The literary history of Alberta

Poisioning the minds of the lower orders

small headed flycatcher. Seen yesterday. He didn't leave his name. and other stories

The orphaned imagination : melancholy and commodity culture in English romanticism

Dirt : a social history as seen through the uses and abuses of dirt

The madwoman can't speak : or why insanity is not subversive

Performing medieval music drama

A Fifty-Year Love Affair with Organic Chemistry

Cleveland : continuing the renaissance (we used to be dull, gray, and depressing -- Now we are just depressing)

Fiber

An index of authors and works in Cistercian libraries in Great Britain

An index of Cistercian authors and works in medieval library catalogues in Great Britain

The attack of the blob : Hannah Arendt's concept of the social

By the bog of cats

The poll taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381

Proust among the stars

Age of iron : English renaissance tropologies of love and power

Tea and sex and Shakespeare

College financial aid for dummies (How do they mean that?)

Magical mushrooms, mischievous molds : the remarkable story of the fungus kingdom and its impact on human affairs

Dayton : the cradle of creativity

Clothes make the man : female cross dressing in medieval Europe

The great American motion sickness; or, Why you can't get there from here

Rapid dominance, a force for all seasons : technologies and systems for achieving shock and awe : a real revolution in military affairs

Mommy dressing : a love story, after a fashion

Fighting for American manhood : how gender politics provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

Splendid slippers : a thousand years of an erotic tradition

Complete short stories & Three fat men

The cold and hunger dance

Embodying Enlightenment : knowing the body in eighteenth-century Spanish literature and culture

Civilization and the limpet

Listen to the warm

Sentimental bodies : sex, gender, and citizenship in the early republic

Out of the loud hound of darkness : a dictionarrative

French masters of the organ

Experiencing identity

Getting your solo act together

The playing-cards of Spain : a guide for historians and collectors

Hog ties : pigs, manure, and mortality in American culture

Greater Syracuse : center of an empire (Sracuse, New York)

Village bells : sound and meaning in the 19th-century French countryside

Bad language, naked ladies, and other threats to the nation : a political history of comic books in Mexico

The family : opposing viewpoints

Master breasts : objectified, aestheticized, fantasized, eroticized, feminized by photography's most titillating masters

Aging is a lifelong affair

Ugaritic narrative poetry

Seventy years of strategic air refueling, 1918-1988 : a chronology

Eat me : a novel

Air 200 : aircraft of the U.S. bicentennial

The practice of everyday life. Volume 2, Living and cooking

The deep heart's core is a suitcase

Zen and the art of stand-up comedy

Chemoarchitectonic atlas of the rat forebrain

Little red riding hood in the redlight district : a novel

Lichen dyes : a source book

Pastured poultry profit$

Lenin's embalmers

Defective bosses : working for the "dysfunctional dozen"

Wheels of fortune : the story of rubber in Akron

Faking it : U.S. hegemony in a "post-phallic" era

Off the deckle edge : a paper-making journey through India

A room full of mirrors : high school reunions in middle America

Public ports for Indiana : a history of the Indiana Port Commission

Greek printing types in Britian : from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century

Hate groups : opposing viewpoints (DUH!)

The erotics of domination : male desire and the mistress in Latin love poetry

A new corpus of Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooches

The English pig : a history

My book, The East London Coelacanth, sometimes called, Troubled waters : the story of British sea-power, begins with a chapter titled;

The sexuality of organization

Merde : excursions in scientific, cultural and socio-historical coprology (This book is an encylopedic history of poo. I'm NOT KIDDING!)

Steam laundries : gender, technology, and work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940

The moment of proof : mathematical epiphanies

Public sculpture of Liverpool

Labour, love and prayer : female piety in Ulster religious literature 1850-1914

Celebrating greater Kansas City

When chickenheads come home to roost : my life as a hip-hop feminist

Mansex fine : religion, manliness and imperialism in nineteenth-century British culture

No-talk therapy for children and adolescents

Brief interviews with hideous men : stories

The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisifaction

Of cigarettes, high heels, and other interesting things : an introduction to semiotics (this song was cut from the the movie the Sound of Music)

Elvis culture : fans, faith, & image

Ye heart of a man : the domestic life of men in colonial New England

Mapping the empty : eight artists and Nevada

Elegy for the southern drawl

The political lives of dead bodies : reburial and postsocialist change

Totem salmon : life lessons from another species

Girlfriend : men, women, and drag

The British malting industry since 1830

The Victorian spinster and colonial emigration : contested subjects

Distilling democracy : alcohol education in America's public schools, 1880-1925

Dating Miss Universe : nine stories ... (but enough about my college days!)

The sound of painting : music in modern art

Deathbed playboy : poems

The gut as a model in cell and molecular biology

The politics of the Stuart court masque

The limits of eroticism in post-petrarchan narrative :conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell

Appearing to diminish : female development and the British bildungsroman, 1750-1850

More than opium : an anthropological approach to Latin American and Caribbean Pentecostal praxis

Flowering inferno : tales of sinking hearts

Iconography and the professional reader : the politics of book production in the Douce Piers Plowman

The radiance of pigs : poems

Nasal vowel evolution in Romance

Organ transplants from executed prisoners : an argument for the creation of death sentence organ removal statutes

Elton John's glasses

Irish Exchequer payments 1270-1446

Bad judgement : poems (well if you say so)

The Chinese sky during the Han : constellating stars and society

George Washington's dental history and relics

Farmageddon : food and the culture of biotechnology

The nudist on the late shift

An anthology of music in early Florida

Ancient Greek love magic

Rum sodomy and the lash : piracy, sexuality, & masculine identity

Popped culture a social history of popcorn in America

A queen is holding a mummified cat

Counter cultures : saleswomen, managers, and customers in American department stores, 1890-1940

Ripper! (is a collection of dramatic, lyric, and narrative poems ... about Jack the Ripper .. From the books dust jacket I could not make this up)

and the winner is .... Drum roll please, remember I am Not making
any of these titles up. The winner for 1999 is ....



When the kissing had to stop : cult studs, Khmer newts, Langley spooks, techno-geeks, video drones, author gods, serial killers, vampire media, alien sperm-suckers, satanic therapists, and those of us who hold a left-wing grudge in the Post Toasties new world hip-hop

-- Thank you Jim Elfers



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