Cow Parade Houston [Hardcover]

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Co,; 1St Edition edition (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761125418
• ISBN-13: 978-0761125419
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 9.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After four years in a doctoral program studying medieval English literature, three years as a copywriter for Book-of-the-Month Club, and one year as a marketing director for a pricey, upscale travel company, I went into business for myself as a full-time writer in 1992. (Yeah. I can't believe the business has stayed afloat this long either).
As a writer, I really don't specialize; my resume is all over the map. I developed the concept and wrote the script for History Book Club's first television commercial. I've written direct mail for Time-Life Books, TV Guide, The Reader's Digest, Hilton Hotels, and the American Banking Association. I wrote the original Barnes & Noble web site; a series of online e-learning business, finance, and banking courses for the New York Institute of Finance; and a special "History of the Paperback" web site to celebrate Quality Paperback Book Club's 25th anniversary. My 50 States Fandex cards (Workman Publishing, 1998) have sold 700,000 copies (!). And I've published articles in a variety of newspapers and magazines--from The Wall Street Journal to Emmy magazine to the national Catholic news weekly Our Sunday Visitor.
My first book, Every Eye Beholds You: A World Treasury of Prayer (Harcourt Brace, 1999), was a Main Selection of both Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club. My book on patron saints, Saints for Every Occasion (Stampley Enterprises, 2001) has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Polish.
I'm not a professional talking head, but I've been invited to discuss saints, the canonization process, and Catholic history on CNN, EWTN, Ave Maria Radio; and urban legends on the BBC, The Discovery Channel, Inside Edition, and approximately 75 radio stations.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff for Houstonians and hard-core collectors, worthless otherwise, July 3, 2008

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ScrawnyPunk (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cow Parade Houston (Hardcover)

By now, Cow Parade or some variant of the 'public art' movement has hit every city with over a 100,000 people. I have seen alligators, space ships, people, and dragons on parade in various cities. Still, it all started with Cows in Zurich in 1998. Houston was the fourth city in the US (after Chicago, New York, and Kansas City). Some of the cows remain to this day in various parts of the city, 6 years later.

The pictures are fine, the memories are better, but this is probably of little use if you are not from Houston or are not a serious collector of Cow Parade memorabilia.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Yet, November 8, 2001

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Bill Dykes (Spring, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cow Parade Houston (Hardcover)

This is the best Cow Parade book to date. What goes better together than cows and Houston? Local designs are terrific and they and the city have been represented in a wonderful light. The cover really says it all, a representation, through the cow, of a proud and strong city.