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Uncle John's InfoMania Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 48,71 MB

Release : 2013-03-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1607107902

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Do you have a compulsive desire to know something about everything? Then you have infomania, and Uncle John has the cure! Infomania is the compulsive desire to gobble up information, and kids growing up in the information age have it bad. Young infomaniacs are hungry, hungry, hungry for information. Who knows information better than Uncle John? No one! And now he’s figured out how to deliver information fixes without computers or modems or the Internet. How? In a handy pocket-sized book packed with fascinating facts! Uncle John’s InfoMania is bursting with information so compelling, so mesmerizing, so… weird…it could only come from the professional infomaniacs at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute, and it’s “For Kids Only!” Inside this nonfiction, easy-to-read pocket guide you’ll find… * How to Get Rid of Freckles (live frogs are involved) * Action Figure Facts * What Makes 3-D Movies Work * Avalanche Survival Tips * World Records to Beat (extreme hula-hooping, anyone?) * And much, much more. Designed just for kids, this two-color, illustrated pocket book shares essential and off-the-wall information pulled from the info-maniacal vaults of the Bathroom Readers’ Institute. It’s science, history, math, social studies, sports, and entertainment; all packed into 272 pocket-sized pages and delivered in the bite-sized bits kids love to read!



Good Word Guide

Author : Martin H. Manser

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 543 pages

File Size : 40,79 MB

Release : 2011-08-28

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1408123320

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'In every sense, a good word guide' Times Educational Supplement 'This intelligent guide is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all readers and writers' Good Book Guide Our language is changing faster than ever before. Modern communications are breaking down distinctions between formal and informal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak and write correctly. This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems. This edition contains a new feature: 'Your Turn' sections - new interactive quizzes for the reader to test their own knowledge of grammar, plain English, punctuation, spelling and usage - a perfect resource for language courses. Endorsed by the Plain Language Commission.



Using Information Technology

Author : Brian K. Williams

Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,70 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Communication

ISBN : 9780071158671

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Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 771 pages

File Size : 17,48 MB

Release : 2018-09-04

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1684124980

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It’s an actual fact—Uncle John is the most entertaining thing in the bathroom! Uncle John and his team of devoted researchers are back again with an all-new collection of weird news stories, odd historical events, dubious “scientific” theories, jaw-dropping lists, and more. This entertaining 31st anniversary edition contains 512 pages of all-new articles that will appeal to readers everywhere. Pop culture, history, dumb crooks, and other actual and factual tidbits are packed onto every page of this book. Inside, you’ll find . . . Dogs and cats who ran for political office The bizarre method people in Victorian England used to resuscitate drowning victims The man who met his future pet—a stray dog—while running across the Gobi Desert Searching for Planet X—the last unknown planet in our solar system Twantrums—strange Twitter rants that had disastrous effects The true story of Boaty McBoatface And much more!



The Oxford Dictionary of New Words

Author : Elizabeth M. Knowles

Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 20,44 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Reference

ISBN :

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A resource that is both useful and engaging, "The Oxford Dictionary of New Words" is the first place to turn for information when faced with new words and phrases. From auto bra, shock-jock, and Beltway Bandit to trainspotting, wormhole, and zaitech, this cornucopia of new words and phrases presents a gold mine of language for word lovers everywhere.



Uncle John's New & Improved Funniest Ever

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 389 pages

File Size : 42,60 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1684123925

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The popular bathroom reader series is back with this collection that’s flush with laughs. It’s new, it’s improved, it’s the funniest ever! Back by popular demand, this newly revised edition includes plenty of all-time favorites, along with more than twenty-five pages of new content. That’s page after page after page of laugh-out-loud dumb jokes, dumb jocks, toasts, pranks, kings, kittens, caboodles, and, of course, poorly translated kung fu movie subtitles such as “It took my seven digestive pills to dissolve your hairy crab!” So, whether you like your humor witty or witless, light or dark, silly or sublime, you’ll laugh until your head explodes. Chortle at: ·Dumb crooks: The robber who ran face-first into a wall because he forgot to poke eye holes in his pillowcase. ·Witty wordplay: If Snoop Dogg were to marry Winnie-the-Pooh, his name would become Snoop Dogg Pooh. ·Flubbed headlines: “British Left Waffles On House Floor” ·Quirky stars: Billy Idol’s concert rider demands he have one large tub of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter in his dressing room. ·Job lingo: If you hear an ER doc mention a “VIP,” be on the lookout for a “very intoxicated patient.” ·Sputtering sportscasters: “If only faces could talk.” —Pat Summerall And much, much more



How to Fight a Bear . . . and Win

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 50,76 MB

Release : 2015-10-01

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1626864225

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A humorous guide to surviving in the wilderness, that also might make you want to avoid the wilderness forever. For more than twenty-five years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has helped you learn amazing things you didn’t know. Now, Uncle John will show you how to do things you didn’t know how to do . . . and probably should never, never, never actually do, unless you’re in a survival situation and really, really, really need to do. It’s How to Fight a Bear . . . and Win. A new approach to survival guides and how-to books, this book provides step-by-step instructions for how to make do in any rugged terrain. But if you’re expecting “how to start a fire,” think again. This isn’t the kind of book that will tell you how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together—it will tell you how to make a fire using a car battery. It will also tell you: · How to swing from a vine like Tarzan · How to land an airplane in an emergency · How to fight a bear . . . and win · How to perform emergency surgery in the woods · How to identify what insects you can—and cannot—eat And lots, lots more



Uncle John's Hindsight Is 20/20 Bathroom Reader

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 36,18 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1645178951

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This 34th annual edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader offers an all-new collection of fascinating trivia, strange-but-true oddities, and the ever-popular stories of dumb crooks! Uncle John’s Hindsight Is 2020 Bathroom Reader is packed with tons of new articles from the worlds of pop culture, history, and science to help you get everything out of your system the next time you visit the throne room! Articles range in length from a single page to extended page-turners, each as entertaining as the last. From iconic television roles that almost weren’t to the origins of comic books, this 34th edition of fascinating trivia, hilarious lists, and notable quotes compiled by Uncle John and his team at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute will set your mind free to roam the world—and you won’t even need to leave the house!



Dart

Author : Alice Oswald

Publisher : Faber & Faber

Page : 73 pages

File Size : 23,41 MB

Release : 2010-06-17

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0571259421

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Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.



The Thesaurus for Kids

Author : Evelyn Pesiri

Publisher : Lowell House

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 37,26 MB

Release : 1998

Category : English language

ISBN : 9781565656949

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An illustrated thesaurus containing synonyms, antonyms, and idioms for more than 2,000 words.