If I Were You
10 best books like If I Were You (P.G. Wodehouse): The Doctors Book of Food Remedies: The Latest Findings on the Power of Food to Treat and Prevent Health Problems - From Aging and Diabetes to Ulcers and Yeast Infections, The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Lucia in Wartime, The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird, Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy, PhD Chapter 2: Life is Tough and Then You Graduate, P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography, Mistress of the Pearl, The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series, Lucia Rising
The Doctors Book of Food Remedies: The Latest Findings on the Power of Food to Treat and Prevent Health Problems - From Aging and Diabetes to Ulcers and Yeast Infections
| Author | Selene Yeager |
| ISBN | 1594866635 |
In recent years, scientists have discovered thousands of substances in foods that go way beyond vitamins and minerals for pure healing power. The Doctors Book of Food Remedies - by Selene Yeager and the Editors of Prevention Health Books - shows how to use Mother Nature's "healing foods" to lose weight,...
| Author | Alexandra Harney |
| ISBN | 1594201579 |
A landmark eyewitness exposé of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future
In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly...
Across the Channel, the battle rages ... On the Tilling front, another battle is being fought-the constant war of wits and social ascendancy between Lucia Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Lucia, with her superior style, timeless elegance, occasional low cunning and husband Georgie-whose talent...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0141441836 |
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their...
An extensive look at all the aspects of multi-natured Shiva
• Explores the shamanic roots of world spirituality as exemplified by this Hindu god who shares many of the attributes of the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos
• Looks at Shiva’s relation to contemporary culture,...
| Author | Jorge Cham |
| ISBN | 0972169520 |
This book is the second collection of the popular comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, which chronicles life (or the lack thereof) in grad school. Includes the popular strip series "Procrastin-X", "Grad school makes you dumber", "The Thesis Zone" and Mike Slackenerny's improbable thesis defense....
P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography
| Author | Frances Donaldson |
| ISBN | 1853754242 |
Who has not come to know and love Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth, Ukridge and Psmith and the chorus of Wooster aunts? Their creator, Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse, with nearly 100 tomes to his name, is one of the best-loved and famous writers of comedy in the English language. But what of the man himself?...
| Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
| ISBN | 0812572351 |
Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman...
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
| Author | Alain Daniélou |
| ISBN | 0892813547 |
The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation--and for each person, according...
| Author | E.F. Benson |
| ISBN | 0140119620 |
I've read and re-read the Mapp and Lucia books for 40 years. They're my 'go-to' books for escape, relaxation and humour. My children grew up seeing these books always on my bedside table - and they're still there. They were so used to seeing me read them that when I met my daughter in Rye at the beginning of...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1406503258 |
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the book is the question 'What happened to the fifteen-year boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' These...
| Author | Edward Lear |
| ISBN | 0142002275 |
The absurd and fanciful verses of Edward Lear-from "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" to "The Jumblies," from "The Scroobious Pip" to countless limericks-have enchanted generations of readers, children and adults alike. This delightful collection, the most comprehensive ever compiled of his work, presents...
| Author | Andy Rooney |
| ISBN | 1586482009 |
I can take five minutes of Andy Rooney and not be too bothered by his crotchety befuddlement. These 150+ essays, however, are redundantly crammed with balderdash and misspellings (which made it through spell-check, but were—obviously—never eyeballed). One strikingly obtuse slice of balderdash,...
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash
| Author | Ogden Nash |
| ISBN | 0233988920 |
Nash is the product of a literary age of dandies; those who came of age in the interwar years and always had a clever killer line in readiness. If it were a duel of wits their weapon would be superior to yours; not bigger, not better but sharper and aesthetically gorgeous.
It’s a style that palls...
The Flight from the Enchanter
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0099283697 |
Description: Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the...
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
| Author | Peter Atkins |
| ISBN | 0198609418 |
Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness...
The Divine Romance: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life
| Author | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| ISBN | 0876122411 |
This is part of an anthology of collected talks by the beloved Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, which includes, The Divine Romance, Man's Eternal Quest and Journey to Self-Realization. They are beyond review. They are what I keep in my own nightstand and what I open during times of trouble. They are what...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 0812516850 |
This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A fascistic government's capital punishment extends beyond death. Intellectually superior aliens from a doomed world choose Earth's dogs...
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
| Author | Catherine Price |
| ISBN | 0061787760 |
Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights desitinations we can all live without - like Jupiter's Worst Moon, an Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Reemergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood, and fan hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention - while reminding...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0449213080 |
Murder at the ABA (1976) is a mystery novel by Isaac Asimov, following the adventures of a writer and amateur detective named Darius Just (whom Asimov modeled on his friend Harlan Ellison). While attending a convention of the American Booksellers Association, Just discovers the dead body of a friend...
| Author | Angela Thirkell |
| ISBN | 1559211881 |
Even drama settles into circumstance, as the denizens of Barsetshire have learned through the private and public worries the Second World War has delivered to the home front. When peace breaks out, it surprises and unsettles familiar wartime routines, and the residents of Angela Thirkell's fictional...
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
| Author | Kenneth C. Davis |
| ISBN | 0380713799 |
Davis consistently does what your junior high teacher probably didn't; he makes geography amusing and riveting. From early concepts of whether the world was a disk floating in water (Thales) or pear-shaped (Columbus), Davis explains earthquakes, rain forests, Atlantis and whether there are canaries...
