Handbook of Thermoset Plastics, Second Edition (Plastics & Elastomers)

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This second edition of this very successful book is a practical, industry-oriented overview of current data, descriptions, technology, and applications of thermoset plastics.

Based on polymer chemistry, the treatments presented are of value both to professionals and those new to the field. The consistent thread, throughout every chapter, is that thermoset plastics are materials of construction, subject to strengths and weaknesses, as well as proper use and misuse. The data and descriptions presented are for engineers, scientists, technicians, and students who must routinely form judgments and take action on the basis of informal analysis. The book is intended to assist the reader in making the right decisions and taking the correct actions in the use of thermoset plastics.

The introductory material remains essentially unchanged because the concepts are fundamental to the technology. The value to the new engineer, technician, or scientist continues to be a summarial overview, a place to get started. To those practicing the trade, the new information will augment that which is known and offer fresh concepts for consideration for solutions to the next problem or design.

The issuance of a new edition of a technical reference text usually signifies that the material in the book has provided repeated value-added information to the reader/buyer. It is a benchmark for the editors, authors, and contributors that they in fact participated in a significant way to the progress of science, engineering, and technology.

The broad classifications of plastics - general purpose, engineering, and specialty - applies to thermosets as well as thermoplastics. General purpose thermosets are characterized by average (for thermosets) mechanical properties, lower resistance to temperature, higher coefficients of expansion, and low cost commodity-like production and sales (tons/year). Engineering thermosets have higher mechanical properties and temperature resistance and they are perceived to be more durable. They are more expensive with a moder- ate production volume (pounds/year). Specialty thermosets are useful because of one or more highly specific and unusual property which offsets any lack of other "good" properties. They are usually very expensive and are produced in relatively small quantities (pounds/batch). Overlapping between the three categories often occurs - a general purpose phenolic is often competitive with an engineering polyimide.

High-Performance Thermosets: Chemistry, Properties, Applications

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High-Performance Thermosets: Chemistry, Properties, Applications
Shiow-Ching Lin , and Eli M. Pearce
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ASIN: 1569901554

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Excellent Book.......2007-06-16

As a researcher in the field of polymer science, this book has proven an invaluable resource. It covers the major thermoset families in detail and gives the properties and other valuable information about a myriad of commercially available polymers.

The Effect of UV Light and Weather: On Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition (Pdl Handbook)

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The Effect of UV Light and Weather: On Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition (Pdl Handbook)
Liesl K. Massey
Manufacturer: Plastics Design Library
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ASIN: 0815515251

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This extensively updated, comprehensive databook was created for design and application engineers, scientists, and material producer technical support and research and development personnel. Important weathering characteristics and material properties of plastics and elastomers are presented in discussion, tabular and graphical sections. It provides a ready reference for comparing materials in the same family as well as materials in different families.

Data are presented on 80 major plastic and elastomer materials, including biodegradable or organic polymers. New to this edition, the resin chapters each contain textual summary information including category, general description, and weathering properties detailing information of the material's susceptibility or immunity to weathering including discussion of test results. Extensive references are provided. The resin chapter material supplier trade name product data are presented in graphical and tabular format, with results normalized to SI units, retaining the familiar format of the 1st edition and allowing easy comparison between materials and test conditions.

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Compression Molding
Paul J. Gramman , Tim A. Osswald , and Antoine C. Rios
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ASIN: 1569903468

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The book presents a well-rounded overview of the underlying theory and physics that control the various compression molding processes without loosing the practical flavor that governs the manuscript between its covers. The first chapter presents a historical background and the fundamentals covering the various compression molding processes and materials. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the materials and processing fundamentals. Here, a unified approach is used pulling in the influence of processing on the properties of a finished product. Chapter 4 covers in depth design of compression molded parts. The last chapter presents extensive process and material troubleshooting procedures that will be useful to anyone in the industry at any stage of process and product design.

Advanced Thermoset Composites: Industrial and Commercial Applications

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Advanced Thermoset Composites: Industrial and Commercial Applications

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Chemistry and Technology of Thermosetting Polymers in

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Chemistry and Technology of Thermosetting Polymers in
M.H. Irfan
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ASIN: 0751404284

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Polymeric products are used widely in the construction industry, because they offer a range of desirable performance properties not available from traditional materials. Development of these products continues in a number of major research and development programmes within the construction materials sector, aimed at improving the performance, durability and applicational properties of these materials. It seems certain that their use will increase as their overall performance is developed and as the industry becomes more familiar with the techniques required to apply these materials and the benefits they offer.
The purpose of this book is to familiarise the reader with the range of thermosetting polymeric materials available for construction applications, and to provide sound information on the properties and applications of these important materials.
Professional engineers involved in the specification, application and testing of these materials will find this book a compact, authoritative and comprehensive source of information on these materials. Chemists and technologists involved in developing new or improved formulations will find in this book much to inform their work, particularly in the important area of applicational properties.

Chemorheology of Thermosetting Polymers (ACS symposium series)

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Chemorheology of Thermosetting Polymers (ACS symposium series)

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Composites - A Profile of the World-wide Reinforced Plastics Industry, Markets & Suppliers to 2005
Trevor Starr
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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ASIN: 1856173542

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Following the success of the second (1995) edition, this report takes a fresh perspective on the industry, reviewing changes and developments in industry structure, corporate strategies, market condition, technology and application trends.

This profile is fully revised with market data with new forecasts to the year 2005. New and emerging technologies and applications are examined.

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Compounded plastic materials.......2002-11-14

This is a really useful book for design engineers who need something more than just data sheet information on compounded plastic materials. It gives both the pluses and the minuses, so that it is not hype. It describes what design properties are enhanced or degraded, according to the components used, long-term and short-term, mechanical, electrical, tribological, etc. There is an extensive section on processing, with commentary on how to maximize properties (and what conditions will degrade them). It also shows a representative overview of applications, together with why a particular material was selected for the application.

Injection/Transfer Molding of Thermosetting Plastics

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Injection moldling of thermosetting plastics

Injection/Transfer Molding of Thermosetting Plastics
Ralph E. Wright
Manufacturer: Hanser Gardner Publications
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Injection moldling of thermosetting plastics.......2000-01-25

To the many pioneers who helped develop this process, progress and success have been ample rewards. But the story needs to be told and Ralph Wright tells it here as an absorbing unfoldment of technological progress, of forces and events that stimulate creativity, and of the interaction of seemingly disparate developments that enabled breakthroughs into new areas.

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Boom Boom, Out Went The Lights

Splendid Overview of Mass Extinction Debates

Best balanced overview by the leading historian on subject

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Excellent book showing the clash of individual convictions

The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis

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Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?

Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath

The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

ASIN: 0804722862

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This book examines the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict over two competing theories to explain why, 65 million years ago, most life on earth—including the dinosaurs—perished.

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Boom Boom, Out Went The Lights.......2005-08-30

This series of essays, edited by and partially written by William Glen, provide readers interested in the Alvarez theory a snapshot of the debate between uniformitarians and catastrophists, as it stood in 1994. The authors include Digby McLaren, David Raup, and Victor Clube, and obviously includes essays by those either opposed to the concept of impact or by those who thought (or perhaps still think) that the impact at the K-T boundary did in fact take place, but didn't have any bearing on extinction.

This reviewer gives it four stars because, despite its quality, it is over ten years old. The debate still simmers, but over the long run, the impact model for mass extinction will become the only game in town. Saying, as some did or still do, that if all the volcanoes on Earth erupted simultaneously, sufficient iridium would have made it into the K-T boundary layer, used to be seen as a viable alternative. As we see, even in 1994, it had already been debunked.

This doesn't even consider the fact that, if the Chicxulub impact had no effect on Earth's species, the fact that so many plants and animals went extinct essentially immediately was just a huge coincidence. The alternative denial is to deny that mass extinction even took place. Gradual extinction was still being trumpeted back in 1994 when this book was published. It still can be seen here and there today, but is itself going extinct.

One reason this book is such an interesting read -- besides the frank expressions of the underlying assumptions on all sides -- is that it was published in the very year that all waited with breath abated for the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragments to impact on Jupiter. I doubt that a book of this kind would have been possible after those impacts, because those scars on the Jovian surface buried most of the opposition to the significance of impact.

The various fallback positions of those who denied any role for impact (and in some rare cases, continue to deny it) are seen fully formed even in 1994. The Deccan Traps, a large but otherwise unremarkable volcanic scar on the Earth, as well as other volcanic alibis for mass extinction, were already touted then, and had already been shown as fallacious in some of these essays.

It is only natural that impact is now seen as a uniformitarian phenomenon. This was predictable and predicted simply as a consequence to the politics of science. The late Eugene Shoemaker, codiscoverer of the SL-9 comets, is quoted in this book as supporting that idea. While it is ironic that random catastrophes have been co-opted into a uniformitarian framework, some of the thinking behind that co-opting can be seen in the essays by David Raup and others. The supposed periodicity of mass extinctions in the fossil record motivated Raup et al to look for various possible causes for showers of comets, a sort of Gouldian Punctuated Equilibria model based on causes from the skies. Even in 1994, none of those had held up. Since then, it has been purported that the Hubble Space Telescope has ruled out any stellar dark companion(s).

The Hubble hasn't shown the existence of the Oort Cloud, which is a necessity for most of the models claiming periodicity in the mass extinctions. The Oort Cloud is also a necessary prop for the nebular hypothesis of solar system formation. There's absolutely no evidence that it exists. For those who don't know or seem to care, the existence of a hypothesis isn't grounds to posit the existence of evidence.

Clube's contribution is a good place to start for those interested in Velikovsky, for reasons which should be obvious to readers of both. The book isn't a difficult read for most adults, although it may be a little dry in spots. There is adequate amusement from mischievously selected quotes from scientists pro and con, as well as the slapping around of uniformitarian biases.

While this review is of a hardcover edition available to this reviewer, the book remains in print as a paperback. Get it, read it, and enjoy.

Splendid Overview of Mass Extinction Debates.......2002-05-03

Geologist and historian of science William Glen has assembled an excellent overview on current research on mass extinctions, noting the anomosity which exists between advocates of comet/asteroid impact induced mass extinctions and their critics. This excellent volume is largely assembled from a history and philosophy of science symposium on mass extinctions held at Northwestern University. Major advocates such as paleontologists David Raup and J. John Sepkoski describe how their research led to their acceptance of the Alvarez team's impact theory as the cause for the end Cretaceous mass extinction, and their eventual discovery of periodicity of mass extinctions seen in the marine fossil record. On the other hand, skeptics such as John C. Briggs and William A. Clemens defend their objections to comet or asteroid impacts as the cause of mass extinctions. There are also insightful articles on the history and sociology of science as these pertain to the mass extinction debates.

Best balanced overview by the leading historian on subject.......1999-03-14

A reader from Aliso Viejo, CA Best balanced overview by the leading historian on subject Glen has studied the debates for 14 years and thus was able to provide an overview and analyses that only one with his expertise can provide. The acrimony and bitterness between the warring theoretical camps of scientists is wonderfully illumninated. The two major groups of debators believe that either an asteroid or comet on one hand, or massive volcanic eruptions on the other caused the death of the dinosaurs and most of other life on Earth. The story is excitingly told and seems to place the reader at the center of the storm of controversy that has raged for over a decade. Glen's two opening chapters make up a small book in themselves which explain the whole affair. This small book opens the larger anthology which also includes chapters by almost a dozen world-class leaders of various sciences including Stephen J. Gould. It is a wonderful work for both layman and scientist that shows both the science and the life of the scientists who struggle mightily to make their cases in an arena that seems to test both their intellects and emotional integrity. Glen notes that this work contains his larger conclusions briefly presented which he hopes to more fully detail in a future work. This is simply a fascinating, lucid, indispensible read for all interested in the subject--its hard to put down once begun.

Several reviews from leading journals & experts.......1998-01-14

From Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta by Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna: "I found the book easy and fascinating to read--it was hard to put down, so I finished it in two long evenings and part of a day. This is one of those books that has something for everybody, and provides a very good account of how science progresses despite the efforts of some scientists. Glen's book is very well edited...thought provoking and makes for excellent reading (and discussing)...I want to reiterate that the book provides a good chronicle of an important part of the K-T boundary [debates] research, sets the whole debate in the framework of previous geological debates, and renders a lively picture of science in progress. I recommend this volume to practically everybody with an interest in the earth sciences...this volume should also make great reading for undergraduate and graduate seminars." From James W. McAllister, University of Leiden, the Netherlands: This semester I am giving a seminar course based on the book The Mass-Extinction Debates. The course has attracted biologists and physicists as well as a number of students of ours who are specializing in philosophy of science. I find that the book works very well in this role: I am especially pleased to be able to offer students a detailed picture of a concrete scientific controversy that is still unresolved...Thank for for a very interesting book that my students are enjoying." From Contemporary Sociology by Homer Le Grand, University of Melbourne: "Glen's deftly assembled and edited collection bears out the value of controvery studies as a window onto science. Glen contributes expository and analytic chapters in which he presents the first detailed examination of both arguments and the behavior of those actively engages in the [mass-exstinction debates]. Many...including some of the debaters themselves, will avidly turn to the...chapter in which Glen gives a precis of some of the lessons that he would draw from the debates thus far. Glen's presentation is notable for its clear explication, and its effective and arresting coupling of technical matters and social worlds. His analysis is particularlyu compelling because it is based upon a highly detailed longitudinal study... He avoids many of the traps by drawing freely upon his unrivaled archive of contemporaneous interviews, preprints, correspondence, and ephemera. This gives considerable depth to his comments about the cognitive and social importance specialization... This volume constitutes not only a valuable source of insights into a major, ongoing scientific controversy, but also a resource for those of us who will surely mine it to enrich our own sociological, philosophical, and historical models of scientific culture." From Choice by M.A. Wilson, College of Wooster:"This is a wonderful volume, highly recommended for all libraries and everyone in science or the philosophy [and sociology] of science.[Glen's] genius has been to record interviews and collect papers, preprints, and referee reports on the issue "as it has unfolded since 1980. He can thus provide an extraordinary view of how scientists work during a conceptual "crisis'. The analysis of the social dynamics affecting how disciplines and subdisciplines receive new ideas is fascinating, and the revelation of the levels of ignorance some scientists have as they state strong opinions on the issue is disturbing. Glen is a geologist, so he knows the subject and the main characters well, and he expresses complex issues in clear language. The book had many contributions, but those by Glen are the most interesting. An analysis of the impact hypothesis and "popular science" by Elizabeth Clemens is also well done. An excellent book for upper-division undergraduates or graduate students. All levels. Review by Joseph T. Gregory, University of California, Berkeley: "Readers from the natural sciences and also the history, sociology and philosophy of science will find this diversely-comprised book--that includes the first report of Bill Glen's pioneering, decade-long study of the mass-extinction debates--indispensable to understanding both the ideas of the conflicted science and the behavior of scientists in this ongoing upheaval." Science Books and Films: "Exceptionally well organized by its editor William Glen, the book illustrates how many passionately different points of view there are...and makes it exceedingly interesting for the reader to observe how proponents' views evolve over time...and also observe the evolution of theories relating to such topics... The book will serve as an excellent introduction to the subject. The editor is to be commended for making it possible to evaluate a topic analytically from the standpoint of several disciplines."

Excellent book showing the clash of individual convictions.......1996-07-17

Dr. William Glen, in his book The Mass Extinction Debates: How Scinece Works in a Crisis, shows how the conclusions of many scientists often differ. Each scientist believes that their theory is correct and thus stands by their ideas. This can often culmunate into several groups of scientists working to verify their hypothesis. The mass extinction debates were a group of conferences designed to get to the bottom of the most famous mass extinction, 65 million years ago, which wiped out the dinosaurs. Was it a comet, climate or volcanism? Each scientist in the book presents their views in a language that is very accesible to the lay person. The reader becomes drawn into the debates when each new conclusion becomes a logical possibility. The power, whether manifested from within the earth as volcanism or from space as a comet, had to be strong enough to eleiminate everything over 50 pounds from the face of the earth. The theories presented offer a window into the strongest and most dynamic forces of physics. The book does not represent a viewpoint of its own. Rather, it presents the arguments for the reader to review, digest and contemplate. The attraction to this book comes from the readers realization that a mass extinction is possilbe today. The cause of such extinctions is intriquing. The book swept me away and I reccommend it highly.

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Bad seeds, belles-lettres, rule breakers, shrieking violets, bar belles--how could any collection of impudent sketches that celebrates and lampoons the American Southern belle go wrong? Most of the women on these pages are instantly recognizable. Among those whose exploits or imagination vaulted them to fame are writers Carson McCullers and Anne Rice; emancipator Harriet Tubman; actress and one-time town owner Kim Basinger; ex-Black Panther Angela Davis; '30s outlaw Bonnie Parker; and mascara maven Tammy Faye Baker. A few little-knowns and relative newcomers have elbowed their way on stage, too: Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina; Anna Edson Taylor, the first barrel-rider over Niagra Falls; and women's basketball star Luisa Harris-Stewart.

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Don't Be Fooled By Scarlett O'Hara on the Cover.......2006-02-14

I bought this book because I loved the cover. Admittedly, I didn't do much research about it, but wish I had. This book is anything but about true Southern Belles. There are a few women in this book who might fit the real description, but even they are marred by the author's insistence on revealing all the negative and dark side of these women. Don't be fooled..this book is not about true Southern Belles. I was born, and raised partially, in the South and was taught that a true Southern Belle is a woman who embraces her feminity, is proud of her heritage, passes on traditions and always conducts herself like a lady. That definition seems to upset the author because she includes many women who are anything but Southern Belles. Just because a person was born in the South doesn't make them a Southern Belle. The author seems to think that just by virtue of being Southern born, that makes one a "Belle." Her book proves just the opposite. Then when I finished the book, I saw that the publisher is located in Berkeley, CA (surprise!) and is associated with a group called The Wild Women Association, also out of Berkeley. If you are looking for a book about true Southern Women, a.k.a, Belles, I suggest you read Ronda Rich's book, "What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should)" or Deborah Ford's "G.R.I.T.S. - Girls Raised in the South."

Hells Yea!.......2003-02-06

I picked this book up at the Margaret Mitchell Museum in Atlanta. Being a southern woman I found the title and the subject matter interesting. Boy am I ever glad I read this little book! It was pretty intriguing to read 2-3 page summaries about historical and current southern women who've made an impact or just made there presence known. I'd recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It's a quick and enlightening read.

Fun.......2002-12-19

This is a great little find. There are some great quotes and it's just plain fun. Who ever knew that there were pirate belles or native american belles, American revolution and confederate spy belles.

In Praise of Southern Women.......2002-09-17

A glorious book - a celebration of southern women, and all that they stand for, from their notorious southern charm to their unique and equally-infamous 'darker' side. They're all here - Tallulah Bankhead, Scarlet O'Hara, Priscilla Presley, as are many lesser-known but just as 'potent' southern belles. Photos, tributes, anecdotes, photos. The entertainment quotient is high and what a history lesson!!!

Parochialism? No, just good fun.......2000-07-16

I admit it, the enchanting cover photo of Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara) compelled me to buy this book..but I was also intrigued by the sales-pitch blurb on the back cover. Inside, I was pleasantly surprised, with many of my favourite southern gals featured, including Selena, Anne Rice, Margaret Mitchell, Carson McCullers. Hell's Belles is written in exuberant tabloid style (witness the title!)and contains interesting anecdotes and fascinating accounts of Southerners, most of whom I've never heard of but leave me wanting to know more..luckily, Ballenger provides a list of references. The only thing that left me feeling a bit miffed is some blatant Women's press advertisment at the back - as if we need reminding of 'role models' and 'empowerment'and other genderist stuff to feel good about ourselves! Subtle it is not. And one question - drag queens are belles, yes? but Truman Capote?

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New Times In The Old South

New Times In The Old South
Maryln Schwartz
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ASIN: 0517880598
Release Date: 1994-09-27

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A hilarious and perceptive look at the people, trends, and attitudes that are making the Old South rise again. "The Old South ain't what it used to be. To know about the new times, the new people, and the new money, you'd better listen to Marilyn Schwartz."-- Mobile Register "Witty and artful...her quick takes, one-liners, and keen observations are entertaining."-- Sunday Oklahoman.

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New Times In The Old South.......2002-12-19

12/18/02 Marilyn Schwartz"Southern Belle Primer".."Why Princess Margaret could Never Be a Phi Kappa Gamma" was readed 1st by me when Philadelphia had a 'rent a audio" store in its 17th & Chestnut Street area in its Center City..The audio was hilarious...I proceeded to borrow the book when at a library and borrowed "New Times In the Old South" a few years ago.."New Times In The Old South" makes me(even as a Northerner) a little bit sad after reading about the traditions in "Southern Bele Primer"....It shows what happens when someone opens the door to those without your attitudes/values and they have even worse than "influences"..just 'plain old money' as their ticket in(at least with influences they'd have to behave a little to spare their sponsors from embarassment).and how these non-southerners with 'stacks of cash" ,just for the fun of it violated the Southern traditions with gaudy extravaganza.Both books by Schwartz will leave you wanting more (They have catchy titles..'Princess Margaret's name' is what made "Southern Belle Primer" catch my interest..and they are really very small size books..hardback,the size of a paperback with 1/2 the pages of the average paperback(e.g.[printed in the USA]: Kensington Publication Corp.'s Zebra Books "Texas Lovestorm" by Linda Windsor(ISBN0821735497) has 381 pages

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HUMOR OF THE OLD DEEP SOUTH
Arthur Palmer Hudson
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Humor of the Old Deep South

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Humor of the Old Deep South

Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company
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An anthology of regional humor.....a book about the country and the people of Mississippi and the closely associated sectors of Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana between 1540 and 1860. Chapters group selections like early explorers, Indians, hunters, preachers, soldiers, doctors, lawyers and politicians, duelists, showmen, rivermen, land pirates and picaroons, schoolmasters and collegians, and ladies of various degrees.

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The Humor of the Old South

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ASIN: 0813121949

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The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip, the stand-up comedy of Jerry Clower and Jeff Foxworthy, and The Beverly Hillbillies.

This collection of essays includes some of the most significant writing on the topic to have appeared over the past twenty-five years, much of it revised and updated, as well as newly commissioned articles that bring fresh insights and employ new approaches to the subject.

“Forward-looking and intelligent. Rather than accepting the genre as an effusion of the region, the essays approach the materials as literary evocations of social and civil life.”—David E. E. Sloane, Executive Director of the American Humor Studies Association

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New Times in the Old South
Maryln Schwartz
Manufacturer: Crown Trade Paperbacks
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The best-selling author of A Southern Belle Primer (Or Why Princess Margaret Will Never Be A Kappa Kappa Gamma) returns with a new, hilarious and perceptive view of the people, trends, and attitudes that are making the South rise again. Only now they call it the New South -- and, honey, there's a good reason.

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When Old Mowers Die

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With the Bark on. Popular Humor of the Old South
John Q. Anderson
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Humor of the Old South.

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