We live in a vicious, highly competitive workplace environment, and things aren’t getting any better. Jobs are few and far between, and people aren’t any nicer now than they were when Ghengis Khan ran around in big furs killing people in unfriendly acquisitions. For thousands of years, people have been ... more »

She says: There is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn't ever feel like I'm just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly ... more »

Time, The Universe, And America... In a country a lot like our own, in a time a little bit like now, Bibi Brown is an ordinary young man with an extraordinary destiny. Bibi, the first male in twelve generations of Browns not to have taken his own life, has a furious crush on a beautiful nine-fingered ... more »

Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking ... more »

In the future, schools will be outdated and we'll all have knowledge grafted straight into our heads. Just make sure they configure the innoculotron correctly, or you might wind up contracting Esperanto by mistake! more »

' The scholarly discipline of Bullshit Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions. Now, best-selling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field ... more »

This caustically funny Webster's of the workplace cuts to the true meaning of the inane argot spouted in cubicles and conference rooms across the land. At a price even an intern can afford and in a handy paperback format that won't weigh down your messenger bag or briefcase, The Dictionary of Corporate ... more »

This latest work by critically acclaimed historian Jerrold Packard brings fresh light to the most horrifying chapter in the nation's history since the end of slavery itself. For most of the century following the Civil War, a quarter of the nation lived under Jim Crow, a system of legalized segregation ... more »

Can't get enough of the King? A lively romp through all things Presley, this sassy guide covers what you really want to know about the man who continues to leave generations of females "All Shook Up." "It's just like being in junior high again. This book offers the scoop on Elvis's way ... more »

Say I do to five surprising stories of women grappling with love and marriage and whether to walk down the aisle or run away. In Elise Juska's Perfect Weather for Driving, Megan and Joel's sunset fender-bender makes for a great drunken story at his friend's wedding, but the reality is hardly romantic ... more »

In 1999, Eric Garcia made his mark with one of the most striking mystery debuts of the year, Anonymous Rex, hailed as a dino-mite detective yarn by People, inventive and imaginative by USA Today , and a fresh and antic comic thriller by The Seattle Times . Now, with Casual Rex , the sharpest dinosaur ... more »

Fans of David Sedaris and Bob Smith had better fasten their seat belts because Craig Chester is in the driver's seat. Thirteen hilarious all-true tales from his life growing up in the bible belt to starring in nine films prove that the average American life is anything but normal. more »