Diaper Dude: The Ultimate Dad's Guide to Surviving the First Two Years
(Dude, you're a dad now!
Picking up where From Dude to Da...)
Dude, you're a dad now!
Picking up where From Dude to Dad left off, author and founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into the first two years of parenting and furthers his deeply held belief that you don't have to lose yourself when you become a father.
Once again written in Pegula's everyman voice and filled with humorous takes on fatherhood from the front lines, the book is an easy-to-read resource for new dads, combining hard-won lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, and practical advice from a dude who hasn't lost his identity (or his sanity).
Filled with useful information, hilarious stories of dad madness, a little psychology and science, and engaging sidebars, Diaper Dude covers everything from bonding, babyproofing, and when you'll have sex again to toddlerhood, tantrums, and tag-teaming with your partner to cover all the bases while staying (somewhat) sane.
**Winner, Family Choice Award!
**Winner, National Parenting Product Award!
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Learn all about the Ramones in the book;
"ON THE ROAD...)
Learn all about the Ramones in the book;
"ON THE ROAD WITH THE RAMONES".
Throughout the remarkable twenty-two-year career of the Ramones the seminal punk rock band, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, Recording Academy Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and inductees into The Library of Congress' National Recording Registry, Monte A. Melnick saw it all. He was the band's tour manager from their 1974 CBGB debut to their final show in 1996. Now, in this NEW UPDATED EDITION he tells his story. Full of insider perspectives and exclusive interviews and packed with over 250 personal color photos and images; this is a must-have for all fans of the Ramones.
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What Is Conservatism?: A New Edition of the Classic by 12 Leading Conservatives
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“What Is Conservatism? is one of my favorite books. . ....)
“What Is Conservatism? is one of my favorite books. . . . It is The Federalist Papers of American conservatism.”
—JONAH GOLDBERG, from the foreword to this new edition
What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic—as relevant today as it was a half century ago.
Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to retreat into factions—Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and on and on. But this illuminating book shows what unites conservatives even as it explores conservatism’s rich internal debate.
Edited by Frank S. Meyer, who popularized the idea of “fusionism” that became the basis for modern conservatism, What Is Conservatism? features brilliant essays by such leading lights as:
• F. A. Hayek, Nobel Prize–winning economist and author of The Road to Serfdom
• William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review and the man perhaps most responsible for the rise of modern conservatism
• Russell Kirk, whose seminal book The Conservative Mind gave the conservative movement its name
• M. Stanton Evans, author of the conservative movement’s central credo, the “Sharon Statement” (1960)
In a foreword to this new edition, #1 New York Times bestselling author and National Review contributing editor Jonah Goldberg explains the influence of What Is Conservatism? on conservative thought and the book’s relevance today.
An Introduction to the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation (Lecture Notes in Physics)
(The contemporary theoretical physics consists, by and lar...)
The contemporary theoretical physics consists, by and large, of two independent parts. The rst is the quantum theory describing the micro-world of elementary p- ticles, the second is the theory of gravity that concerns properties of macroscopic systems such as stars, galaxies, and the universe. The relativistic theory of gr- itation which is known as general relativity was created, at the beginning of the last century, by more or less a single man from pure idea combinations and bold guessing. The task was to “marry” the theory of gravity with the theory of special relativity. The rst attempts were aimed at considering the gravitational potential as a eld in Minkowski space–time. All those attempts failed; it took 10 years until Einstein nally solved the problem. The dif culty was that the old theory of gravity as well as the young theory of special relativity had to be modi ed. The next 50 years were dif cult for this theory because its experimental basis remained weak and its complicated mathematical structure was not well understood. However, in the subsequent period this theory ourished. Thanks to improvements in the te- nology and to the big progress in the methods of astronomical observations, the amount of observable facts to which general relativity is applicable was consid- ably enlarged. This is why general relativity is, today, one of the best experimentally tested theories while many competing theories could be disproved. Also the conc- tual and mathematical fundamentals are better understood now.
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Meyer has done more than anyone in America to search o...)
Meyer has done more than anyone in America to search out the metaphysics of freedom.
—William F. Buckley, Jr., Founding Editor, National Review
When it first appeared in 1962, In Defense of Freedom was hailed by Richard M. Weaver as "a brilliant defense of the primacy of the person" and an effective "indictment of statism and bureaucratism." Meyer examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In his view, both the dominant Liberalism and the "New Conservatism" of the American tradition place undue emphasis on the claims of social order at the expense of the individual person and liberty.
In addition, Meyer insists that liberty is essential to the pursuit of virtue. Therefore, to Meyer, the proper end of political thought and action is the establishment and preservation of freedom.The Liberty Fund edition also includes nine related essays: "Collectivism Rebaptized," "Freedom, Tradition, Conservatism," "Why Freedom," "In Defense of John Stuart Mill," "Conservatives in Pursuit of Truth," "Conservatism and Crisis: A Reply to Father Parry," "Libertarianism or Libertinism?" "Conservatism," and "Western Civilization: The Problem of Political Freedom."
Frank S. Meyer (1909–1972) was a senior editor of National Review. He was the principal proponent of a "fusion" of libertarian and traditional conservative beliefs in behalf of a concerted challenge to statist tendencies in American political thought.
William C. Dennis is Senior Program Officer of Liberty Fund, Inc.
((Reference). Many guitar players, famous and not so famou...)
(Reference). Many guitar players, famous and not so famous, began playing on Japanese electric guitars, yet the history of the people and factories that produced these instruments has remained largely ignored. For the first time in this illustrated history, author Frank Meyers will examine the Japanese electric guitars and factories that were active during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, identifying the various people, companies, and guitars that contributed to the huge guitar boom of the 1960s. Includes hundreds of fantastic color photographs, a chapter on 130 pickups, and a chapter on collecting vintage Japanese guitars. A must have for book collectors.
From Dude to Dad: The Diaper Dude Guide to Pregnancy
(Congrats: You’re going to be a dad!
Now what?
Dude, r...)
Congrats: You’re going to be a dad!
Now what?
Dude, relax; you’re going to be fine. But it wouldn’t hurt to get a few pointers—a road map of what lies ahead. That’s what this book is for.
From Dude to Dad gives you the need-to-know essentials on pregnancy, birthing, and parenthood, and how it’s okay to be scared out of your mind. You’ll learn what the expecting mom is going through during each trimester, how you can be the best partner and dad-to-be, and how to immediately start bonding with baby.
Be prepared for the arrival that will ultimately change your life in the best way possible.
Bad Times for Good Ol' Boys: The Oklahoma County Commissioner Scandal
(In the early 1980s one of the worst scandals in the natio...)
In the early 1980s one of the worst scandals in the nation hit Oklahoma local government. By 1984, when federal prosecutors announced an end to their work, more than two hundred people had been convicted in sixty counties. Most were county commissioners who had been taking kickbacks paid by suppliers on orders for county road-building supplies.
That corruption could be so wide-spread and long-standing was hard to understand. How could so many "good ol' boys" (usually popular and respected local officials) become so corrupt?
Determined to study the problem, Harry Holloway and Frank S. Meyers sifted through a large body of evidence, conducted a public-opinion survey, and interviewed nearly half of all county commissioners in office following the prosecutions. Their discoveries were two. First, because rural populism had splintered Oklahoma government from top to bottom, commissioners were left with so much money and discretion as to invite abuse. Second, abusers justified their illegal behavior on the basis that they were entitled to their gains.
Local government, the authors argue, is improved but remains vulnerable. Analyzing the national savings and loan scandal, they review prospects for corruption within the state - especially the scheme of education bonds developed within the state in the late 1980s.
The book will interest citizens, academics, and officials at all levels of government who want to understand an Oklahoma scandal of momentous proportions and, even more, to appreciate how political culture and institutions may contribute to corruption. As the authors show, values and institutions democratic in intent may lend themselves to the purposes of corrupt people who rationalize their misdeeds.
Frank Straus Meyer was an American philosopher and political activist.
Background
Frank Straus Meyer was born on May 9, 1909, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the son of Jack F. Meyer and Helene Straus. His father was a lawyer whose family had immigrated to the United States in the aftermath of mid-nineteenth-century revolutions in Germany.
Education
Meyer spent two years (1926 - 1928) at Princeton University before transferring to Balliol College, Oxford University, where he earned a B. A. in 1932. While at Oxford, Meyer embraced the Communist party of Great Britain and served as director of its student bureau as well as being a member of its central committee. In 1932 he enrolled at the London School of Economics. There he won election as the Communist presidential candidate of the students' union and was subsequently expelled from England for his Communist activities.
Career
From 1934 through the end of World War II, Meyer described himself as a "dedicated Communist, " recruiting potential members at the University of Chicago and later doing related organizational activities. Along with many other erstwhile leftists, Meyer broke with the Communist movement in the mid-1940's. Earl Browder's dismissal as head of the American Communist party in 1946 disillusioned him, but so, too, did the burgeoning philosophy of antistatism. Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) had a profound influence on his ideological reorientation. By the end of the 1940's, Meyer was engaged in anti-Communist activities and testified about the party before government committees in 1949 at the conspiracy trial of members of the Communist party's national executive committee, in the 1954 federal hearings about the Jefferson School of Social Science, before a U. S. Senate investigating panel in 1957, and before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1959. By 1952, Meyer was a Republican and a regular contributor to right-wing periodicals such as the American Mercury and the Freeman, and by 1955 he was a founding editor of William F. Buckley, Jr. 's, National Review. From his mountainside home in Woodstock, New York, he worked throughout the night, writing and chatting by phone with other conservative leaders throughout the country. Shortly before his death from cancer at his home in Woodstock, he converted to Roman Catholicism.
More than any other conservative intellectual, Meyer would play a vital role in shaping the postwar American Right. Meyer acknowledged that Richard M. Weaver, a rhetorician at the University of Chicago, was the intellectual source of his revised convictions. "There is the particular personal debt I owe him from long before I met him, " Meyer recalled, "the great influence on my personal development towards conservatism that his Ideas Have Consequences had when it appeared in 1948. " Indeed, Meyer credited Weaver with delineating the indispensable concept of American conservatism, "that respect for the tradition of metaphysical truth does not contradict a politics based on individual liberty is not a 'fusionism' of disparate European traditions (as its more extreme authoritarian and libertarian critics have insisted) but is rather born out of the most fundamental American experience. " In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo appeared in 1962 and expanded on several themes in Meyer's National Review, Freeman, and Modern Age essays. To Russell Kirk, and other proponents of order and tradition, he insisted that the essence of political society is to enhance the freedom of the person and to enable the individual to use his freedom to pursue virtuous ends. His own thought aimed to reconcile libertarianism and traditionalism. Freedom needed to be rooted in a transcendent moral order, while the primacy of personal freedom had to be protected by constitutional guarantees. In Meyer's judgment, traditional conservatives, such as Russell Kirk, spoke only of authority, order, community, duty, and obedience. Freedom was a rare word in their social thought. "Truth withers when freedom dies, " Meyer wrote, "however righteous the authority that kills it, " and "the denial of the claims of freedom leads not to conservatism but to authoritarianism and theocracy. " Meyer's aim was for "that fused position which recognizes at one and the same time the transcendent goal of human existence and primacy of the freedom of the person in the political order. " Many conservative intellectuals deplored Meyer's thinking. Willmoore Kendall criticized Meyer's overemphasis on the role of religious belief in conservativism and his "near-neurosis" about the leviathan state.
Russell Kirk questioned his refusal to concede the limitations of reason, to ignore the perils of being "an ideologue of liberty. " And for scholars of the conservative tradition in American history, such as Clinton Rossiter, Meyer's "ultra-conservatism" refused to grant the permanence of New Deal social reforms and aspired to a "restorationist conservatism. " Another influential ex-Communist, Whittaker Chambers, confided to William F. Buckley, Jr. , in a 1958 letter, that Meyer's conservatism could render the movement sterile and strident. "It will become like one of those dark little shops which apparently never sell anything. If, for any reason, you go in, you find, at the back, an old man, fingering for his own pleasure some oddments of cloth (weave and design of 1850). Nobody wants to buy them, which is fine because the old man is not really interested in selling. He just likes to hold and to feel. As your eyes become accustomed to the dim kerosene light, you are only slightly surprised to see that the old man is Frank Meyer. " Meyer would prove Chambers wrong, because by insisting that conservative ideas had to have electoral consequences, Meyer was at the energizing center of such activist enterprises as the Young Americans for Freedom, the New York State Conservative party, and the American Conservative Union. From his "Principles and Heresies" column in National Review, Frank Meyer forged the salient themes in the repertoire of 1950's conservatism: intransigent anti-Communism, consensual constitutional traditionalism, economic libertarianism, and preference for "local" rather than "leviathan" government.
Connections
On October 11, 1940, Meyer married Elsie Bown; they had two children.