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This exhilarating account skips the unforgettable athletic achievements, heroic performers, and exhilarating moments that remind fans of everything they love about sports and honest competition and gives the real skinny on football's unknown history. Author Robert Schnakenberg takes readers through a decidedly snarky trip through the game's rich history of buffoonery, thuggery, fashion missteps, acting careers gone awry, barrel-wearing superfans, touchdown dances, overzealous mascots, needlepoint-loving defensive tackles, unwatchable football-themed movies, and hundreds of other unbelievable-but-true aspects of America's most popular spectator sport.

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This is a completely revised and updated edition of the 1998 book "The Encyclopedia Shatnerica", an irreverent A-to-Z encyclopedia covering all aspects of the life and career of actor William Shatner. Ten years since the publication of the original edition, William Shatner's mainstream popularity and cult status have skyrocketed. With two Emmys for his work on The Practice and Boston Legal, he's zoomed back onto (or close to) the A list. His campy Priceline commercials, spoken-word 'rock' albums, and increased exposure via such channels as TV Land and Comedy Central have only enhanced his hipster cachet as America's favourite bewigged, overacting pop-culture icon.

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In 2012 Running Press published Crazy Sh*t Presidents Said, which went on to gross 30,000 copies. Then in 2016 we had one of the most contentious U.S. elections to date, making this the perfect time for a revised edition.American Presidents have said a lot of crazy, absurd, offensive, and regrettable things, and in that torrent of official and unofficial remarks, some real head-scratchers have slipped out. This revised and updated edition includes more than 1,000 of the best and worst quotations from all 45 POTUS, now with quotes from President Trump, an updated introduction and new Trump illustrations.

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The New York Times Best Seller. Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter—and all fun—this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary “Murray stories,” and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer. He’s played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James “Bill” Murray, America’s greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect of his extraordinary life and career. He’s the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents, and he once agreed to voice the lead in Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen Brothers film. He’s famous for crashing house parties all over New York City—and if he keeps photobombing random strangers, he might just break the Internet.

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Dozens of books exist about sexy drinks: the Cosmo, Sex on the Beach, Buttery Nipple. But what about the old man drink? The Old Fashioned. The Sidecar. The Gibson. What about them? It's time to pay tribute to those timeless go-to drinks that the old man at the bar always orders. They're back in style as a whole new generation discovers classic cocktails that their dads, uncles, and grandfathers enjoyed back in their heyday. With recipes for everything from Highballs to Arnie Palmers, accompanied by quotes from old men about life, "Old Man Drinks" is a collection of timeless mixers and pearls of wisdom that men and women of all ages will appreciate.

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