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| The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book
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Robert Mankoff, intro.
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| Publisher: Andrews McMeel. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780740777509. Daedalus Item Code: 24115 |
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| Easily one of The New Yorker's most popular features, the weekly Cartoon Caption Contest invites readers to supply their own gag line to one of the magazine's famously droll cartoons, and ... (Read More)
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| Accidental Inventions: The Chance Discoveries That Changed Our Lives
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Birgit Krols.
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| Publisher: Insight. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608870738. Daedalus Item Code: 31012 |
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| As difficult as it might be to imagine a world without Coca-Cola, Post-it notes, or Velcro, these inventions have one thing in common: they were invented accidentally, usually while trying to develop ... (Read More)
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| A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—And Ourselves
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Jane Gross.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307472403. Daedalus Item Code: 29433 |
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| When Jane Gross—a longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elder care—suddenly became caretaker for her 85-year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that even she had never ... (Read More)
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| The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
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Peter Trachtenberg.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316158794. Daedalus Item Code: 13766 |
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| What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? And why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that should ... (Read More)
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| The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
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Greg Pahl.
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| Publisher: Chelsea Green. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781933392127. Daedalus Item Code: 00652 |
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| In the wake of weather and seismic disasters and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever accept global warming as a reality, and reckon that the peak of the petrochemical ... (Read More)
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| F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
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Richard Benson.
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| Publisher: Chronicle. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780811878319. Daedalus Item Code: 38565 |
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| "F" stands for "funny" in this antidote for anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test. Richard Benson celebrates the creative side of failure in a generous collection of witty, embellished, ... (Read More)
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| Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
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Lester R. Brown.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393344158. Daedalus Item Code: 29349 |
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| Food is the new oil, says Lester Brown; and land is the new gold. The author of the Plan B series of books, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, and "one of the pioneers and heroes of global ... (Read More)
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| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: The World's Oldest Joke Book
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Dan Crompton, trans.
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| Publisher: Michael O'Mara. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781843174981. Daedalus Item Code: 21986 |
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| Proving that, despite the advances of civilization, our sense of humor hasn't evolved all that much, this book presents some 240 cheeky puns, cheesy one-liners, sexual innuendoes, and more than its ... (Read More)
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| Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons (3 Volume Boxed Set)
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Gahan Wilson, illus. Gary Groth, ed. Neil Gaiman & Hugh Hefner, intros.
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| Publisher: Fantagraphics. Format: 3 vols, boxed.
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| ISBN: 9781606992982. Daedalus Item Code: 31428 |
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| (Double 2010 Eisner Award Nominee) This three-volume slipcased set is a massive tribute to one of the most enduring—if deadly dark—talents in the realm of the one-panel gag cartoon. From ... (Read More)
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| How to Attract the Wombat
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Will Cuppy. Ed Nofziger, illus.
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| Publisher: Sutton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780750946100. Daedalus Item Code: 13365 |
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| The humorist behind The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy also produced three classic "How To" books, including this one. It examines curious creatures—Birds Who Can't Even ... (Read More)
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| How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
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The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman).
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| Publisher: Andrews McMeel. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781449410247. Daedalus Item Code: 29670 |
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| If your cat is kneading you, that's not a sign of affection, says Matthew Inman—your cat is actually checking your internal organs for weakness. The writer, artist, and host of the wildly popular ... (Read More)
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