Author: Jasper McCutcheon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934625132
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What evil awaits Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A US Navy fighter pilot, he's forced to abandon his plane and parachute down into a rainforest canopy. He is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female, Caucasian westerner like himself, who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic. She believes he's come to take her secrets - but what are these secrets, and how can a man deal with being tortured for answers to something he knows nothing about?
I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen
Author: Jasper McCutcheon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934625132
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What evil awaits Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A US Navy fighter pilot, he's forced to abandon his plane and parachute down into a rainforest canopy. He is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female, Caucasian westerner like himself, who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic. She believes he's come to take her secrets - but what are these secrets, and how can a man deal with being tortured for answers to something he knows nothing about?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934625132
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What evil awaits Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A US Navy fighter pilot, he's forced to abandon his plane and parachute down into a rainforest canopy. He is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female, Caucasian westerner like himself, who subjects him to unholy tortures both painful and erotic. She believes he's come to take her secrets - but what are these secrets, and how can a man deal with being tortured for answers to something he knows nothing about?
Tyrannosaurus Lex
Author: Rod L. Evans Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101588632
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words! Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology—the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words—featuring: •A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns •Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with surprising endings (“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”—Groucho Marx) •Fascinating oronyms: a pair of phrases that differ in meaning and spelling, yet share a similar pronunciation (“The stuffy nose can lead to problems” versus “The stuff he knows can lead to problems.”) •Peculiar oxymora: words or phrases that are self-contradictory (Jumbo shrimp! Guest host! Gold silverware!) So sit back and get ready to learn about everything from antigrams and aptanagrams to kangaroo words and phantonyms. You’ll never look at language the same again!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101588632
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words! Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology—the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words—featuring: •A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns •Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with surprising endings (“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”—Groucho Marx) •Fascinating oronyms: a pair of phrases that differ in meaning and spelling, yet share a similar pronunciation (“The stuffy nose can lead to problems” versus “The stuff he knows can lead to problems.”) •Peculiar oxymora: words or phrases that are self-contradictory (Jumbo shrimp! Guest host! Gold silverware!) So sit back and get ready to learn about everything from antigrams and aptanagrams to kangaroo words and phantonyms. You’ll never look at language the same again!
Top 10 for Men
Author: Nick Harper
Publisher: Hamlyn
ISBN: 0600630099
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
You're a man. You love facts. Facts amuse you. The more trivial the better. The most important things in the world - sport, cars, gadgets, beer, meat - come together in this unbeatable collection of lists to feed your manly desire for knowledge and trivia. Discover vital facts and stats on the world's fastest cars, deadliest weapons, shortest football players and strongest drinks, and then wow everyone you know with your findings.
Publisher: Hamlyn
ISBN: 0600630099
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
You're a man. You love facts. Facts amuse you. The more trivial the better. The most important things in the world - sport, cars, gadgets, beer, meat - come together in this unbeatable collection of lists to feed your manly desire for knowledge and trivia. Discover vital facts and stats on the world's fastest cars, deadliest weapons, shortest football players and strongest drinks, and then wow everyone you know with your findings.
Usefully Useless
Author: Mark Hanks
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407074237
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Usefully Useless is a gloriously diverse volume dedicated to the most engrossing trivia in the world. Guaranteed to excite the curiosity and amuse, its pages are filled with the sort of remarkable information you would never learn, but will be overjoyed to discover. Each fact is irresistibly fun and fascinating - the essence of anecdote and dinner-party conversation that is essential in the adult world - and, above all, usefully useless. Guaranteed to improve your mind, Usefully Useless contains a wealth of miscellany on a vast range of topics, including Literature, Geography, Food, Science, the Natural World, Sport and Politics - from the export of frogs' legs to the longest Monopoly game completed in the bath. Usefully Useless provides answers to such eternal questions as: What was Margaret Thatcher's favourite sitcom? Which British league football team's name has no letters that one could colour in with a pen? How many calories do you consume when you lick a stamp? What was the original colour of Coca-Cola? Which key do toilets flush in? Find out these answers and many, many more in Usefully Useless, the essential guide to the facts you never thought you'd need to know.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407074237
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Usefully Useless is a gloriously diverse volume dedicated to the most engrossing trivia in the world. Guaranteed to excite the curiosity and amuse, its pages are filled with the sort of remarkable information you would never learn, but will be overjoyed to discover. Each fact is irresistibly fun and fascinating - the essence of anecdote and dinner-party conversation that is essential in the adult world - and, above all, usefully useless. Guaranteed to improve your mind, Usefully Useless contains a wealth of miscellany on a vast range of topics, including Literature, Geography, Food, Science, the Natural World, Sport and Politics - from the export of frogs' legs to the longest Monopoly game completed in the bath. Usefully Useless provides answers to such eternal questions as: What was Margaret Thatcher's favourite sitcom? Which British league football team's name has no letters that one could colour in with a pen? How many calories do you consume when you lick a stamp? What was the original colour of Coca-Cola? Which key do toilets flush in? Find out these answers and many, many more in Usefully Useless, the essential guide to the facts you never thought you'd need to know.
10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse
Author: Karl Shaw
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307720403
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of 5 People Who Died During Sex. Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw’s eclectic lists of the world’s very worst. DID YOU KNOW… …that according to recent estimates (2010) your body is worth between $10,000-$100,000 on today’s open market—from companies legitimately trading body parts from willing donors to recognized medical facilities? …that the great plague of Athens in 404, which lead to the defeat of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War, was probably caused by contaminated cereals? …that Benjamin Franklin liked to sit stark naked in front of his open windows, calling the practice “taking an air bath”? …that in the last days of his life, the actor Steve McQueen lived on a diet largely comprised of boiled alligator skin and apricot pits, washed down with urine?
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307720403
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of 5 People Who Died During Sex. Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw’s eclectic lists of the world’s very worst. DID YOU KNOW… …that according to recent estimates (2010) your body is worth between $10,000-$100,000 on today’s open market—from companies legitimately trading body parts from willing donors to recognized medical facilities? …that the great plague of Athens in 404, which lead to the defeat of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War, was probably caused by contaminated cereals? …that Benjamin Franklin liked to sit stark naked in front of his open windows, calling the practice “taking an air bath”? …that in the last days of his life, the actor Steve McQueen lived on a diet largely comprised of boiled alligator skin and apricot pits, washed down with urine?
Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607104601
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
An all-new collection overflowing with weird facts and wild stories! Uncle John and his crack staff of writers are back—and still at the top of their game after all these years. Where else but in an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader could you find out about . . . the tapeworm diet * forty-four things to do with a coconut * the history of the Comstock Lode * seven (underwater) places to see before you die * medical miracles (and medical horrors) * the godfather of fitness * high-tech underwear * the CSI effect * and much more!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607104601
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
An all-new collection overflowing with weird facts and wild stories! Uncle John and his crack staff of writers are back—and still at the top of their game after all these years. Where else but in an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader could you find out about . . . the tapeworm diet * forty-four things to do with a coconut * the history of the Comstock Lode * seven (underwater) places to see before you die * medical miracles (and medical horrors) * the godfather of fitness * high-tech underwear * the CSI effect * and much more!
As the Son of a Dog Man ... I was Tortured with Knowledge
Author: Mitch Kemmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732828339
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
As the Son of a Dog Man ... I was Tortured with Knowledge is a true to life historical fiction account of the challenging task of firmly, humanely and effectively conditioning American Pit Bull Terriers for combat. Kemmer was a third-generation dog man, learning from his father and grandfather as he grew up in Southern Mississippi. He loves dogs, and the sport of their combat. With proper conditioning, a dog is equal to the challenges of combat, as is any professional athlete. Kemmer writes with genuine affection about the days when dogs meeting in combat was legal, respected, and represented the contest of worthy opponents. This is the story of how they prepared.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732828339
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
As the Son of a Dog Man ... I was Tortured with Knowledge is a true to life historical fiction account of the challenging task of firmly, humanely and effectively conditioning American Pit Bull Terriers for combat. Kemmer was a third-generation dog man, learning from his father and grandfather as he grew up in Southern Mississippi. He loves dogs, and the sport of their combat. With proper conditioning, a dog is equal to the challenges of combat, as is any professional athlete. Kemmer writes with genuine affection about the days when dogs meeting in combat was legal, respected, and represented the contest of worthy opponents. This is the story of how they prepared.
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780380816545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A fantasy on a commercial pilot whose life is saved by a ghost and who has to return the favor. Pilot Tucker Case is ordered to fly to a Pacific island and save its inhabitants from human sacrifice. The victims' organs are sold to Japan.
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780380816545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A fantasy on a commercial pilot whose life is saved by a ghost and who has to return the favor. Pilot Tucker Case is ordered to fly to a Pacific island and save its inhabitants from human sacrifice. The victims' organs are sold to Japan.
Ovid on Screen
Author: Martin M. Winkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.
The Book of Love
Author: Paolo Mantegazza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description