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    A collection of three of the author's "Discworld" novels; "Equal Rites", "Wyrd Sisters" and "Witches Abroad", that feature the characters Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrit Garlick.

    Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging, free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. Looking like a skeleton is not compulsory, either.

    

    A wild and witty compendium comprising the best-selling collections Bury My Heart at Fun-Fun Mountain and Say Hello to Cactus Flats, this colorful saga of the Fox family will inspire laughs and instant recognition.From the endurance test of together-time vacations to the always chaotic goings-on at work, home, and school, the Fox family exhibits the day-to-day lunacy that comes with family life--a life that includes the trials of dad Roger's computer ineptitude and mom Andy's culinary adventures. The Fox siblings--Peter, Paige, and Jason—display a recognizable, albeit quirky, look into the real world of growing up.Cartoonist Bill Amend, who was referred to by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the nation's best young cartoonists," bolsters this realistic portrayal by keeping his characters in the real world of Nintendo and Barney, Super Bowls and tofu casseroles, overdue book reports and overly painful trips to the mall. The personalities and humor of FoxTrot are timeless. We all know these people.FoxTrot reveals the humorous side of family trials and tribulations like no other comic strip in America. With Enormously FoxTrot, readers will be able to enjoy the engaging Fox family more than ever!

    Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info.B & W illustrations.

    A moody young boy living with his aunt on an island, "Red" Breathed sees himself as the "Red Ranger from Mars", his hero from the movie serials, and cannot picture life without the gift of a Red Ranger bicycle. Red is far too "swanky a human being" to believe in Santa Claus, but nevertheless he pays a visit to the aged island hermit, Lord Sander Clos, rumored to be the legendary man himself, now living in lonely, joyless retirement. This meeting triggers an emotional response within the self-absorbed Red and leads to the most remarkable bicycle ever delivered on Christmas morning.

    This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug.

    Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud."At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue," "Seven Menus," "Mere Mortals," "English Made Simple," "A Singular Kinda Guy," "Speed-the-Play," "Ancient History," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread."

    He offers pearls of wisdom, inspiration and observation in an odd and utterly original manner.

    "Barry . . . conjures up the essence of life's experiences in her drawings with oddball insight and a perfect ear for the way people talk".--Entertainment Weekly. 128 cartoons.

    With tenderness and intimacy, Alan Zweibel recounts a deeply devoted friendship that endured from 1975 until Gilda's tragic, untimely death. "A funny, sad, smart book".--Jane Curtin.

    America's favorite cat is hungrier, funnier, lazier, grouchier, and more lovable than ever! Watch (and watch out!) as this champion heavyweight fights fleas, battles the Sludge Monster, falls head over tail in love, gets hijacked by a duck, visits a psychiatrist -- among other antics -- all in the name of laughs!

    Patrick McManus, the bestselling author of such hilarious books as A Fine and Pleasant Misery and Never Sniff a Gift Fish, now offers readers solid thoughts on the qualities that define leadership, beginning with the need to be tall, and much more, in this outrageous collection of short pieces that reveals his tortuous trip along the writer's path.

    With three hilarious books over the next two decades--American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings--he established himself as, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of American eats." Trillin's three comic masterpieces are now available in what Trillin calls The Tummy Trilogy.

    Popular Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this large and lively family with raw humor and great affection. Forced to be mother, father, and referee to her battling clan, the ever-resourceful Agnes Browne occasionally finds a spare moment to trade gossip and quips with her best pal Marion Monks (alias "The Kaiser") and even finds herself pursued by the amorous Frenchman who runs the local pizza parlor. Like the novels of Roddy Doyle, The Mammy features pitch-perfect dialogue, lightning wit, and a host of colorful characters. Earthy and exuberant, the novel brilliantly captures the brash energy and cheerful irreverence of working-class Irish life.

    the number of reprints of his works). Selection reveals characteristic humor, stylistic grace, and engaging approaches. Focuses on middle-class life in bars, family situations, courtship, and other aspects of male-female relationships"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

    This lost world of stately pomp and unspeakable cruelty, artistic splendor and abysmal ignorance—the seeming opposite of brashly optimistic, commercial, democratic 19th-century America—engaged Twain’s imagination, inspiring a children’s classic, and astonishing fantasy of comedy and violence, and an unusual fictional biography.Twain drew on his fascination with impersonation and the theme of the double in The Prince and the Pauper (1882), which brilliantly uses the device of identical boys from opposite ends of the social hierarchy to evoke the tumultuous contrasts of Henry VIII’s England. As the pauper Tom Canty is raised to the throne, while the rightful heir is cast out among thieves and beggars, Twain sustains one of his most compelling narratives. A perennial children’s favorite, the novel brings an impassioned American point of view to the injustices of traditional European society.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) finds Twain in high satiric form. When hard-headed Yankee mechanic Hank Morgan is knocked out in a fight, he wakes up in Camelot in A.D. 528—and finds himself pitted against the medieval rituals and superstitions of King Arthur and his knights. In a hilarious burlesque of the age of chivalry and of its cult in the 19th-century American South, Twain demolishes knighthood's romantic aura to reveal a brutish, violent society beset by ignorance. But the comic mood gives way to a darker questioning of both ancient and modern society, culminating in an astonishing apocalyptic conclusion that questions both American progress and Yankee “ingenuity” as Camelot is undone by the introduction of advanced technology.“Taking into account … her origin, youth, sex, illiteracy, early environment, and the obstructing conditions under which she exploited her high gifts and made her conquest in the field and before the courts that tried her for her life, she is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever known.” So Twain wrote of the heroine of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), his most elaborate work of historical reconstruction. A respectful and richly detailed chronicle, by turns admiring and indignant, Joan of Arc opens a fascinating window onto the moral imagination of America’s greatest comic writer.

    This compact disc is a record of that remarkable event. Douglas gives dramatic solo performances of episodes and passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. Including: How to Fly Arthur and the Irrational Sofa and much, much, .....more

    Sometimes you are the pillow." The bulldog who’s headfirst in her bowl—“Every meal is THE BEST MEAL EVER.” Cynthia L. Copeland has a gift for discovering those sorts of simple, timeless lessons. She did it when her children were younger with Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me. Now she distills all-new wisdom from her lifelong love of dogs. Really Important Stuff My Dog Has Taught Me is tender, funny, warm, and utterly inspiring. Pairing an irresistible photograph with just the right sentiment, every page delivers a life lesson that appeals as much to our hearts as our minds. It reminds us again and again of what’s important, like love: “Be there when others need you.” Compassion: “Even the smallest act of kindness matters.” Perseverance: “Keep going until you find your way home.” A healthy sense of self: “Make it squeak until someone pays attention.” Living in the present moment: “Scratch where it itches, when it itches.” And that happiness is a choice: “Leap higher than you have to.”

    Full-colour illustrations, for ages 6-10 years.

    Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie's virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who'd rather kill than lose.In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has created a resourceful and humorous character who stands apart from the pack of gritty female detectives.

    Includes At Wit's End, "Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!" and I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression.544 pp. 6 x 9. Orig. 3 vols. $26.85.

    You've seen Jon Stewart, you've read Mad magazine. But you've never encountered anything like "Bob" and the Church of the SubGenius. The SubGenii have reached the limits of satire and pressed further, and in doing so have created a brand of satire that curtails its own absurdity and heightens our awareness of the world we live in. The SubGenii have never been as relevant as they are today. Fundamentalist religion in the extreme, there are no limits to "Bob's" influence. In Revelation X we get answers to difficult questions: We learn the 10,001 Essences of "Bob" and He tells of His Very Own Conspiracy. Revealed for the first time are the Lost Gospels, the Epistles, the history of Mondo Connie, and a detailed description of "Bob's" Heaven and Hell. Also included are the 273 Damnable, Venial, Black, White, Deadly, Menial and Trivial Sins, which include Buffalo Frenching (#4), Luck Listening (#40), Wedbetting (#76), and Reading judgmental lists of so-called "sins" (#273).

    Levy's colorful cast of characters interact with the real-life people and events of the time, and it's all seen through the eyes and mind of a good-hearted/learning-to-be street smart New Jersey gas-station mechanic named Buddy Palumbo, whom several reviewers have likened to Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. A self-published book that made it big (now in its eleventh printing!), rave reviews everywhere, a true cult classic, and has been used in high school and college-level English Lit classes.

    Enjoy.

    Offers a collection of some of the most memorable Peanuts comic strips from the past forty-five years.

    Snoopy invites his ugly brother, Olaf, to compete in an ugly dog contest, Charlie Brown plays baseball, and Peppermint Patty goes to summer school.

    Or rather the psychic images of the fairies, who quickly turned it into a game, where they leapt between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most outrageous poses.

    You probably thought you couldn't stand any more genius in one lifetime. Well, fasten your intellectual seat belts! Inside you'll find 100% guaranteed top quality brilliance on every page, as he winsomely and wisely answers questions like these: Can people really hear radio broadcasts through their teeth? What does Queen Elizabeth carry in that purse, anyway? So how DO porcupines mate? And many more. When you hear the answers, you'll be glad someone asked the questions.

    A spider tricks other animals into thinking a melon can talk.

    Follows life for folks in Roman Britain from Nero to Boudicca and includes a look at gory games, rotten recipes, and loads of frightening facts.

    These previously unpublished reports have been carefully chosen for their originality and credibility. The author has spent more than three years traveling the region and interviewing witnesses in search of authentic ghosts. The result is this startling book, perhaps the most unbelievable of its kind.

    Her strip is poignant and funny--and very often, universal. She captures a mother's frustration at an unruly teenager, a father's surprise in a growing daughter, and kids' various views about their future as they grow up.In It's the Thought That Counts, For Better or For Worse looks back on many of the series' high points through Lynn's hand-picked selection of color Sundays: the unexpected birth of baby April in 1991; the daring revelation that teenage family friend Lawrence was gay; the fear that comes with aging parents. The collection also includes those quietly funny moments in families: a father and his kids romping with abandon; a closet full of clothes that no longer span a middle-aged girth; a teenage son's first experience with a crush.Lynn Johnston fashioned the Patterson family after her own lively brood. Her real life experiences--divorce, childbirth, pets, and parents--show through in her work in the most wise and wonderful ways. Even better, this anniversary book contains Johnston's comments about some of her favorite strips in an amusing and informative narrative.

    Determined to bear a baby for her childless sister, Theodosia hires a bodyguard and prepares to sort through the many "applicants" responding to her ad for a blue-eyed sire. But she need look no further than her protector for the thoroughbred love of a lifetime.

    Featuring such beloved characters as Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, this treasury also includes biographical spotlights of illustrating pioneers such as Chuck Jones, plus a look at Disney, Warner Bros., and other great animation studios.

    It's a great place for new listeners to start, and longtime fans can relive the whimsical history! The Gold series includes bonus tracks, fun facts, and behind-the-scenes details!Volume 1 contains the following stories (and themes):Whit's Flop (The very first episode!)A Member of the Family 1 & 2 (We meet Whit's family)The Life of the Party (Acceptance)Connie Comes to Town (We meet Connie Kendall)Recollections (Whit's End)Gifts for Madge and Guy (A Christmas fable)The Day after Christmas (Loving one another year round)Promises, Promises (New Year's resolutions)Nothing to Fear (Courage in God)The Tangled Web (Dishonesty)A Change of Hart (Salvation)

    Let Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences-laugh with them, learn with them, read with them!Eight classic, best-selling titles are available now!Category: Humor"Hally Tosis was a very good dog, but she had a big problem."Hold your nose! Because here comes the dog with the worst breath in the world!"Wordplay...is at the heart of this sweet, funny picture book...And the bright colors…add a marvelous effervescence to the zany goings-on."--Booklist

    No more agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. No more flipping through all six of the other Bathroom Readers looking for a page you haven't already read. The seventh volume has it all: Entertainment, humor, education, trivia, pop culture, history… and more! And it's still divided by length—you can spend a minute with the Quickies, relax with Regular-Length articles, or get really comfortable with Long Items.With Uncle John's Seventh Bathroom Reader strategically placed next to that other important fixture in your bathroom, you'll settle in happily and read about:-The Truth About the Bermuda Triangle-The Strange Fate of the Dodo Bird-How to Guess Someone's Age-Six Real "Bad Hair Days"-Why Your Feet Smell-The Birth of Spam-Pirate Legends-& a Host of Other Great Bathroom Topics!For years, the Bathroom Reader's Institute has researched your bathroom reading habits in an attempt to understand and serve the interests of America's forgotten readers. Enjoy!

    Asterix the Gaul -- Asterix and the Goths -- Asterix the Gladiator -- Asterix the Legionary -- Asterix and the big fight -- Asterix and the Chieftain's shield.

    Includes " Do Not Go Gentle to That Damned Vet" by Dylan Thomas's cat, " The Human" by Edgar Allan Poe's cat and other works. Poetry for Cats will prove as thrilling as a stiff shot of catnip. Color illustrations.

    Following the enthusiastic reception of "Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges," the University of California Press returns with "Four More."This volume contains three scripts widely regarded as among the filmmaker's best: "The Palm Beach Story," "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," and "Unfaithfully Yours." Based on the actual shooting scripts rather than the final screen versions, these screenplays contain scenes that were not filmed or that disappeared on the cutting room floor. In the fourth script, "Triumph over Pain/The Great Moment," Sturges dramatizes the career of W.T.G. Morton, the doctor who first demonstrated the use of ether and thus revolutionized surgery. Arguably the most important biographical film project of the 1940s, this film was recut and rearranged by Paramount before it was released. By reprinting Sturges's original script and explaining its transformation, Brian Henderson has, in effect, discovered a new work by Sturges.In the introductions that precede each screenplay, Henderson examines every important aspect of the screenplay's composition. He analyzes Sturges's process of constant revision, discusses variant drafts and fragments of drafts, and describes the writer/director's relations with Paramount executives, the Church, the Hayes Office, and Darryl Zanuck.Alone or as a companion to the earlier volume, this work will be welcomed by scholars, film buffs, screenplay writers, and admirers of Preston Sturges.

    Peachtree Press is proud to announce The Grizzard Sampler, a collection of the best of this beloved humorist. A portion of the proceeds from this book benefits the American Heart Association.

    With: Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I love you / Lewis Grizzard -- Won't you come home, Billy Bob Bailey? / Lewis Grizzard -- Don't sit under the grits tree with anyone else but me / Lewis Grizzard -- Elvis is dead, and I don't feel so good myself / Lewis Grizzard -- Shoot low, boys - they're riding Shetland ponies / Lewis Grizzard

    Volume 10 enters the golden years of the Pogo dailies with a stretch of strips from March to October, 1953, including a compelling and dangerous (for its time) McCarthyism sequence.

    Illustrated throughout in full color.

    Deep Thoughts are addictive And because nobody can read just one, Deep Thoughts: A Book of Postcards puts 30 of Jack Handey's funniest meditations at your fingertips.

    Still Weird is the first major retrospective collection, including 100 new cartoons, by one of America's strangest and most popular cartoonists.

    Published to coincide with the Granada television series, this selection of episodes and stories sees Wooster in the greatest danger of being forced to tie the knot and in all of them, it is Jeeves who contrives to put the finishing touches to the schemes that test the Wooster soul.

    Movie tie-in.

    It involves six to seven players and many kinds of scenes: games, monologues, songs, skits and more, all of which are bound to keep both actors and audience members guessing. The Harold is non-linear entertainment that remembers everything and wastes nothing the key to successful improvising and has become a standard in comedy clubs and improv theatres around the globe.

    No, really. Here we have the first five issues of the Fun, happy, and VERY X-rated adult comic 'XXXenophile'. collected in one attractive volume. Sprung forth from the mind of the Hugo award winning artist Phil Foglio then served with a smile (and nothing else). What is the story? Well, XXXenophile is an anthology title, it consists of lots of short, unrelated stories spanning many genres. From Fantasy to Sci-Fi-fi the one things that they share in common are their humor, and of course, lots of sex. ADULTS ONLY!

    I'm Libby Gelman-Waxner, and I'm an assistant buyer in juniors' activewear. While I find my work both rewarding and creative, especially with the new knits coming in, I want more. And so I decided to become a film critic....Move over, Siskel & Ebert. Watch out, Leonard Maltin. And just forget saving that aisle seat, Mr. Medved. Libby Gelman-Waxner has arrived -- in the critic's circle, that is -- and the silver screen may never be the same again. Witty, wicked, and scathingly honest -- If You Ask Me is a hilarious collection of her columns from Premiere magazine. Just listen to Libby on some recent films and film stars:Prince of Tides -- "Barbra's only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams 'My nails!'"Diane Keaton -- "She's a pioneer; she takes that thing that hangs in the back of your closet, the thing that was too marked down to pass up, Diane takes that thing and she doesn't call Goodwill, she wraps it around her head a few times, pins on a Smurf brooch, and wins an Oscar...."The Last of the Mohicans -- "Daniel Day-Lewis makes American actors look like giggly junior high school boys playing Nintendo during the prom; at one point, Madeleine asks Daniel what he is looking at, and he says, I'm looking at you, Miss, and let me tell you, the usher had to conk me with his flashlight to make me stop whimpering...."Daryl Hannah -- "All men in America, my Josh included, they all want a date with Daryl Hannah. A girl like Daryl -- we're not talking about a Ph.D. in comparative literature; I think we're talking about hair in the eyes and not much in the way of lingerie...."

    Includes the New York Times bestsellers Dave Barry Turns 40, and Dave Barry Talks Back, and the outstanding Dave Barry's Greatest Hits.

    

    It offers tools of the trade such as Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny.

    Over 100 issues later, his magazine has inspired a poetry collection, a 5-vol. CD set, two documentaries, three plays, and this book. Illus.

    Subjects range from weird laws concerning women's feet to sexual phobias, from notable criminals' last meals to celebrity sightings of UFOs.

    So Samantha packs her brother a lunch box filled with deliciously gruesome seaside snacks. But there's one more surprise in store.on shore!

    Relentless lampooning fashion in particular, and modern life in general, the book isl ike a visit from two old friends you've been dying to see, and couldn't get rid of if you tried. Includes two eight-page color photo inserts.

    These insights will tug at your heart and lift your spirits. Published in paperback as "When You Lick a Slug, Your Tongue Goes Numb."

    The flogging is made fresh by a venomous wit, genuine scorn, and a heaping dose of good old-fashioned contempt.' -The Comics Journal

    Volume 10 enters the golden years of the Pogo dailies with a stretch of strips from March to October, 1953, including a compelling and dangerous (for its time) McCarthyism sequence.

    When brave Axel Howl meets Cap'n Short Bob on a pirate ship in his backyard, he has to think and act fast before the mean pirate turns him into fish food!

    Take it straight from a nervous man continually taking the pulse of the cultural zeitgeist, as he charges the halls of eternity in "Final Exit: The Marketing Campaign." Hang on for the ride as he deconstructs everything from animated spokescreatures to rap ("Turn That Racket DOWN"), coffee to disarmament ("Those Pesky Nukes"). Journey into the twilight land of hope, cynicism, and conspicuous cellular phone usage on the campaign trail. Take your hat off to the great American pastime ("Swing and a Myth"), American cars ("Lament of the Crash Dummies"), and America's most tragic cultural icon ("The Life and Times of Wile E. Coyote"). And quiver with unabashed delight as Lileks's manic intelligence roves over such subjects as Satanism, genetic engineering, and Thanksgiving turkeys. "One might call Lileks...a young Dave Barry...Lileks makes the grade," says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press proclaims, "It's time we admit that the only sane reaction to life is a horselaugh, and by that standard, Lileks is a pretty sane guide to the (un)real world we grudgingly inhabit." From fake logs to car alarms, school prayer to swimsuits ("Thongs! For men! Had the laws changed? Had men changed?"), don't miss another word by James Lileks, one of the country's wittiest satiric stars.

    One day when Ned's parents are out, he meets Captain Lumpy Lugo, a space pirate who comes from the galaxy Foon-ping-baba, and they spend the afternoon travelling through outer space.

    Mo, a little boy who doesn't want to eat his dinner, turns himself into a series of ever-expanding monsters that eat virtually everything except stringbeans and cheese souffle, including math teachers and entire countries.

    He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has in the past few years turned his hand to writing plays. The results, collected here, hilariously explore serious questions of love, happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with equal parts of pain and slapstick humour, torment and wit.

    And now for something completely different, from the Brits who brought us "The Spam Song" and "Every Sperm Is Sacred" comes this zany collection of Monty Python song lyrics (with music for playing along at home), interspersed with numerous photos and the wonderful art of Terry Gilliam.

    Who doesn't remember the holiday sights and sounds and smells of Grandma's house? The living room aglow with a tree that touches the ceiling, the clatter of silverware and kitchen pans, the banter of relatives, and especially Grandma's bright face Donald Davis captures these memories and more and relays them through the eyes of a child.

    A humorous, irreverent guide to Jewish life and religion in the style of Growing Up Catholic explains the Ten Suggestions, offers Diaspora travel tips, discusses when to tell a date you've had a nose job, and more.

    Gladiola and Texas speak nuggets of humorous wisdoms like these: "Love is a bumpy trail, but it promises a scenic ride." "A stone stops rolling when it lands near the kinda moss it's been looking to gather." "Life is not bearable with the opposite sex, until it is unbearable without 'em."

    A heapin' helpin' of hillbilly vittles! Illustrated and indexed.

    A pop-up book based on the Wallace and Gromit cartoon, A Close Shave.

    Their choice is Norville Barnes - but Norville has a dream of power.

    A comical review of viking history.

    With Pythonesque wit, Rawle has devised dazzlingly imaginative-well, frankly, bizarre-illustrations, situations, and stories that all pose a riddle or problem. Consult the solutions at the back of the book at your own risk. Color illustrations.

    Fudwinkle tells Alistair's closs, "I want you to bring in the most unusual plant you can find", Alistair decides to cruise the galaxies for the most unusual plant in the entire universe. Space travel is no problem; Alistair mastered it in "Alistair In Outer Space". But Alistair doesn't count on aliens invading Earth. Only Alistair can save Earth from the aliens. But who will save Alistair's science project? Can Alistair save Earth and be on time with his homework?

    Instantly recognizable to casual museum-goers and anyone who has ever perused Janson's History of Art, the works are captioned with deadpan annotations by a real-life art historian. 32 color illustrations.

    The world's first anti-travel guide gives you the dirt on where not to go, why not to go there, and what not to do once you've arrived.

    

    Now comes a new collection of the heartwarming, hilarious comic America loves.

    

    

    Donald Duck stars in "The Deep," a 48-page adventure that takes Donald, Daisy, and the nephews to an abandoned oil rig in a remote lagoon that may - or may not - be haunted by a monster. "Panicking Pachyderm" stars the redoubtable rodent Mickey Mouse as the recipient of an elephant that goes crazy at the sight of Mickey's face. Mickey travels to its home country to find out why, but discovers all the elephants there panic at the sight of him! Discover why in this 37-page epic. Also: a 39-page Uncle Scrooge adventure, "End of Days," in which the World's Richest Duck is transported to a future world where a digitized computer version of himself has taken over the world and has pushed Scrooge's innate ambition to the extreme. Can Scrooge save the world of tomorrow and vindicate his good name?

    Reprint.

    In this brilliant book he has selected and illustrated his favourite comic verse, making it pure entertainment for nonsense-lovers of all ages. His unique style of drawing brings a new perspective to every poem. Classic writers such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear are combined with more contemporary talents such as Roger McGough, Margaret Mahy and Russell Hoban. With fifteen wonderfully absurd sections, including Distracting Creatures, Sticky Ends, I Wish I Were a Jelly Fish, A Recipe for Indigestion and Chortling and Galumphing, here is a delightful collection of the topsy-turvy, the fantastical, the anarchic, the illogical and the utterly wonderful.

    Although Foxbury's Town Burglars burgle one shop each month to give the police practice chasing burglars, this time the robbers have other plans.

    Stern's characters are plagued by history, lust, solitude and the extravagance of their imaginations.

    Another New York Times bestseller. 8-page insert.

    But why?Pavlov's Trout answers that question and many more as it examines the mysteries of the sport of fishing through the microscope of modern psychology. Eminent psychologist and veteran fisherman Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., explores the many, often mysterious. motivations that attract millions to the sport of fishing.In this lighthearted and insightful book, Quinnett postulates that people fish to satisfy primitive instinct, connect to the wilderness, relieve stress, and to experience the optimism, freedom, and excitement of the pursuit. Pavlov's Trout is truly a fishing book like no other -- a venturing into the world of the psyche of the angler, a world where it is better to fish hopefully than to catch fish.

    Includes: "The Immortal Bard", "Someday", "The Jokester", "The Ugly Little Boy", and "The Last Question".

    A collection of scripts from the second series of BBC Television's comedy series, "Bottom", featuring the anarchic adventures of Richie and Eddie, two of life's losers, played by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.

    From primitive discoveries such as fire and the wheel, to modern creations such as the jet engine and computers - this book contains them all. And, for your edification and amusement, some of the world's great inventing disasters are described as well. Once you've read about the 53 things, you will find out which is the half invention that will someday change the lives of millions.

    Young. Expanded and updated!

    (To paraphrase Nietzsche.) Here is the story of Paintbrush, the cat in a bow tie who leaves family, friends, and the Midwest behind to chase a dream of artistic fulfillment. Engagingly illustrated throughout with bright, cheerful watercolors and written in a charming style to match, Paintbrish in Paris is the first book by Jill Butler, a designer and collagist. In it she follows Paintbrush from his first excursions beyond his atelier to the invitation to show his work.

    Can't Keep a Straight Face author Ellen Orleans provides snappy, well-informed answers to questions relevant to a true understanding of contemporary gay and lesbian life.

    Now Ron Jenkins shows how comics around the world use their art to combat political and social tyranny in everyday life.

    

    Witticisms, satire, and irony abound, and no profession or institution escapes Bragg's sharp eye.