On one Christmas Eve As he did each year Santa crossed the equator To the Southern Hemisphere. But this year, Santa decides it's too hot to deliver presents. He grabs a surfboard and heads out to catch some waves... Can Trev, his old ute and a flock of emus save Christmas Day?

A second edition chronicling the breaks and wipe outs of the sixties surf bands featuring 49 groups and their stories told by the members themselves. Guitarists Dick Dale and Duane Eddy are starred along with groups like The Esquires, The Marauders, and The Surftones. Each band's big hits are profil

Three hottie humbugs find holiday magic where they least expect it... Naughty or nice, these "Kris Kringles" will make them jingle!

From original beachcomber personalities like the Waikiki Beachboys to the rise of Venice Beach as a creative center for music, art, and film, Pop Surf Culture traces the roots of the surf boom and explores its connection to the Beat Generation and 1960s pop culture. Through accounts of key figures both obscure and popular, the book illustrates why surf culture is a vital art movement of the 20th century. Pop Surf Culture includes essays about the popular "beach” movies of the fifties and sixties, which featured such stars as Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon and the music of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, Brian Wilson, the Pyramids, Gary Usher, James Brown, and Little Stevie Wonder. Sixties art figures Michael Dormer and Rick Griffin--as well as the surf magazines which promoted their art--are featured alongside the progenitors of "surf music,” from the little known (the Centurians) to the wildly popular (the Beach Boys). Duke Kahanamoku, the Gas House, Gidget, surfing on television, the bohemian surf aesthetic, surf music hot spots, Mickey "Da Cat” Dora . . . the entire spectrum of pop surf culture is covered within these colorfully illustrated pages.

"LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: 1930s" details the surf world of the 1930s, including California, Florida, Hawaii, Australia and Britain. This is not a coffee table book. It is specifically written for surfers who want to know the details of the heritage we are blessed to share, as told by those who lived it.

"Freeze!" Duane "Dog" Chapman entertains and inspires millions on Dog the Bounty Hunter, his #1-rated show on A&E--but there is more to his story. From troubled beginnings and tragedy to triumph and transformation, he reveals all for the first time in this no-holds-barred memoir. Dog spent the first twenty-three years of his life on the wrong side of the law. In You Can Run but You Can't Hide, he offers an inside look at his days as a gang member; his dark years of addiction and abuse; and how serving eighteen months in prison for a murder he didn't commit helped him recommit to his faith. He also shares stories of some of his most dangerous bounty hunts--including his capture of Max Factor heir and convicted rapist Andrew Luster, which made international headlines. In You Can Run but You Can't Hide, Dog recounts his incredible story, chronicling his journey from his onetime criminal past to the guiding faith that has led him to become one of the most successful bounty hunters in American history. Against all odds, Dog turned his life around and went from ex-con to American icon in the process. This is his story.

The Santa Louise Kid - Warcry The Santa Louise Kid - Warcry is the second book in the The Santa Louise Kid trilogy. The Santa Louise Kid - Murder began in thirteenth century France and ended on Santa Louise Island, California in 1951. Warcry picks up from where Murder left off. Jamie Tomas Wilson is the most powerful warlock ever to be sent to earth by is parents, Simon Magus and Helen of Troy. He's been assigned three tasks by his grandfather. He must go back in time and reverse the results on the Spanish Armada battle; the Spanish won. Stop Baal's demons from supporting Chief Pontiac. Reverse the success of the warlock Major John Andre. Jamie is supported by his legion of warlocks and witches. The Demolays, Mendalsons, and Williams families are back. Sixteen-year-old Jamie meets his first two loves; Lizzy Turner and Marie DeMolay, they are both from the eighteenth century. T. Robert Yani T. Robert Yani tired of reading other writers books. At age 60 he decided to write his own novel, The Santa Louise Kid - Murder. The Santa Louise Kid - Warcry is the second work of the Santa Louise Kid trilogy. Rob is currently a project manager in Central Florida. He is married and has two daughters in their twenties. He loves baseball, history, and travel. Every place he goes he collects a shot glass. He has over two hundred and fifty. He is currently doing research for the last book of the trilogy, The Santa Louise Kid - Heavenly Wars II.

The American newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its entire three-hundred-year history. A generation of relentless "corporatization" has resulted in a furious, unprecedented blitz of buying, selling, and consolidation of newspapers, accompanied by dramatic -- and drastic -- change in reporting and coverage of all kinds. Concerned that this phenomenon was going largely unreported, Gene Roberts, legendary reporter and editor, decided to undertake a huge, extended reportorial study of his own industry, what would become the Project on the State of the American Newspaper. Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review, published by the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, asking the crucial question: Are American communities -- in the very middle of the so-called information explosion -- in danger of becoming less informed than ever?

A witty, honest, and savvy guide to Santa Monica, Venice, and environs: where to eat, shop, learn, discover and explore.