Alfred Gingold

The Cool Parents' Guide to New York

Excursions and Activities in and around our city that your children will love - and you won’t think are too bad either. The new edition has all our standbys (the Little Red Lighthouse, the oldest subway tunnel in the world), plus many new and groovy suggestions for family fun, along with the occasional shard of edification.

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The Cool Parents' Guide to New York
Fourth Edition! -- Revised, Expanded, Even Cooler than Before

Dog World and the Humans Who Live There
A wry excursion through the studied, obsessive, colorful, demanding, occasionally lunatic world of contemporary dog ownership.

Snafu University
For anyone who's suffered through college admissions, here's a parody that cuts higher education down to size.