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9781440537240 | Adams Media Corp, July 18, 2012, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: More than 1,000 quotes on taking the plunge into marriage—perfect for speechwriting, or just calming nerves "Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."  —Mickey Rooney "A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve is extracted...read more
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9781853758133 | Prion Books, March 1, 2012, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: More than 1,000 quotes on taking the plunge into marriage—perfect for speechwriting, or just calming nerves "Always get married early in the morning.

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9781853758041 | Prion Books, May 1, 2011, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Con your way into a scholarship.Sleep with your professors.Crash a closed course.Sell your organs for beer money.Get textbooks for free.And more?This book has schooled its readers before?but not like this. This guide is a full-scale assault on the ivory towers of academia, teaching students the ins and outs of college life--from how to handle obnoxious roommates (retaliation) to how to make it onto the dean's list (cheat)...read more
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9781440504570, titled "Forbidden Knowledge College: 101 Things Not Every Student Should Know How to Do" | Adams Media Corp, November 14, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Con your way into a scholarship.

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9781440513626 | Adams Media Corp, October 30, 2010, cover price N/A

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Product Description: Celebrities—you've got to love them, haven't you? And there’s no time you love them more than when they are having a dig at each other, whether it be snide remarks in passing or face-to-face screaming before descending into fisticuffs...read more
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9781853757051 | Prion Books, February 1, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Celebrities—you've got to love them, haven't you?

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Product Description: Crash a nude beach.Work your way into first class. Shop on the black market. Eat something that?s still alive.Stow away aboard a ship.And more . . .Who needs a real passport when you can make a fake one? A ferry to Niagra Falls when you can barrel over it? A tour guide when you?ve got this travel guide? In this latest and most intrepid installment of the Forbidden Knowledge series, adventure seekers and their wannabe counterparts will be challenged to locate a lost Amazonian tribe, dare to dine on fugu in Japan, or hazard to trek through the Himalayan mountaintops in search of the legendary yeti...read more
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9781440501999 | Adams Media Corp, September 18, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Crash a nude beach.

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Product Description: Office Signs will help anyone communicate quickly and clearly with the working stiff in the cubicle next door, the friend across the conference room table, or any coworker within sight—without making a sound. Practice makes perfect...read more
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9781599218144 | Lyons Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Office Signs will help anyone communicate quickly and clearly with the working stiff in the cubicle next door, the friend across the conference room table, or any coworker within sight—without making a sound.

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9781846012761 | Spruce Books, April 1, 2009, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: Bar Signs gets you in good with any bartender by explaining simple keys to concise, refined, and trouble-free communication. Impress that special someone you have your beer-goggled eyes on and joke with friends across the room—without saying a word! A unique system that combines manual technology with the skills of beverage-swigging specialists, this handy guide assists slow sippers and guzzling gurus alike to overcome any kind of communication obstacle, leaving the mouth free to do what it does best: drink up! Bar Signs also includes Wino Wisdom quotes (e...read more
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9781599215648 | Lyons Pr, April 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Bar Signs gets you in good with any bartender by explaining simple keys to concise, refined, and trouble-free communication.

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Product Description: Be the life of the party with this hilarious compendium of bizarre physical tricks and stunts. The body is an amazing masterwork of wonderfully designed organs, muscles, and connective tissue, but most of us only use the merest fraction of our bodies’ potential! Body Tricks is the beginner’s bible of physical magic...read more
By Allen Boe (illustrator) and Michael Powell
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9781599214399 | Lyons Pr, January 13, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Be the life of the party with this hilarious compendium of bizarre physical tricks and stunts.

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Product Description: Public policy is full of rhetorical messages, and the ways in which politicians use rhetoric shapes the mindset of a society. This is especially true when it comes to federally mandated policy written in regard to America's public education system...read more
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9783836464451 | Lightning Source Inc, December 15, 2008, cover price $111.00 | About this edition: Public policy is full of rhetorical messages, and the ways in which politicians use rhetoric shapes the mindset of a society.

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Product Description: Want to know how to . . . . . . start a riot? . . . make moonshine? . . . beat a lie detector test? True, if everyone know how to do such things, the world may not be a better place. But for you, this is just the sort of Forbidden Knowledge that can transform your life...read more
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9781598697100 | Gardners Books, November 1, 2008, cover price $17.80 | About this edition: Want to know how to .

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Product Description: Are you naturally amazing? Have you been sent here from a distant dying solar system? Do you have a preoccupation with dubious rubber suits? If any of the above apply, then The Superhero Handbook is for you! Find the answers to all your questions, plus lots of advice on how to develop your superhero potential...read more
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9781402729911 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, June 25, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents advice on unlocking the superhuman within by creating an alter ego, hiring a sidekick, choosing a superhero lair, finding an evil nemesis, and saving the world over lunch.

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9781439552506 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Are you naturally amazing?

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Product Description: A travel guide that allows you to experience all that the afterlife has to offer--and more.
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9781599214382 | Lyons Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A travel guide that allows you to experience all that the afterlife has to offer--and more.

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Product Description: Did you know there once was a craze for consuming a powdered mummy as a cure for any ailment? That Peter the Great put a tax on beards? History needn’t be as boring as school textbooks have led you to believe! These 40 strange but true stories prove that scattered between the famous milestones are tiny gems of incredible information just waiting to be discovered...read more
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9781402763076 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, August 5, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Did you know there once was a craze for consuming a powdered mummy as a cure for any ailment?

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Product Description: Today’s modern conveniences make life easier—but they have caused us to lose some of the vital skills our ancestors took for granted. When was the last time you plucked a chicken for dinner? Dug a well to get fresh water? Defended a castle? The time has come to reacquaint ourselves with the past...read more
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9781402763045 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, August 5, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Today’s modern conveniences make life easier—but they have caused us to lose some of the vital skills our ancestors took for granted.

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Product Description: Gone are the days when guys got by on a firm handshake and a high tolerance for whiskey. In an age when men are practicing yoga and getting manicures, but are still expected to open jars and change flat tires, it’s no wonder they feel like they’ve lost their bearings...read more
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9781402763151 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, August 5, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Gone are the days when guys got by on a firm handshake and a high tolerance for whiskey.

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Product Description: Shouldn’t life come with an instruction manual? Now it does. Here’s a how-to guide to 101 things that everyone should know—but many of us don’t! The tips range from the domestic, such as how to unclog a backed-up sink and chop an onion without tears, to the outdoorsy, such as how to pitch a tent and build a blazing campfire...read more
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9781402763083 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, August 5, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Shouldn’t life come with an instruction manual?

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Product Description: A Thousand Paths to Patience is a collection of inspiring insights, words of encouragement, and quotes from a wide range of gurus, philosophers, poets, and religious leaders.  This book will help you define the exact meaning and importance of patience.  
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9781846012853 | Spruce Books, June 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A Thousand Paths to Patience is a collection of inspiring insights, words of encouragement, and quotes from a wide range of gurus, philosophers, poets, and religious leaders.

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Product Description: The bad boys of history and their twisted achievements, recounted, with tongue-in-cheek attitude, in gory detail.
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9781599211053 | Lyons Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The bad boys of history and their twisted achievements, recounted, with tongue-in-cheek attitude, in gory detail.

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Product Description: Navigating the treacherous waters of communication across cultures has never been easy. Most of us make blunders at some point in our travels--whether from our own ignorance or via mistaken attempts to be one with the natives. Here at last is a sound and savvy guide to communicating effectively in 45 different countries, whether through body language or by saying a few choice words that will impress your hosts...read more
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9780762744848 | 1 edition (Globe Pequot Pr, July 1, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Navigating the treacherous waters of communication across cultures has never been easy.

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Presents a crazy look, with a modern take, on the wonder of Christmas. This book includes Christmas related jokes, sayings, quotations and lore accompanied by funny pictures to provide an alternative take on Christmas.
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9781846011283 | Gardners Books, October 12, 2006, cover price $14.30 | About this edition: Presents a crazy look, with a modern take, on the wonder of Christmas.

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Presents quick quips and on-the-spot legal advice on going to college, buying a car, getting engaged, investing money, and retirement plans.
By Michael Powell (illustrator)
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9781413305425 | 1 edition (Nolo, July 15, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents quick quips and on-the-spot legal advice on going to college, buying a car, getting engaged, investing money, and retirement plans.

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9781841450445 | Cerberus Pub, April 30, 2006, cover price $15.95

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