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Over 1.5 million copies sold in this New York Times bestselling humor series With over 1.5 million copies sold, the Darwin Awards series is the alpha chimp of humorous human mishaps. Despite being a
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After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever.
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The ultimate guide to the pleasure of massage?revised and lavishly illustrated with more than 300 new full-color photographs Stressed? Fatigued? Relax, because now you can melt your troubles away with
Read Trevor Homer's posts on the Penguin Blog. Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not h
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For curious nonmathematicians and armchair algebra buffs, John Derbyshire discovers the story behind the formulae, roots, and radicals. As he did so masterfully in Prime Obsession, Derbyshire brings t
In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, once again gives us the straight scoop on the stories that Big
Cassie is slender, clever, charismatic, successful. The one flaw in her perfect life may be her marriage. Her sister Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier. An aspiring journalist, sheA's stuck writing
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archety
In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town whe
The further fortunes of everyoneA's favorite assistant as she struggles to keep her footing on HollywoodA's slippery slope In The Second Assistant, readers fell in love with smart, witty East Coast
Buccholz shows how the ideas of the great economic thinkers throughout history--Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others--apply to the world today by centering each ch
Jenny McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of Baby Laughs and Belly Laughs, speaks candidly about the challenges and the humor to be found in balancing motherhood and the ups and downs of marr
Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide- eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who lost her husband to the war. Penelope, with her mother and b
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Michael Corbett appears regularly on national TV and print media and travels the country lecturing to crowds of 25,000 sharing his expertise, having made millions buying and selling houses during his
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Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century. Tobias Dantzig shows that the development of math
The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new Top Secret Restaurant Recipes collectionA-the first since his 1997 bestselling Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, which has sold over one million copies.
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