Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
10 best books like Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff (H. Jackson Brown Jr.): The Penguin Dictionary of Economics, Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language, Critical Theory Since Plato, Greyhaven, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths, Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker, Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
| Author | Graham Bannock |
| ISBN | 0141010754 |
Whether readers are students of economics or simply want to follow the economic discussions in the media today, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary is the perfect source for explanations of a host of economic terms. With a world- wide focus that befits our truly global age, the seventh edition...
Parts of this book were really fascinating. I liked reading about the different types of puns and other types of word play. As a dictionary of puns, it really works and has a lot of good examples. Sometimes there were too many examples and I really didn't want to read through them all. Some of the puns relied...
| Author | Hazard Adams |
| ISBN | 0155055046 |
CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978155 |
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0751505080 |
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.
Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.
I missed...
| Author | Mardy Grothe |
| ISBN | 0060789484 |
For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said."
In...
| Author | Anders Henriksson |
| ISBN | 0761122745 |
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams
Did You Know:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant...
| Author | Matthew Diffee |
| ISBN | 1416933395 |
Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.
These rejects...
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.
This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 1400061407 |
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
| Author | Bill Peet |
| ISBN | 0395281598 |
“The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock” is a children’s book about self-confidence from the popular children’s author, Bill Peet. This book details Prewitt’s, a peacock, dilemma when his tail, at first was scrawny, becomes a horrifying looking tail over a matter of days! This children’s...
| Author | William G. Crook |
| ISBN | 0394747003 |
This is the seminal book that explains the connection between excess Candida albicans in the gut and a multitude of health problems, from menstrual pain to impaired glucose tolerance. Unfortunately, the author basically recommends the frikkin' Atkins Diet to address it, which is pretty lethal in...
| Author | Venice J. Bloodworth |
| ISBN | 0875162967 |
Key to Yourself will take you into a new world of accomplishment, prosperity, friends and pleasure. It will give you a golden return if you will study it correctly and steadily. The inestimable value of psychology cannot be comprehended by a mere reading or superficial knowledge, - its true worth can...
The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads
| Author | Martin Booth |
| ISBN | 0786708697 |
With unflinching candor, Martin Booth -- Booker Prize nominee and author of the critically acclaimed Opium: A History -- here unfolds the full story of the Chinese Triads, which, according to UN sources, now pose the greatest potential criminal threat the world has ever known. From San Francisco to...
Ranch of Dreams: The Country's Most Unusual Sanctuary, Where Every Animal Has a Story
| Author | Cleveland Amory |
| ISBN | 0140867198 |
After reading "Black Beauty" as a child, Cleveland Amory dreamed that one day he would have a ranch where animals would not be abused, but would spend their days roaming proud and free. Now, the author of "The Cat Who Came for Christmas" shares the remarkable stories of the countless animals who have been...
| Author | Mark A. Burkholder |
| ISBN | 0195320425 |
Now in its sixth edition, Colonial Latin America provides a concise study of the history of the Iberian colonies in the New World from their preconquest background to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. The new edition of this highly acclaimed text has been revised and updated...
Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
| Author | Paul F. Berliner |
| ISBN | 0226043819 |
A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime...
| Author | Arthur Goldwag |
| ISBN | 0307279073 |
Have you ever wondered about the difference between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism and which influenced the other? Do you know where Post-modernism stops and Post-structuralism begins? Would you like to? From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools...
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0415141176 |
Philosophy, Russell argues in An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. Russell illuminates the ways in which we are capable of knowledge and discovering natural laws...
| Author | Erich Ohser Plauen |
| ISBN | 3473520624 |
Beautiful childhood moments
I read this book about 100 time when I was a little kid in Iran , Loved the pictures and humor , Today it’s still melting my heart. Thank you Erich Ohzer for your books being part of my beautiful childhood memories.
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans
| Author | Stefan Zeidenitz |
| ISBN | 1902825292 |
Quite a hilarious read... yes, it sterotypes Germany and Germans but so what, there's a lot of truth and reality in it, and I think the authors really hit a nerve here and there. Made me laugh out loud quite a few times, here are some tidbits:
About obsesssions... "The Germans love their cars more...
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the U.S. Senate. This event was unknown to...
Chocolate for a Woman's Soul: 77 Stories to Feed Your Spirit and Warm Your Heart
| Author | Kay Allenbaugh |
| ISBN | 0684832178 |
Treat yourself to 77 true stories that celebrate life and capture the essence of what it means to be a woman. Like chocolate, these stories soothe, satisfy, and delight -- better yet, they're good for you! Written by and for women, here are heartfelt insights on commitment, compassion, work, marriage,...
| Author | Abdu'l-Bahá |
| ISBN | 0877431906 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
