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As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glittering skyscrapers. The advent of artificial lighting revolutionized the urban night, creating not only new forms of life and leisure, but also new ways of perceiving the nocturnal experience. New York Nocturne is the first book to examine how the art of the gaslit and electrified city evolved, and how representations of nighttime New York expanded the boundaries of modern painting, literature, and photography. Exploring the myriad images of Manhattan after dark, New York Nocturne shows how writers and artists took on the city's nocturnal blaze and transformed the scintillating landscape into an icon of modernity.

The book traces key metaphors of the nighttime city: a seductive Babylon in the mid-1850s, a misty fairyland colonized by an empire of light in the early twentieth century, and a skyscraper-studded land of desire that became a stage for the voyeurism and violence of the 1940s and 1950s. The epilogue suggests how these themes have continued to shape our vision of nighttime New York ever since. Abundantly illustrated, New York Nocturne includes original readings of works by Whitman, Poe, Whistler, Riis, Stieglitz, Abbott, O'Keeffe, Stella, Hopper, Weegee, Ellison, Jacquette, and many others. Collectively, they tell a fascinating story about the relationship between night, art, and modern urban life.

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Santa goes 3-D! The classic Christmas poem by Clement C. Moore is illustrated for the first time in colorful and fascinating 3-D stereogram art. 3-D computer artist John Olsen has created whmsical 3-D wonder-workings for this heart-warming poem. Covered in charming symbols of the season, this beautiful artwork brings the Christmas spirit to life with sixteen new mesmerizing 3-D images! Includes 3-D viewing instructions and 2-D solutions. A must have for the serious 3-D collector..
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"If you have ever turned on the TV after the 11 o'clock news and laughed, you owe Steve Allen a debt of gratitude " That's how "Entertainment Weekly" described Steve Allen's enormous contribution to American popular culture in a tribute to the legendary entertainer after his death on October 30, 2000. Steve Allen created the "Tonight" show - America's longest running entertainment show and most successful late-night TV show. In so doing he led the way for other American icons: Johnny Carson, Jack Paar, David Letterman, and Jay Leno. The formula we all now take for granted did not exist before Allen: the desk, the opening monologue, breezy chats with celebrities, wacky stunts, comedy sketches, cameras roaming down the hall and outside the theatre, off-the-cuff interviews with passers-by, and ad-lib banter with the studio audience. It's all great fun and it's all due to the incredibly witty, incurably silly, musically gifted, and ever-likeable Steve Allen. Based on exclusive interviews, Ben Alba has produced this wonderful history of the first "Tonight" show, complete with terrific photos from the show and revealing insights from over 30 entertainment legends who knew and worked with Steve Allen - including Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, Louis Nye, Tom Poston, Bill Dana, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Andy Williams, Tim Conway, the Smothers Brothers, Diahann Carroll, Eartha Kitt, Bill Dana, and Doc Severinsen. In addition, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Bill Maher, Bob Costas, and other TV veterans reflect on Allen's contributions. Starting with Allen's early career in radio, Alba shows how the young radio talent developed many of the elements that would soon light up late-night television. He then highlights Allen's many innovations that made the "Tonight" show so appealing and enduring: the single-guest and single theme shows, road shows and live segments from across the country, Broadway shows visiting "Tonight", creating a forum for jazz artistry and a groundbreaking showcase for African-American talent, musical tributes, and the use of the studio audience as a comedy goldmine. Alba has created an invaluable, entertaining, and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the birth of an American television institution and its brilliant inventor, whose influence continues to make America stay awake and laugh - night after night..
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Fight the Freshman Fifteen, Sleepless Nights, and Other Pitfalls of College Life

Welcome to college life. It’s full of possibilities—and pitfalls Cafeteria food is awful, but there sure is a lot of it. And you can eat as much (or more) of anything—and everything—as you want. And in a single year of study, you can grow a gut that will haunt you for the rest of your life. No one in the dorm is going to tell you when to go to bed, and you can wear each all-night cram session like a badge of honor. But on two hours of sleep a night, the circles under your eyes will make you look like a raccoon before midterms—which you’ll then probably fail. And exercise—what’s that? Say hello to thunder thighs and saggy bat-wing arms.

Sound awful? Good. It’s supposed to. But take heart: With the simple advice you’ll find in this book, you can eat right and get the sleep and exercise you need to excel academically and creatively. You’ll get the straight story on how to avoid the freshman fifteen, and learn how to make good choices in the cafeteria and make smart snacks on those few useless appliances they allow you to keep in your room. You’ll get tips on fitting regular exercise into a busy class schedule and getting enough sleep without being the only one who never—NEVER—makes it to the latest of the late-night parties.

· Eat smart to fight the freshman fifteen, food allergies, and fatigue · Prepare smart snacks right in your dorm room—without burning the place down! · Get enough sleep without missing out on too much late night fun · Build the body of your dreams with smart exercise tips · Make the grade without succumbing to stress

"The Smart Student’s Guide to Healthy Dorm Living is a must for any parent sending their student off to college. The book is packed with practical tips for healthy eating. It helps answer the questions I hear from college students every day. This book is the answer to helping teens stay healthy and fit as they transcend the college years into adulthood. Hats off to M.J. and Fred Smith for giving students and easy-to-read survival guide to healthy eating at college." —Ann Blocker, RD, LD, CDE, director of nutrition at Veterans Memorial Hospital and nutrition consultant to Luther College, in Decorah, IA

"A great book, so practical and useful—fantastic!" —Jane Hasek, MSN, Ed.D., chancellor emerita and distinguished professor at Allen College in Waterloo, IA.
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This collection of Late Night Discussions originally appeared as a monthly column in Industry Week magazine .
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It is no coincidence that presidential candidates have been making it a point to add the late-night comedy circuit to the campaign trail in recent years. In 2004, when John Kerry decided it was time to do his first national television interview, he did not choose CBS' "60 Minutes", ABC's "Nightline", or "NBC Nightly News". Kerry picked Comedy Central's "The Daily Show". When George W. Bush was lagging in the polls, his appearance on the "David Letterman Show" gave him a measurable boost. Candidates for the 2008 presidential election began their late-night bookings almost as soon as they launched their campaigns.How can this be? The reason is that polls have been consistently finding that a significant number of Americans - and an even larger proportion of those under the age of thirty - get at least some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. While this trend toward what some have called "infotainment" seems to herald the descent of our national discourse - the triumph of entertainment over substance - the reality, according to Russell L. Peterson, is more complex. He explains that this programming is more than a mere replacement for traditional news outlets; it plays its own role in shaping public perception of government and the political process.From Johnny Carson to Jon Stewart, from Chevy Chase's spoofing of President Ford on "Saturday Night Live" to Stephen Colbert's roasting of President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Strange Bedfellows explores what Americans have found so funny about our political institutions and the people who inhabit them, and asks what this says about the health of our democracy. Comparing the mainstream network hosts - Jay, Dave, Conan, and Johnny before them - who have always strived to be "equal opportunity offenders" to the newer, edgier crop of comedians on cable networks, Peterson shows how each brand of satire plays off a different level of Americans' frustrations with politics..
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The hysterically funny trade paperback that topped everyone's list of smash hit bestsellers last year was just the beginning. Now, get ready for 169 more of the funniest, most outrageous Top Ten Lists in one hilarious volume including: "Orville Redenbacher's Top Ten Most Horrifying Secrets," "Top Ten Mafia Euphemisms for Death," and " Top Ten Features of Saddam Hussein's Bunker.".
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The basis of an HBO cable-television movie special, the behind-the-scenes story of the ratings battle between the television networks, NBC and CBS, and their top comedians, David Letterman and Jay Leno. Reprint. TV tie-in..
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