SMALL IRONIES: Max Draper is the younger child in a typical American family with a three-generation family business: prostitution. As a teenager he falls in love with a friend, a girl named Freddy. In New York, London and elsewhere life takes him through many changes, including sexual orientation. He ends up in a place never thought of, but very right for his history and background. In 52 chapters the book covers 17 years in his life.

SMALL IRONIES: Max Draper is the younger child in a typical American family with a three-generation family business: prostitution. As a teenager he falls in love with a friend, a girl named Freddy. In New York, London and elsewhere life takes him through many changes, including sexual orientation. He ends up in a place never thought of, but very right for his history and background. In 52 chapters the book covers 17 years in his life.

Billy and Feyhe are cousins, both creative artists, whose late friendship blossoms into a caregiver relationship when her manic-depression overwhelms her. How they affect each others lives and careers is at the center of the story, but her illness, and his fear of also having it, influences his choices in life and art. **Now a Silver Medal winner in the 2020 IPPY Awards in the US Northeast Region.

Max Draper is the younger child in an ordinary American family growing up in New York City. His life is as straightforward as it can be and his family as seemingly normal as possible. There is one thing, though. His family business, for generations, has been prostitution. Raised in an environment that encourages honesty he falls in love with a childhood friend, a girl named Freddy. That love, and all that it brings with it, masks his true nature, his homosexuality, and living that dichotom...

Phil Proctor, co-founder of the legendary, surrealist comedy group, the thrice Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, in cahoots with Peter Bergman, Phil Austin and David Ossman, helped to create the most revolutionary comedy recordings ever made. Over a 50-year career, starting in the ‘60s and ending with them all in their 70s, they predicted reality TV, hackers, computer viruses, virtual reality, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and much more still to come. But during a breather in the Fir...

Let Gilligan's Island teach you about situational ethics.Learn about epistemology from The Brady Bunch.Explore Aristotle's Poetics by watching 24.Television has grappled with a wide range of philosophical conundrums. According to the networks, it's the ultimate source of all knowledge in the universe! So why not look to the small screen for answers to all of humanity's dilemmas?There's not a single issue discussed by the gre...

MR PUNCH PRESENTS Casablanca, perhaps the best loved and most watched of all Hollywood movies. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical owner of Rick’s Café Americain helps his former lover Ilse Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her underground leader husband escape from the Nazis in this powerful love story, featuring the classic song As Time Goes By. The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade. In this compelli...

Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms that control the bioavailability of both organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments.Discusses the complex issues that surround many regulatory issuesEmphasizes the need to identify and control that portion of the total concentration that is biologically available and can cause adverse effects, i.e., "active"Examines the influence ...

The Humphrey Bogart Collection is a unique compilation of 3 Oscar winning films adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by Humphrey Bogart and many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcastTHE AFRICAN QUEEN with Humphrey Bogart & Greer GarsonSet in 1915, Rose Sayer, the prim missionary joins Charlie Allnut, the gin drinking river trader as they ...

Cement Dust draws a stark picture of the confluence of creativity and confusion as a sculptor and her younger cousin deal with her growing manic-depression syndrome. Feyhe Baumann has no idea of her illness but her cousin's son, Billy Duncan becomes the object of her obsessive nature and he also begins to develop this problem.

Earth's Core: Geophysics of a Planet's Deepest Interior　provides a　multidisciplinary approach to　Earth's core, including　seismology, mineral physics, geomagnetism, and geodynamics.　The book　examines　current　observations, experiments,　and　theories;　identifies outstanding research questions;　and　suggests future directions for study.　 With topics ranging from the structure of the core-mantle boundary region, to the chemical and physical properties of the core, the workings of the　geodynamo, i...

A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and placeCharlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay collection studies Gilman’s writings and the manner in whi...