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| The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History
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Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks.
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| Publisher: Shout Audio Books. Format: 3 audio CDs.
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| ISBN: 9781603993142. Daedalus Item Code: 29124 |
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| Inspired by an ad lib comment in a television sketch in 1961, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's comedy routine about the oldest man in the world became an instant classic, whose wide-ranging influence is ... (Read More)
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| Akubra is Australian for Hat
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Grenville Turner.
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| Publisher: Andrews McMeel. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780740785054. Daedalus Item Code: 13631 |
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| As ubiquitous in the outback as the Stetson is in the American west, the hats made by Akubra are an Australian institution. Aussies have lived, loved, and died under their Akubras, and wearing one ... (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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| 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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| I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
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Nora Ephron.
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| Publisher: Knopf/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307595607. Daedalus Item Code: 31616 |
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| Barely suppressed chortlings were overheard in the offices here at Daedalus when this collection of Nora Ephron's candid, edgy musings began to be passed around. In this follow-up to I Feel Bad ... (Read More)
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| I Want to Kill the Dog
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Richard M. Cohen.
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| Publisher: Blue Rider Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780399162039. Daedalus Item Code: 38705 |
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| "Has a couple ever gone to war or a spouse moved to another country because a pet came between them? Have two people other than my wife and me ever had such opposing feelings when it comes to ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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