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Stuff Parisians Like
By Olivier Magny. 2011
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians. To be…
mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone calls. Be sure to order San Pellegrino, not any other kind of fizzy water. They shouldn't be surprised when a waiter brings out two spoons after they order le moelleux au chocolat- it is understood that the dessert is too sinfully delicious not to share. Go to l'île Saint-Louis-all Parisians are irredeemably in love with that island. Feel free to boldly cross the street whenever the impulse strikes-pedestrian crosswalks are too dangerous. If they take a cruise on the Seine, they will want to stand outside, preferably with their collar popped up. If they want to decorate, may we suggest the photographs of Robert Doisneau? To truly be cool in Paris, own an iPhone, wear Converse sneakers, and order sushi. And as they stroll through the Luxembourg Gardens, remember-they can't go wrong wearing black.The Book of Useless Information
By Noel Botham. 2006
What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to…
The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book. . . Did you know (or do you care). . . • That fish scales are used to make lipstick? • Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States’s annual income? • The name of the first CD pressed in the United States? • The last year that can be written upside-down or right side-up and appear the same? • The shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar®? • How much Elvis weighed at the time of his death? • What the suits in a deck of cards represent? • How many Quarter Pounders can be made from one cow? • How interesting useless information can be? The Book of Useless Information answers these teasers and is packed with facts and figures that will captivate you—and anyone who shares your joy in the pursuit of pointless knowledge. .The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
By Eleanor Herman. 2018
"You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." —Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out…
In June 2018"A heady mix of erudite history and delicious gossip." —Aja Raden, author of StonedIn the Washington Post roundup, "What your favorite authors are reading this summer," A.J. Finn says, “I want to read The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman’s history of poisons."Hugely entertaining, a work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political—and cosmetic—tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin todayThe story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications, and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed turds on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings, and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. The most gorgeous palaces were little better than filthy latrines. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines. In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness, and, sometimes, murder.You Are Good at Things: A Checklist
By Andy Selsberg. 2012
Handily arranged in checklist format, particularly useful for those readers good at making lists, this is a celebration of all…
the little things that the human race excels at. Affirmation comes for those who can finish other people's sentences, fall asleep on public transport, fix the toilet merely by jiggling the handle, remember what used to be somewhere and sit through the end of film credits.The Mammoth Book of Jokes 2
By Geoff Tibballs. 2012
From the man behind the bestselling Mammoth Book of Jokes, an all-new, enormous collection of fantastic jokes - indexed and…
categorised to help find the right joke for the right occasion, from Bar-Mitzvahs to bar-rooms. Bigger, better, and even bulkier than before, The Mammoth Book of Jokes 2 is the consummate collection, with jokes on every subject under the sun, from lawyers to low-energy light bulbs.Jumbo Jokes And Riddles Book
By Beth L. Blair. 2007
If you want to have all your friends laughing hysterically at your jokes, the Jumbo Jokes and Riddles Book is…
for you! Featuring hilarious knock-knock jokes and brain-scratching riddles, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Not just any joke book, the Jumbo Jokes and Riddles Book will provide you with hours of jumbo fun. The e-book version of this title does not include stickers.Readers Digest Funny Family Jokes
By Editors at Reader's Digest. 2014
"Knock! Knock! Who's there? Justin. Justin who? Justin the neighborhood and thought I'd come over." Reader's Digest has a long…
tradition of providing our readers with laughter through our many humor features. In the Reader's Digest Funny Family Jokes we have compiled some of the funniest jokes, riddles, and one-liners that can be shared across generations, around the dinner table or the campfire. Truly, there's something for everyone from 9 to 99. We hope you and your family will take the time to read, share and laugh together. Did you hear that NASA has launched several cows into orbit? It was the herd shot around the world.Around the World with a King
By William N. Armstrong. 1977
Around the World with a King, is an eyewitness account of Hawaiian King Kalakaua's journey around the world in 1881.William…
Armstrong accompanied the King as a member of His Majesty's Government and Royal Commissioner for Immigration. His account of this remarkable circumnavigation, the first ever for a monarch, is told with humor and insight, although not always with sympathy for the King's aspirations or ideals.The book is a gem of Hawaiian literature. It provides us with insights into the personality of King Kalakaua, and into the mind of Mr. Armstrong. We are given fascinating glimpses of the courts of both Eastern and Western countries, including the Japanese Royal Court and that of Queen Victoria of England.Mr. Armstrong sometimes views his royal master with a jaundiced eye, but, to the reader, King Kalakaua emerges unscathed. Song writer, bon vivant, able politician, scholar, gentleman, and humanist, Kalakaua was devoted to his Hawaiian subjects and the to him. Nicknamed the Merry Monarch, he has, with the passing of time, emerged as a highly significant personality who has been more appropriately named the Magnificent Monarch.Cincuenta Sombras De Los Tentáculos De Grey - 1
By Isabel Pozas González, Anita Dobs. 2014
Elle James es una escritora de relatos eróticos virginal a la que un día su amiga Sarah le pide un…
favor: ir en su lugar a entrevistar a un famoso multimillonario experto en BDSM. Acepta porque piensa que le va a ayudar en sus investigaciones.Elle no tiene interés en el estilo de vida BDSM, tiene un carácter fuerte y decidido que no encajaría en este mundo. Pero cuando conoce al señor Grey, se queda confundida y siente que él la está sometiendo a sus deseos.El señor Grey es un atractivo multimillonario con un oscuro secreto (no, no ese secreto en el que estás pensando). Aunque ha tenido varias sumisas antes, encuentra algo diferente en Elle, algo que le intriga. Sin saber si debería confiar en ella y contarle todo, la pareja se embarca en un viaje sexual que llevará a Elle a los extremos y obligará a Grey a tomar una decisión que podría causarle la ruina...Atención: aunque este libro es una parodia, contiene escenas eróticas explícitas de sexo con tentáculos, bondage con tentáculos, sadomasoquismo y humor.Disalmanac
By Scott Bateman. 2013
Have you ever wanted to dazzle your friends with your command of history, science, and other important matters? No? Then…
this is the book for you. Ronald Reagan once famously said, Facts are stupid things. ” The book you hold in your hands will prove it. Did you know that Albuquerque’s population is 78% chupacabra and 22% victim? Do you know why civilization started in Mesopotamia, and not Boise? And did you know the reason you shouldn’t stare at the Sun is that it will probably shoot you and turn your skin into a rain poncho? Disalmanac is a handy compendium of false facts covering everything from world history and economics to pop culture, sports, and more. All of which are incorrect, but try not to be so judgy about it. But wait, there’s more. You’ll also discover a generous supply of Random Bonus Facts from the likes of Michael Ian Black, Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Weird Al Yankovic, and other luminaries who may or may not have a good grasp of the facts. .The Last Stand of Chuck Norris
By Ian Spector. 2011
Just when you thought it was safe to read, Chuck Norris is back with another roundhouse kick to the face.…
Fans of this bestselling series will rejoice at this newest addition to the hilarious anthology. The Last Stand of Chuck Norris contains 400 all-new, kick-ass facts about the book's indomitable namesake, including: - Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun - When Chuck Norris crosses the street, the cars have to look both ways - Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups. He pushes the world down. - Chuck Norris doesn't need a Twitter account. He is already following you.The Gentleman's Bedside Companion
By Tom Cutler. 2010
Delightful Things to Read About Before the Snoring Starts Have you ever found that once you are between the sheets,…
Madame Bovary is too heavy, magazines are too slippery, and Crime and Punishment is too long? The Gentleman's Bedside Companion is the answer-a bracing collection of information, humor, and curiosities that will help every man make his mark on the world with panache. Spanning the arts, sciences, sports, and the opposite sex, topics include: Bananas as proof of God's existence Great bits from the Bible Famous painters and how they died The Monkees, a potted history All about submarines Useful foreign pickup lines An international swearing dictionary Let the horizontal reading begin. Watch a Video .Fiction Ruined My Family
By Jeanne Darst. 2011
Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir The youngest of four daughters in an…
old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other, Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit tight for us right now, it’s only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family’s former glory. The Darsts uproot themselves and move from St. Louis to New York. Jeanne’s father writes one novel, and then another, which don’t find publishers. This, combined with her mother’s burgeoning alcoholismnightly booze-fueled weepathons reminiscing about her fancy childhoodlead to financial disaster and divorce. And as Jeanne becomes an adult, she is horrified to discover that she is not only a drinker like her mother, but a writer like her father. At first, and for years, she embraces both activitiesliving in an apartment with no bathroom, stealing food from her babysitting gigs, and raising rent money by riding the subway topless and performing a one-woman show in her living room. Until gradually she realizes that this life has not been thrust on her in some handing-down-of-the-writing-mantle-way. She has chosen it; and until she can stop putting drinking and writing ahead of everything else, it’s a questionable choice. For a long time I was worried about becoming my father,” she writes. Then I was worried about becoming my mother. Now I was worried about becoming myself. ” Ultimately, Darst sets out to discover whether a person can have the writing without the ruin, whether it’s possible to be both sober and creative, ambitious and happy, a professional author and a parent. Filled with brilliantly flawed, idiosyncratic characters and punctuated by Darst’s irreverent eye for absurdity, Fiction Ruined My Family is a lovingly told, wickedly funny portrait of an unconventional life. .When you stop laughing - go home!
By Paul Coghlan. 2010
In 2010 to assist his recovery from too many years as a Victorian Public Servant - the land where good…
ideas go to die - the author took up two consecutive volunteering assignments - over two and a half years in what was then the world's youngest country and youngest democracy - Timor Leste. When you stop laughing go home is a book of personal impressions of modern day Timor Leste told through the prism of the authors daily life in a small township in the hills of Timor Leste. This is a series of stories telling of how an ageing Australian in a transitional time in his life met a young nation in a transitional time in their life and how over two and a half years they worked together, laughed together, came to understand each other and helped rebuild each other. The impressions while sometimes critical of the Government, some foreign consultants and some foreign aid programs tell of the respect gained by the author for the people of Timor Leste and his hope that at last they may experience the freedom to be themselves, govern themselves and build their own future in their own image and likeness.Cinquanta Sfumature Di Tentacoli Grigi - 1
By Alice Arcoleo, Anita Dobs. 2014
Elle James, vergine e premiata autrice di racconti erotici per Il Club Universitario di Scrittura Erotica, decide un giorno di…
fare un favore all'amica e collega scrittrice Sarah. Il favore è semplice, Elle dovrà intervistare un esperto dominatore al posto dell'amica. Dal momento che questa intervista potrebbe esserle d'aiuto nella stesura del suo nuovo libro sadomaso, Elle accetta lal richiesta dell'amica. La scrittrice è una ragazza forte ed indipendenta e sa perfettamente che essere una sottomessa non farebbe mai per lei. Ma dopo l'incontro con Mr. Grey nei suoi uffici tutte le sue certezze crollano e inizia a piegarsi al suo volere. Mr. Grey, un bellissimo miliardario, ha un oscuro passato (no, non quello che state pensando, un altro genere di oscuro passato.) Dopo aver avuto tante sottomesse in passato, rimane affascinato da Elle che appare così diversa dalle altre. Non ancora sicuro di potersi fidare di Elle, i due iniziano un' estrema relazione sessuale che potrebbe essere la rovina per Mr. Grey..Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator
By Michael Perry. 2007
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between…
cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection of essays balances earthiness with poetry, kinetics with contemplation, and is regularly salted with his unique brand of humor.Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy
By Shellie Rushing Tomlinson. 2011
The bestselling author of Suck Your Stomach In & Put Some Color On! returns with more helpful how-to's and keen…
observations from Dixie. Guided by principles from the ancient Belle Doctrine, the host of radio and television's All Things Southern offers down-home advice on everything from health and fitness-managing thy caloric calculations without going Straight Running Crazy and surviving the Raging Inferno Syndrome (aka hot flashes)-to the Southern art of handling your man (Bubba Whispering). Whether giving business tips or debunking the Big Boned Theory, making political observations or celebrating the inevitable resurgence of big hair, Shellie is an adviser women can relate to and laugh with regardless of their age or which side of the Mason-Dixon they call home.El Libro Esencial de Informacíon inútil
By Don Voorhees. 2009
More facts! Less substance! The newest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Useless Information series. The useless information…
never ends in the newest, most crucially meaningless entry in the Useless Information series. This latest cornucopia of amazingly pointless facts and figures will have trivia buffs marveling at all the things they never needed to know.The Truth About Chuck Norris
By Ian Spector. 2007
As the star of Walker: Texas Ranger and movies such as The Delta Force, Chuck Norris represents a separate kind…
of supermam: a hero of hilarious proportions. In recent years, farcical facts about Norris began cropping up on the Internet, finally reaching their peak on one comprehensive website. Created by college student Ian Spector, the Chuck Norris Fact Generator attracted as many as 18 million hits a month. Now the best of Spector's site is available in one affordable, death-defying volume.Don't Even Think About Telling this Joke to a Lawyer
By Harry Bergen. 2007
Perfect for lawyers and those who hate them. How are lawyer jokes different from lawyers? Lawyer jokes never lose their…
appeal. Everyone likes to make fun of lawyers. The problem is that not all lawyer jokes are funny. This book separates the good from the bad-for belly laughs aplenty.