How to Become a Federal Criminal: Ridiculous & Ridiculously Easy!
Somewhat amusing, the author tells you many ways to become a federal criminal.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: criminal justice, federal codes, humor, law, Trivia
Somewhat amusing, the author tells you many ways to become a federal criminal.
by fangswandsfairy • Autobiography, Biography/Autobiography, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: America, essay, Ex-Pat, France, Marriage, Memoir, multicultural family
An American man with a Francophile mom marries a French woman and moves to France.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: Adrian Scarborough, anthropology, Art Criticism, miniatures, modern history, sociology
Miniatures may be little in size, but they have a bigger function in society and history.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Travel / Food • Tags: Italian food, tradition and innovation
Another travel journal from Matt Goulding through the food-ways of Italy.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Travel / Food • Tags: Europe, Frances Mayes, Italian food, Italy, travel
Frances Maye’s strikes out from Tuscany to explore many of the most beautiful and delicious places in Italy.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: animal communication, cats, language, meow, pets, phonetics
What do cats mean when they meow, hiss or purr? Susanne Schotz explores the phonetics of cats’ speech.
by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: essays, Grammar & Punctuation, humor, Language Arts & Disciplines, reference, style manual, Writing Skills
An expert copy editor offers a funny manual of style.
by fangswandsfairy • Biography/Autobiography, Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: " Hamilton!", American History, Biography, Eliza Hamilton
After the death of Alexander Hamilton, his wife, Eliza, came into her own.
by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Memoir • Tags: Germany, Holocaust, Nationalism, WWII
A German Ex-Pat looks at her family and national past in an attempt to understand it.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: humor, medical history, medicine - humor, science humor
Bizarre doesn’t begin to describe the history of medicine.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Personal Growth/Art • Tags: Art, artistic process, Painting, Painting methods, personal development
What is your creative path and how do you challenge yourself or get out of a rut?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: History of Technology & Engineering, humor, Personal & Practical Guides, Trivia
This is what you need to reinvent civilization and technology if your time machine strands you in the past.
by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Personal Growth/Art • Tags: advice for graduates, graduation, graduation speeches, humor, parodies
Is someone you know graduating this year, or ever? Hiassen’s ASSUME THE WORST is a funny gift.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: 19th century politics, News, political science, Politics, pollsters, science
How do pollsters come up with the winners and losers on election night?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: bodies, embarrassing subjects, medicine, physiology
You know that embarrassing subject you were taught never to talk about? Mara Altman was apparently never taught that.