Mingo: 28 books

FACE IT. WE CAN GO ANYTIME. BUT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS! Death becomes you, and it's just another fact of life explored in Cause of Death, a revealing abundance of startling data, false perceptions, bizarre fallacies, and some totally unexpected statistics about how, why, when, and where...

From devastating remarks made by teachers ("Addled, backward dunce" said about young Thomas Edison) to the rich and famous on campus (William Randolph Hearst kept a pet alligator at Harvard), this is a spirited and humorous collection of facts about teachers and students.

Here you sit, brokenhearted ...with nothing to read but the writing on the wallpaper? Don't get flushed with despair! W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion is a book that's good for your heart – the more you read, the better you'll feel. Designed to make a porcelain throne into a seat...

MARSH RIVERS WAS LIKE ANY OTHER YOUNG ATTORNEY, EXCEPT THE DRIVE THAT ALLOWED HIM TO GRADUATE AT THE TOP OF HIS LAW CLASS ALSO PUT HIM IN A SITUATIONS THAT COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. HE WAS ABLE TO HAVE AN ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING EXCEPT ONE THING. THE LOVE OF HIS MANAGER. MARSH FINDS OUT THAT LOVE CAN CONQUER...

EXT. FULLAJAH, IRAG – MORNING Joe Winn’s Platoon is being is overrun by enemy soldiers. He was in charge of the search and destroy mission. Corporal Charles holder was his second in command. The Platoon’s Progress was halted by two snipers. Corporal Holder eliminated the threat by using two of...

Every little fact cat lovers could want to know about the mysterious creatures that live in their homes is contained in this collection. For example, cats use at least a hundred different sounds to communicate and can pronounce thirteen vowel sounds and seven or eight consonant sounds; housecats typically blink twice a minute; and in ancient Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death!

Is it true that King Louis XIV never bathed? Was Doc Holliday really a doctor? Who were the twelve knights of King Arthur's Round Table? And what do Scots traditionally wear under their kilts? You'll get the answers to these fascinating questions and many, many more in the wildly entertaining, un-put-down-able...

Number 2 in the W.C. Privy series, this bathroom companion is chock full of jokes, stories, historical factoids, quizzes, trivia, and pop culture fun. An ecletic reading array, the book includes: *Rules and Histories of Laughably Obscure Sports *The Night They Invented Champagne--the Accidental...

What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective? More than one person has seen their loved one become consumed with the details of the quality of wood used in clubs, or the type of cleats on their shoes. What is it about the game of golf that can cause...

Llega la segunda entrega de la serie «Los peligros de enamorarse de un libertino» con la historia de Helailla y Keylan. Unas inocentes partidas de ajedrez... que se volverán muy indecentes. -Si yo gano obtendré un beso. -¿Y qué gano yo si pierde? -¿Y si le digo que...

The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical...

There is a world that runs parallel to our own; a world in which legends are created…When a New York novelist finds the dusty journal of a lost American legend, he can scarcely believe what he is reading. The story tells of a man having been rescued and raised by a Cherokee shaman named Three Crows,...

 In the book, The Alley, you'll find yourself walking in the footsteps of a troubled young man, living a life of uncertainty since his father left him and his mother when he was ten years old. Now at the age of fifteen, while playing a game with his friends, discovers clues to the answers...

This volume opens the world of free probability to a wide variety of readers. From its roots in the theory of operator algebras, free probability has intertwined with non-crossing partitions, random matrices, applications in wireless communications, representation theory of large groups, quantum groups,...