The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

• Author: Patrick Dawson
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (May 3, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 161212531X
• ISBN-13: 978-1612125312

Does the beer buyer at the liquor store ask your advice? Do you understand the difference between a turbid and a single infusion mash? Do you travel with a tulip glass handy? Have you even eaten ramen just to afford a vintage Cantillon gueuze? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may be a Beer Geek and in need of this hilarious guide. Patrick Dawson provides everything you need to fully live a life ruled by beer, from the Ten Beer Geek Commandments and the Beer Geek Hall of Fame to guidance on what to drink, how and where to drink it, how to gracefully correct an uninformed bartender, where to buy “geek goods,” how to flawlessly execute a beer tasting, how to plan the ultimate beer-centric vacation, and much more. Includes quizzes to help you determine your level of geekery, as well as witty illustrations by Greg Kletsel.

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

• Author: Neil Gaiman
• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (31 May 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062262262
• ISBN-13: 978-0062262264

An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from the Cheap Seats brings together for the first time ever more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts the author’s experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Insightful, incisive, witty, and wise, The View from the Cheap Seats explores the issues and subjects that matter most to Neil Gaiman—offering a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed, beloved, and influential artists of our time.

Positive Thinking Made Easy:... (Michael Andrews)

• Author: Michael Andrews
• Paperback: 48 pages 
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (January 23, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1523644966
• ISBN-13: 978-1523644964

In primitive times a person’s existence was dependent entirely on one’s ability to survive in the face of indeterminate odds. Ironically, those ‘laws of the jungle’ exist even today on modern human society – and while we may not be dealing with life and death situations around every corner we are dealing with sufficiently life altering critical ‘win or lose’ based constructs. The only problem with this thought process however is that when you are living a life where you think in terms of ‘win or lose’ what you are actually doing is turning your usually colorful life and turning it into a black and white Audrey Hepburn movie. You miss out on all the nuances of living life and get sucked into a repetitive thought pattern where all you can think of is what you missed out on. In short, you forget to see the positives in life because you are so fixated on the negatives. Well – enough is enough. You picked this book for a reason. You know what is wrong with your life right now, or at least you suspect it, and that means you understand that the first change you need to bring to your life is in the way you are seeing things – your pessimistic outlook on life and your negative nature are all about to take a hike to Neverland, while we are going to finally find a way to take you back to all the positivity you forgot you ever had. We’ll start by first teaching you how and why your mind thinks and works the way it does, and even teach you how to control or condition it to work a certain way – this is process, known as conditioning is how we are going to then teach you to boost your mental evolution. Remember, the mind is the single most powerful part of the human body – it is what decides what you as a person can and can’t do, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Is Your Job Making You Fat?: How to Lose Weight and Control Your Waist at Work

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• Author: Ken Lloyd; Stacy Laura Lloyd
• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition (18 February 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1634505646
• ISBN-13: 978-1634505642

The only thing that should be fat on your job is your paycheck. There is a “huge” worldwide obesity problem. While fads and quick-fix diets abound, they fail to address an important question in weight gain today: is your job making you fat? The answer is “Yes.” This bold assertion is based on a great deal of global research that continues to confirm a compelling relationship between working and weight gain. The powerful link between the workplace and the waistline is due to numerous factors, including the sedentary nature of today’s jobs, the onslaught of unhealthy foods that are constantly foisted upon employees, higher levels of job stress, longer and more demanding work hours, peer pressure, new and unconventional jobs, and even more. Put it all together and you have the perfect storm for weight gain. Is Your Job Making You Fat? not only identifies and analyzes all of the central sources of weight gain associated with work, but also provides highly effective steps to control this ever-expanding problem and help you lose weight. Authors Ken Lloyd and Stacey Laura Lloyd offer a new approach where you apply your businesslike mindset and skill-set to weight management. After all, at work, you have a plan that includes objectives, benchmark dates, strategies, priorities, deadlines, and measurable results. This book shows you how to use this same methodology to take charge of your weight.

Long Term Survival Guide... - Daniel Wilkinson

• Author: Daniel Wilkinson
• Print Length: 59 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publication Date: May 15, 2016
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
• Language: English
• ASIN: B01FQOHOE4

You may need to survive on your own after a disaster. This means having your own food, water, and other emergency survival supplies in an emergency kit in sufficient quantity to last for an unknown length of time. This could be only for a few hours, days, or it could be weeks, a month or longer...only the disaster emergency situation and your preparation in advance will dictate how long you will survive before outside help arrives if ever. Local officials, emergency responders or relief workers may be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone immediately and YOU will be on your own until they arrive. Remember these words... 
"on your own". You can not depend on being rescued or helped when others are "first". The emergency responders may be totally swamped or they may not know where you are or that you need help! Your wait may be a very long time! Are you prepared to save your life and those you love? 

The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

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• Author:D. Watkins
• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 3, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1455588636
• ISBN-13: 978-1455588633

New York Times Editors' Choice

Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, THE COOK UP is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of redemption.

The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs, decadence, and violence that had surrounded him since birth. But when his brother Devin is shot-only days after D. receives notice that he's been accepted into Georgetown University-the plans for his life are exploded, and he takes up the mantel of his brother's crack empire. D. succeeds in cultivating the family business, but when he meets a woman unlike any he's known before, his priorities are once more put into question. Equally terrifying and hilarious, inspiring and heartbreaking, D.'s story offers a rare glimpse into the mentality of a person who has escaped many hells.

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 1st Edition

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• Author: Mary Roach
• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (June 7, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393245446
• ISBN-13: 978-0393245448

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.

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Sex Object by Jessica Valenti

• Author: Jessica valenti
• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Dey Street Books (June 7, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062435086
• ISBN-13: 978-0062435088

“Deeply moving, honest, and unflinching, Valenti’s personal story highlights universal truths about being a woman, and makes the case for why feminism today is an unstoppable force.” - Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation,” Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a memoir that Publishers Weekly calls “bold and unflinching,” Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes on women’s lives, from the everyday to the existential. From subway gropings and imposter syndrome to sexual awakenings and motherhood, Sex Object reveals the painful, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City.

In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, Sex Object is a profoundly moving tour de force that is bound to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work, and enthrall those who are just finding it.