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8 best books like Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex (Dave Barry): Nonsense Novels, Salt: A World History, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe , Juggling for the Complete Klutz, Akira, Vol. 3, Akira, Vol. 5, Akira, Vol. 4, Akira, Vol. 6

Nonsense Novels

Author	Stephen Leacock
ISBN	1590171187

A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel Handler

Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among...

Salt: A World History

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0142001619

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World

In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story...

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

Author	Thomas Cahill
ISBN	0385418493

From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the...

Juggling for the Complete Klutz

Author	John Cassidy
ISBN	0932592007

I think that I would give this book two and a half stars.

One of the things about The Klutz Book of Juggling that stands out most saliently in my mind is the surprisingly spare technical Juggling advice in its pages. All of the other beginning Juggling manuals that I've read put a definite emphasis...

Akira, Vol. 3

Author	Katsuhiro Otomo
ISBN	1569715254

In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira -- the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense and rapidly...

Akira, Vol. 5

Author	Katsuhiro Otomo
ISBN	1569715270

In the 21st century, the once-glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruins, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic giant, Akira. Now a wasteland of rubble and anarchy, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, a ragtag group of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister,...

Akira, Vol. 4

Author	Katsuhiro Otomo
ISBN	1569715262

"When a man tries to see into the distance, what does he do? He narrows his eyes. Even with your eyes opened as wide as they will go...you cannot perceive something so large that it is beyond the range of your vision."



Kaneda doesn't take part in this novel. Tetsuo returns to us. The novel...

Akira, Vol. 6

Author	Katsuhiro Otomo
ISBN	1569715289

The explosive finale to one of graphic fiction's greatest achievements is here! The mad psychic colossus Tetsuo, the world's military, and the remaining psychics of The Project face off -- with the child psychic god, Akira, the wild card -- in what may not only decide the fate of mankind, but may determine...