Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy--an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career, with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss.

Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One Is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films--Father of the Bride, Roxanne, The Jerk, Three Amigos, and many more--bringing readers directly into his world. He shares charming tales of antics, moments of inspiration, and exploits with the likes of Paul McCartney, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams, and Chevy Chase. Martin details his forty years in the movie biz, as well as his stand-up comedy, banjo playing, writing, and cartooning, all with his unparalleled wit.

With gorgeously illustrated cartoons and single-panel "diversions" in Steve and Harry's signature style, Number One Is Walking is full of the everyday moments that make up a movie star's life, capturing Steve Martin's singular humor and acclaimed career in film. The perfect gift from the team who brought you the #1 New York Times bestseller A Wealth of Pigeons.

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Though best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also an accomplished writer of the most chilling horror stories of the 20th century. Written during the same period as the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, these horror stories share the darkness of Doyle's more well-known works, if not always their logical conclusions. Together they paint quite a different picture of Doyle than do his detective pieces, illuminating a writer as fascinated by the supernatural and the unsolveable as by the science of modern detection.

A century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros... A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne there was Dunk and Egg. A young, naive but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience. Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg - whose true identity must be hidden from all he and Dunk encounter: for in reality he is Aegon Targaryen, and one day he will be king. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits. A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS brings together for the first time the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory.

Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker's growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. ----- First came the hands, then came the stories -- some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker's progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: * Poker on the Mississippi * Poker in the Movies * Poker in the Old West * Poker on the Newsstand * Poker in the Civil War * Poker in Literature * Poker on the Bookshelf * Poker in Music * Poker in the White House * Poker on Television * Poker During Wartime * Poker on the Computer ----- From Mark Twain to "Dogs Playing Poker" to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game's portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker's relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lotas Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lotas wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Although rarely articulated directly, this idea remains powerful in our culture. This book traces some of its aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical consequences. Harries traces the figure of Lotas wife across media. In extended engagements with examples from twentieth-century theater, film, and painting, he focuses on the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud, a series of American films, and paintings by Anselm Kiefer. These examples all return to the story of Lotas wife as a way to think about modern predicaments of the spectator. On the one hand, the sometimes veiled figure of Lotas wife allows these artists to picture the desire to destroy the spectator; on the other, she stands as a sign of the potential danger to the spectator. These works, that is, enact critiques of the very desire that inspires them.The book closes with an extended meditation on September 11, criticizing the notion that we should have been destroyed by witnessing the events of that day.

All Original Stories "December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's unforgettable words informed the American people that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and initiated America's entry into World War II. But what if things had happened differently? A Date Which Will Live in Infamy is an anthology of fictional alternatives to the events leading up to, during, and following the surprise Japanese attack in Hawaii. Also included is an appendix containing a timeline of the attack and essays on the diplomatic context of the situation and the realities addressed in writing alternative histories about Pearl Harbor.

The collection of stories in Murder Most Romantic is about romance experienced in the teeth of mortal danger, when every decision is life-or-death and the smallest mistake could kill you. It is said that love is at its most intense when it is threatened, and when that threat is mortal, murder and romance can combine to build emotions to a fever pitch. Many award-winning writers have joined together in creating the new and original stories in Murder Most Romantic. From Laura Resnick's heart-stopping tale of a honeymoon gone very wrong to Dine Stuckart's look at the scary side of the cyber world, to D. E. Meredith's story of love and death in small-town Texas and beyond, every contribution adds a new twist. This collection of heart-stopping romance includes: Homicidal Honeymoon by Laura Resnick * The Scottish Ploy by P. N. Elrod * www.gonnahavekelly.com by Diane A. S. Stuckart * The Perfect Man by Kristine Kathryn Rusch * Celtic Cross by Yvonne Jocks * Hostage to Love by Mary Watson * Dizzy and the Biker by Susan Sizemore * Night Hawks by Jody Lynn Nye * Keeper of the Well by Deb Stover * Dearly Beloved by D. R.Meredith * The Show Must Go On by Neesa Hart * Twelve Days by Laura Hayden

Guardian Angels is a collection of inspiring, uplifting stories about the most heavenly of guardians: angels. Whether they appear on earth to show someone the right choice to make in a difficult situation or to defend innocent souls against the powers of evil, angels have always held a special place in millions of people's hearts. In popular parlance, angels are believed to bridge the distance between God and man. The stories in this collection portray angels, in all of their glorious splendour and awesome power, and the ways in which they help those they are charged to protect - men and women who face obstacles and challenges that can only be overcome with a bit of supernatural assistance. Guardian Angels includes the following original stories: Angel with a Mission by Deb Stover; I'm Not Making This Up by Susan Sizemore; and Angels Unawares by Nancy Springer. Additional original stories that have never been printed are written by Gary A. Braunbeck, Jane Lindskold, Yvonne Jocks, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Neesa Hart, Stobie Piel, Paul Dellinger, and Tim Wannoner.Also included are classic angel stories The Big Sky by Charles de Lint; Letting Go by Ken Wiseman; The Box by Bruce Coville; and Unworthy of the Angel by Stephen R. Donaldson.

Guardian Angels"": Heart-Warming Stories of Divine Influence and Protection, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, is a collection of inspiring, uplifting stories about the most heavenly of protectors: angels. Portraying angels in their splendor and power, it includes stories by Susan Sizemore, Charles de Lint, and Gary Braunbeck.""

When a nation's attention turns toward war, many opportunities for other crimes arise. Against the backdrop of brothers fighting brothers and cities under siege, civilians and soldiers alike conspire to use the cover of conflict to steal, cheat, spy and even murder for whatever reason - the honour of their cause or personal gain. Sometimes the crimes committed because of war can be the most terrible of all. The stories in Murder Most Confederate, the majority written specifically for this book, are all set within the Confederacy. They range from the war-torn city of Richmond, Virginia, where a husband and wife run an unusual boarding house, to two brothers fighting on opposite sides of the war and the terrible price one of them pays for happiness. From men and women doing their patriotic duty to rogues and criminals committing crimes under the cover of combat, the savage side of war is revealed in these stories of Murder Most Confederate. The rebellious line-up includes: The Hessian by Doug Allyn * The Price of Coal by Edward D.Hoch * Last Hours in Richmond by Brendan DuBois * Veterans by John Lutz * The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street by Avram Davidson * A House Divided by Marc Bilgrey * Blossoms and Blood by Janet Berliner * Whistling Dixie by Billie Sue Mosiman * Behind Enemy Lines by John Helfers and Carol Rondou * The Unknown Soldier by Kristine Kathryn Rusch * A Woman's Touch by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens * Ghost by Bradley H. Sinor * The Last Day of the War by James Reasoner * Valuables by Kristine Scheid * The Face by Ed Gorman * Matthew in the Morning by Gary A. Braunbeck

Murder Most Medieval is a collection of short stories set in medieval times in which murders are solved by the cleverest of methods. Included are stories by Peter Tremayne, Clayton Emery, and Ellis Peters.

The first of two volumes focusing on the African-American experience during the Civil War. Twenty-six articles review the rise of abolitionism in the North, the recruitment of black troops, their performance in battle, race as a factor in combat, women and the war effort, and black troops fighting for the Confederacy.

What sort of creatures may have haunted the Mardi Gras festival and who may have said farewell to the flesh in a horribly unique way (and why and how) are the subjects of this collection of murder stories set in New Orleans.

This collection of 11 stories proves that it's not just vampires who are out for blood these days. Instead, they tell of fearless and perhaps crazy people who hunt and dispatch vampires from this world to the next with torches and crucifixes and garlic -- lots of garlic.

The City. Suggestive of the sophistication and naivete, success and failure, culture and brutality, victim and predator. Does this city ever truly rest? And those who watch from dark places, each night hoping and thirsting? For what? Life? Revenge? Another day? Only the vampires, returned from the dead to drain life from the living, know for sure, and the Streets of Blood are their domain. All the stories in Streets of Blood are set in the greater New York City area. They include: Softly While You're Sleeping, Evelyn E. Smith; Lowlifes, Esther M. Friesner; To Feel Another's Woe, Chet Williamson; Appetites, Lawrence Schimel; Following the Way, Alan Ryan; Seat Partner, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Night Laughter, Ellen Kushner; The Land of Lost Content, Suzy McKee Charnas

Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.

What sort of creatures may have haunted the Mardi Gras festival and who may have said farewell to the flesh in a horribly unique way (and why and how) are the subjects of this collection of murder stories set in New Orleans.

Ever since the first caveman sketched out the bison hunts on the walls of the Lascaux caves 16,000 years ago, mankind has found a way to communicate. For centuries the letter was the primary form of communication across any distance. Kings, popes, lords, heads of state, scholars, authors -- all used pen and paper to plot against one another, gossip, woo and win each other's hearts, and play intricate games of intrigue.

In the 21 stories in Murder Most Postal, all by masters of the mystery genre, the mail takes center stage. Edgar Allan Poe is here with his classic detective tale of a letter gone astray and the cunning way in which it is retrieved. Lawrence Block tells of the correspondence between a death-row inmate and the brother of the woman he killed, and of the deadly consequences for both. Ellery Queen investigates a puzzling philatelic theft. And Matt Costello writes of letters in cyberspace, as a man pours out his heart to a stranger in a chat room in the last messages he will ever write.

The children in this anthology of 11 stories--whether good or evil, whether ghost, werewolf, or vampire, whether protecting themselves or others--all have one thing in common: they are all "children of the night."

The first of two volumes focusing on the African-American experience during the Civil War. Twenty-six articles review the rise of abolitionism in the North, the recruitment of black troops, their performance in battle, race as a factor in combat, women and the war effort, and black troops fighting for the Confederacy.

The words murder and romance seldom appear together. If given a choice, most of us would prefer them to be as far apart as possible. But there is no denying that an edge of danger can heighten tension, intensify emotions, and make every moment a treasure to be seized, since it might be the last chance to experience anything at all.

The collection of stories in Murder Most Romantic is about romance experienced in the teeth of mortal danger, when every decision is life-or-death and the smallest mistake could kill you. It is said that love is at its most intense when it is threatened, and when that threat is mortal, murder and romance can combine to build emotions to a fever pitch.

Many award-winning writers have joined together in creating the new and original stories in Murder Most Romantic. From Laura Resnick's heart-stopping tale of a honeymoon gone very wrong to Dine Stuckart's look at the scary side of the cyber world, to D. E. Meredith's story of love and death in small-town Texas and beyond, every contribution adds a new twist.