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Divorce Dirty Tricks is an invaluable handbook for protecting your rights and getting everything you're entitled to when you have your day in court. Divorce Dirty Tricks offers practical advice on the legal pitfalls, loopholes and nasty surprises that can be involved in a marital split. In Divorce Dirty Tricks, the author gets the reader ready for his \"day in court.\" With over 1.2 million divorces in this country each year-and the number keeps climbing dramatically-more readers are looking for advice on how to get out \"alive.\" This book contains a wealth of experience in both the offensive and defensive side of divorce action. The reader will find some clues regarding telltale signs that a divorce is in the works. There is a checklist for divorce planning and dozens of real life divorce civil wars. Divorce Dirty Tricks contains over $2000 worth of advice that will help the reader start off on a level playing field, uncover the pitfalls, and anticipate nasty surprises when splitting up.
From the earliest practical containers to the star handbags of today, this book is a comprehensive gallimaufry of the handbag through the ages.
A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK)) “The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else.” A mesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg’s life collecting hoverflies on a remote island in Sweden. Warm and humorous, self-deprecating and contemplative, and a major best seller in its native country, The Fly Trap is a meditation on the unexpected beauty of small things and an exploration of the history of entomology itself. What drives the obsessive curiosity of collectors to catalog their finds? What is the importance of the hoverfly? As confounded by his unusual vocation as anyone, Sjöberg reflects on a range of ideas—the passage of time, art, lost loves—drawing on sources as disparate as D. H. Lawrence and the fascinating and nearly forgotten naturalist René Edmond Malaise. From the wilderness of Kamchatka to the loneliness of the Swedish isle he calls home, Sjöberg revels in the wonder of the natural world and leaves behind a trail of memorable images and stories.
For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, America has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation. El Norte chronicles the sweeping and dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish to the present - from Ponce de Leon's initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1...
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--