In a world of confusion and complications, contemporary men need to know it all. Sassy, smart, and filled with essential information, here's the one guide with everything a modern man needs to know. 150 line drawings.

The Modern Man's Guide to Life

Boyles, Denis

Rose, Alan

Wellikoff, Alan

Parenting & Relationships

Harpercollins

The Complete Instructions to : 
<ul>
<li>Animal Magnetism </li>
<li>Beer as Food </li>
<li>Careers </li>
<li>Daycare for Men </li>
<li>Exercises that work </li>
<li>Firing Your Boss </li>
<li>growing tomatoes </li>
<li>How to Change a Diaper with One Hand </li>
<li>Inspirational Sex </li>
<li>Junk-Food Diets </li>
<li>Killer hooptricks </li>
<li>Landing a 747 </li>
<li>Married women </li>
<li>Nasty Neighbors </li>
<li>Outwitting Fish </li>
<li>Pension Plans </li>
<li>Quick Cleans </li>
<li>Rural real estate </li>
<li>Screws </li>
<li>Travel </li>
<li>Urban Tenting </li>
<li>Vested Options </li>
<li>What to Do to Your Thumb After You Whack It with a Hammer </li>
</ul>
 and More... 
 The Complete Instructions for Every Man's Life! From Tim Allen, Bryant Gumbel, Norman Schwarzkopf, Dave Barry, Chuck Yeager, Charlie Daniels, and hundreds of other men and women everywhere comes the kind of tried-and-true advice and information every guy needs if he wants to be able to: 
<ul>
<li>Lose weight and get fit </li>
<li>Choose a wife </li>
<li>Clean a catfish </li>
<li>Create a pension plan </li>
<li>Choose a suit </li>
<li>Rig a Web browser </li>
<li>Find his way home no matter where he is </li>
<li>Bend waitresses to his will </li>
<li>Talk hardware </li>
<li>Open a restaurant </li>
<li>Hang out at the beach </li>
<li>Get buff brains </li>
<li>Hang out with his old man </li>
<li>Get a pro shave </li>
<li>Buy a house in the country </li>
<li>Evaluate an ogle from a woman </li>
<li>Field dress a deer </li>
<li>Discern different types of women's orgasms </li>
</ul>
 "Forget Tolstoy! Skip the Shakespeare! In a world of angry, mixed-up women and pitiless, incompetent bosses, this book may be the only friend you have. Fortunately, it's also the only one you'll ever need." --Harry Stein, author of One of the Guys

A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions

Reference

Harper-perennial

Time was, a man had to know certain things in this life. He had to use his callused hands and the knowledge passed down through the generations to carve a homestead from the wilderness and to feed his family by hunting and trapping animals or coaxing crops from the earth. But today, as men trade hammer and ax for computer and fax, and a cabin in the woods for a place in the burbs, these manly skills are in danger of disappearing forever. 
 To the rescue comes Denis Boyles, columnist for Men's Health magazine, with a priceless treasury of forgotten lore and dozens of projects designed to rekindle that dying ember of machismo. Culled from U.S. government pamphlets, turn-of-the-century publications and old scouting manuals, this guide to lost lore contains projects on camping, hunting and fishing, farming and much more. Such skills as sending smoke signals, tracking a bobcat or moose, turning a bike into a steam-powered motorcycle and building a cozy log cabin are all included. In a world full of mama's boys, The Lost Lore of a Man's Life is the ultimate guide to reclaiming a man's lost heritage.

The Lost Lore of a Man's Life: Lots of Cool Stuff Guys Used to Know But Forgot About the Great Outdoors

WmMorrowPB

Alan Wellikoff

Denis Boyles, Alan Rose

A humorous look at male/female relations contains the true-life wisdom that usually comes from fathers and uncles and details how the way men act sometimes is less than manly. Original. National ad/promo.

The Modern Man's Guide to Modern Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Perennial

Way back before man abandoned the woods for the cities—and traded his hunting rifle for a BlackBerry—he had to know how to do certain things to survive. He had to trap and build and grow things, using his calloused hands and valuable knowledge passed down through the generations. For most men today, these once-cherished skills are as dead as the dodo. But take heart! Now guys can reconnect with those less-complicated times, rediscover how to embrace adventure, and appreciate the outdoor life. Denis Boyles, principal author of A Man's Life, has culled a wealth of essential, nearly lost manly endeavors from U.S. government pamphlets, century-old publications, and ancient scouting manuals to help reeducate us in the fine macho arts of: <ul>
<li>Tracking a bobcat</li> <li>Splicing a rope</li> <li>Rescuing someone from drowning</li> <li>Sending a smoke signal</li> <li>Building a log cabin</li> </ul>
 And much, much, much more—including, of course, how to catch a pig!

How to Catch a Pig: Lots of Cool Stuff Guys Used to Know but Forgot About the Great Outdoors

Self-Help

William Morrow Paperbacks

Thepublication of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1911 marked the last stand of the Enlightenment and a turbulent end to an era. The Eleventh Edition summed up the high point of optimism and belief in human progress that dominated Anglo-Saxon thought from the time of the Enlightenment. Eagerly embraced by hundreds of thousands of middle-class Americans, the Eleventh Edition was read as a twenty-nine-volume anthology of some of the best essays written in English. Among the names of those who contributed to its volumes: T. H. Huxley, Algernon Swinburne, Bertrand Russell; it was the work of 1,500 eminent contributors and was edited by Hugh Chisholm, charismatic star editor. The Britannica combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had or ever has again. Within less than a decade after its publication, the Edwardian worldview was at an end: the “unsinkable” White Star Titanic had sunk on its maiden voyage; Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated and the Great War had begun. In Everything Explained That Is Explainable, Denis Boyles tells the audacious, improbable story of twentieth-century American hucksterism and vision that resurrected a dying Encyclopædia Britannica by means of a floundering London Times, and writes of how its astonishing success changed publishing and produced the Britannica’s Eleventh Edition, still the most revered—all 44 million words—of English-language encyclopedias, considered by many to be the last great work of the age of reason. The author writes of the man whose inspiration it was: Horace Everett Hooper, American entrepreneur who stumbled into the book business at sixteen on a hunch that he could make money selling inexpensive editions of classics by direct mail to isolated settlers scattered across the American West. Hooper found an outdated set of reference books gathering dust in a warehouse, bought them for almost nothing, repackaged them, and sold them on credit as “one-shelf libraries” to farmers concerned about their children’s education in frontier schools; his Western Book and Stationery Company became one of the largest publishers in the Midwest, sending books directly to readers, bypassing traditional booksellers, and inventing a model that was forever after emulated . . . Boyles writes that Hooper and his partner, Henry Haxton, a former Hearst reporter and ingenious adman, came across the Encyclopædia Britannica, published by Adam &amp; Charles Black, whose Ninth Edition’s final volume, published in 1890, was seen by many as the height of English intellectual achievement. The Ninth had everything an encyclopedia needed. Except readers. Hooper and Haxton came up with a new market for the encyclopedia’s next two editions, which they planned to produce, and approached the then-struggling London Times, which became their publishing partner. Boyles tells the outlandish, bumpy tale of the making of the Eleventh; of the young staff of university graduates working with fanatical conviction (40,000 entries by 1,500-odd contributors), scattered around the globe . . . more than 200 members of the Royal Society or fellows of the British Academy; diplomats; government officials; officers of learned societies . . . contributions by the most admired writers, thinkers, and scientists of the day; of their scheme to sell the Eleventh Edition and of the storm that erupted around its publication—and after. An extraordinary tale of American know-how, enterprise, and spirit.

Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

KNOPF

Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles’s work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world.

Vintage

African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor from Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond

“A fast-paced look at white personalities in Africa, a few well-knowns from the past and a few collected by the author in recent years . . . Denis Boyles knows the territory well.”—The New York Times Book Review In a series of ebullient and evocative portraits, journalist Denis Boyles chronicles the white men and women who journeyed to Africa in the twentieth century, seeking things they couldn’t find at home. Daredevil flyers and dedicated missionaries, intrepid explorers, and charming con men—they all turn up in African Lives. You’ll meet General Charles George “Chinese” Gordon, who, as governor of Equatoria in the 1870s, mapped the region, drove out slave traders, and made the area safe for travelers. There is gossip about Beryl Markham and Isak Dinesen, who were legendary rivals in literature and in love. There are also sketches of such colorful figures as Patrick Shaw, the 300-pound “Clint Eastwood” of Kenya, and George Pappas, a self-made millionaire pilot. Vivid, provocative, and insightful, African Lives is a testimony to the continent’s hold on the popular imagination. “Entertaining . . . jazzy . . . Boyles’ prose has a certain cheeky charm, and he spins some good yarns.”—The Washington Post

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Random House Publishing Group

Since the days of “Bleeding Kansas,” people from someplace else have been telling midwesterners how to live, how to vote, and what to believe. In Superior Nebraska, Denis Boyles explodes the myth that hapless Midwesterners have been duped into voting against their own economic interests in order to support right-wing crusades mounted by wily conservatives. Every election cycle, the angry people who live on America’ s blue coasts smugly ridicule those who live in the mystifying heartland of their own country, an exotic, faraway place many of them have seen only from the window of an aircraft. From up there, those who live in so-called red states appear to be prisoners of desolation and failure, with their twisters and blizzards, their vanishing small towns, and their odd obsession with social values. Easterners look down upon “Jesusland” and pronounce it not only empty but ignorant. In this leisurely exploration of civic life along the meandering course of the Republican River, Boyles argues that, in fact, the people living in those big, blue cities have a lot to learn from the Midwest's core values of industriousness, vigor, neighborliness, optimism, moderation, and, above all, self-reliance. Those strengths, Boyles points out, are what made it possible to settle the Great Plains in the first place and have sustained life there since. Deftly demolishing the elitist portrait of rural Republican voters as religious zealots and misguided simpletons, Boyles shows how the interests of red and blue staters actually coincide. Like their coastal, mostly Democratic, cousins, they too want better schools, less intrusive bureaucracies, lower taxes, some moral common sense, a little respect for tradition and faith, some civility in public debate, and support for their belief that personal responsibility always trumps government programs. For more than a century, writers and critics have been asking, “What’ s the matter with Kansas?” In this affecting love letter to Kansas, Nebraska, and the entire American Midwest, Denis Boyles responds by holding up the common-sense values of America’s heartland as a model for us all.

Superior, Nebraska: The Common Sense Values of America's Heartland

Sociology

DOUBLEDAY

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The Modern Man's Guide to Life

A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions

The Lost Lore of a Man's Life: Lots of Cool Stuff Guys Used to Know But Forgot About the Great Outdoors

The Modern Man's Guide to Life

The Modern Man's Guide to Modern Women

How to Catch a Pig: Lots of Cool Stuff Guys Used to Know but Forgot About the Great Outdoors

Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911

Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911

African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor from Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond

Superior, Nebraska: The Common Sense Values of America's Heartland