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Never Ask a Man the Size of His Spread
Get the western woman’s take on life with this collection of wise and witty quips and quotations. “Callin’ women the weaker sex makes about as much sense as callin’ men the stronger one.” “Anybody who thinks they know everything ain’t been around long enough to know anything.” “When a cowboy gives you the key to his truck, you know you’re close to winning the key to his heart.” “If you’re fixin’ to get yourself a good stallion, don’t go lookin’ in the donkey corral.” As long as the cowboy has been a hero in our imaginations, the cowgirl has been leading him from behind. In this compilation, you’ll find page after page of humorous, homespun sayings from her point of view that are sure to inspire, make you think, and make you laugh. Henry Ward Beecher said, “The common sense of one century is the common sense of the next.” That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch…lines that is. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
Women and the Machine
“An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.” —Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control—and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory...
Zoology and Botany
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The Game of Work
The guide to making human nature work with you and not against you by increasing job enjoyment and producing extraordinary results. On a hot day when the air conditioning goes off, employees can start complaining that it’s too hot to work. But after work in the parking lot, where it is twenty degrees hotter, they will look at each other say, “Well, what do you think, golf or tennis?” Why will people, in recreation, pay for the privilege of working harder than they will work when they are paid? In The Game of Work, Charles A. Coonradt explains what makes people so dedicated to recreational pursuits, and shows—with fresh, proven management techniques—how to use that same motivation t...
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Governing the Commons
Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.
