FoxTrot, Assembled with Care

FoxTrot, Assembled with Care
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-08-02
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780740726644

One of America's most treasured comic strips is releasing its eighth treasury, FoxTrot: Assembled with Care. And eight most assuredly will not be enough for fans of the funny pages.Bill Amend's FoxTrot debuted April 10, 1988, and 14 years later it's undisputedly among the most popular strips in newspapers. This colorful compilation of cartoons from FoxTrot's last two years again demonstrates that few entertainers in any medium are better at finding humor in everyday family life than Amend.At the core of much of the strip's wild humor is 10-year-old Jason. He tortures his parents and two teenage siblings Peter and Paige out of their minds with his computer and his pet iguana, Quincy. In this latest treasury, parents Roger and Andrea again have their hands full. In one strip, Jason boldly bursts into their bedroom in the middle of the night to announce that it's "2 A.M. and the lights still work." In another, Jason surprises his mom with a new beep for her computer known simply as "Defcon One." Jason also holds his own with his older siblings, spelling "My Sister Is Ugly" with the carved faces of 14 pumpkins.As FoxTrot surpasses the two million mark in book sales, it continues to demonstrate its timelessness with its always fresh, irreverent, and zany brand of family humor. Like other successful FoxTrot books before it, FoxTrot: Assembled with Care captures the humorous side of the trials and tribulations that come with daily family life like no other strip today.

Jam-Packed FoxTrot

Jam-Packed FoxTrot
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0740760408

More comic adventures of the Fox family.

FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt

FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780836226942

Follows Peter, Paige, and Jason through homework, Star Trek movies, comic books, computer games, sibling rivalry, and final exams, as they compete to see who will drive the others over the edge first.

Camp Foxtrot

Camp Foxtrot
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780836267471

Follows Peter, Paige, and Jason through homework, Mother's Day, summer camp, football season, going back to school, and Christmas.

His Code Name Was The Fox

His Code Name Was The Fox
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780740721915

A collection of comic strips by Bill Amend, featuring the characters of Roger Fox, his family and friends.

China's Great Train

China's Great Train
Author: Abrahm Lustgarten
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805090185

Lustgarten's book is a timely and provocative account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and the nation's obsession to transform its land and its people.

Jasotron: 2012

Jasotron: 2012
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 144942306X

The twenty-seventh collection of "FoxTrot" comic strips continues to critique society's latest events and obsessions and documents the rivalry between Jason and Paige as well as Roger's efforts to monitor his hairline

The Wizard and the Prophet

The Wizard and the Prophet
Author: Charles C. Mann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307961702

From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

The Praetorian STARShip : the untold story of the Combat Talon

The Praetorian STARShip : the untold story of the Combat Talon
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 1428990437

Jerry Thigpen's study on the history of the Combat Talon is the first effort to tell the story of this wonderfully capable machine. This weapons system has performed virtually every imaginable tactical event in the spectrum of conflict and by any measure is the most versatile C-130 derivative ever produced. First modified and sent to Southeast Asia (SEA) in 1966 to replace theater unconventional warfare (UW) assets that were limited in both lift capability and speed the Talon I quickly adapted to theater UW tasking including infiltration and resupply and psychological warfare operations into North Vietnam. After spending four years in SEA and maturing into a highly respected UW weapons system the Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) chose the Combat Talon to lead the night low-level raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. Despite the outcome of the operation the Talon I cemented its reputation as the weapons system of choice for long-range clandestine operations. In the period following the Vietnam War United States Air Force (USAF) special operations gradually lost its political and financial support which was graphically demonstrated in the failed Desert One mission into Iran. Thanks to congressional supporters like Earl Hutto of Florida and Dan Daniel of Virginia funds for aircraft upgrades and military construction projects materialized to meet the ever-increasing threat to our nation. Under the leadership of such committed hard-driven officers as Brenci Uttaro Ferkes Meller and Thigpen the crew force became the most disciplined in our Air Force. It was capable of penetrating hostile airspace at night in a low-level mountainous environment covertly to execute any number of unconventional warfare missions.

The Best of FoxTrot

The Best of FoxTrot
Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0740777335

A two-volume set containing nearly 1700 "FoxTrot" comic strips hand-selected by the author as the best of the daily adventures of the Fox family. Includes annotations by the author providing insight into individual strips and story lines.