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Bestiaire politique: le carnaval des animaux
Par André Santini. 2002
De tout temps, les hommes (ou les femmes) de pouvoir, les partis, les assemblées, les Etats même ont emprunté aux…
animaux leurs attitudes et leurs qualités véritables ou supposées. Ils s'approprient leur force et leur ruse ou, à l'inverse, et bien malgré eux, s'entendent attribuer leurs faiblesses, leurs défauts, leur " bêtise ". Tour à tour éthologiste, entomologiste, ornithologue, mammalogiste, André Santini nous invite à visiter ce panthéon animalier au sommet duquel il place sans doute le " tigre " et le " lion ", entendez deux des plus grands leaders de l'Histoire : Georges Clemenceau et Winston Churchill.Avec sa verve érudite, l'auteur malicieux de Ces imbéciles qui nous gouvernent compose un bestiaire machiavélique et caustique propre à séduire les vieux renards comme les jeunes loups de la politique et, plus généralement, tous ceux, amateurs de corridas électorales, que l'arène publique intéresse.Le principe de Peter ou Pourquoi tout va toujours mal (Le Livre de poche ; #3118)
Par Raymond Hull, France-Marie Watkins, Laurence J Peter. 1970
Selon ce principe, tout individu tend à accéder à son niveau d'incompétence. Voila enfin expliquée cette inefficacité à laquelle chacun…
de nous se heurte tous les jours. 1970. Titre uniforme: The Peter principle.Le monde selon Peter, ou, Les subtilités de la pyramide hiérarchique
Par Laurence J Peter, Joan Olivar. 1988
L'auteur du principe de Peter développe ici une nouvelle satire de nos structures sociales. Il s'attaque cette fois plus particulièrement…
a la bureaucratie et nous guide dans les labyrinthes de la paperasse et du jargon administratif. 1988. Titre uniforme: The Peter pyramid, or, Will we ever get the point?Comment voyager avec un saumon: nouveaux pastiches et postiches
Par Umberto Eco. 1997
Humoriste, polémiste, railleur, l'auteur nous raconte ici, en toute liberté, sa vie. Il pourfend avec jubilation l'absurde qui nous gâche…
l'existence, les objets qui nous résistent, les gadgets qui nous asservissent ou l'administration qui nous englue. Avec lui, le quotidien, dans ce qu'il y a de plus banal, devient une épopée burlesque. 1998, c1997.La working girl: petite chronique de la vie de bureau
Par Sophie Talneau. 2007
Laughing matters: a celebration of American humor
Par Gene Shalit. 1987
An anthology of American humour that includes the works of Mark Twain, Woody Allen, Garrison Keillor, Ogden Nash, Garry Trudeau,…
Jack Benny and the Marx Brothers. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. c1987.Comment je vois le monde
Par Albert Einstein. 1979
Il n'est personne dans le monde qui n'ait un jour entendu prononcer le nom d'Einstein. Son génie à fait l'unanimité.…
Il aura fallu la Seconde guerre mondiale et toutes ses conséquences pour laisser entrevoir un personnage d'une humanité exemplaire et profondément pacifique. À l'origine de ce livre, se trouve un certain nombre d'articles et de textes scientifiques d'Einstein revus et traduits par Maurice Solovine, un grand ami de l'auteur. Dans la première partie de ce recueil, on trouve les positions très nettes du savant dans le domaine social, religieux, politique et économique. Une large place est ensuite accordée à ses études scientifiques. 1989, c1979.Exercices de style
Par Raymond Queneau. 1995
Chapel of extreme experience: a short history of flicker
Par John Geiger. 2002
The true story of how the discovery of flicker potentials, and scientific observations about strange patterns, organized hallucinations, and even…
the displacement of time derived from stroboscopic light, nearly resulted in a Dream Machine in every home. 2002.Enter laughing: the early years
Par Neil Crone. 2013
Kid confidential: an insider's guide to grown-ups
Par Monte Montgomery. 2012
Let’s face it: Being a kid isn’t easy. Compared to adults, kids are inexperienced, powerless, and short. Just as it…
would be irresponsible to send travellers to a strange city without a map, it would be wrong to let defenceless kids navigate a world inhabited by parents, teachers, and other adults without an in-depth guide to how the older (although not necessarily smarter) half lives. This book explores the strangest and most mysterious facets of adult life, such as: What do teachers really talk about in the teacher’s lounge? And how can adults stand to drink a beverage as disgusting as coffee? With tongue-in-cheek sidebars and tips for good-natured trickery throughout, this fully loaded guide will be a “must have” for every kid. Grades 4-7. 2012.Collected tarts and other indelicacies
Par Tabatha Southey. 2017
Tabatha Southey is possessed of the wisdom of the ages. She understands the psychological struggles of shadowy Russian pee traffickers.…
She recognizes the PR benefits of puppy-throwing. She has deeply considered the moral quandaries presented by sea-slug penises. She even knows her own bra size (really, please stop asking). Showcases the many lessons learned from over a decade of column writing. For example, you don't want to piss off the jazz enthusiasts. And you really, really don't want to piss off the homeopaths. Along with these thorny issues, Southey has covered the most pressing topics of our times, from the struggles of having an unusually handsome prime minister to the impending dystopic future faced by the Trump United States and Casino Resort. 2017. Uniform title: Newspaper columns.It's always darkest before the fridge door opens: Finding Joy In The Cold Places Of Life
Par Phil Callaway, Martha Bolton. 2006
It's raining pigs & noodles: poems
Par Jack Prelutsky. 2000
A collection of more than one hundred humorous poems with titles such as "Deep in Our Refrigerator," "Butterflies, You Puzzle…
Me," "We Are Plooters," and every child's lament, "Why Do I Have to Clean My Room?" For grades 2-4. 2000.Invisible: the dangerous allure of the unseen
Par Philip Ball. 2014
If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it…
a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. The story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it. 2015, c2014.If it's a jungle out there, why do I have to mow the lawn?
Par Joey Slinger. 1992
Slinger, a humourist and columnist with the "Toronto Star," has collected some of his columns on the subject of "urban…
ecology." They are arranged by groups like "Endangered species," "Field marks," and "Animal behaviour." 1992.In search of Schrödinger's cat: quantum physics and reality
Par John R Gribbin. 1984
I'd rather we got casinos, and other Black thoughts: And Other Black Thoughts
Par Larry Wilmore. 2009
Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of comic Larry Wilmore. Here, collected for…
the first time, all in one place, are his Black Thoughts. From why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don't see UFOs to his search for Black Jesus or his quest to replace "African-American" with "chocolate". 2009.I'm not really here
Par Tim Allen. 1996
Known for his starring role in the sitcom Home Improvement, Allen humorously describes an unusual weekend. Alone while his wife…
and daughter have gone camping, he puzzles over "the big questions" brought on by his midlife crisis--while he searches for a missing hood ornament. Strong language. 1996.I love my computer because my friends live in it: stories from an online life
Par Jess Kimball Leslie. 2017
From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook…
and Instagram, the essays paint a clear picture: That all of us have a much more twisted, meaningful, emotional relationship with the online world than we realize or let on. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; people who worked with computers every day as part of their actual jobs without being ridiculed as nerds. It's in large part because of her embrace of an online life that Jess is where she is now, happily married, with a wife, son, and dog, and making a living of analyzing Internet trends and forecasting the future of tech. 2017.