Author: Citizens Against Government Waste Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 146685314X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Author: Tony Hillerman Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195182146 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
"Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book's publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers's volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Kunihiko Kasahara Publisher: Japan Publications (USA) ISBN: 9780870406966 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Over 150 models and panoramas folded from one or more squares, including animals, flowers, faces, modular models, geometric shapes, and much more.
Author: S. Andrew Swann Publisher: DAW ISBN: 9780756401511 Category : Genetic engineering Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Now together for the first time in one volume, the first three novels of the acclaimed Moreau series. Includes "Forests of the Night, Emperors of the Twilight, " and "Specters of the Dawn." Original.
Author: Steve Parker Publisher: Games Workshop ISBN: 9781784966225 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
New omnibus of novels and short stories featuring the Deathwatch, alien-hunting Space Marines who undertake special ops-style missions in the 41st millennium. The Deathwatch are the elite. Recruited from numerous Space Marine Chapters, their mission is simple: exterminate any xenos threat to the Imperium. Assembled into kill-teams, the Deathwatch are expert alien hunters, equipped to undertake any mission in any environment. None are as dedicated or as skilled in the brutal art of alien annihilation. This action-packed omnibus contains three separate novels written by Steve Parker, Ian St Martin and Justin D Hill, along with a dozen of the best short stories ever written about the Imperium's premier xenos hunters.
Author: Citizens Against Government Waste
Author: Tony Hillerman
Author: John V. Sullivan
Author: Douglas Wilson
Author: United States. Congress
Author: Kunihiko Kasahara
Author: S. Andrew Swann
Author: United States
Author: Douglas Wilson
Author: Steve Parker