Education Humour

Brought to you by Penguin. Say 'philosopher,' and someone grand, old and bearded might come to mind. But, as philosophy professor Scott Hershovitz shows in this delightful debut, some of the best philosophers in the world are better described as nasty, brutish and short--that is to say, they're...

Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it’s high time he and Monty had a chat about what makes him a good or a...

One of Us Is Lying meets The Inheritance Games with the vibes of Saltburn - a seductively commercial thriller tapping into the trend dark academia and decadence from stand up comedian Kate Weston. "Gripping, compelling, and full razor-sharp wit" — Beth Reekles It’s the party you’d KILL to...

For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse. With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky...

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a...

It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn’t know about the...

"Tra i miei libri, 'L'inglese' è quello che ha mostrato più intraprendenza" scrive Beppe Severgnini. "I lettori ne hanno fatto ciò che hanno voluto: un pamphlet sulla lingua del mondo, un gioco, una provocazione, un testo scolastico, un divertimento per quelli che l'inglese lo sapevano, una speranza per quanti volevano impararlo." Questa vitalità ha convinto l'autore che occorreva un aggiornamento. L'inglese infatti cambia in fretta, e la gioiosa manomissione degli italiani tiene il passo. Pensate al linguaggio di Internet, o alle semplificazioni dell'inglese d'America.

Wie können wir im Privatleben, in Beruf und Karriere, im Unternehmen mehr Humor entwickeln? Humor ist mehr als Entertainment, Humor ist...

幽默是一种智慧，是一种聪颖，是一种机敏。幽默是一种才华，一种力量，是一种艺术。幽默是引发喜悦和快乐的源泉，幽默是协调自我和社会关系的灵丹妙药。……幽默是一種智慧，是一種聰穎，是一種機敏。幽默是一種才華，一種力量，是一種藝術。幽默是引發喜悅和快樂的源泉，幽默是協調自我和社會關係的靈丹妙藥。

Ser padre es algo importantísimo. Y a la primera pregunta que surge inevitablemente, «¿Seré capaz?», responde este divertido audiolibro: claro que sí, hombre, podrás, con la ayuda del mejor manual de instrucciones, el que tienes en las manos. Y además no solo puedes, debes. «Reivindicar el derecho a encargarnos del niño, aunque seamos torpes al principio y nos dé pánico, es el primer paso para entrar en el apasionante mundo de la paternidad», dice su autor. ¡Adelante!

Inspired by real-life class-action lawyers, The Education of Ryan Coleman begins in a Texas courtroom, where an ambitious attorney from Philadelphia chases his share of a lawsuit and gets his a-s reamed by the judge. During this “trial-by-fire,” Coleman meets Eugenia Cauley, a female legal shark whose life ends tragically, and Robert Smalley, a brilliant attorney and borderline criminal who boasts that “I have the greatest practice of law in the world. I have no clients.” Coleman enters a hedonistic world of wealth and power, and becomes an errand boy and fixer for Randy Hollis.

Brought to you by Puffin. Puffin presents stories for five year olds from master storyteller, Dick King-Smith. This collection includes King-Smith's stories for younger readers, including Dinosaur School! In Dinosaur School Basil Brontosaurus is teased at playschool by all the other little...

Diesen Monat wartet ein sehr lustiges Programm auf Sie! Lernen Sie die besten und bekanntesten Komiker kennen und entdecken Sie die witzigsten Sketche, Sendungen, Filme und Theaterstücke Frankreichs. Probieren Sie zum Schluss noch, Ihre eigenen Wortspiele und Kalauer zu bilden. Eine sehr nette und lustige Art, Ihr Französisch zu verbessern!

Le comédien et humoriste déjanté Paul Taylor, connu en France pour sa série télévisée "What the Fuck France" et son spectacle #Franglais, revient sauver vos cours d'anglais ! Toujours accompagné par l'Américaine Sarah Donnelly, professeure d'anglais, Paul et Sarah vous proposent d'aller un cran plus loin pour cette deuxième saison adaptée au niveau "In-termediate".

Get to work on the world's most disgusting jobs. Discover what sewer inspectors, pet food tasters, and crime scene cleaners must do on the job. Sometimes it pays to get your hands dirty.

The title story of this collection might have been dubbed "Mother Knows Best". Kathryn Tucker Windham has always had a healthy respect for wisdom, but her true love has always been humor. The stories in this collection reflect her appreciation for traditional values and traditional ways, but they also beguile the listener with that most enchanting of Southern traits, a keen sense of humor.

Dieses Mal geht es um Humor! Wer hat das Talent, lustig zu sein? Haben Sie schon einmal ein Comedy-Programm gesehen? Oft sitzt man mit etwas Skepsis im Publikum: Wird das wirklich lustig? Und was, wenn alle lachen, nur ich nicht? Die Dynamiken von Humor sind nur schwer zu planen. Und sie zeigen: Humor ist individuell.

Come As You Are meets How to Date Men When You Hate Men in this sex handbook for the millennial feminist on how to own your body and sexuality, and use that confidence to take charge of your life. "This bold, sex-positive book delivers on its promise.” —Publishers Weekly Stop Apologizing for...