Humour category: 17948 books
The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure...
Not Cool
The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Behind every awful, dangerous decision lurks one evil beast: the Cool.
From politics to the personal, from fashion to food, from the campus to the locker room, the desire to be cool has infected all aspects of our lives. At its most harmless, it is annoying. At its worst, it is deadly, on a...
by Russell Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
In this book, Russell Brand...
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents
Strange Stories and Shocking Trivia from Inside the White House
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Includes all-new chapter about the 45th POTUS, Donald J. Trump.
This updated and redesigned edition of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features outrageous and uncensored profiles of our commanders in chief—complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright...
A Treasury of Great American Scandals
Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and...
Citizens of the Green Room
Profiles in Courage and Self-Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town and Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington’s elite, and wannabe elites.
Hailed by The Washington Post as a “master of the political profile,”...
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Franklin’s Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history, both personal and national, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed “deep...
by Quentin Letts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Which fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.
Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where they deserve it, from TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down...
Emergency!:
True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R.
The emergency room is a cauldron of human emotions. The anguish, fear, need, and gore is wearing. As the protective layer of the self is weakened,...
La vida es suero
Historias de una enfermera saturada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Bienvenido al mundo de Enfermera Saturada, un mundo donde el delirio se mezcla con el humor, a veces negro y siempre muy fino, pero donde el día a día del hospital siempre supera a la ficción.
Un fenómeno editorial más adictivo que el Lorazepam.
Si no tienes claro si una enfermera...
by Tig Notaro
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
One of America’s most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.
In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly...
by Wade Rouse
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
When Wade Rouse—a rural, public school graduate who grew up more Hee Haw than Dynasty—was hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job was to make a few of the very pretty, very rich, very mean mommies of the elite students happy.
Enter...
The Humor Code
A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist “shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why” (New York Post).
Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball experiments...
by Enfermera saturada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Después del espectacular éxito de La vida es suero, vuelve Enfermera Saturada con muchas más historias del día a día de una enfermera en la sanidad pública.
Tras conquistar a miles de lectores con su particular visión de los hospitales y del mundo sanitario, Enfermera Saturada, «Satu»,...