Santa Monica Press: 50 books
The Third Tower Up from the Road
A Compilation of Columns from McSweeney's Internet Tendency'sKevin Dolgin Tells You about Places You Should Go
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Third Tower Up from the Road is a humorous and entertaining collection of travel essays made up of old favorites as well as new commentaries from Kevin Dolgin’s popular McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column, Kevin Dolgin Tells You About Places You Should Go. The work celebrates the distinctive...
Mark Spitz
The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Mark Spitz is arguably the most famous and successful Olympic athlete of all time because of his legendary performances at the 1972 Olympics, where he won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records. His amazing life story is told for the first time in the authorized biography Mark Spitz:...
I Love You a Thousand Ways
The Lefty Frizzell Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
I Love You a Thousand Ways is the story of one of the most loved, respected, and imitated singer/songwriters in the history of country music, a man whose songs touched the lives of millions of people. Lefty Frizzell’s relaxed style of singing proved to be a huge influence on a wide variety of country...
Stan Levey
Jazz Heavyweight
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Stan Levey is widely considered to be one of the most influential drummers in the history of modern jazz. During his extraordinary career, the self-taught Levey played alongside a who’s who of twentieth century jazz artists: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins,...
We Were Going to Change the World
Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The punk rock scene of the 1970s and ’80s in Southern California is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant, creative periods in all of rock and roll history. And while many books have covered the artists who contributed to the music of that era, none have exclusively focused on the vitality...
The Party of Your Life
Get the Funeral You Want by Planning It Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The Party of Your Life is a lively, irreverent guide to putting the F-U-N back in funeral. This upbeat book will appeal to adults of all ages who want a send-off that reflects their interests, achievements, and taste.
The Party of Your Life will help readers explore the full range of creative,...
Calculated Risk
The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle - Aviation Pioneer and World War II Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Famous for leading the Tokyo Raid, America's first strike against Japan in World War II, Jimmy Doolittle led a remarkable life as an American pilot. This firsthand account by his granddaughter reveals an extraordinary individual-a scientist with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIT, an...
Destination: Cocktails
The Traveler's Guide to Superior Libations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Featuring hundreds of cocktail bars in dozens of cities across the United States and around the world, Destination: Cocktails is the traveler’s guide to the craft cocktail movement. From New York to Los Angeles and London to Tokyo, this book is the ultimate reference to a network of fantastic bars...
Rise and Shine
The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.”So begins...
The 99th Monkey
A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Suffused with a unique brand of irreverent humor, this account recalls the autobiographical explorations of the most significant alternative communities, ashrams, gurus, shamans, and consciousness-raising seminars of the past 40 years. Serving as a human guinea pig for many of the most popular cutting-edge...
The Steamer
Bud Furillo and the Golden Age of L.A. Sports
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
For nearly sixty years, Bud Furillo wrote and talked about sports in Southern California. For fifteen of those years, he authored a popular column for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner called The Steam Room, which gave him the nickname that lasted him for the rest of his life: the Steamer.”As a reporter,...
by Chris Epting
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, the updated and expanded third edition of Chris Epting’s Roadside Baseball chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on...
by Linda Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The completely revised 3rd edition of Free Stuff & Good Deals for Folks over 50 features goods and services that are either absolutely free or are such a fantastic deal, they won’t want to pass them up! And best of all, author and professional bargain hunter Linda Bowman shows them how to obtain their...
Educating the Net Generation
How to Engage Students in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century addresses the national problem of escalating high-school dropout rates and student disengagement, and offers solutions as to how to best involve students of the millennial generation. The book examines the unique characteristics...