Craft Mania shows young students how to recycle everyday items into exciting works of art that not only encourage creativity but are also good for the environment.

Paper -it s everywhere we look -paper napkins, paper cups, writing paper, construction paper, paper rolls. There is no end to the availability and functionality of this product. You can cut it, roll it, fold it, color it, tear it, and even make it! Paper Mania takes this ubiquitous material and makes it fun and exciting! Filled with craft projects, trivia, experiments, recycling projects, and more, this craft book provides hours of creative fun!

Provides instructions for making items out of paper plates, including Halloween pumpkins, caterpillars, butterflies, wreaths, masks, and sun catchers.

Craft Mania shows young students how to recycle everyday items into exciting works of art that not only encourage creativity but are also good for the environment.

The beloved personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates American fast food, exploring the history and secret menu items of both national and regional chains, ranking everything from burgers and fries to ice and mascots, and offering his own expert tips on where to go and what to order. Jon Hein is the ultimate fast food maniac, and in this book he draws on his extensive knowledge of, and love for, both nationwide chains and regional gems, from McDonald’s and KFC to In-N-Out Burger and Carvel. He digs into their origin stories; reveals secret menu items; includes best lists for everything from fried chicken and shakes to connoisseur concerns such as straws and biscuits; takes a nostalgic look back at the best giveaways, slogans, and uniforms; and even provides a battle-tested drive-thru strategy. With behind-the-counter looks at places like the Dunkin' Donuts headquarters and Nathan's original hot dog stand, Fast Food Maniac is the definitive, cross-country guide to some of America's best-loved guilty pleasures.

"Paper--it's everywhere we look--paper napkins, paper cups, writing paper, construction paper, paper rolls. There is no end to the availability and functionality of this product. You can cut it, roll it, fold it, color it, tear it, and even make it! Paper Mania takes this ubiquitous material and makes it fun and exciting! Filled with craft projects, trivia, experiments, recycling projects, and more, this craft book provides hours of creative fun!"--

"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the idée fixe, who have come close to surrendering to something or someone diabolically seductive or coercive, will recognize in these characters their own encounter with a dangerously systematized world."—From the introduction. Monomania explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marina van Zuylen revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession. She introduces us to artists and collectors, voyeurs and scholars, hypochondriacs and melancholics, whose lives are run by debilitating compulsions that may become powerful weapons against the tyranny of everyday life. In van Zuylen's view, there is a productive tension between disabling fixations and their curative powers; she argues that the idée fixe has acted as a corrective for the multiple disorders of modernity. The authors she studies—Charles Baudelaire, Sophie Calle, Elias Canetti, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann among them—embody or set in motion different manifestations of this monomaniacal imperative. Their protagonists or alter egos live more intensely, more meaningfully, because of the compulsive pressures they set up for themselves. Monomania shows that transforming life into art, or at least into the artful, drives out the anxiety of the void and puts in its place something so orderly and meaningful that it can take on the aura of a religion.