Most Popular Books by David Weiss

Come back with us to the days of the Wild West, when men were men and ducks were deputy sheriffs, with disastrous results! And speaking of disasters, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam try to work together with power tools.

Coyote''s building a pyramid to trap the Roadrunner! Plus, Bugs defends Earth''s carrot crop from Marvin the Martian.

Bugs Bunny trespasses on Yosemite "Strongman" Sam''s turf; Porky Pig gets big trouble instead of his mail; and Daffy Duck "fowls" up Elmer''s TV show.

A classic Looney rivalry hits prime time as Elmer hosts a TV fix-it show and Bugs throws a monkey wrench into the mix! Plus, Daffy and Porky become superspies, and Sylvester is forced to guard Tweety with his life!

Music Supervision, or matching music to TV, film, new media, video games, live events, brands, and a host of other media, is a fast-growing career path. This book guides you through real-world scenarios and legal landmines, profiles key players, explores mixing and sound design, and provides time-saving project form templates. For those who want to break into the field of music supervision, this book tells you how to get the job. Artists, publishers and labels seeking more effective sync licensing for their catalogues will also benefit from the unique insights of Music Supervision “The definitive guide to music supervision.” - Brad Hatfield, Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music

Daffy Duck the detective!

Plötzlich diese Übersicht by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), a loose collection of over 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures, is one of those artworks that is very familiar even to those who are not all that interested in art. The artists have created a masterpiece, using an entirely unspectacular material to form sculptural snapshots that sparkle with cheerful wit : sketched models of everyday situations and objects ; clay reproductions that reveal the absurdity and artificial normality of the ordinary. Alongside them are semi-freely imagined scenes and events from history, culture, entertainment, sport and assorted memories from their own biographies, immortalised in emblematic scenarios. The titles, with their characteristic subtle mockery, fragmentary encyclopaedic knowledge and serious irony, are an integral part of the work.

"A 900 page edifice erected atop and around the life and nigh incredible achievements of the 17th century architect, astronomer and mathematician who served under five monarchs and the Commonwealth. In the beginning -- when Weiss deals with Wren''s childhood, as the son and nephew of highly placed clerics, as bewildered schoolmate (at four) of Prince Charles at Windsor, as hard-working student at Westminster -- the author''s patient, loving detail promises the reader of commercial historicals a comfortable stretch of winter reading. However, there is no strong emotional focus, except possibly Wren''s determination to rebuild St. Paul''s (a 33 year obsession) and as Weiss picks his way through the politics, religion, science, arts and notables of Wren''s 90 years on earth, there is simply no keystone to hold the whole mess together. Also there are implausible moments -- the monarchs and Cromwell all tip their hands to Wren at one time or another and just about anybody who was anybody files by -- from Pepys to Milton ("Cromwell like(d) the way he writes"), Van Dyke to Newton (who makes his "great ocean of truth" observation in casual conversation to guess who), to Nell Gwynn who compliments Wren on his theater design: "Charles, this theater is a great improvement. Spacious, comfortable, light. The town talks of nothing else." As for the architecture, the little learning here is not enough (was "Gothic" referred to as such in the 17th century?): In referring to St. Paul''s, the author has King William remark: "Don''t bring it up again Mary. If you''ve mentioned St. Paul''s once, you''ve mentioned it a dozen times." Sound fellow, William..."--Kirkus

Collision on I-75 tells an extraordinary public health story that has not been told before, and it tells it in a compelling and exciting way. It details over two decades of struggle by public health professionals, legislators, state officials, and law enforcement to compel a huge corporation to prevent deadly, suspected industrial-fog-related collisions. A couple of weeks before Christmas in 1990, nearly one hundred vehicles collided on Interstate-75 northeast of Chattanooga in an unusually dense fog bank, leaving 12 dead and dozens seriously injured. Within days of the collision, Attorney Douglas Fees was contacted by Evelyn Piper whose son, Craig, had burned to death in the cab of his truck on I-75. Fees became the lead attorney in the case, eventually representing nearly all the accident victims who sought legal assistance. It became clear to Fees that the cause of the tragedy was an artificial industrial fog that originated at the Bowater pulp mill a couple of miles up the valley from where the collision occurred. Bowater was the largest pulp mill in the United States, and the largest employer and landowner in Tennessee. This is the true story of a tragic incident involving large numbers of people, corporate negligence, faulty state regulation, and a risk-taking attorney in pursuit of uncertain compensation for the victims and himself.

Abe Burrows'' adaptation from Jane Austen''s Pride and Prejudice and Helen Jerome''s play Music and Lyrics by Robert Goldman Glenn Paxton and George Weiss Characters: 14male 12female 7 sets. Mrs. Bennett rural prosaic and the matriarch of five daughters has her gaze on the social whirl of London while her husband and farm languish. The eldest headstrong Elizabeth has her own ideas on life and love. With her eyes on the ''prize'' and "a house in town" Mrs. Bennett sets about bringing stubborn Elizabeth into the social orbit of upscale snob William D''arcy with classic hilarious results. The original cast on Broadway included Polly Bergen Hermione Gingold and Farley Granger as D''arcy.

"This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity. Susanoo inhabited a sinister otherworld, which came to be associated with colonial Korea. Imperialist ideologues were able to build on these interpretations of the Susanoo myth to depict Korea as a dreary realm at the margin of the Japanese empire that made the imperial metropole shine all the more brightly. At the same time, Susanoo was identified as the ancestor of the Korean people. Thus, the colonial subjects were ideologically incorporated into the homogeneous Japanese "family state." The book situates Susanoo in Japan''s cultural memory and shows how the deity, while being repeatedly transformed in order to meet the religious and ideological needs of the day, continued to symbolize the margin of Japan."--