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PM Press Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook
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£13.49
Fantagraphics Books Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse Lost in Lands Long Ago
£29.75
Fantagraphics Dinomania: The Lost Art of Winsor McCay, The
Book SynopsisWinsor McCay is internationally renowned as a pioneer in comics and animation. Now Ulrich Merkl unearths a never-published strip that was lost following McCay s death. Titled simply Dino, it opens a surprising new window into McCay s life and work.
£76.00
Insight Editions Cat Food for Thought
Book SynopsisCat Food for Thought is a one-of-a-kind gallery of cat food label art coupled with purring quotes and clever words of wisdom. Containing a selection culled from thousands of labels, this book showcases rarities that will stoke the interests of designers, cat lovers, and pop culture fanatics alike.When it comes to cat food, Americans are most familiar with a few iconic brands, such as 9Lives and Friskies. But in the 1950s to 1970s, there were scores of companies competing the feline cuisine market through colorful label art and bold logotypes that enticed pet owners with promises of nutritious meals and meaty morsels for their furry friends. Cat Food for Thought is a colorful, quirky, one-of-a-kind gallery of cat food label art, which showcases rare and visually engaging examples culled from the authors’ extensive archives. These labels bring to life the joys of caring for our pets and remind us why we love these curious creatures. Filled with exceptional commercial artwork, select quotes, and carefully curated words of wisdom, this book is the perfect gift for designers, cat lovers, and pop culture fanatics alike. © 2013 All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
£9.49
Insight Editions Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Star Trek: Vulcan
Book SynopsisPlan your next trip to the planet Vulcan with Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan! Find restaurants that serve the best fried sandworms and Vulcan port. Take a trip to the Fire Plains or experience spring break at the Voroth Sea. Learn all about the native Vulcan people and their unusual customs. Discover how to correctly perform the traditional Vulcan salutation (you really don’t want to get this wrong). Learn key Vulcan phrases such as Nam-tor puyan-tvi-shal wilat: “Where is your restroom?” Find out what to do if you suddenly find yourself host to a katra—a Vulcan’s living spirit—at an inconvenient moment. All this and more can be found within the pages of this essential travel guide to one of the most popular—and logical—destinations in the known universe.Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan draws on 50 years of Star Trek TV shows, films, and novels to present a comprehensive guide to Spock’s iconic home world. Modeled after real-world travel guides, the book will explore every significant region on Vulcan with fascinating historical, geographical, and cultural insights that bring the planet to life like never before. Also featuring a dynamic mixture of classic Star Trek imagery and original illustrations created exclusively for the book, Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan is the perfect way to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek and will thrill pop culture fans and hardcore Star Trek fans alike.
£15.29
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the
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£13.49
Shambhala Publications Inc Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats,
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£17.09
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money,
Book SynopsisAfter decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet: business, investment, finance and the political chicanery behind them.Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don't buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there's a book that can do that, you shouldn't buy any books because you probably can't read.) P.J.'s approach to business, investment and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter 'How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.' He proposes 'A Way to Raise Taxes That We'll All Love' - a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high-tech innovation with a chapter on 'Unnovations,' which asks, 'The Internet - whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?' He pokes fun at bitcoin, and closes with a fanciful short story about the morning that he wakes up and finds that all the world's goods and services are free! This is P.J. at his finest, a book not to be missed.Trade ReviewHe hasn't lost his gift for the brutally effective one-liner. * Guardian *O'Rourke is never less than pleasurable company. * The Times *Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece. * Richard Nixon *
£8.54
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It
Book SynopsisA hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'.The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.'What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. Who put their faith in the Kyoto Accord and disco. Who dropped out of the capitalist system and popped back again in time to cause a global financial crisis.How did the Baby Boom become what it is and who let them get away with it?Trade ReviewP.J. O'Rourke's Baby Boom may just be his best book ever. Teems with heart and humor - much of it laugh out loud, or as the post-boomers would say, LOL - as well as with his trademark brilliant social commentary. A terrific American memoir, in tone a beguiling mix of Jean Shepherd and "Animal House." In fact, I'm going to revise my prior statement and say flat-out that this is O'Rourke's best book ever, which is a saying a lot. * Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You For Smoking *PJ O'Rourke is the rarest of breeds; a veteran rightwinger who is both funny and clever but not bitter at all... It's very funny, utterly thought-provoking...O'Rourke emerges as a hero for admitting what few of his generation dare to. * The Times *Few journalists are as bold and iconoclastic as PJ O'Rourke... Thoroughly entertaining. * Mail on Sunday *Like all the best memoirs, it stirs suppressed memories in the reader...This man writes like a dream * Spectator *Simultaneously hilarious and brainy * Chicago Tribune *P.J. O'Rourke is a reformed baby boomer. In his latest offering, he turns his satirical wit on his own generation. His observations and analysis are, by turns, insightful and hilarious. * The Washington Times *There is a booming quality to O'Rourke and his work. Loud eruptions of irreverent laughter. * Weekend Australian *
£9.49
Ulysses Press The 1990s Coloring Book: All That and a Box of
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£9.49
Ulysses Press Super Mom Coupons
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£7.99
Ulysses Press Super Dad Coupons: Redeem to Make Any Day
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£7.99
Simon And Schuster Group USA Goodnight Dorm Room
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£16.14
Ulysses Press My Mortified Life: A Guided Journal to Gauge How
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£14.39
Ulysses Press Born to Pun
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£11.39
Ulysses Press Dog Mom
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£13.49
Simon And Schuster Group USA Why Does Bright Light Make You Sneeze
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£12.34
Workman Publishing Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three
Book SynopsisLiterature is long. Comics are short. Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary, and, um, Twilight? Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including “Love,” “Sex,” “Death,” and “Female Trouble.” Lisa Brown’s Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called “the canon” into a frolic—or to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.Trade Review"You probably began this quarantine with dreams of rereading Moby-Dick or Persuasion. But if you’re like me, you’re finding it hard to concentrate on anything more than a tweet. Fortunately, Lisa Brown has just published Long Story Short, a witty collection of cartoon book reviews." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A collection of three-panel comics that slyly condense hefty works of literature." —Lucy Knisley, author and illustrator of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen "It’s lighter than CliffsNotes and quite possibly more entertaining than the originals (the horror, the horror!)" —Booklist
£11.99
Workman Publishing The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for
Book Synopsis“A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.” —Lily Tomlin “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice “Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?” In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights—the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, “Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.”
£13.29
Workman Publishing We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill
Book Synopsis“Merrill Markoe got all the talent. In addition to being an Emmy-award winning comedy writer, she's also a top-notch artist. We Saw Scenery is revealing, sad, funny, and, above all, relatable. Merrill captures the experience of a young woman finding—and holding onto—her own voice. And we’re all lucky she did.” —Nell Scovell, author of Just the Funny Parts In her first-ever graphic memoir, four-time Emmy-winning comedy writer Merrill Markoe unearths her treasured diaries, long kept under lock and key, to illustrate the hilarious story of her preteen and teen years and how she came to realize that her secret power was her humor. Wielding her layered and comically absurd style, Markoe takes readers back through her time as a Girl Scout, where she learned that “scouting” was really more about learning housewifery skills, to her earliest crushes on uniquely awful boys and her growing obsession with television. Much has changed in our world since Markoe wrote in her diaries, or has it? Climate change wasn’t yet a rallying call, but the growing hole in the ozone preoccupied Markoe’s young mind. No one was flocking to the desert for Burning Man, but Markoe readily partook in the Ken Kesey Acid Test. As she charts the divide between her adolescence and adulthood, Markoe questions and berates her younger self, revealing how much is opaque to us in those young years. Perfect for fans of Roz Chast, Allie Brosh, and Lynda Barry, We Saw Scenery is a laugh-out-loud story of a girl growing up, told from the perspective of the woman she became, and it will speak to all who wanted to understand themselves in the midst of their own maturing.
£18.04
Tachyon Publications The Corset & Jellyfish: A Conundrum Of Drabbles
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£18.89
Akashic Books,U.S. Long Story Short: Turning Famus Books Into
Book SynopsisA collection that condenses the complicated narratives of famous books into one-page works of art.
£16.16
Akashic Books,U.S. You Can Keep That To Yourself
Book SynopsisAt long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American 'friends.'
£14.36
Microcosm Publishing Please Let Me Help: 'Helpful' Letters To The
Book SynopsisA guide to rebuilding your life by sending absurd letters...
£9.49
Microcosm Publishing Cats I've Known: On Love, Loss, and Being
Book SynopsisDeeply heartfelt, humourous, and insightful stories about cats.
£13.49
Microcosm Publishing Henry & Glenn Adult Activity & Coloring Book
Book SynopsisAn activity/colouring book for fans of the Henry & Glenn Forever series.
£14.78
Feral House,U.S. Neighbors From Hell: An American Bedtime Story
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£13.49
Feral House,U.S. Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks and Transit Ghosts
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£17.09
PM Press Radical America Komiks
Book SynopsisA half century after its original appearance, Radical America Komiks retains its rebellious spirit and its rollicking humour.
£13.49
PM Press Bullet Points And Punch Lines: The Most Important
Book SynopsisThe story of present-day America, as seen through the eyes of a comedian.
£15.29
PM Press Bullet Points And Punch Lines
Book SynopsisThe story of present-day America, as seen through the eyes of a comedian.
£45.59
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Party, After You Left
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£14.24
Bloomsbury Publishing A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol
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£15.20
Simon And Schuster Group USA Sex Lives of Superheroes
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£16.19
Ulysses Press Build Your Own Romantic Comedy: Pick Your Plot,
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£20.69
Ulysses Press To Pee Or Not To Pee: The Hilariously Snarky
Book SynopsisThe ultimate collection of funny activities, entertaining games, and surprising trivia all about the joys of growing a human just above your bladder.
£13.49
Ulysses Press Women Don't Poop And Other Lies: Toilet Trivia,
Book SynopsisGet the scoop on lady poop with this surprising and hilarious combination of feminism and fecal facts, a perfect bathroom book for any feminist.
£12.34
Ulysses Press Behindfulness For Beginners: A Parody Guide to
Book SynopsisWhat happens when you bring mindfulness into the bathroom?
£9.49
Ulysses Press Oh, The Places You'll Eff Up: A Parody For Your
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£13.49
Ulysses Press Thanks For Picking Up My Poop: Everyday Gratitude
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£14.39
Ulysses Press Let Me Knock That Off The Counter For You: And
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£14.39
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Pompo: The Cinephile Vol. 2
Book SynopsisTHE SEQUEL STRIKES BACK!Young film director Gene Fini is basking in the glow of his wildly successful debut. In fact, Gene’s already got another offer on the table: a certain Nyallywood powerhouse wants him at the helm for their mega blockbuster sequel, Max Storm 2. The lavish budget and incredible locations are enough to leave his jaw hanging, but he soon realizes he doesn’t quite fit in with this new crowd. When it comes to film, Gene can’t accept anything but the best, and his passion and lofty ideals are about to send both him and his boss and mentor—the spunky, phenomenally talented film producer, Pompo—hurtling off in a very unexpected direction.
£11.99
Knock Knock Jess Rona's Groomed
Book SynopsisEven celebrities' cute dogs get dirty, and that's when Jess Rona gets busy. As a dog groomer-to-the stars (and Instagram star in her own right), Jess captures over one hundred funny, cute, and touchingly real moments as her canine clients go from bath to blowout, and drab to fab. Go to the bark side with gifts for dog lovers Cover blurb by Katy Perry; foreword by Sara of Tegan and Sara Three words: funny dog pictures Hardcover; 7.75 x 5.75 inches, 128 pages
£999.99
Knock Knock 50 Totally Stupid Real-Life Reasons to Work Out
Book SynopsisYou need a strong core to hover over a public toilet, and firm biceps to carry boxed wine, so train your body for real life's stupidly simple ordinary tasks—fifty, to be exact. Get in shape with 50 stupid reasons to work out and 50 exercises to prepare your stupid muscles for each of them. The Stupid Fit Couple (@stupidfitcouple) are Karley Phillips and Aaron Denius, a real-life couple with a passion for fitness. Knock Knock Books: fun gifts or workout motivation? Both! Paperback; 7 x 9.5 inches; 160 pages; full-color throughout; ribbon page marker
£999.99
Knock Knock I'm a Plant Lady Sorry Not Sorry Book
Book SynopsisHey, #plantlovers! This unapologetic book is the ultimate salute to plant lady-ness in all its green-thumbed glory. Chock-full of leafy, dirt-lovin’ truth bombs, it embraces and honors your plant-nurturing nature. Because guess what? Being a plant lady is awesome. DUH. So come out, be proud, and let your botanical-freak flag fly. Sorry not sorry! Great for lovers of succulent gifts, funny gardeners, or your favorite plant mom / dad! File under: plant books for adults, plant care, plant lover gifts for women & plant people of all stripes! Hardcover; 5.25 x 5.25 inches, 96 pages; written by Knock Knock
£9.95
Knock Knock Knock Knock Cell Phone Timeout Pouches
Book SynopsisGive yourself or someone else the gift of a digital detox. We all spend too much time on our phones. And taking a break, or digital detox, has a ton of benefits like increasing your attention span and improving quality of sleep. The Cell Phone Time Out Pouches help you put the mobile away and made you smile with typical Knock Knock copy. A to-do list of phoneless activities, a feel-good inner monologue about taking the time to go phone-free, and a hypothetical conversation with your phone. On the back, you set the time for your detox.
£999.99
Fantagraphics Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure
Book SynopsisFante Bukowski returns for one final grab at the brass ring of literary fame and fortune in this hilarious satire of the writer's struggle.
£15.29
Fantagraphics Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol.
Book SynopsisVolume 5 in the collected editions of the famous Pogo comic strips, a timeless classic that never seemed more timely.
£36.00
