In a books that is at once laugh-out-loud funny and all-too-true to life, comedy-talent-turned-television-star Ray Romano goes home again, revealing that the source of his inspiration is heritage, hearth and family. As did his stand-up comedy and his present, top-rated CBS-TV program, Romano draws on his real-life experience as a husband, a father, a father of twins, a son with parents living very very close, and a brother, to make readers laugh and laugh harder.

Millionaire Joe Romano's surprise birthday gift is a live-in cook--Lucinda Barry. But the beautiful, blue-blooded blonde can't even fry an egg, so Joe instantly realizes it's all a scheme to find him a suitable wife! Joe decides to take his revenge on Lucinda and his matchmaking Italian grandmother by playing them at their own game. Surely Lucinda won't mind sharing his bed as part of her domestic duties?

A little girl is sad to say goodbye to her parents when they leave for work, but always has fun with her special friend Nanny.

This work brings into light the bibliography, dedicated to St. Romanos the Melodist, considered as `the greatest of the poets of the Greek Church and of Christianity'. The bibliography intends to be primarily a useful tool for those who will focus their attention on the life, work and theology of the great Christian hymnographer from the time of Emperor Justinian.

The creative genius behind more than 25 restaurant concepts like Romano's Macaroni Grill and Fuddruckers is MAD. Philip J. Romano has acquired a wealth of knowledge over his 50 years in the restaurant business and with his latest book is ready to share his secrets to success and insight into why he's MAD, Making a Difference in the World, in Business and in Life. Mr. Romano holds the record for being the only person to create six national (and successful) restaurant concepts: Fuddruckers, Romano's Macaroni Grill, Spageddies, Cozymel's, Rudy's Country Store and BBQ and eatZi's Market & Bakery. In addition to being an entrepreneur, artist, philanthropist and nationally-renowned restaurateur, Mr. Romano is an accomplished investor. He was an original partner in a company that held the licensing rights to the Palmaz-Schatz Stent, the first coronary stent to be approved by the FDA in 1994. It is one of the most successful medical devices of its time and considered one of the top 10 patents to have changed the world. Mr. Romano is also a general partner in three medical funds that invest in medical start-ups. This book captures Mr. Romano's entrepreneurial spirit and should be read by all those interested in starting a business, taking a risk, capitalizing on an opportunity or realizing a dream.

This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States is an anti-intellectual country. Instead he provides a richly reported overview of American thought, arguing that ordinary Americans see through phony philosophical justifications faster than anyone else, and that the best of our thinkers ditch artificial academic debates for fresh intellectual enterprises. Along the way, Romano seeks to topple philosophy’s most fiercely admired hero, Socrates, asserting that it is Isocrates, the nearly forgotten Greek philosopher who rejected certainty, whom Americans should honor as their intellectual ancestor. America the Philosophical is a rebellious tour de force that both celebrates our country’s unparalleled intellectual energy and promises to bury some of our most hidebound cultural clichés.