Bluffer's Guide to Christmas

Author: Boris Starling
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9781785216619
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Gone are the days when the Christmas run-up meant December 1 onwards. Nowadays no arbitrary date is too early (or too late) to start celebrating the most important event on the calendar. Wherever you start, suddenly you’re back at 25 December. Roy Wood famously wished it could be Christmas every day. Well, old sparkly beardie friend, you got your wish, and here’s a small but perfectly formed guide to help you navigate your way through the tinsel-topped mountains of decorations to the gift that keeps on giving. The Bluffer’s Guide to Christmas will help you get the most value from Christmas at the least cost to your wallet and sanity. It will teach you everything you need to know and say about the origins and evolution of the biggest religious feast of them all (in case it should be forgotten). But, most importantly, it will see you safely through the Holy Festival of shopping and indigestion just in time to prepare you fully for the next one. Let the party begin! (Can we open our presents yet Mum?)

Books

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description

The Bluffer's Guide: Bluff your way in antiques, gourmet cooking, football, interior decorating, the theatre, traveling

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adult ADHD

Author: Donald Haupt M.D.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101197749
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
A thorough examination of a misunderstood condition Though it's traditionally thought of as a childhood disorder, a growing body of research is bringing awareness to the fact that ADHD often continues into adulthood, though its symptoms often take on a different form and make the disorder more difficult to diagnose. • Covers what ADHD looks like in adults, how symptoms can vary greatly from one person to the next, and how it often gets misdiagnosed • Includes information on related conditions that often coexist with adult ADHD, including depression and anxiety • Discusses various treatment options-pharmaceutical, behavioral, lifestyle, and alternative approaches

The Bluffer's Guide to Rock Music

Author: Eamonn Forde
Publisher: Bluffer's Guides
ISBN: 9781909365728
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of rock music. Never again be found wanting when asked why all amps ‘go to 11’, why a surprising number of late rockers are members of the ‘27 Club’, why you should always insist that while Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era,1965-1968 is as holy a rock relic as they come, it doesn’t hold a candle to Pebbles, and why the ‘toilet circuit’ is no way to describe the glamorous world of touring.

Sex

Author: Sarah Brewer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903096932
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Genitalia A cursory look at the design and anatomical positioning of the male and female sexual organs shows that when God designed homo sapiens, aestheticism and ease of access were not high on the job description. Sperm wars To get past the cervix, climb up the uterine wall and find a Fallopian tube a sperm must be armed with the physiological equivalent of an oxyacetylene torch, a set of Alpine crampons, several large-scale Ordnance Survey maps and a gold American Express card. Once there, the chances of meeting a willing egg coming in the opposite direction, in the dark, are only around one percent. Kissing Attitudes to sexual practices vary widely from culture to culture. Even something as innocuous as the kiss is not universally popular. The Inuit rub noses for fear of chapped lips, the Kwakiutl Indians suck each other's tongues and the Sirionos of South America appear to lack any intermediate show of affection between wishing each other "Good evening" and the commencement of rutting.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weather

Author: Mel Goldstein
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028643410
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Explains how to track weather patterns, read weather maps, and identify cloud formations while exploring the effects of pollution, hurricanes, and El Niäno.

Losing The Plot

Author: Dean Baker
Publisher: Dean Baker
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
They say everyone has a book inside them; well Rick Bateman has a whole library bursting to get out. Told in amusing style, through letters, emails and diary entries, Rick quits his lucrative sales job to devote his daylight hours to writing The Great Novel. But as the weeks go by and the rejection letters start flooding in, Rick’s bruised ego elicits increasingly vehement rants on everything from the publishing industry to reality TV stars. Doggedly persistent, Rick begins to drastically ramp up the wow factor in his ideas which become ever more ridiculous and increasingly plagiaristic. Losing the plot asks the questions: How far would you go to achieve a dream? And how far is too far?

Eden's Legacy

Author: Gabriel Deeds
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412017378
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Eden's Legacy is your birthright. You may not want it but it's yours anyway. Until you finally accept responsibility for your own destiny you won't find any kind of peace in this existence. There can only be chaos, suffering, and worst of all boredom, until at last, you become aware of the conflict that is your life and our world. Where do we start? How do we begin? What the hell is he talking about? I am talking about you. This whole book is about you and the rest of your life. Read it and weep for a life wasted, squandered. For a life of drudgery and boredom spent scratching for just enough o make ends meet, that can never bring you any measure of real happiness. Most of us are just waiting to die! The good news is that it's never too late providing you have the intelligence and the guts. Have you got what it takes? The only way to a better future is to build it your Self.

Television Specials

Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786474440
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 487

Book Description
This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced especially for television, holiday specials (e.g., Christmas and New Year's Eve), the early 1936-1947 experimental specials, honors specials. In short, this is a reference work to 5,336 programs--the most complete source for television specials ever published.