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Bored and Brilliant
How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
"Bored and Brilliant shows the fascinating side of boredom. Manoush Zomorodi investigates cutting-edge research as well as compelling (and often funny) real-life examples to demonstrate that boredom is actually a crucial tool for making our lives happier, more productive, and more creative. What’s...
Automating Inequality
How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
WINNER: The 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
The New York Times Book Review: "Riveting."
Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary."
Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be...
by James Paul Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from...
Hunting Fish
A Cross-Country Search for America's Worst Poker Players
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
If you want to prove you're a good poker player, you don't have to battle against the best. Nobody really cares if you ever bluffed Phil Ivey or got Daniel Negreanu to make a bad call. You're at the table for the money, not stories of conquest. A disciplined player, one who's playing for the right...
We're Just Like You, Only Prettier
Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"On the short drive to the preschool,
I dutifully unwrap a NutriGrain bar and
toss it into the back seat to my four-year-old.
Sometimes I'll even unwrap one for myself.
Studies have shown that it's very important
for familes to eat together. . . . "
Why couldn't the Sopranos survive...
Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay
Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes TAKE FIVE, a mini collection of true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention—stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. TAKE FIVE includes the following four...
by Celia Rivenbark
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From the author of the bestselling classics We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp, comes a collection of essays so funny, you'll shoot co'cola out of your nose. Topics include such gems as:
• Why Miss North Carolina is too nice to hate
• How Gwyneth Paltrow...
by Augusten Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection yet.
This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders...
Suck It, Wonder Woman!
The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Suck It, Wonder Woman! brings Olivia Munn's unique humor, incredible wit, and lightning-fast costume changes to a world that needs more scrapbooking, sea monkeys, and for the love of God, a freakin' hoverboard!
In this hilarious collection you'll find essays like "thought's About My First...
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl
Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere
In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark...
by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Booklist...
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies
The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They're number...
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world.
Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker,...
Robert Mitchum
"Baby I Don't Care"
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape...