The Last Lecture List price: $21.95 168 new, used & collectible available from $9.24. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy PauschA lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had... |
Too Fat to Fish List price: $24.95 66 new, used & collectible available from $14.10. Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of TheHoward Stern Show—with a foreword by Howard Stern.When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of TheHoward Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show’s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of ... |
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity List price: $26.00 69 new, used & collectible available from $7.99. The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St. Brigid’s School in Westbury, New York, a cruel and un... |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals List price: $16.00 251 new & used available from $6.88. A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The... |
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames List price: $25.99 121 new, used & collectible available from $12.99. "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to... |
The Bro Code List price: $13.00 43 new & used available from $6.71. Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any ... |
Guinness: World Records 2009 (Guinness World Records) List price: $28.95 35 new & used available from $8.68. Guinness World Records 2009 continues to build on the intriguing, informative, inspiring and instructional records and superlatives that have made Guinness World Records one of the most famous brands and an annual best-seller around the world. This year, we've created a revolutionary new design and filled it with more records than ever before. And the 2009 edition will have two gatefold spreads... |
Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid List price: $26.95 57 new, used & collectible available from $14.00. A hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from the award-winning actor and comedian.“A pissed off Leary is the best Leary,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck, Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously.... |
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