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The Gallery of Regrettable Food
Recipes and food photography from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s assembled with humorous commentary.
Interior Desecrations
Lileks delivers a jaw-dropping retrospective of the worst of the worst rec rooms, dens, bedrooms, and other interior spaces of homes in the years when shag rugs ruled. Everything here is straight out of the pages of 1970s interior design magazines, books, and other supposed arbiters of style and taste.176 pp.
Mommy Knows Worst
From satirist Lileks comes a hilarious collection of questionable childcare tips from a bygone era.
Fresh Lies
The acclaimed author of Notes of a Nervous Man and Mr. Obvious bares his satirical sword again--and no subject is sacred, no one is safe. From video stores to voice mail, school prayer to swimsuits, this quick-witted collection of columns is sure to entertain.
Gastroanomalies
Presents photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from the 1950s and 1960s with commentary on an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.
Notes of a Nervous Man
Fans of Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry and Tom Bodett will cheer for acclaimed syndicated columnist James Lileks, who expounds on everything from airplanes, bras and women to death, taxes and hangovers.
The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Goliath
“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business. Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis. A concentration of power—whether by government or banks—was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few whose misu...
Minds Wide Shut
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight it Polarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a rise in styles of thought, across a range of fields, that literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and economist Morton Schapiro call “fundamentalist.” In Minds Wide Shut, Morson and Schapiro examine how rigid adherence to ideological thinking has altered politics, economics, religion, and literature in ways that are mutually reinforcing and antithetical to the open-mindedness and readiness to comprom...
