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Paperback. Condizione: Good. In Modern Manners cultural guru P. J. O'Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman-a rulebook for living in a world without rules. Traditionally, good manners were a means of becoming as bland and invisible as everyone else, and thus of avoiding calling attention to one's own awkwardness and stupidity. Today, with everyone wanting to appear special, stupidity is at a premium and manners-as outrageous and bizarre as possible-are a wonderful way to distinguish ourselves, or have a fine time trying. Modern Manners is an irreverent and hilarious guide to anti-etiquette that offers pointed advice on a range of topics from sex and entertaining to reading habits and death. With the most up-to-date forms of vulgarity, churlishness, and presumption, the latest fashions in discourtesy and barbarous display, P. J. O'Rourke makes it easier for all of us to survive with style in a rude world.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. In Modern Manners cultural guru P. J. O'Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman-a rulebook for living in a world without rules. Traditionally, good manners were a means of becoming as bland and invisible as everyone else, and thus of avoiding calling attention to one's own awkwardness and stupidity. Today, with everyone wanting to appear special, stupidity is at a premium and manners-as outrageous and bizarre as possible-are a wonderful way to distinguish ourselves, or have a fine time trying. Modern Manners is an irreverent and hilarious guide to anti-etiquette that offers pointed advice on a range of topics from sex and entertaining to reading habits and death. With the most up-to-date forms of vulgarity, churlishness, and presumption, the latest fashions in discourtesy and barbarous display, P. J. O'Rourke makes it easier for all of us to survive with style in a rude world.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. As one of the first titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' Books That Changed the World series, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don't have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes--including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page digression concerning the variations in the value of silver during the course of the last four centuries, which, to those uninterested in the historiography of currency supply, is like reading Modern Maturity in Urdu. Although daunting, Smith's tome is still essential to understanding such current hot-topics as outsourcing, trade imbalances, and Angelina Jolie. In this hilarious, approachable, and insightful examination of Smith and his groundbreaking work, P. J. puts his trademark wit to good use, and shows us why Smith is still relevant, why what seems obvious now was once revolutionary, and why the pursuit of self-interest is so important.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. As one of the first titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' Books That Changed the World series, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don't have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes--including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page digression concerning the variations in the value of silver during the course of the last four centuries, which, to those uninterested in the historiography of currency supply, is like reading Modern Maturity in Urdu. Although daunting, Smith's tome is still essential to understanding such current hot-topics as outsourcing, trade imbalances, and Angelina Jolie. In this hilarious, approachable, and insightful examination of Smith and his groundbreaking work, P. J. puts his trademark wit to good use, and shows us why Smith is still relevant, why what seems obvious now was once revolutionary, and why the pursuit of self-interest is so important.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. In the tradition of his contemporary classic Parliament of Whores, the man who The Wall Street Journal calls the funniest writer in America is back with Eat the Rich, in which he takes on the global economy. P. J. O'Rourke leads you on an hysterical whirlwind world tour from the good capitalism of Wall Street to the bad socialism of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old question: Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck? With stops in Albania, Sweden, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Tanzania, P.J. brings along his incomparable wit and finds hilarity wherever he goes.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. In the tradition of his contemporary classic Parliament of Whores, the man who The Wall Street Journal calls the funniest writer in America is back with Eat the Rich, in which he takes on the global economy. P. J. O'Rourke leads you on an hysterical whirlwind world tour from the good capitalism of Wall Street to the bad socialism of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old question: Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck? With stops in Albania, Sweden, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Tanzania, P.J. brings along his incomparable wit and finds hilarity wherever he goes.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Condizione: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This volume describes the tasks that bachelors must perform to maintain a household, including tricking other people into cleaning for them, turning the cat into a sweeper, and others.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This volume describes the tasks that bachelors must perform to maintain a household, including tricking other people into cleaning for them, turning the cat into a sweeper, and others.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Red State. Blue State. Republicans. Democrats. Bailout. Stimulus. Health Care Reform. Blah blah blah. Has there ever been a moment where politics have sucked any more? Don t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and ultimately sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil but only just barely necessary. P. J. presents his Sex, Death, and Boredom Theory of Politics, which breaks the social contract down to power, freedom, and responsibility by using a party game, Kill, F@#k, Marry, more typically found in late-night giggle sessions at all-girls boarding schools. With this tripartite lens of politics, O Rourke looks at the financial crisis ( The best investment I ve made lately? I left a $20 bill in the pocket of my tweed jacket last spring, and I just found it ), the bailout, health care reform ( Something doesn t add up. Politicians are telling me that I can smoke, drink, gain two hundred pounds, then win an iron man triathlon at age ninety-five ), the stimulus package, climate change ( There s not a god-damn thing you can do about it . . . There are 1.3 billion people in China and they all want a Buick ), trade imbalance, the end of the American automobile industry, U.S. foreign policy and the Family of Nations ( Uncle Russia s out on parole, drunk, unemployed, and likely to kill some folks next door again soon ), campaign finance reform, gun control, No Child Left Behind ( What if they deserve to be left behind? ), and pretty much everything else under the sun. His findings: Put the country s big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks, which are the Senate and the House. Listen to P. J. O Rourke on the pathetic nature of politics and laugh through your tears or what the hell just laugh.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Red State. Blue State. Republicans. Democrats. Bailout. Stimulus. Health Care Reform. Blah blah blah. Has there ever been a moment where politics have sucked any more? Don t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and ultimately sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil but only just barely necessary. P. J. presents his Sex, Death, and Boredom Theory of Politics, which breaks the social contract down to power, freedom, and responsibility by using a party game, Kill, F@#k, Marry, more typically found in late-night giggle sessions at all-girls boarding schools. With this tripartite lens of politics, O Rourke looks at the financial crisis ( The best investment I ve made lately? I left a $20 bill in the pocket of my tweed jacket last spring, and I just found it ), the bailout, health care reform ( Something doesn t add up. Politicians are telling me that I can smoke, drink, gain two hundred pounds, then win an iron man triathlon at age ninety-five ), the stimulus package, climate change ( There s not a god-damn thing you can do about it . . . There are 1.3 billion people in China and they all want a Buick ), trade imbalance, the end of the American automobile industry, U.S. foreign policy and the Family of Nations ( Uncle Russia s out on parole, drunk, unemployed, and likely to kill some folks next door again soon ), campaign finance reform, gun control, No Child Left Behind ( What if they deserve to be left behind? ), and pretty much everything else under the sun. His findings: Put the country s big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks, which are the Senate and the House. Listen to P. J. O Rourke on the pathetic nature of politics and laugh through your tears or what the hell just laugh.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Red State. Blue State. Republicans. Democrats. Bailout. Stimulus. Health Care Reform. Blah blah blah. Has there ever been a moment where politics have sucked any more? Don t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and ultimately sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil but only just barely necessary. P. J. presents his Sex, Death, and Boredom Theory of Politics, which breaks the social contract down to power, freedom, and responsibility by using a party game, Kill, F@#k, Marry, more typically found in late-night giggle sessions at all-girls boarding schools. With this tripartite lens of politics, O Rourke looks at the financial crisis ( The best investment I ve made lately? I left a $20 bill in the pocket of my tweed jacket last spring, and I just found it ), the bailout, health care reform ( Something doesn t add up. Politicians are telling me that I can smoke, drink, gain two hundred pounds, then win an iron man triathlon at age ninety-five ), the stimulus package, climate change ( There s not a god-damn thing you can do about it . . . There are 1.3 billion people in China and they all want a Buick ), trade imbalance, the end of the American automobile industry, U.S. foreign policy and the Family of Nations ( Uncle Russia s out on parole, drunk, unemployed, and likely to kill some folks next door again soon ), campaign finance reform, gun control, No Child Left Behind ( What if they deserve to be left behind? ), and pretty much everything else under the sun. His findings: Put the country s big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks, which are the Senate and the House. Listen to P. J. O Rourke on the pathetic nature of politics and laugh through your tears or what the hell just laugh.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. In his latest book, P. J. O'Rourke takes forty-five years of experience making fun of terrible things in the most awful places in the world and applies it to a place that's even worse-Wall Street, and the whole wide world of finance.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In his latest book, P. J. O'Rourke takes forty-five years of experience making fun of terrible things in the most awful places in the world and applies it to a place that's even worse-Wall Street, and the whole wide world of finance.

Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condizione: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Called an everyman's guide to Washington (The New York Times), P. J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson -- showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field run through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and bureaucratic bullrorfle inside the Beltway that leaves no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched. Highly pungent and wickedly accurate observations . from a] boisterous, pedal-to-the-floor humorist. -- The New York Times Book Review Outrageous . It is insulting, inflammatory, profane, and absolutely great reading. -- The Washington Post Book World A gonzo civics book . O'Rourke is like a trophy hunter let loose in an unguarded zoo. -- Chicago Tribune.…

Condizione: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O'Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of grown-ups as materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV come to be in favor of all of those things? What causes a beatnik-hippie type, comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes - as P. J. did when he was a writer for assorted underground papers-to metamorphosize into a right-wing middle-aged grouch? Here, P. J. shows how his Socialist idealism and avant-garde aesthetic tendencies were cured and how he acquired a healthy and commendable interest in national defense, the balanced budget, Porsches, and Cohiba cigars. P. J. O'Rourke's message is that there's hope for all those suffering from acute Bohemianism, or as he puts it, Pull your pants up, turn your hat around, and get a job. From the fictionalized accounts of his career as a hard-drinking hippie to the Benchley-in-the-age-of-macho lampoon of fly fishing, Mr. O'Rourke shows an incorrigible comic gift and an eye for detail that keeps the wild stuff grounded. - The New York Times Book Review.…

Condizione: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Condizione: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.