GENERAL REFERENCE
Miscellaneous non-fiction.
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius And Obsession In The World Of Competitive SCRABBLE Players
$16.00Scrabble may be truly called America's game. Learn More -
Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
$17.95Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? Learn More -
Weaver on Strategy: The Classic Work on the Art of Managing a Baseball Team
$17.95During his career as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver was called “baseball’s resident genius.” Learn More -
The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins
$16.95To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition. Learn More -
The Hidden Mathematics of Sport
$15.95How to beat the odds, how to always win at tennis, and how to take a penalty and score every time—all using the power of mathematics. Learn More -
The Compleat Motherfucker: A History of the Mother of All Dirty Words
$13.00'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. Learn More -
The Call Of The Weird
$15.95Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner. Learn More -
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime
$15.00In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. Learn More -
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
$14.95What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bachelors who filled up matching luxury apartments with countless pieces of fine art, not even leaving themselves room to sleep? Learn More
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