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A Fine and Pleasant Misery
ISBN: 9780805000320 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Fine and Pleasant Misery More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by everybody's favorite expert on the subject, Patrick F. McManus. A Fine and Pleasant Misery More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by everybody's favorite expert on the subject, Patrick F. McMa... |
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Grasshopper Trap
ISBN: 9780805001112 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling author of They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? is at it again with more of his zany spoofs of The Great Outdoors. The bestselling author of They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? is at it again with more of his zany spoofs of The Great Outdoors. |
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
ISBN: 9780805009125 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indoors. America's favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and t... |
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The Good Samaritan Strikes Again
ISBN: 9780805029222 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by everybody's favorite expert on the subject, Patrick F. McManus. More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by everybody's favorite expert on the subject, Patrick F. McManus. |
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The Bear in the Attic
ISBN: 9780805072952 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date Starting with his trademark outdoorsman's wit, Patrick F. McManus's newest collection ponders the strange allure of the RV, the existential implications of being lost, the baffling tendency of animals to outsmart those who wish to hunt them, and the singular pleasure of doubling the size of every fish one doesn't actually catch. Combining the curmudgeonly voice of Dave Barry and the innocent tone of Garrison Keillor, McManus brilliantly captures the everyday absurdities... The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date Starting with his trademark out... |
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Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore
ISBN: 9780805083033 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A gold mine of ideas . . . to help us wage personal and quiet vengeance against those who annoy us." --South Florida Sun-Sentinel For some of us, it's the automated voice that answers the phone when we'd rather talk to a real person. For others, it's the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee "tall." Each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life. In Life's Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people... "A gold mine of ideas . . . to help us wage personal and quiet vengeance against those who annoy us." --South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
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I'm Back for More Cash: Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers Into the Bathroom
ISBN: 9780812968538 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tony Kornheiser is back. Within these pages, the celebrated Washington Post columnist, Pardon the Interruption cohost, and ESPN radio personality relates his experience as an OnStar user, the proud new owner of the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, and a "phone-a-friend" on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. And in between, he dishes political commentary on Monica and Bill and George W. and Al. New for the paperback edition is Tony's final Washington Post Style column. So read all about his quest to fit into size 36 Dockers and his struggle to buy holiday gifts. And know that in the process...
Tony Kornheiser is back. Within these pages, the celebrated Washington Post columnist, Pardon the Interruption cohost, and ESPN radio personali...
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Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable Truths
ISBN: 9780812975680 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 2005 Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all her own, Connie Schultz comes out of the heartland of America to get you seeing, feeling, and thinking more deeply about the lives we lead today.
"You might spot someone you know in the stories here," writes Connie. "Maybe you'll even find a glimpse of yourself. Yes, each of us is unique, but life... From the 2005 Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues...
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Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture
ISBN: 9780815627487 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together everyday language, social interaction and cultural warfare, this work forms a social history of humour in American culture. It argues that jokes provide a cultural barometer of concerns and anxieties, and that laughter is transformative.
Bringing together everyday language, social interaction and cultural warfare, this work forms a social history of humour in American culture. It argue...
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Crackers
ISBN: 9780820320601 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who are southern, whom I misunderstand? Is there some authority I should consult? "Crackers." Without this book, you will just flail around in the shallows of Southernity, with nothing solid to hold onto. Roy Blount Jr. puts you in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, people named Junior, a two-headed four-armed three-legged gospel-singing man, your feelings about the Carter administration. These specifics take you out into the depths. As... Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who... |
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Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
ISBN: 9780871137609 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. O'Rourke writes humorously about his two-year round the world sojourn in search of the bottom line. He finds hilarity in every corner and will leave you laughing all the way to the bank
O'Rourke writes humorously about his two-year round the world sojourn in search of the bottom line. He finds hilarity in every corner and will leave y...
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You May Already Be a Winner and Other Marginal Considerations
ISBN: 9780873384674 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fans of Jan Snow's "Marginal Considerations"--a "weekend Radio" feature heard on nearly 150 radio stations across the country -will delight in this new collection of her humorous pieces. Her essays offer a lighthearted look at everyday events and ordinary people-from "Creeping Cutetrification" to "The Training of Cats" and "Keeping the World Safe for Singing." Bathtubs, toothpaste, underwear, fruitcake, and even pockets become laughable objects under Snow's scrutiny.
Fans of Jan Snow's "Marginal Considerations"--a "weekend Radio" feature heard on nearly 150 radio stations across the country -will delight in this ne...
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When You Get Done Bleeding, Will You Get Me a Snack?: A Collection of Off-the-wall Essays on Family Life
ISBN: 9780889626416 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past eight years, Andy Juniper's weekly humor/lifestyle colums have appeared in The Oakville Beaver and various newspapers and magazines across Canada. These essays have enlightened-okay, entertained--his readers about the various intricacies of family life. They've also tickled more than a few funny bones.
For the past eight years, Andy Juniper's weekly humor/lifestyle colums have appeared in The Oakville Beaver and various newspapers and magazines acros...
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Go Ask Dad: Fathers are Nice Guys
ISBN: 9780889628359 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This humorous title is a collection of short essays on the trials, tribulations, joys, and pains of fatherhood and family life. Go Ask Dad is a book for the entire family, for all occasions, to be enjoyed at all private or even public gatherings. Read it out loud and roar with laughter or quietly and enjoy a tame giggle. Any way and at all times, you will not just get a kick out of this book, but you will also admire the wit and humor of Ian Darling.
This humorous title is a collection of short essays on the trials, tribulations, joys, and pains of fatherhood and family life. Go Ask Dad is a book f...
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The New Saturday Night at Moody's Diner
ISBN: 9780892723850 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tim Sample's humor is as much a Down East institution as the famous little restaurant that inspired the title story of his book.
Tim Sample's humor is as much a Down East institution as the famous little restaurant that inspired the title story of his book.
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If This Is Mid-Life, Where's the Crisis
ISBN: 9780938586906 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Art of Napping
ISBN: 9780943914824 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sleep deprivation is a world-wide catastrophe - and overworked spiritual seekers are among the greatest sufferers. No wonder you can't meditate well, study, work well, or live up to your ideals - you are exhausted This humorously illustrated book about a skill that deserves serious attention can lighten your heart, too.
Sleep deprivation is a world-wide catastrophe - and overworked spiritual seekers are among the greatest sufferers. No wonder you can't meditate well, ...
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E-Mail From Nigeria
ISBN: 9780974959801 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "E-Mail From Nigeria" is the new humor anthology from Todd Allen, author of the "Todd's Oddities" column in "New York Resident." Sociological observations run amok. Tales of relationships gone horribly wrong. The foibles of business and politics. Strange things defying categorization. It is Todd's lot in life to document such things, or at least make them up. This volume features several columns never before seen in a print format. "No one can take the ludicrous and mundane and turn it into a funny dissertation on society like Todd Allen can. E-Mail from Nigeria is filled with enough...
"E-Mail From Nigeria" is the new humor anthology from Todd Allen, author of the "Todd's Oddities" column in "New York Resident." Sociological observat...
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Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet: More Commentary by Npr's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal Veterinarian
ISBN: 9781400049431 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baxter Black, the world s bestselling cowboy poet, author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy, and public radio s favorite former large animal veterinarian, is back in the saddle with a hilarious new roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowboy soul in each of us.
Drawn in part from Baxter s wildly popular NPR commentaries and syndicated columns, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet offers a generous helping of his tender yet irreverent, sage-as-sagebrush take on everything from ranching, roping, Wrangler jeans, and rodeos to weddings and... Baxter Black, the world s bestselling cowboy poet, author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy, and public radio s favorite former large animal...
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Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
ISBN: 9781400065882 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes, is a hopelessly terrifying place-with endless comic potential. -If your girlfriend gives you some "love coupons" and then breaks up with you, are the coupons still valid? -What kind of performance pressure does an endangered male panda feel when his captors bring the last remaining female panda to his cage? -If murderers...
In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and ...
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