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Robin Williams, American Master
The Movies and Art of a Lost Genius
by Stephen Spignesi
597 Pages, Published 2020 by Post Hill Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-64293-530-1, ISBN: 1-64293-530-1

"(from flickfilosopher.com, August 18, 2015) William Thomas: “Sadly, proof that they will make absolutely anything these days.” (from Empire, August 11, 2015) Alec Pridgen: “After around four decades, this may be the final Monty Python project."






#TIL
Today I Learned: Hilarious, Entertaining, and Educational Trivia
by Stephen Spignesi
216 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-5552-9, ISBN: 1-5107-5552-7

"#TIL: Today I Learned is sure to intrigue even the most jaded know-it-alls and walking encyclopedias, including little-known anecdotes and stories involving some of history’s most famous people, places, and things, like: Stephen King ..."






Dr. Bizarro's Eclectic Collection of Strange and Obscure Facts
by Stephen Spignesi
656 Pages, Published 2018 by Permuted Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-68261-517-1, ISBN: 1-68261-517-0

"New York: HarperPerennial, 1992. • Stevens, Mark. Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2014. • Stevens, Serita Deborah, with Anne Klarner. Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons. Cincinatti, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1990. • Trager, James, ed. The People's Chronology: A Year-by- Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to ..."






499 Words Every College Student Should Know
A Professor's Handbook on Words Essential to Great Writing and Better Grades
by Stephen Spignesi
464 Pages, Published 2017 by Skyhorse
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2388-7, ISBN: 1-5107-2388-9

"“As it happens, Blake is not only a candid memoirist but a wellconnected one; for half a century he sat in medias res in modern architecture.”—No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept, Peter Blake “Most people are familiar with his biggies, like Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov, but it's his lesser-known work, The Gambler, that makes use of in medias res.”—“5 Great Examples of In Medias Res,” ..."






499 Facts about Hip-Hop Hamilton and the Rest of America's Founding Fathers
499 Facts about Hop-Hop Hamilton and America's First Leaders
by Stephen Spignesi
288 Pages, Published 2016 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1213-3, ISBN: 1-5107-1213-5

"499 Facts About Hop-Hop Hamilton and America 's First Leaders Stephen Spignesi. INTRODUCTION. Give. Props. for. What. They. Did! The Founding Fathers. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? The alliteration, the comforting notion of these iconic men being called “fathers,” the conciseness and purity of the message of the phrase. America's Founding Fathers were, for the most part, visionaries, and men courageous enough to commit treason ..."






In the Crosshairs
Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon
by Stephen Spignesi
320 Pages, Published 2016 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1303-1, ISBN: 1-5107-1303-4

"Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon Stephen Spignesi. to the operating room for lung surgery, nor for a couple of days after. President Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, but the first official announcement was not until 1:33 p.m. and official records tell us that the operation on Governor Connally began at 1:35 p.m. The governor had certainly been in the operating room for several ..."






Grover Cleveland's Rubber Jaw and Other Unusual, Unexpected, Unbelievable but All-True Facts About America's Presidents
by Stephen Spignesi
288 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-58502-3, ISBN: 1-101-58502-1

"Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites ... Some material in the “Cause of Death” sections of Grover Cleveland's Rubber Jaw initially appeared in another form in the ... No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. ... jaw, and other unusual, unexpected, unbelievable but al ..."






Stephen King, American Master
A Creepy Corpus of Facts About Stephen King & His Work
by Stephen Spignesi
770 Pages, Published 2018 by Permuted Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-68261-607-9, ISBN: 1-68261-607-X

"A Creepy Corpus of Facts About Stephen King & His Work Stephen Spignesi. • The first book in the Bill Hodges trilogy. • A TV series adaptation of Mr. Mercedes debuted on the Audience channel in August 2017. It was renewed for a second season to debut in 2018. Revival (2014) “The new minister ... So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein...” • The second book in the ..."






The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures and Truth
A Comprehensive Examination
by Stephen Spignesi, William J. Birnes
264 Pages, Published 2019 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2086-2, ISBN: 1-5107-2086-3

"If it isn't, then one of the used book services (especially www.abe.com) will find it in any edition and from any publisher; and if ... The Alien Series by Alan Dean Foster (1979–1986) The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (1969) Battlefield ..."






Elton John
Fifty Years On: The Complete Guide to the Musical Genius of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
by Stephen Spignesi, Michael Lewis
311 Pages, Published 2019 by Post Hill Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-64293-328-4, ISBN: 1-64293-328-7

"The Complete Guide to the Musical Genius of Elton John and Bernie Taupin Stephen Spignesi, Michael Lewis ... “Give Me the Love” (co-written with Judie Tzuke) (5:30, R) This is a Motown-y song with lyrics written by English singer/ songwriter ... BEST SONG: TIE: “Two Rooms at the End of the World” and “Dear God” 15."






Outdated Advertising
Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era
by Michael Lewis, Stephen Spignesi
168 Pages, Published 2017 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2382-5, ISBN: 1-5107-2382-X

"Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era Michael Lewis, Stephen Spignesi. Introduction. Times have certainly changed since the days when the ads in this book were published. We, your authors, are savvy guys . We're wild and crazy writers and editors; we like to think we've been around and that we've seen it all. (Or at least some of it all.) Well, no. Some of the ads in this book are the Merriam-Webster ..."






The Third Act of Life
by Jerome Ellison, Stephen Spignesi
Published 2012 by Tantor Ebooks
ISBN-13: 978-1-61803-085-6, ISBN: 1-61803-085-X

"Navy Public Affairs Officer (1655) Commander Cormier was part of Admiral Bill Thompson's team that was awarded a Silver Anvil Award by ... As editor and publisher of Findings, he was among the very first (circa 1970) to recognize the importance of antioxidants in the ... He has completed numerous postgraduate Sc .D. and Ph.D. courses in Distance Training and Learning at NOVA-SE in Ft. Lauderdale."






CATASTROPHE The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Time
by Stephen :. Spignesi
Published by Citadel Press New York 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-86525-584-5, ISBN: 0-86525-584-9






Second Homes for Dummies
by Stephen Spignesi, Bridget Mccrea
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-280-82750-1, ISBN: 1-280-82750-5






Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies
by Stephen Spignesi
366 Pages, Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-39603-2, ISBN: 0-470-39603-2






George Washington's Leadership Lessons
by Stephen Spignesi, James Rees
Published 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-280-82234-6, ISBN: 1-280-82234-1






Native American History for Dummies
by Dorothy Lippert, Stephen J. Spignesi
388 Pages, Published 2011 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-118-05169-6, ISBN: 1-118-05169-6

"Dorothy Lippert, Stephen J. Spignesi. Introduction. T. he history of Native Americans is, ultimately, the history of America. They were, after all, here first, right? And we cannot truly know whoweare today without looking back atthe first occupants of this land and understanding how their presence, cultures, and beliefs influenced and shaped everything that was to follow. Theindigenous people who were here hundreds of years before ..."






Television Finales
From Howdy Doody to Girls (Television and Popular Culture)
by Douglas L. Howard, David Bianculli, Sam Ford, Karen Hellekson, Ensley F. Guffey, David Diffrient, Martha P. Nochimson, Barbara Villez, K. Dale Koontz, Elizabeth L. Rambo, Erika Johnson-Lewis, Mitchell E. Shapiro, Keith Brand, Jeff Thompson, Lori Bindig, Sue Turnbull, Renee Middlemost, Mark Dawidziak, David Hinckley, Stephen Spignesi, Alice Leppert, Shelley Cobb, Hannah Hamad, Stacey Abbott, Katheryn Wright, Eric Gould, Ron Wilson, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, Douglas Snauffer, Clinton Bryant, Michael Donovan, Jeffrey Bussolini, Stephanie Graves, Teresa Forde, Dean Defino, Trisha Dunleavy, Nikki Stafford, Dana A. Heller, Stan Beeler, Cynthia Burkhead, Joanne Morreale, Asokan Nirmalarajah, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Bill Yousman, Deborah Jermyn, Lincoln Geraghty, Michele Byers, Zeke Jarvis, Kim Akass, Amanda Potter, Gary R. Edgerton, Lynne Hibberd, Robert Thompson, Jason P. Vest, Amy M. Damico, Bill Brioux, Lynnette Porter, Adam Ochonicky, Joseph S. Walker, Gary Gravely, Brett Mills, Paul Wright, Lorna Jewett
Digital, 491 Pages, Published 2018 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5447-6, ISBN: 0-8156-5447-2

"Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors expl ..."






American firsts
innovations, discoveries, and gadgets born in the U.S.A.
by Stephen J. Spignesi
Unbekannter Einband, 284 Pages, Published 2005 by Barnes & Noble Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7607-6868-6, ISBN: 0-7607-6868-4






"Urgences"
Le guide non officiel
by Stephen Spignesi
Poche, 320 Pages, Published 1998 by Pocket
ISBN-13: 978-2-266-07703-3, ISBN: 2-266-07703-1

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