Satire, General

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

It's the writer's life for Snoopy! The world's most talented beagle has found a new career--as a writer, of course! The Literary Ace works feverishly on his typewriter, day and night, atop his doghouse. And while Snoopy is busy writing the next great American novel, you can be sure that the rest of ... More

Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler--hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a "Salaryman"--a guy in... More

Conventional wisdom has it that humiliation is a bad thing (at least for the person it's happening to - let's face it, for everyone watching, it's fantastic entertainment). There is, however, a school of thought which holds that humiliation can actually be a good thing (in a twisted, masochistic, ce... More

Shortly after Gulliver's Travels was published, Swift told the story (or did he invent it?) of an Irish bishop who said that the 'Book was full of improbable lies, and for his part, he hardly believed a word of it'. This book written to 'vex the world rather then (sic) divert it' - has achieved the ... More

Let's face in We are all going to fail. There are few things more certain in life. Quite frankly, there are times when your best is just not good enough. For every winner, there must inevitably be a host of people who were left in the dust. The law of averages alone would suggest that one of them is... More

The biggest names in standup comedy reveal the howlingly funny, completely shocking, and disturbingly bizarre moments th... More

From the creators of America's favorite presidential address, WeeklyRadioAddress.com (as seen on TheOnion.com), comes this unauthorized autobiography of George W. Bush.In "Destined for Destiny," George W. Bush offers readers an intimate, plainspoken, and often readable look at the character-shaping ... More

Watching Michael Moore in action--passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against--has spurred aut... More

This entertaining and frighteningly accurate quiz book contains 1,000 questions to help determine one's geek level from "not a geek" to "nerdmeister general."Let's face it-we all do geeky things, from checking e-mail obsessively to playing video games to tripping over our own feet. But here's your c... More

From awful office experiences to back-stabbing friends to first dates from hell, this hip little handbook will show women how to come out on top and have a damn good time doing it. Because anyone can get even, but it takes a smart girl to get it right.The perfect book for women who are sick of being... More

Wonder how to tell an entourage from a posse? The answer is revealed in this tongue-in-cheek guide to living the fabulous life. Includes tips on such skills as outrunning the paparazzi and mastering the onscreen kiss.Confidential: For Stars' Eyes Only Worried that your air kisses lack panache? Afrai... More

Murphy's Law - popularly known as Sod's Law - with acknowledgements to Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle - explains the truth of man's existence: that if anything can go wrong, it will. In three volumes of murphology, Arthur Block has provided the only comfort possible - laughter - for all tho... More

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.... More