No agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. This little volume has it all: Entertainment, humor, education, trivia, science, history, pop culture...and more! And it's even divided by length-you can spend a minute with the Quickies, relax with Normal-Length articles, or really get comfortable with Long Items.With Uncle John's Bathroom Reader strategically placed in your home, you'll settle in happily and read about:-The origin of common words and phrases-The 7 wonders of the ancient world-The origin of Ronald -Elvis's letter to Richard Nixon-The curse of King Tut-World-class winners & losers-Famous pirates-And a host of great bathroom topics

    125 woodcuts.

    Laid out like a zine, with a half dozen short blurbs and bizarre illustrations on each page, the Catalog covers everything from Abbot and Costello to yo-yos, and does so with the right mix of reverence and amusement. If you're looking for a GI Joe video, an old-fashioned wall-mounted soda pop bottle opener, an explanation of 3-D movie technology, or an Ed Norton doll, you must have this tacky volume.

    Juergensmeyer addresses the perplexing relationship between modernity and religious faith and examines it from historical, sociological, and phenomenological points of view.

    

    This book is the first in a series of titles that included "Air Force Blunders" and "More Military Blunders" published fall 2000. Both entertaining and informative, here is a look at a history that has been marked as much by incompetence as by gallantry and glory.From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgments and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy. Sometimes they turned into farce. Sometimes they have ended in triumph, despite all odds.In his collections, Geoffrey Regan not only recounts the staggering stories but also examines the kinds of problems that can lead to disaster-from the Prussian general who believed he was pregnant with an elephant to the British cruiser HMS Trinidad that torpedoed itself in the Arctic in 1942.