Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students
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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...
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
| Author | Justin Pollard |
| ISBN | 0670037974 |
The astonishing story of the ancient city that invented the modern world
Founded by Alexander the Great and built by Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age—legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent...
| Author | James Thurber |
| ISBN | 0809590042 |
Τρίτο βιβλιαράκι του Τζέιμς Θέρμπερ που διαβάζω, μετά το πολύ ωραίο παραμύθι φαντασίας "Το άσπρο ελάφι" που διάβασα τον Μάρτιο του 2016 και το ιδιαίτερα ευχάριστο...
| 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 | Robert Gleason |
| ISBN | 0765322595 |
In ancient Mexico, the “End-Time Codex”--prophesizing the world’s end in 2012--is entombed. A young Aztec-Mayan slave tells us its story.
Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king’s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god-king, Quetzalcoatl,...
| 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...
At first glance, Peter Bowler appears to represent the position I mocked in an earlier post, that command of a larger vocabulary is a means to social advancement, and can be acquired by reading a book full of fancy words. Fortunately, closer reading of his introduction to this short, amusing, book reveals...
| 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...
| Author | H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| ISBN | 1558531564 |
کتابی عالی که تجربیات افراد مختلف را نه در قالب پند بلکه در قالب صحبت هایی دوستانه بیان می کند و مخاطب احساس همزاد پنداری با تمام گویند گان جملات این کتاب می...
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...
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell
| Author | Vivian Cook |
| ISBN | 0743270991 |
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson
Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration...
The Complete Costume History / Vollständige Kostümgeschichte / Le Costume Historique
| Author | Auguste Racinet |
| ISBN | 3822821934 |
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work --...
| 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...
Sure, you know all about the birds and bees. But did Dad ever tell you that it wasn't a stork that put that shiny can opener in your kitchen drawer? Or paperclips started out as proud, Nazi-fighting warriors? And did he tell you how cruise control was originally conceived by a blind genius? From mullets...
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 0740706004 |
When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. "I have never written a column that got a bigger...
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language
| Author | Ruth Wajnryb |
| ISBN | 0743274342 |
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century...
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...
| Author | Howard Carter |
| ISBN | 0792268903 |
I really enjoyed this book. I love all things Egyptian, and the discovery of King Tut's tomb is a special favourite. I like that the book is written by Howard Carter. Yes, he does go into details about the many items they found in the tomb, and those sections might be a bit long-winded for some, but not to me....
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists
| Author | David Wallechinsky |
| ISBN | 0688031838 |
Lists. Dontcha love 'em? You've got an item, then another item, and then some more items! All the items are similar, but at the same time, hey, they're different. And they come in an order, which may or may not mean something. Wow.
I'm afraid I'm already running out of ideas for explaining why lists...
Signspotting: Absurd and Amusing Signs from Around the World
| Author | Doug Lansky |
| ISBN | 1741044898 |
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Anyone who has spent time on the road knows that you often have to depend on signs...to navigate the town, locate your hotel, and even obey the law. A scary thought if you've ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that...
The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
| Author | Wendy Northcutt |
| ISBN | 0452284015 |
The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety...
