joined by Groucho Marx - and Long John's parrot plays a starring role. This rip-roaring adventure of the hunt for buried treasure unravels faster than Ben Gunn's pants, with plenty of laughs along the way. Rude and irreverent as ever, Spike's rendering of this classic tale is as chock-full of gems as Cap'n Flint's treasure chest.

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Random House

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075354704X

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9780753547045

Where Have All the Bullets Gone?

By: Spike Milligan

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Where Have All the Bullets Gone?

By: Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they first appeared. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, 'I think we've got grounds for a rent rebate.' The fifth volume of Spike Milligan's unsurpassed account of life as a Bombardier in World War Two sees our hero dispatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital and from there to a rehabilitation camp. Considered loony (and 'unfit to be killed in combat by either side'), he becomes embroiled in his own private battle with melancholy. But it is music, wit and a little help from his friends - including one Gunner Harry Secombe - that help carry him through to his first stage appearances ... 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal' Terry Wogan 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.

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Penguin UK

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0241966191

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9780241966198

Milligan's Meaning of Life

An Autobiography of Sorts

By: Spike Milligan

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Milligan's Meaning of Life

An Autobiography of Sorts

By: Spike Milligan

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Penguin UK

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0670920789

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9780670920785

A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy

Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies

By: V. Spike Peterson

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A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy

Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies

By: V. Spike Peterson

This book rewrites global political economy by bringing disparate features of globalization into relation, and providing an accessible narrative of 'how we got here, ' 'what's going on, ' and 'what it means' from a critical vantage poin

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280

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Routledge

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1134380216

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9781134380213

Photographs of My Father

By: Paul Spike

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Photographs of My Father

By: Paul Spike

A son tries to understand the violent murder of his father--civil-rights leader Rev. Robert Spike--in 1966.

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Cinco Puntos Press

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1941026249

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9781941026243

The Bible According to Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

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The Bible According to Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

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Penguin UK

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0241978572

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9780241978573

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Volume 1

By: Spike Chunsoft

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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Volume 1

By: Spike Chunsoft

High school student Hajime Hinata must be the "Ultimate" at something--after all, he got accepted to Hope's Peak Academy, which takes only the nation's elite teens (whether they're elite at being gangsters, gymnasts, or hamster breeders!). But he doesn't know what his special talent is...only that he and his classmates have been given a surprise summer vacation on Jabberwock Island. It may be a tropical paradise, but their sinister teddy bear headmaster Monokuma still expects them all to complete their assignments if they ever want to go home--namely, murder a fellow student and get away with it, as the survivors cross-examine each other at a classroom trial! Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an alternate version of the events told in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. That series told the story through the eyes of "Ultimate Lucky Student" Nagito Komaeda; now Goodbye Despair gives you the perspective of his arch-rival in the desperate classroom murder game, Hajime Hinata!

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506713599

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9781506713595

Woodworking FAQ

The Workshop Companion: Build Your Skills and Know-How for Making Great Projects

By: Spike Carlsen

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Woodworking FAQ

The Workshop Companion: Build Your Skills and Know-How for Making Great Projects

By: Spike Carlsen

Whether you’re a beginner building your first shelf or an experienced craftsman designing a new gazebo, Spike Carlson has the answers to all of your woodworking questions. You’ll find expert advice on setting up your work area, choosing appropriate tools, working with different types of wood, and building furniture, as well as tips on joinery techniques, custom finishes, and much more.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1603428313

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9781603428316

Ridiculously Simple Furniture Projects

Great Looking Furniture Anyone Can Build

By: Spike Carlsen

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Ridiculously Simple Furniture Projects

Great Looking Furniture Anyone Can Build

By: Spike Carlsen

Blending the practicality of IKEA with the creativity of Martha Stewart, this collection of innovative projects is presented with simplicity of construction in mind. The suggested pieces are practical, have broad appeal, and carry a high brag factor upon completion. Requiring minimal assembly time and tools, this concise, engaging, and even humorous guide offers countless tips as well as clear and instructive photography. The majority of the projects also incorporate clever construction, such as the use of bifold doors, stock cabinets, and off-the-shelf lumber, guaranteeing that the required materials are both inexpensive and easily accessible. Featuring ideas for furnishing both the interior and the exterior of the home, this handbook is ideal for weekend woodworkers.

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Linden Publishing

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1610351754

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9781610351751

Cabin Lessons

A Nail-by-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love

By: Spike Carlsen

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Cabin Lessons

A Nail-by-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love

By: Spike Carlsen

When carpenter Spike Carlsen and his wife set out with their recently blended family of five kids to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior, they quickly realized that painting, parenting, and putting up drywall all come with both frustrations and unexpected rewards. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the wryly funny, heartwarming story of their eventful journey — from buying an unforgiving plot of land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the lakeside hideaway of their dreams.

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1612125689

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9781612125688

Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair Volume 2

By: Spike Chunsoft

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Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair Volume 2

By: Spike Chunsoft

The ultimate teenage murder game continues! Based on Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the sequel to the original Danganronpa, the manga series Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair contains many scenes only hinted at in the game! They say if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen...but the one who's on the hot seat is Ultimate Cook Teruteru Hanamura, on trial for the murder of Byakuya Togami! Revealing his true nature in the courtroom, Nagito forces his fellow students to realize they don't truly know or understand each other. It'll take all of Hajime's cunning, along with the help of his classmates, to cleave a path to the awful truth!

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506707343

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9781506707341

Mussolini

His Part in My Downfall

By: Spike Milligan

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Mussolini

His Part in My Downfall

By: Spike Milligan

VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times ______________ A voice is calling across the land, 'Bombardier Milligan.' 'Bombadier Milligan is dead,' I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, 'Then he's going to miss his breakfast.' The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured'). After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from which he soon recovers ('I'm ready to be killed again'), our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog ('Mussolini's revenge?') before forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns ('We're getting near civilisation'), where matters suddenly take a dark turn ('I was not really me any more') . . . ______________ 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian

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Penguin UK

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0241966183

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9780241966181

Working on the Edge

Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas

By: Spike Walker

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Working on the Edge

Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas

By: Spike Walker

A Deadly Chase on The Bering Sea Immerse yourself in crewman Spike Walker's Working on the Edge, an adrenaline-fueled narrative that brings to life the world of Alaskan king crab fishing. Set against the merciless backdrop of the turbulent Bering Sea, the book is a visceral account of human struggle, survival, and the dogged pursuit of fortune. Working on the Edge transports you to the wretched, unforgiving conditions of the Bering Sea with its icy winds, treacherous waves, and debilitating on-deck labor. More than a mere profession, crab fishing in these chilling waters stands as a brutal testament to the battle of man against nature, where every decision carries the weight of life and death. Alongside personal stories, Walker brings to light the stories of survivors from the industry's deadly disasters, painting a vivid picture of the harsh reality of this dangerous line of work. Walker rivetingly depicts the modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466809337

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9781466809338

So You Want to Be a Ferry Pilot

By: Spike Nasmyth

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So You Want to Be a Ferry Pilot

By: Spike Nasmyth

SO YOU WANT TO BE A FERRY PILOT is made up of nineteen true short stories about ferrying airplanes from one part of the world to another. Each flight has something about it that wasn't planned. Unexpected heart stopping engine failures, weather that went from CAVU (Clear and Visibility Unlimited) to Oh MY God!!, interception by armed foreign fighters, arrest by third world police or anything that old Mister Murphy can throw your face. I had several pilot friends read the manuscript, here are some of their comments. "Ferry pilots are nuts, everybody knows that." Captain Cal Harman, 20 years with Continental. "These stories are unbelievable, I thought flying combat missions was dangerous." Captain Curt Briggs, shot down in Vietnam while flying an F-4 Phantom, rescued after spending more than 24 hours hiding from the North Vietnamese. "When we were cell mates in Hanoi I suspected that Spike was a little crazy, suspicions confirmed." Lieutenant Commander Larry Friese, USN Retired. POW in Vietnam 51/2 years.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412010667

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9781412010665

Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair Volume 1

By: Spike Chunsoft,Kyousuke Suga

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Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair Volume 1

By: Spike Chunsoft,Kyousuke Suga

The ultimate teenage murder game continues! Based on Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair video game, the sequel to the original video game Danganronpa. The manga series Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair contains bonus scenes not shown in the video game! When a new class of students at the (in)famous Hope's Peak Academy find themselves on a surprise school trip to a tropical island, they also find that suspicion and death is the only ticket home from this so-called paradise! Here, in the name of "hope," Ultimate Lucky Student Nagito Komaeda is willing to kill anybody and everybody...including himself!

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506707335

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9781506707334

The Boys Who Bring in the Crop

By: Spike Nasmyth

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The Boys Who Bring in the Crop

By: Spike Nasmyth

THE BOYS WHO BRING IN THE CROP is a mostly true story about a group of amateur marijunana smugglers who operated out of Florida in the mid seventies. These guys really had some cajones, they did their thing right under the noses of the law. They made seven flights to Colombia and back and never got caught, partly because they were smart and planned well, partly because of dumb luck. The book is fast paced, it all takes place in less than one year. Along the way there is plenty of adventure, not everything goes as planned. There is some romance thrown in, these guys knew how to enjoy life with the piles of money they accumulated.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412010659

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9781412010658

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Volume 2

By: Spike Chunsoft,Kuroki Q

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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Volume 2

By: Spike Chunsoft,Kuroki Q

Beautiful white sand? Check! Refreshing ocean waves? Check! Bloody body in the beach house? Check...?! Hajime and his classmates strive to overcome the despair of having now lost two classmates as they explore the buildings of the newly opened 2nd Island. Hajime learns a little about each of his classmates and the tropical paradise that is their prison. Now everyone is determined to prevent another murder from happening--everyone except Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, that is... Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is an alternate version of the events told in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. That series told the story through the eyes of "Ultimate Lucky Student" Nagito Komaeda; now Goodbye Despair gives you the perspective of his arch-rival in the desperate classroom murder game, Hajime Hinata!

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506713602

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9781506713601

Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)

Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks

By: Spike Gillespie

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Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)

Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks

By: Spike Gillespie

Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie approaches her subjects with a keen eye for curious details and a readiness to ask hard questions and give honest, even brutal, answers. Her willingness to "put it all down—the painful, the funny, the mundane, the embarrassing" has won legions of readers for her print and online columns. Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away) collects forty-six essays, which initially appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Austin Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Bust, Gargoyle, and thecommonspace.org. As Gillespie describes them, "There are odes to my good days and bad, to trips I've taken—both real and metaphorical, to holiness found in unexpected places, to men I have not slept with, to learning to live sober. Too, there are miscellaneous ruminations on my alter-ego, my inner-teen, the floor mat in my car, a dead squirrel in the road." Binding these pieces is the thread of hope: there are moments the thread slips out of view only to resurface in some unexpected location. Sometimes it takes awhile, but Gillespie always relocates hope, discovering even in her darkest times that life is full of an embarrassment of riches.

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University of Texas Press

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0292778937

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9780292778931

Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Spike Gibbs

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Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Spike Gibbs

Shows how lordship and state formation affected local authority in the transition between medieval and early modern England.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009311832

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9781009311830

Adolf Hitler

My Part in his Downfall

By: Spike Milligan

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Adolf Hitler

My Part in his Downfall

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Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian ______________ 'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .' In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said'), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitis, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway'). Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. ______________ 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal' Terry Wogan 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin

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Penguin UK

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0241966159

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9780241966150

Red

The Art and Science of a Colour

By: Spike Bucklow

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Red

The Art and Science of a Colour

By: Spike Bucklow

Blood, rust, lava, wine—the flush of passion and the glow of approaching night—no color arrests our attention more than the color red. Today it is the flag of danger and seduction, of spirit and revolution, but throughout nearly all of human history it has held a special place in our aesthetics. In this book, Spike Bucklow brings us into the heart of this fiery hue to better understand the unique powers it has had over us. Bucklow takes us from a thirty-four-thousand-year-old shaman burial dress to the iPhone screen, exploring the myriad of purposes we have put red to as well as the materials from which we have looked to harvest it. And we have looked for it everywhere, from insects to tree resin to tar to excitable gasses. Bucklow also details how our pursuit of the color drove medieval alchemy and modern chemistry alike, and he shows us red’s many symbolic uses, its association with earth, blood, and fire, its coloring of caves and the throne rooms of goddesses, as well as national flags, fire trucks, power grids, and stoplights. The result is a material and cultural history that makes one see this color afresh, beating with vibrancy, a crucial part of the human visual world.

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Reaktion Books

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1780236247

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9781780236247

Depression And How To Survive It

By: Anthony Clare,Spike Milligan

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Depression And How To Survive It

By: Anthony Clare,Spike Milligan

Anyone worried about a depressed friend or relative should read this book' DAILY TELEGRAPH _________________________________________________ In 1982, leading psychiatrist and TV presenter Anthony Clare interviewed Spike Milligan for the radio series In The Psychiatrist's Chair. He was so overwhelmed by Milligan's account of his forty years of depressive experiences that he knew he had found the right person to help him illuminate and explore the mysterious and sometimes terrifying condition that is clinical depression. Depression and How to Survive It charts the development of world-famous comedian Spike Milligan's clinical depression and the strategies he used in dealing with the often-misunderstood disorder. Drawing inspiration and advice from Spike's experience, this unique book from one of Britain's most successful psychiatrists, will take you to the depths of human unhappiness and show you the way towards leading a happy life.

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Random House

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1407096133

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9781407096131

Nights of Ice

True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas

By: Spike Walker

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Nights of Ice

True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas

By: Spike Walker

Nights of Ice is a critically acclaimed account of the dangerous and harrowing job of fishing off of the treacherous, subzero Alaskan coastline. Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing season, and to the uncontrolled power of nature herself.. The crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Tested by the elements, these seamen battle for their vessels and their lives, on every page evincing a level of courage and a will to live seldom found elsewhere in modern society.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466805382

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9781466805385

Millionaires & Billionaires Secrets Revealed

By: Darren Stephens,Spike Humer

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Millionaires & Billionaires Secrets Revealed

By: Darren Stephens,Spike Humer

Learn to think like a billionaire. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Millionaires & Billionaires Secrets Revealed will show you how to achieve the extraordinary lifestyle you desire and deserve. Learn how to master your own personal & professional financial future. You will learn:* Wealth creation strategies of the ultra rich.* How to quadruple your speed to financial freedom.* 5 key financial habits of the wealthy.* The lifestyles of the rich & famous.* How you don't need to have a university degree to be rich.* Tips & secrets from millionaires & billionaires.* How you can become rich doing what you love.* The psychology of millionaires & billionaires.

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Global Publishing Group

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1742980783

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9781742980782

Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

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Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

Welcome to the world of classic adventure stories, hilariously retold by the much loved, legendary comic Spike Milligan. On his death in 2002, he was widely regarded as the greatest and most influential comedian to have emerged from post-war Britain.

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404

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Virgin Books

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0753508419

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9780753508411

The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects

76 Useful Things You Can Build to Create Customized Working Spaces and Storage Facilities, Equip the Garden, Store the Harvest, House Your Animals, and Make Practical Outdoor Furniture

By: Spike Carlsen

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The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects

76 Useful Things You Can Build to Create Customized Working Spaces and Storage Facilities, Equip the Garden, Store the Harvest, House Your Animals, and Make Practical Outdoor Furniture

By: Spike Carlsen

Gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love this compilation of 76 rustic DIY projects. From plant supports and clotheslines to a chicken coop, a greenhouse, and a root cellar with storage bins, most of the projects are suitable for complete novices, and all use just basic tools and easy-to-find materials. You’ll find techniques to build whatever your outdoor world is missing, with additional tips to live sustainably, happily, and independently. Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1603428461

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9781603428460

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