by Michael Stachowitsch (2019)
"This richly illustrated book serves as the ideal guide to the items that litter the world's beaches. Forget sea shells and other fauna and flora. Here, you will find what a beachcomber is actually most likely to encounter these days: glass, plastic, wood, metal, paper, oil, and other sources of marine pollution! Complete with nearly 700 photographs, this guide shows the full range of marine debris items, each presented with insight and a pinch of humor. In addition, the author provides full details about these items. You will learn everything worth knowing about them. This includes not just their sources and decomposition stages. Discover the threat each item poses to these beautiful environments as well as prevention strategies, clean-up recommendations, alternative products, and recycling and upcycling ideas"--
Bernard Demers
L'auteur avoue, en introduction, son admiration pour Carelman, Allais, Allen, Cavanna et ... Rabelais. Treize chapitres, treize questions fondamentales. Lisez le chapitre 6, "Qui l'eût cru?" sans vous essouffler et vous voudrez tout lire. Délicieusement insolent, légèrement subversif mais constamment réjouissant.
Brian Byfield & Alan Orpin
This is an excellent book to learn how to play chess. It contains strategy as well as basic moves and does so with humor and flair. It is a little dated (computers have been built that can beat the best human players) but it is still a very good read.
Greg Stones
"Sock monkeys have struggles like any other normal person does: they get chased by cats trying to play with their loose strings, they're mistaken for dog toys, they're eaten alive by moths...but there are plus sides, like lady sock monkeys, wearing kilts, and knowing their origin (the humble sock). This illustrated collection from Greg Stones explores the ups and downs of sock monkey life, one hate/love item at a time"--
Howard Jacobson
Jacobson brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed columns from the Independent. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and the desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences accrete to create a uniquely human collection, at times hilarious, at others heartbreaking, and always irresistibly entertaining.