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Product Description: This impolite, aromatic, and incredibly erudite flatulence compendium will astound you with:• The recent discovery of the world’s oldest joke, a proverb from the Old Babylonian period, that turned out to be—that’s right, folks—a fart joke...read more
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9781580081337 | 1 edition (Ten Speed Pr, May 4, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: This impolite, aromatic, and incredibly erudite flatulence compendium will astound you with:• The recent discovery of the world’s oldest joke, a proverb from the Old Babylonian period, that turned out to be—that’s right, folks—a fart joke.

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Product Description: "I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!" shouted Samuel Jackson in the movie Snakes on a Plane. It was the use of the famous expletive that brought on huge promotional buzz. The best-selling book On Bullshit won its audience from its shockingly unapologetic treatment of its title rather than its fairly pedestrian academic inquiry...read more
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9781932595413 | Feral House, April 1, 2009, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

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Product Description: Learning good map design techniques for BizTalk Server will make a huge difference to the processing speed of your implementation, as well as to the scalability and maintainability of your code. Regardless of your experience, expert authors Jim Dawson and John Wainwright ensure you make the right choices to reap the rewards and avoid the potential penalties of poor design...read more
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9781430218579 | Apress, March 15, 2009, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Learning good map design techniques for BizTalk Server will make a huge difference to the processing speed of your implementation, as well as to the scalability and maintainability of your code.

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Product Description: From 1901 to 1969, Angels Flight was America's most famous incline railway, familiar from its many appearances on postcards and in pulp fiction and film noir. It inspired the titles of five novels, including a 1999 best seller, and three films...read more
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9780738558127 | Arcadia Pub, August 6, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: From 1901 to 1969, Angels Flight was America's most famous incline railway, familiar from its many appearances on postcards and in pulp fiction and film noir.

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Product Description: Did you know that James Joyce liked to smell his wife'¬?s farts? That some fish communicate by expelling gas? Or that the Pentagon is developing weapons of mass olfactory destruction (WMOD)? That'¬?s just a whiff of what's in store in this breathtaking follow-up to the best-selling fart history, WHO CUT THE CHEESE?In BLAME IT ON THE DOG, eminent fartologist Jim Dawson sniffs out the latest and greatest new items of the past century, from flatulent robot dogs and fart fetishists to poot-proof underwear and anti-stink pills...read more
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9781580087513 | Ten Speed Pr, July 15, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Did you know that James Joyce liked to smell his wife'¬?

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The author of What Was the First Rock 'n' Roll Record? chronicles the spectacular chart-topping success of Bill Haley's hit record 'Rock Around the Clock,' focusing particular attention on the cultural setting that surrounded the birth of rock music in 1955. Original.
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9780879308292 | Backbeat Books, June 30, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author of What Was the First Rock 'n' Roll Record?

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Product Description: In the 1950s and '60s, those shiny 45-rpm records with the big hole in the middle were the primary delivery system for popular American music, especially rock 'n' roll. Cheap to manufacture and available to even fly-by-night record operations, the "donut disc" changed the way popular music was written, recorded, promoted and marketed, and it broke - at least for a time - the iron-fisted dominance of the major record corporations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780879307578 | Backbeat Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the 1950s and '60s, those shiny 45-rpm records with the big hole in the middle were the primary delivery system for popular American music, especially rock 'n' roll.

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Product Description: ParodyWho Cut the Cheese? is a parable (Latin for "terrible parody") in which four characters must find a way through a maze in their hunt for "Cheese." But please keep in mind that this cheese is actually symbolic of the things that we all want out of life: success and self-confidence, a nice house, a loving marital relationship, perfect children, a loyal dog, indoor plumbing, good Chinese food, several million tax-free dollars, and red-hot sex with multiple partners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780609608913, titled "Who Cut the Cheese?: An A-Mazing Parody About Change and How We Can Get Our Hands on Yours" | 1 edition (Crown Pub, August 1, 2000), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offers a parody of life comparing four characters to rats in a maze who must find their way to the cheese, a metaphor for success and the things people want out of life.

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9780609809402 | Crown Pub, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: ParodyWho Cut the Cheese?

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An introduction to the career of park naturalist, including discussion of educational requirements, duties, workplace, salary, employment outlook, and possible future positions.
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9780736803328 | Capstone Pr Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.26 | About this edition: An introduction to the career of park naturalist, including discussion of educational requirements, duties, workplace, salary, employment outlook, and possible future positions.

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A humorous look at the influence of flatulence in religion, science, music, literature, television, film, and radio
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9781580080118 | Ten Speed Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A humorous look at the influence of flatulence in religion, science, music, literature, television, film, and radio

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Product Description: At last, the real story of rock 'n' roll pioneer Buddy Holly is told by those who knew him best: his family, the musicians he played with, the fans who loved him, and the stars who were inspired by his music, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780936433202 | Big Nickel Pubns, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: At last, the real story of rock 'n' roll pioneer Buddy Holly is told by those who knew him best: his family, the musicians he played with, the fans who loved him, and the stars who were inspired by his music, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan.

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9780571198528 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1995, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: In the days before rock 'n' roll was invented, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely was already throwing musical tantrums on stage, dirtying his bright green, banana yellow, or purple suits by flopping on the floor, glowing under fluorescent lights, and driving white, black and Chicano teenagers into such delirium with his piercing 45-minute solos that he was barred from playing at many venues and investigated by a psychiatric board to see if his act was having a detrimental effect on young audiences...read more
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9780936433172 | Big Nickel Pubns, March 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the days before rock 'n' roll was invented, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely was already throwing musical tantrums on stage, dirtying his bright green, banana yellow, or purple suits by flopping on the floor, glowing under fluorescent lights, and driving white, black and Chicano teenagers into such delirium with his piercing 45-minute solos that he was barred from playing at many venues and investigated by a psychiatric board to see if his act was having a detrimental effect on young audiences.

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Product Description: Using the essentially rhetorical (some might say theological) question: "What was the first rock 'n' roll record?" as its starting point, this unique book nominates 50 records for the honor, beginning with an early live recording, "Blues, Part 2" (1944) and ending with Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (1956)...read more
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9780571129393 | Faber & Faber, November 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Using the essentially rhetorical (some might say theological) question: "What was the first rock 'n' roll record?

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9780870673795 | Holloway House Pub Co, June 1, 1991, cover price $3.95

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Reveals the complex system of impulses that govern the body's daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles, explaining how to use the system of chronobiology to improve work, exercise, diet, sleep, and health
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9780892563159 | Rawson Assoc, January 1, 1988, cover price $18.95

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9780345359681 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Reveals the complex system of impulses that govern the body's daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles, explaining how to use the system of chronobiology to improve work, exercise, diet, sleep, and health

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