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A collection of cartoons featuring the character Dilbert, through whom Scott Adams provides an inside view of bosses, meetings, management fads and other workplace afflictions... More

Adams offers his 29th comic compilation featuring the embattled cubicle-dwelling Everyman. With best-friend Dogbert, and a veritable whos who in accompanying office characters, ranging from the Boss and Wally to Alice and Catbert, Dilbert offers a reflective critique of corporate.Proving that corpor... More

Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this edition includes all "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoons that ever appeared in syndication and an original introduction by the author."New York Times" best-seller Watterson's imaginative approach to his material and his inventive gr... More

A collection of the Sunday paper cartoon strips in which Calvin, the self-proclaimed "Boy of Destiny", continues to save the universe with his alter egos, Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man--until Miss Wormwood or his mother bring him back to reality. Full color.Zounds Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man... More

In the world that Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes share, treasures can be found in the most unlikely places, from the outer regions where Spaceman Spiff travels to the rocks in one's own backyard. In the latest cartoon collection from the talented pen of Bill Watterson, this curious duo roams th... More

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers’ answers to the questions in the ‘Last Word’ column of New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? – the Christmas 20... More

In gathering the most fascinating questions asked about science into a handy Gem format, pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these and much more in "Imponderables(R): Science," Providing you with information you can't find in encyclopedias, dictionaries, or almanacs, "Science" is a fun look a... More

The magical friendship shared by Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes has endeared them to millions of fans. Now, their friendship endures in a full-color collection of Sunday cartoons and original art done for the book, all fit for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Andrews, McMeel & Parker.... More

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Togethe... More

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a v... More

This big book is about a child’s day, and children’s make-belief worlds, which are as real to them as the everyday one we live in.... More

Calvin and Hobbes is syndicated in more than 400 newspapers. Now they're at it again with even more fun, more laughs and more profits."Be good to yourself: Buy a copy of this "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoon book. If you don't laugh out loud at every third strip, check your pulse. You may be dead." --Phi... More

Bill Bryson's very first travel book, a sidesplittingly funny road trip around America. 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his y... More

Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.... More

England's favourite American's book about his adopted country: his hilarious No.1 bestseller. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.... More

The world's most dysfunctional office family is back and doing what it does best. This time out, the gang is joined by a host of odd (but strangely familiar) guest characters including the clueless Hammerhead Bob, and Petricia, the PHBUs fawning but ferocious sycophant.Maybe, just maybe, the reason ... More

Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining ho... More

Despite the richness of Shakespeare's sexual language (his work includes no fewer than 150 puns for female genitals, and 180 for male genitalia), scant attention has been paid to it until now. "Filthy Shakespeare" offers more than 70 examples of the Bard at his bawdiest, arranged under 23 sexual cat... More