Humour
Results 1969 - 1979 of 1979
Humour
Hardback. Features a selection of 1,342 facts such as: trees sleep at night; Google searches for 'How to put on a condom' peak at 10.28pm; there is no word for time in any Aboriginal language; Scotland has 421 words for snow; Emoji is the fastest growing language in history; and, astronauts wear belts to stop their trousers falling up. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: WHG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 185 x 34. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571332465
- ISBN
- 9780571332465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
€ 11.99
€ 5.70
Hardback. Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, this title returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten: it is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit; Wagner always wore pink silk underwear; and, Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: WHG; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 186 x 34. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571308941
- ISBN
- 9780571308941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Hardback. Includes facts such as Flowers get suntans; Denmark imports prisoners; Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest; The Republic of Ireland first got postcodes in 2015; Martin Luther King Jr got a C+ in Public Speaking; No one in the UK dies of 'natural causes'; and; Penguins can't taste fish. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: WHG; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 186 x 30. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571326686
- ISBN
- 9780571326686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.23
€ 13.99
€ 6.23
Hardback. Includes some of the facts such as: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains and more. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: WHG; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 118 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571297917
- ISBN
- 9780571297917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 5.70
€ 12.99
€ 5.70
Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 99 x 12. .
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761193678
- ISBN
- 9780761193678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.70
€ 11.99
€ 10.70
Hardcover. Presents 1,000 unforgettable senior moments in history, with embarrassing and true stories of major mental lapses and famous acts of forgetfulness: President Carter leaving the codes for nuclear missile strike in a suit sent to the dry-cleaners; Ralph Waldo Emerson forgetting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's name at Longfellow's funeral; and so on. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 109 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good illustrated cover
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0005327
- ISBN
- 9780761140764
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two that sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241958100
- ISBN
- 9780241958100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Ant and Dec meet up at night using the secret tunnel that connects their Chiswick homes ..Bear Grylls has to survive alone for days in a 5-star hotel and ..Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall helps the tenants of a block of flats rear their own oxen. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: WHG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Number of pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780091932244
- ISBN
- 9780091932244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Throughout. BIC Classification: WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345491718
- ISBN
- 9780345491718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.99
€ 19.99
€ 15.99
Paperback. Uncommon times call for uncommon wisdom. It's inspiring to hear from people who've graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of humor. People like Twain, Voltaire, Oscar Wide. People who've said the thing so well that we all wish we'd said it. This title presents a collection of reassuring reality. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 102 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761155256
- ISBN
- 9780761155256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.77
€ 10.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vital Spark
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903238318
- ISBN
- 9781903238318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.27
€ 10.27