Kenneth Tiews (7 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, staining to front and creasing. Illustrated (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Dell. Tiews, Kenneth (illustrator).

Hardcover. Dust jacket has light wear. In m.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 210 pp, index. Mylar-protected dj has light creasing, few small tears along edges. Boards have light edgewear. Interior unmarked and solid. Kenneth Tiews (illustrator).

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.; 6.75 X 1.5 X 9.75 inches; 512 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. good (somewhat soiled). First Printing [Stated]. xiii, [3], 270, [2] pages. Illustrations. Glossary of Important Business Terms. The Murphy Center Newsletter. Appendix. Index. Signed by the author on fep. Pages xi/xii and xiii/blank have some wrinkling/creasing. Some bottom edge soiling. Filled with such special sections as those devoted to the totally ridiculous though natural laws of bureaucracy, medicine, and the law, and complete with job-performance evaluations tests, Official Diagrams, and even recent findings of Murphylogical research, The Official Explanations is the lastest word on "institutional tomfoolery, human imperfectibility, and the perversity of inanimate objects." "The all new, annotated, illustrated and even more definitive collection of laws, principles and instructions for getting along in the real world." Paul Dickson has been an independent writer for almost 50 years during which time he has produced more than 60 non-fiction books and numerous newspaper and magazine articles on a variety of subjects. His books fall into two categories: serious narrative non-fiction, including history and biography, and reference and whimsical books. Some of the books in the first category include Think Tanks, The Electronic Battlefield, Sputnik--The Shock of the Century, and The Bonus Army--An American Epic (co-authored with Thomas B. Allen.) The second category of books has helped provide the sustained income to support the first category. For example, his collection of toasts and graces has sold over 400,000 books in hardback since it was first published in 1981 and is still selling well. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary was picked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the "5 Best" books on the sport in 2012. Kenneth Tiews (illustrator).…