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This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early ... More

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For the Class of 2002 comes a smart and edgy collection of words to the wise from Spalding Gray, Fay Weldon, Tom Robbins, and dozens more of the most ... More

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Treasury of 5 shorter works includes title piece plus "The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the ... More

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Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (1850-1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and ... More

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TAKE IT FROM US; these three titles - How to Do Things Right, How to be Good, How to Retire at 41 - will have you laughing out loud, thinking hard, ... More

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Look around you. The world is more homogenous than you think. Far too often, distinctions among people, places, and things are matters of degree ... More

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"When building fences, the first two posts can be relatively easy. It is the third that can get tough." That's an example of an aphorism. Aphorisms ... More

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Has the world has gone mad? Are our leaders are out of step with reality? Have you had passing thoughts that you might be the one who doesn't "get it ... More

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Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, ... More

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Marcel Proust, author of In Search of Lost Time, one of the longest novels of the twentieth century, was an authority on how to live a richer, ... More

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Following the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Year of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2001, there will will be a year of change for The Wisdom of Pooh list in 2002. To ... More

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In this splendidly preposterous volume, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the whole of Western philosophy- ... More

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"Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor" develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues ... More

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The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor in all its forms, this book is the first in any language to embrace such an impressive span of ... More

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In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism ... More

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'In this witty and entertaining excursion through previously unchartered areas of the world of Pooh, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond a ... More

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Written by cats for cats, this delightful, clever, beautifully illustrated book will teach cats how to rule their home, manage their human companions ... More

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November 2004: George W. Bush is re-elected. Five days later, Alan Meister, a New York professor of philosophy, is diagnosed with lymphoma--not that ... More

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A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, "The Dictionary of Received Ideas" sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical ... More

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The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling series follows Hector, an endearing young French psychiatrist, who ... More

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An incisive look at the role of wit in modern literature.

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