Mike Rowe
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read"--
2) New Zealand
Series
Publisher
Film Ideas, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A land of lush green pastures, active volcanoes, geysers, the world's largest kiwi plantation, and twenty breeds of sheep. Auckland is the largest city on North Island. In the Bay of Plenty on White Island, we see New Zealand's largest active volcano. Finally, we visit the Coromandel Peninsula
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
Rowe has been writing all of her adult life- even through years of constant rejection from publishing houses. Between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, her breakthrough finally came-- at the age of eighty! Here she shares her journey of attending myriad writers' conferences and honing her ability to see humor in everyday...
6) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2005-c2006
Language
English
Description
Contains nine episodes of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs," featuring profiles of workers in twenty-four jobs, including pig farmer, mussel harvester, necropsy technician, sewer inspector, casino food recycler, fuel tank cleaner, and others, and including series highlights, behind-the-scenes footage, and bloopers.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Forty-foot waves, freezing temperatures, swinging 700-pound crab pots, a nearly 100-percent injury rate-- but also the chance to earn enough money for a family to live on for a year for just a few days' work. Welcome to one of the world's deadliest jobs: the Alaskan crab fisherman."--Container.
15) About My Mother: True Stores of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That's not to say it's not about my mother—it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, it's really a book about "mothers."
...It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesn't...
...It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike's rise to fame.
Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure and a quirky sense of humor because of their differences. From thoughts of wearing headlamps in the house to save energy, to squeezing out...
Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure and a quirky sense of humor because of their differences. From thoughts of wearing headlamps in the house to save energy, to squeezing out...
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered exactly how our Universe is put together? How is it built? And how it actually works? This is ultimate guide to the Cosmos will show as never before the inner workings of our planet, the Solar System, the galaxies and the Universe itself. This series investigates the nuts and bolts of our cosmos, exploring a whole range of fascinating celestial phenomena and how they came to be the way they are. Experts and mind-blowing CGI,...