“jim gore”

Wicked Witch Snatchit and devious Mr Grabbit are up to no good But then again, when are they ever not? Their endless string of tricks and mischief-making causes chaos wherever they go, from the town festivities to the beach in summer, and things always seem to turn out for the worse. for them With... More

Wicked Witch Snatchit and devious Mr Grabbit are back - and yes so are their naughty little companions, Hiss and Fang The gruesome twosomes are up to their usual tricks again and they never fail to surprise, with more of their dastardly plans and half-baked schemes. Forever trying to cause mischief... More

If ever there were reason to believe in love at first sight, that reason would be Bettie Page. From the moment the first pin-ups of Bettie appeared, the world fell in love. Even now, a half-century after those first pictures were published, men desire her, women emulate her and more and more people ... More

Finally, a second book on glamour art by the author/artist of Bettie Page: Queen of Hearts. Now, for the first time, Jim Silke shares his hilarious first-person account of life as a "pinup" artist - from the comic-strip vixens that influenced his youth, to his real-life adventures photographing Holl... More

Over the last fifty years, the city of Dubai has leapfrogged from almost nothing to become a Las Vegas on steroids, a vision of the future: Dubai: The World's Fastest City is the first book to tell its story. In the 1950s, with a population of a few thousand souls who scraped a living in a wate... More

In Inventing a Nation, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidals splendid and percipient prose, in ways we have not up to now--their opinions... More

The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and... More