Product Description: Complaining, psychologists assert, is good for the soul. It acts as a relief valve to help dispel the pent-up energy generated by our frustration. If we weren’t able to complain, we would no doubt exhibit more physical violence and engage more frequently in destructive behavior...read more

Product Description: In Matthew Inman's 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides), samurai sword-wielding kittens and hamsters that love .50-caliber machine guns commingle with a cracked out Tyrannosaur that is extremely hard to potty train...read more

Product Description: It's every beer drinker's worst nightmare—a cold brew in hand with no means to open it. Here to the rescue is an indispensable guide featuring 99 ways* to get the job done fast using anything and everything in sight as a bottle opener in a time of need...read more

Product Description: Dishing out witty one-liners and old-fashioned country logic the same way an old camp cook dishes out beans and biscuits, Roy English’s Advice from a Country Farmer is simply this―no-nonsense humor and wisdom from a country gentleman schooled in common sense and kindness...read more

Product Description: If celebrities that have gone to a better place could come back and give us one piece of priceless advice, what would it be? Karen Carpenter: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.John F. Kennedy: Don't mess with Texas.Mama Cass: Chew your food thoroughly and carefully...read more

Nile Barrabas and his SOBs are hired by the CIA to track down an American agent working in Europe whose cover has been blown, and the disenchanted spy, instead of returning home, persuades Barrabas to join in a hunt for a hidden cache of Nazi gold

American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor—the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids—and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples that have been passed down through our culture for generations, many originating from the vaudeville age. He explores the (often unseemly) contexts from which they arose, why they were funny in their time, and why they eventually lost their appeal. The result is a kind of taxonomy of humor during America's golden age that provides a deeper, more profound look at the prejudices, preoccupations, and peculiarities of a nation polarized between urban and rural, black and white, highborn and lowbrow.As he touches on issues of racism and sexism, cultural stereotypes and violence, Miller reveals how dramatically our moral sensibilities have shifted, most notably in the last few decades. Complete with more than 100 period illustrations, American Cornball is a richly entertaining survey of our shifting comic universe.

Product Description: “Willie Geist is one part Twain, one part Carrot Top, two parts Heckle, and one part Jeckle.”—John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of Game Change“I’ve read laminated airplane safety cards with greater intellectual heft. Turning serious: Willie Geist is the perfect guy to chronicle our decidedly imperfect times...read more

Product Description: Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor...read more

Product Description: Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor...read more

Product Description: Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor...read more

Shares humorous misinformation about marine animals, including the duties of squid appendages, what water does on weekends, shark religion, and the kind of music that giant squids listen to on the train.

Product Description: In this collection of twenty-eight "riotously funny and outrageously honest" true-life tales, author Joni B. Cole manage to mingle low moments with high comedy; and social awkwardness with social observation.   The title essay was inspired when the author went to the bookstore and noticed all the bestsellers about adorably naughty dogs...read more

Product Description: A humorous compendium of reference tables, trivia, and wisdom--largely invented by the author--lists the mottoes of the fifty-one states, identifies U.S. presidents with hooks for hands, describes the menu items in addition to eel at the first Thanksgiving, and more...read more

Product Description: Wickedly witty and wonderfully wise! Aunty Acid is the sassy senior created to give "the crazy old lady in all of us" a voice that can be heard from ten blocks away. With her long-suffering husband Walt, Aunty Acid tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything...read more

Product Description: 'Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and laxative on the same night' is just one of the hilarious snippets of advice from Aunty Acid. Aunty Acid is the sassy senior created to give “the crazy lady in all of us” a voice that can be heard from ten blocks away...read more

The author, a new father, discusses the intricacies of welcoming a new member of the family, from the nerve-racking drive to the delivery room to the art of hypnotizing your newborn to sleep

Product Description: SUBJECT: "A collection of sarcasms, insults, rapid-fire repartee, clever retorts and epigrams by the famous over a long period. CONTENTS: Literary Larking; Hollywood Hilarity; Dramatic Drollery; Musical Merriment; Artistic Antics; Social Satire; Royal Roundup; Legal Laughs; Political Polemics; Lecturing Laxity; Travelers' Tales; Religious Revelling...read more