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Product Description: Sports is the stuff of high drama, big personalities and some very memorable quips. Over the years, players and coaches have captured exactly what it means to win, how it feels to lose and why we keep on watching. Here, from across the spectrum of sports, are some of their funniest and most thoughtful words...read more
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9781849538619 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, October 9, 2016, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sports is the stuff of high drama, big personalities and some very memorable quips.
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9780300223019 | Yale Univ Art Gallery, September 20, 2016, cover price $75.00
Miscellaneous:
9781452151793 | Pag edition (Chronicle Books Llc, July 19, 2016), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Based on the bestselling F in Exams book series, this laugh-a-day calendar presents stunningly wrong but hilariously true student test answers.
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9781452148960 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 22, 2016, cover price $19.95
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9781849537773 | Revised edition (Summersdale Pub Ltd, February 1, 2016), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: With quips, quotes and insults from classic favourites William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to modern humorists Stephen Fry and Billy Connolly, this delightful book will ensure you're never at a loss for the perfect witticism.
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9781452142098 | Box pag edition (Chronicle Books Llc, July 21, 2015), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Based on the bestselling F in Exams book series, this calendar presents a full year's worth of masterful fails, featuring hundreds of stunningly wrong but amazingly funny student test answers, plus all kinds of things everyone should have learned in high school but didn't.
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9781452144047 | Ntb edition (Chronicle Books Llc, April 14, 2015), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Featuring spot illustrations and real, hilariously wrong test answers from the bestselling F in Exams series, this entertaining and subversive composition-style notebook is sure to amuse students or anyone looking to take a humorous break from taking notes.
Product Description: This upbeat, easy-to-use guide will show you how to organize your work, revise effectively, and prepare for exam day to give you the best chance of getting that A! Peppered with jokes showing how not to do it from the inimitable Richard Benson, author of F in Exams, this book includes information on preparing your revision environment, organizing your notes, using the right revision methods, choosing reliable online resources, best practice for exam day, and finding the best approach for YOU...read more
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9781849537162 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, April 9, 2015, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This upbeat, easy-to-use guide will show you how to organize your work, revise effectively, and prepare for exam day to give you the best chance of getting that A!
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9781452144030 | Reprint edition (Chronicle Books Llc, April 7, 2015), cover price $9.95
Product Description: AÂ collection of rugby-themed quotes for every player and fan of this rough-and-tumble game"I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway, you're on the same wavelength as the referees."Â âJonathan DaviesSome might say thereâs nothing funny about scrums, cauliflower ears, and the sin bin...read more
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9781849534604, titled "Rugby Wit: Quips and Quotes for the Rugby-Obsessed" | Summersdale Pub Ltd, November 1, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: AÂ collection of rugby-themed quotes for every player and fan of this rough-and-tumble game"I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules.
9781840246087 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, August 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Part of the 'Wit' series, this work brings together hundreds of rugby related quotes that range from the humorous to the philosophical.
Product Description: "Did you hit your brother?" "No. Not yet." The world is a confusing place, and it can be tough for our children to make sense of it all. Along the way, their innocence and imagination lead them to come out with some wonderfully funny things...read more
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9781849536516 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, November 1, 2014, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: "Did you hit your brother?
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9781452128115 | Box des pa edition (Chronicle Books Llc, July 22, 2014), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Based on the bestselling F in Exams book series, this calendar presents a full year's worth of hilarious fails, featuring hundreds of stunningly wrong but amazingly funny student test answers, plus all kinds of things everyone should have learned in high school but didn't.
Product Description: The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's 92 years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family's attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat...read more
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9780747591849 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, April 24, 2014, cover price $41.70 | About this edition: The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family.
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9781452127767 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 18, 2014, cover price $9.95
Product Description: AÂ collection of wise and humorous quotes to remind any senior citizen just how great it is to grow old "The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."Â âVirginia Woolf Youâve made it: Old Age. Time to enjoy your golden years in style and make the most of your new freedom...read more
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9781849534611 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, September 1, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: AÂ collection of wise and humorous quotes to remind any senior citizen just how great it is to grow old "The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
9781840245424 | Reprint edition (Summersdale Pub Ltd, October 1, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of senior sagacity and elderly erudition and shows those young whipper snappers that old is the new young.
Product Description: AÂ collection of cricket-themed quotes for every fan and player of the gentleman's game"Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised."Â âSir Pelham WarnerWhether or not you can tell your dibbly-dobblies from your nurdles, this marvelous offering is bound to bowl you over...read more
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9781849534628 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, September 1, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: AÂ collection of cricket-themed quotes for every fan and player of the gentleman's game"Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.
Product Description: From hapless headlines to lost in translation, the funniest blunders ever in printScouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.The ladies of the Merry Oldsters enjoyed a swap social on Friday evening...read more
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9781849531818 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, April 1, 2013, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: From hapless headlines to lost in translation, the funniest blunders ever in printScouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled.
Product Description: When the fish just aren't biting and you're feeling sick from staring too long at the water, dip into this hearty and amusing collection of fishy quips and quotes and remind yourself that the fun of fishing isn't always in the catch"I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent...read more
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9781849531870 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, October 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When the fish just aren't biting and you're feeling sick from staring too long at the water, dip into this hearty and amusing collection of fishy quips and quotes and remind yourself that the fun of fishing isn't always in the catch"I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.
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9781452113227 | Original edition (Chronicle Books Llc, July 11, 2012), cover price $9.95
Product Description: "If I knew I was going to die today, Iâd still want to hear the cricket scores."Â âJ. H. HardyPrepare to be hit for six by this witty collection of the very best quotes, anecdotes, jokes, and trivia, putting a humorous spin on the enduring spectacle that is cricketâa must for anyone who enjoys the gentleman's game...read more
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9781849532594 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, July 1, 2012, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "If I knew I was going to die today, Iâd still want to hear the cricket scores.
Product Description: When your precious offspring have hijacked the car and there's a hole in your wallet the size of the Grand Canyon, kick back and relax with this hilarious book on fatherhood "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope...read more
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9781849530781 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, February 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When your precious offspring have hijacked the car and there's a hole in your wallet the size of the Grand Canyon, kick back and relax with this hilarious book on fatherhood "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Product Description: A wonderful encapsulation of the voice of Britain's former prime minister "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." Margaret Thatcher, UK prime minister 1979â1990 and leader of the Conservative Party 1975â1990, was the only women to hold either post, and was reelected for an unprecedented third term, earning her a place in British history as one of the most extraordinary figures of the late 20th century...read more
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9781849530941, titled "The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Thatcher And Other Tory Legends: And Other Tory Legends" | Summersdale Pub Ltd, November 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A wonderful encapsulation of the voice of Britain's former prime minister "Being powerful is like being a lady.
Product Description: A compulsive compendium of hilarious quips and quotes from children On Love: "You get shot with an arrow or something, but it's not meant to be as painful after that." Reciting The Lordâs Prayer: "Our Father which aren't in heaven ...read more
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9781849530965 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, October 1, 2011, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A compulsive compendium of hilarious quips and quotes from children On Love: "You get shot with an arrow or something, but it's not meant to be as painful after that.
Product Description: A side-splitting collection of spelling slip-ups and homework howlers Jack brort a cak to school and we all had a pis Captin Cok was a famos exploder  Today I painted an octopuss with big eyes and eight purple testicles I have lots of fiends at school and I have even more fiends at home In the field near our house they think they have found the remains of a Roman fartChildren are at their funniest when they are trying to be serious, and their earnest attempts at mastering the English language are a veritable goldmine of unintentional humor...read more
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9781840247121 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, October 1, 2011, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A side-splitting collection of spelling slip-ups and homework howlers Jack brort a cak to school and we all had a pis Captin Cok was a famos exploder  Today I painted an octopuss with big eyes and eight purple testicles I have lots of fiends at school and I have even more fiends at home In the field near our house they think they have found the remains of a Roman fartChildren are at their funniest when they are trying to be serious, and their earnest attempts at mastering the English language are a veritable goldmine of unintentional humor.
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9781849531740 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, September 5, 2011, cover price $16.70 | About this edition: When the umpire has cried 'All out' and you're gearing up for the long walk to the pavilion, prepare to be bowled over by this miscellany of quotes, jokes and trivia on the gentleman's game.
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