Does the rotation of the Earth really make your day? Do you like to hear chemistry puns, periodically? Do you distrust atoms because they make up everything? Then this illustrated collection of hundreds of witty science jokes, puns, and silly fact-based zingers will brighten many cycles around the sun.Science is great because it helps us understand the world around us through systematic and methodical experimentation, observation, and the testing of theories and we...

A profane guide to the slang from eighteenth-century London's backstreets and taverns and how to use the antique jargon and curse words in modern conversation.This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of today.Originally published in 1785, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was one of the first lexicons of English slang, compiled by a mil...

Follow Stick Man through a disastrous day in this hilarious adventure inspired by real signs.Stick Man is that guy you see around town but don't really know very well. Everywhere you go, there he is, crossing the street, waiting for the bus, issuing warnings about potential disasters at sea and on land, at the mall and at work. But when he's not offering advice, what does a day in the life of Stick Man actually look like? This catastrophe-packed book uses images der...

This highly entertaining volume features dozens of immersive, trippy, funny, meditative, and mind-bending images ideal for stoned contemplation.Have you ever really looked at a book? The state of being high rewards deep attention, and lots of things can seem really, really interesting. It might be a spot on the ceiling, or an oddly-shaped tortilla chip, or a bit of wood grain. But why settle for staring at the coffee table? What if there was a boo...

A fascinating and frightening collection of folk tale monsters, ghosts, and other scary things that dwell in the dark.Our world is a strange place**.** This hauntingly illustrated book peers into the dark spaces that lie somewhere between belief and imagination, and into the weird stories we tell to make sense of where and who we are. Here are tales of vengeful ghosts, bloodthirsty monsters, internet-conjured nightmares, lost souls, cryptid curiosities, demons, ali...

**"Multifaceted, surprising, and full of wonders…You really owe it to yourself to read it." —Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add UpThe complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts).**Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged...

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish author James Joyce, significant as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, ...

Reincarnated adventurer Tenma’s new “slow life” begins in the city of Sagan, where he explores his first dungeon and encounters the city’s strongest party of adventurers. His journey becomes even livelier when a new heroine and her followers join Tenma’s party, but it’s no longer fun and games when the duke’s son gets kidnapped! Will Tenma be able to save him?Follow Tenma in the next phase of his journey, exploring dungeons and making new friends!

The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: "Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm." —Richard DawkinsFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us (and inside us)—from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and more.Drawing on conversations with hundre...

Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyWinner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best AnthologyA 2023 NAACP Image Award NomineeA 2023 British Fantasy Award NomineeA NPR Best of the Year pick**A Book Riot Best SFF of the Year pick"[A]** magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fan...

TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in their path. This is not true.But what actually is a black hole and what do they do? This book will help you find out.LearningIsland.com believes in the v...

'A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness' ObserverNewgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London:Cruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain. What matters now is her survival of it.In that dangerous underworld known in t...