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  • The Future Was Here

    The Commodore Amiga

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM). The game machines became ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Sistine Chapel (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 7 - Wonders of the World
    This is a book about the Sistine Chapel, but also a book about so much more. Although it includes the story of how the great artist Michelangelo came to paint the chapel's ceiling and altar wall, that is only a part of its agenda. And although there are pictures here, this is not a coffee-table book either. This book is rather predicated on the principle that all human-made wonders, no matter how ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Odyssey of Magellan (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 7 - Wonders of the World
    On September 20, 1519, five proud ships crewed by 239 sailors set off to sea from the little Spanish town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda. On September 6, 1522, a single ship returned, battered and scarcely seaworthy, crewed by just eighteen exhausted, emaciated men. Between these two events there occurred the most epic voyage of exploration in human history, an adventure which changed our view of ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Pyramids of Giza (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 1 - Wonders of the World
    The Pyramids of Giza have been fascinating humanity for more than 4500 years. Who built them? How? And why? And why have so many people been prompted to believe so many weird things about them? Join in one of the greatest intellectual adventures in history alongside the people who rediscovered the pyramids in the Middle Ages, then plumbed their depths and learned at least some of their secrets ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 4 - Wonders of the World
    Whether you go to work every day in a laboratory or go to church every day to pray -- or do both -- you are in some sense an heir to the legacy of ancient Alexandria. Alexander the Great founded his namesake city in Egypt in 331 BC, intending for it to be the crown jewel of his burgeoning empire. Alas, only his mummified corpse returned to Alexandria after that date, but it nevertheless fulfilled ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Great Wall of China (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 6 - Wonders of the World
    China is much in the news these days, but it remains oddly opaque to most foreigners, at least partly by design. This book, the longest and most ambitious yet in the Wonders of the World series, is an attempt to remedy that. Taking as its central metaphor the legendary Great Wall of China, it explores the country's almost incomprehensibly long history, from Peking Man to COVID-19, in the exciting, ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 3 - Wonders of the World
    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the most alluring of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They are also the most mysterious of them all, in every sense of the word. The questions of when they were built, who built them, where they stood, what form they took, and even whether they ever really existed at all have been vexing historians and archaeologists for centuries. This book, a shorter ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Oracle of Delphi (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 2 - Wonders of the World
    For hundreds of years, a woman dictated the fates of men, cities, and empires from the Greek town known as Delphi. This oracle of Delphi listened quietly to the suppliants who came to her from all over the ancient world with their queries, then retired to her inner sanctum to commune with the god Apollo, whose sacred vapors filled that space. And then she emerged again to shape the course of ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Colossus of Rhodes (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 5 - Wonders of the World
    The Colossus of Rhodes toppled to the ground more than 2300 years ago, after standing upright and intact for just 56 years. And yet it has been inspiring our idle summer dreams ever since. This book, a shorter entry in the Wonders of the World series, separates the mythical from the likely historical reality of this monumental statue of the sun god Helios which once watched over the main harbor on ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Late-Night Talkers: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, The Cast of SNL, Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, David Letterman, Joan Rivers, Garry Shandling, Jay Leno, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson ...
    Who needs sleep anyway? The men (and woman) who established a genre of television—comedy after dark—are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From pioneers Dick Cavett and Tom Snyder to the original meta-hosts David Letterman and Garry Shandling to contemporary keepers of the late-night flame Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel, these ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Essentials: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy ...
    In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Daviss ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Coupling: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Imelda Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos, Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Trey Parker, Matt Stone ...
    The couples who have loved the hardest, longest and most publicly over the last 50 years are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the tempestuous Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold to the eternally devoted John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the comically intertwined Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, these duos are the best evidence yet that two ... Read more

    $4.99 USD