Mike Resnick's second collection of essays, anecdotes, speeches, and convention reports (not to mention lists and obituaries), written for science fiction fan magazines, includes topics as diverse as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Teddy Roosevelt, My Most Memorable Collecting Experience, Where Do You Get Those Crazy (Novel) Ideas?
Mike Resnick's second collection of essays, anecdotes, speeches, and convention reports (not to mention lists and obituaries), written for science fiction fan magazines, includes topics as diverse as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Teddy Roosevelt, My Most Memorable Collecting Experience, Where Do You Get Those Crazy (Novel) Ideas?
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with 1894 date.
Due to popular demand, the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author, Hercule Van Wolfwinkle, is back with a second collection of 'ultra realistic' pet portraits.
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time.
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants.
Presidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated from the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia bookPresidential Trivia.
'A Steroid Hit The Earth' is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre.
Blake is a loveable mongrel just trying to lead a happy life; he loves his owner, fiercely defends his territory against interlopers (including the owners new lady friend and her cat), does his best to avoid the frequently threatened neutering and spends a lot of his time either scooting across the carpet or chasing local tail.
Malcolm Bradbury’s humorous look at Britain’s transition to midcentury modernity After spending a year teaching in an American university in the 1950s, Malcolm Bradbury returned to England only to realize that his native country had become nearly as mystifying to him as the American Midwest.
Witz ist definiert als die »Fähigkeit des Geistes, in schlagfertiger Verknüpfung den Dingen eine überraschende Seite abzugewinnen und diese in schlagender Kürze anschaulich darzustellen«.
Unter den landschafts- und dialektbezogenen Witzen sind die Witze aus Bayern besonders charakteristisch, genauer gesagt, die der Altbayern, die bayrische Mundart sprechen: Ober- und Niederbayern sowie ein Teil der Oberpfälzer.
Este libro es un compendio de poemas, en su mayor parte sonetos, donde abordo con la sana concisión a que nos somete la poesía, todo tipo de cuestiones: Unos constituyen reflexiones, otros expresan deseos, otros son retratos, otros son pequeñas historias.
Hunde und Papageien, Affen und der Klapperstorch sind offensichtlich besonders geeignet, um menschliche Eigenarten humorvoll auf die Schippe zu nehmen; aber auch die Vorstellung, welche Probleme etwa ein menschlicher Tausendfüßler hätte, oder der körperliche Gegensatz zwischen Klein und Groß sind beliebte Themen im Tierwitz.
