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The Book of Idle Pleasures is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled. An antidote to our non-stop culture, it is a welcome compendium of timeless delights.The book lists and reflects on 75 simple pastimes and proves that the best things in life...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-05-31
ePub
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Did you know that foreigners who want to live in Britain have to pass a government test to get in? It's true, and some of the questions are harder than "Why does everyone hate Manchester United?"So the Have I Got News For You team have, in a moving and totally out of...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2012-05-31
ePub
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Sex scandals, some historical but many contemporary, involving political figures, celebrities, movie stars, sports stars, musicians and artists, from Julius Caesar's affair with Cleopatra, which scandalized Rome and may have contributed to his murder, to what exactly...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-05-17
Collection :
Mammoth Books
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'He's a total rock 'n' roller. There's a bit of Mario in all of us - well, maybe not Gary Neville - but the rest of us most definitely.' Noel GallagherHe may be football's latest superstar, but Mario Balotelli is just as famous off the pitch for his eccentricity and...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2012-05-10
ePub
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WISE WORDS FOR FATHERS Being a dad is great, but nobody ever said it was easy. This book is packed with inspiring and witty quotations to help you keep going through the hard times and enjoy fatherhood in all its glory.
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2012-05-08
ePub
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The lure of the morbid.The fascination of really bad news.The strange thrill of things going spectacularly wrong. Tragic, sensational, spine-chilling, and addictively entertaining, it’sThe Darwin Awards meetsThe Stupidest Things Ever Said. In story after story we...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2012-05-01
ePub
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With the country more polarized than ever, the 2012 presidential election is expected to be one of the most heated in our country's history. Among all the polished speeches and great sound bites, sometimes in that torrent of official and unofficial remarks, some real...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2012-05-01
ePub
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A wry look at the golfing world, from the beloved cartoonists at The New Yorker A hilarious hole-in-one for golfers and cartoon-lovers alike, The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons, Second Edition brings together over a hundred classic images from across the magazine's...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2012-04-27
Collection :
New Yorker
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A loving look at the old ball game, from the cartoonists at The New Yorker America's national pastime engages fans and fanatics across the country and around the world. Across the magazine's eight decades, the artists at The New Yorker have captured the emotional...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2012-04-27
Collection :
New Yorker
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The riotous world of the classroom, captured by the cartoonists atThe New Yorker The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons, Second Edition is a hilarious compilation of cartoons that capture the joy, terror, excitement, anxiety, fun, and bedlam that teachers experience...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2012-04-27
Collection :
New Yorker
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Over the past 21 years Jilly Cooper has written a selection of best-selling books, mixing outrageous anecdotes from the lives of her family and friends with shrewd and wicked social satire and criticism. Men and Super Men was followed by Women and Super Women and then...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-04-24
ePub
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In this instantly relatable and hilariously true compendium of clever one-liners, a frustrated anthropologist identifies all the people who confound him with their continued, persistent existence. Whether it's the people who listen to cassette tapes for the hipster...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2012-04-10
ePub
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'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2012-04-05
ePub
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Consider, if you can, the case of Jacob Fowler, who heard what he thought was the sound of his own skull cracking between the jaws of a grizzly bear - only to discover that it was. Or the Arizonan jogger who ran a mile back to her car with a rabid fox clamped to her arm...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-04-05
ePub
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This is a pocket-sized glimpse into the world of the US president's beloved communications system, without which he is rarely seen and about which the world's press has already devoted numerous column inches. From ex-president GW Bush ('43') asking about lost property,...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2012-04-05
ePub
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Did you know that one hundred million Americans game over three billion hours a week? One in three British males would rather play video games than have sex with their partner. Gaming isn't just a pastime anymore, but an actual epidemic! So whether you're the one gaming...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2012-04-03
ePub
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Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published in the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2012-04-01
ePub
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Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published in the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2012-04-01
ePub
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Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: “Upon Pondering Breasts.” Tom Cruise: “An Exegesis on Psychiatry.” Ann Coulter: “My Kind of Fun.” And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2012-03-27
ePub
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She’s the most well-known woman on the planet, but while many of us know of her love of animals, her taste in fashion and her attendances at Royal Ascot, there is a wealth of information beyond this about our Queen. Did you know for example that she was the first...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2012-03-05
ePub
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