Forty-Fied
Forty-Fied

Author: Malcolm Burgess

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781840468809

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"I Hate the Office" author presents a walking tour of your fifth decade, and advice on which fleece to take along...Is being forty the new thirty or are we all just kidding ourselves? Malcolm Burgess presents a riotous A - Z of the realities of fortysomething life in the Noughties. Riotous, that is, like having your iPod on in the house. Today's fortysomethings have never had it so good - or so confusing. While our parents could look forward to a sensible middle age we're more likely to be playing our Morrissey records and thanking God Jonathan Ross is on Radio 2. There are so many different ways of being in our forties that many of us aren't quite sure where we're supposed to go next - or just how grumpy we're meant to be. "Forty-fied" is the hilariously wry and observant essential guide to this complex decade in our lives. "The Metro" newspaper columnist and bestselling author of "I Hate the Office" leaves no embarrassing fortysomething scenario unturned - or do we mean unstoned? For anyone forty and fabulous, or who's forty and owns ten fleeces, this is the laugh-out- loud funny book of your dreams...and no doubt your screams, too.

Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie
Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie

Author: Michelle Lovric

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Museums may have a reputation for being boring, dusty and outdated but Michelle Lovric's new books crushes that stereotype and shows the fascinating, fun and sometimes frightening collections that are housed in the museums of today. There are museums devoted to Jell-O, liars, peanuts and the Dakota Dinosaur. From the Salem Witch Museum to Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum, via the House of Terror, take a tour of the worlds most unusual collections.

The Man Who Ate Bluebottles
The Man Who Ate Bluebottles

Author: Catherine Caufield

Publisher: Totem Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781840467772

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'Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters ... they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away' Patrick Moore, Daily Express'A hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI. William, and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this amusing survey of those strange British people through the ages.

Walking in on Mum and Dad
Walking in on Mum and Dad

Author: Brian King

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781840468052

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Contains many sorry tales of embarrassment, from author Bill Bryson snoring and dribbling in public to actor Patrick Stewart caught watching re-runs of "Star Trek". It includes tales of sex and seduction gone horribly wrong, of indecent exposure on a grand scale, and of emails which should never have been sent.

How Big Is Your Brain?
How Big Is Your Brain?

Author: Ian Livingstone

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781840468038

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This title contains over 300 interactive number puzzles, codes and logic conundrums including a 16 page colour section. It is perfect for the 'New Year, New You' market - discover whether your brain is the size of a pea or the size of a planet! Like the rest of your body, your brain needs to sweat and stretch to improve. Give it the workout it deserves with this interactive book, and develop your concentration, memory and creative thinking! Ranging from the mildly challenging to the almost impossible, each puzzle directs you to another when completed - depending on whether or not you got the first one right! It's a fiendish interactive maze of riddles, enigmas and fanciful brainteasers, including code-breaking, number-crunching and logic conundrums, all there to test your mind to the limit. With over 200 puzzles, "How Big is Your Brain" can be endlessly replayed to improve your mind - and a brain-boosting score. How big is your brain? - take the challenge and find out!

Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs

Author: David Graeber

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1501143336

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From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).