Forever Erma by Erma Bombeck
This analysis of the standard model of the universe will examine, identify, warn, and explain the various reasons and ways that the standard model of the universe is seriously misunderstood and misleading. Much of the information provided in the various chapters will be repeated in other places because this is a collection of essays with chapters that were prepared over a period of time, and were expanded using new insights and different analysis.It is useful in repeating the important material in alternate ways to insure that the reader can absorb the material and new concepts. Also, it may not be necessary to read and study all the chapters, but the reader can focus on the chapters of particular concern before perhaps studying all the material, for example:
- Learn about twelve misunderstandings and mysteries in the standard model of the universe, and their solutions,
- Discover the truth about Dark Matter, Dark Energy, the Hubble red shift, tired light, and the effect of gravity,
- Learn why gravity is stronger than electrical and nuclear forces,
- Find a simple explanation for the Pioneer anomaly for NASA space probes,
- Understand black holes and the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
Bombeck had been ill for some time. In 1992, after she underwent a mastectomy, her kidneys failed and she began dialysis at her home in Arizona. She suffered from polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary complaint. Even with her illness, Bombeck continued her weekly schedule of housework, her source for the hilarious columns and books for which she was widely loved.
My type of humor is almost pure identification, she once told The New York Times. A housewife reads my columns and says, 'But that's happened to me! I know just what she's talking about!'
If I didn't do my own housework, then I have no business writing about it. I spend 90 percent of my time living scripts and 10 percent writing them.
Erma Bombeck's books include Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession, which spent an entire year in the Number One spot on The New York Times bestseller list; Family: The Ties That Bind...and Gag!; If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?; I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise; When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, which was a New York Times bestseller and the sixth biggest selling nonfiction book of 1991; and A Marriage Made in Heaven...Or Too Tired for an Affair.
There are over twenty million copies of Erma shelved, and her thrice-weekly syndicated columns reached an estimated thirty million readers every week.
Bombeck was a regular on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for eleven years. She holds fifteen honorary doctorates, has been named to the list of the 25 Most Influential Women in America by the World Almanac since 1979, and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the President's Advisory Committee for Women when it was formed in 1978.
She is survived by her husband, William Bombeck, her mother, Erma Harris, and her three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780836226843 |
| ISBN 10 | 0836226844 |
| Title | Forever Erma |
| Author | Erma Bombeck |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Year published | 1996-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 273 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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