Goofy Things Girls Do to Get Guys, Part Encouragement, Part Good Laugh, is a valuable resource for anyone struggling to build a genuine relationship and for those who consistently wreck havoc once one becomes available. Don't be surprised if you see yourself or someone you know...With down home humor and poignant insight, Toby Smith takes readers on a painfully comedic and often tearful journey into the wacky, wonderful world of finding someone, losing someone and all the madness in between.In clear language with a bit of Charleston flair, Smith highlights strategies that are certain to either make or break a new groove. Included are Mental Mistakes, Mouth and E-mail Mistakes, Money Mistakes and Image Issues. Goofy Things Girls Do to Get Guys is a humorous resource for anyone interested in the never boring subject of relationships and all the opportunities they afford to build character...or to cry.

Goofy Things Girls Do to Get Guys: Part Encouragement, Part Good Laugh

Self-Help

Smith, Toby

Relationships

iUniverse, Inc.

In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis. This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and social alliance that sustains our belief in industrial expansionism. The ecological crisis of the late twentieth century presents a challenge to the very foundations of this alliance. The hegemonic system reacts to a threat to its structure by producing social myths that provide a common sense understanding of the threat. Smith examines one such social myth, the contemporary phenomenon known as green marketing, and how it came to reinforce, rather than challenge, the ethics of productivism. By analysing green marketing as it relates primarily to the early 1990s corporate campaigns of companies such as McDonald's, Shell Chemicals, and Mobil Chemical Co., Smith demonstrates how these voices weave together an understanding of green consumerism using familiar language from economic and liberal democratic discourses. The Myth of Green Marketing is an original and important contribution to the field of environmental studies. As the first book on green marketing, it is sure to raise controversy with its unique discussion of the cultural and social aspects of environmental issues.

The Myth of Green Marketing: Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse

Business & Money

Economics

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

The Myth of Green Marketing: Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse (Heritage)

University of Toronto Press

Dateline New Mexico

History

Americas

Olympic Marketing Corp

In "New Mexico Odyssey", Toby Smith goes on the road to find memorable people, engage them n conversation, and come away with good stories to share with us. We motor along on old Route 66 the length of the state encountering towns and people who've seen better times but aren't sorry about what they did or how they did it. Smith takes us to every part of the state and at each stop he introduces us to someone who will amuse, inform, or capture our interest and imagination. "New Mexico Odyssey" serves to remind us that highways are more than asphalt or concrete divided by a golden dash. They are invitations to discovery. Everyone who travels in New Mexico will find these stories entertaining and enlightening.

New Mexico Odyssey

Univ of New Mexico Pr

More than half of all Americans believe UFOs and aliens exist. How did extraterrestrials come to be so real for so many? Toby Smith tracks down our fascination with extraterrestrials, showing how Roswell became the fiber out of which all flying saucer and alien stories were woven in science fiction films and television programs, especially in the late 1940s and the 1950s. It all began outside Roswell on a July night in 1947. A nearby military base's official announcement of the recovery of a crashed flying saucer went out to radio stations and newspapers nationwide--including The New York Times. The military's quick retraction came too late. The government had already said extraterrestrials existed.
Today visitors are taken to the crash site in a vehicle with license plates reading Believe. And believe people do. But why? Statements of belief in extraterrestrials from such diverse and noteworthy people as General Douglas MacArthur, Carl Jung, and Elvis Presley firmly fixed the place of aliens in modern American culture.
 Smith not only examines movies and the media to understand the prominence of aliens in our contemporary culture, he also shows how New Mexico and Wright Field in Ohio, where the bodies of the aliens were reportedly taken, remain particularly fertile spawning grounds for UFO stories. Once extraterrestrial visitors landed (or didn't land) in Roswell, the notion we're not alone in the universe quickly became part of American popular culture.

Little Gray Men: Roswell and the Rise of a Popular Culture

Reference

University of New Mexico Press

From its founding in 1929, Railway Express Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960s. In return for a monopoly on passenger train service, the express company was obligated to accept any and all shipments within the United States. REA handled carloads of cattle, race horses, and fruits and vegetables. Radioactive material was moved on regular schedules for the Atomic Energy Commission. When companies or individuals wanted to ship something (even ten turtles) to any place in the world (even Tucumcari, New Mexico), they called REA. The history of REA coincides with the career of Klink Garrett, who began as a temporary employee in Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1934 and stayed with REA until 1973, by which time he was a senior executive and member of the company's board of directors.
Garrett spent the first half of his tenure working in small offices, usually one-man operations, in the West. In 1956 he was promoted to a national sales position with offices in both New York City and Washington, D.C. His main job was to coordinate the transportation needs of the Defense Department and the emerging nuclear industry via REA. His entrepreneurial ethic--a combination of extraordinary customer service and good old-fashioned ingenuity--gave him lots of good stories to tell, many of which are related here. His last fifteen years at REA were the years of the company's decline and the decline of the nation's railroads; by 1976 the company was bankrupt and out of business.

Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency

Garrett, Klink

This loving tribute to the defunct minor league teams of New Mexico and west Texas resurrects a forgotten period of baseball history. Through oral histories of players, umpires, fans, sportswriters, and team officials, Toby Smith brings to life the West Texas-New Mexico League, the Longhorn League, the Southwestern League, and the Sophomore League from 1946 to 1961, when the last of them folded. Star players Joe Bauman and Bob Crues get special attention, along with assorted brawls, a fatal beaning incident, home runs, and marriages conducted at home plate. Anyone who loves baseball will enjoy this delightful book.

Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest

In 1912 boxing was as popular a spectator sport in the United States as baseball, if not more so. It was also rife with corruption and surrounded by gambling, drinking, and prostitution, so much so that many cities and states passed laws to control it. But not in New Mexico. It was the perfect venue for one of the biggest, loudest, most rambunctious heavyweight championship bouts ever seen. In Crazy Fourth Toby Smith tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson--the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion--met Jim Flynn on the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The civic boosters, bursting with pride in their town, raised a hundred thousand dollars for the fight, pushing events like the sinking of the Titanic to the back pages of every newspaper. In the end, once the dust finally settled on the whole unseemly spectacle, Las Vegas would spend the next generation making good on its losses.

Crazy Fourth: How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title and Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Map

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Coal Town: The Life and Times of Dawson, New Mexico

Organized at the turn of the century in northeast New Mexico, Dawson grew into one of the Southwest's major coal producers. It was once a bustling town of more than 6,000 people. Run by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Dawson also became a place that was different than any other company town. Coal Town tells the story of the ordinary people of Dawson, it follows the town's rough-and-tumble beginnings through its glory years just before World War I. It tracks the community's struggles during the Depression, and, finally, its demise in 1950.

Ancient City Press

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