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The Gentleman's Guide to Life: What Every Guy Should Know About Living Large, Loving Well, Feeling Strong, and Looking Good

by Steve Friedman

Whether you're a sensitive, bookish type or a beer-guzzling Cyber-jock--or just an average guy--The Gentleman's Guide to Life is a perfect and indispensable primer on looking, living, and feeling good, answering...

The Official Highway Code

by Drivin for the Department for Transport

The only official Highway Code includes all the latest rules of the road and traffic signs, up-to-date legislation and advice on road safety. An essential read for all road users.

The Other Dictionary: A dictionary of hitherto unrecorded meanings and interpretations of a selection of words in the English language

by Marc Loewenthal

This is a dictionary different from any dictionary that you've used before. You may use dictionaries to find definitions, check spelling, assess usage or just confirm what you think already. You will do none...

California Trivia

by Lucy Poshek

Test your California smarts! This engaging trivia book is packed with fascinating facts about the history, culture, people, and places of the intriguing Golden State. You'll discover well-known and not-so-well-known...

The Only Writing Book You'll Ever Need: A Complete Resource For Perfecting Any Type Of Writing

by Pamela Rice Hahn

Whether you're writing simple thank-you notes or creating elaborate business proposals, you need to be able to write well. The ability to craft clear, effective prose is critical to success in all facets of...

Pocket Companion to Narnia

by Paul F. Ford

The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia. From Aslan, the great lion, to Zardeenah, the mysterious lady of the night, this comprehensive and accessible companion contains hundreds of...

The Daring Book for Girls

by Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects,...

How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World: The Art of Living with Style, Class, and Grace

by Jordan Christy

In a society driven by celebutante news and myspace profiles, women of class, style and charm are hard to come by. The Audrey and Katharines of the world continue to lose their luster as thongs, rehab and outrageous...

Everything That Follows Is Based on Recent, Real-Life Experience That Has Been Proven to Work: Professional Survival Solutions

by James Shepherd-Barron

"In the course of my work I have built an airstrip in Burundi, helped deliver a baby to a Rwandan refugee on a Congolese roadside, navigated to safety when lost in the deserts of Chad, taken cover from ricocheting...

On Writing

by Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions...

Lessons at the Fence Post

by Paul D. Cummings

"Remember, life is a marathon and not a sprint.

Train yourself to go the distance."

The homespun wisdom that young Paul Cummings received while he and his granddad talked beside an Arkansas fence post has enriched...

Effective Magazine Writing: Let Your Words Reach the World

by Roger Palms

Let your words reach the World

If you are a writer who wants to have an impact with your words in the Christian magazine market, this book is for you. The former editor of Decision magazine, Palms helps you take...

The Pep Boys Auto Guide to Car Care and Maintenance

by E.J. Braswell

Okay, so you’re not a gearhead, but like most folks, you want to keep your car in peak condition. For more than eighty years, the Pep Boys–Manny, Moe, and Jack–have been “the three best friends your...

The Dictionary of Nautical, University, Gypsy and Other Vulgar Tongues

by John Camden Hotten

This is not a book about history. It IS history. First published in 1859, it is literally a snapshot of the language used by the 18th and 19th Century common man. With it, you can enter into his world as he...

Land Your First Online Teaching Job

by Jean Sibley

I wholeheartedly recommend this book! I followed the 30 Day plan, using all of Jean's tips and strategies. I gained the confidence to take the right action steps, and I'm thrilled to have now landed my first...

Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth

by Gideon Haigh

Make way for this defiantly idiosyncratic, hilariously illuminating compendium of curiosities you never knew you wanted to know!

How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What are the...

Royal Wisdom

by Kate Petrella

Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from the Royal family of Windsor!

They may be royalty, but the first family of Great Britain has made more than their share of gaffes, faux pas, and verbal blunders. In Royal Wisdom...

The Quotable Drunkard: Words of Wit, Wisdom, and Philosophy From the Bottom of the Glass

by Steven Kates

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

--Dorothy Parker

From pubs, alehouses, wine bars, vineyards, across the table, and under the table comes a flowing river of...

The Call of the Writer's Craft

by Tom Bird & Paul McCarthy

Getting a book successfully published is as much about talent and creative drive as it is a matter of determination and business practice. Luckily for would-be authors, this book delivers the how-to on both...

The Little Red Book of Very Dirty Words

by Alexis Munier

Inside this book: The dirtiest words in the English language!

And we're not just talking about those infamous seven words you can't say on TV. We're talking about more than 1,000 of the blessedly profane insults,...