How to be an Alien, George Mikes

Автор: George Mikes
Название: How to Be A Brit
ISBN: 024197500X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241975008
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A guide to the British Way of Life. It includes insights on important topics including the weather, how to be rude and how to panic quietly. It contains author`s three major works - How to be an Alien, How to be Inimitable and How to be Decadent.

Автор: George Mikes
Название: English Humour for Beginners
ISBN: 0241978548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241978542
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour. So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour, being witty here is a way of life.

Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice - helpfully divided into 'Theory' and 'Practice' - with a comic precision that does his chosen country proud. Drawing on a trove of examples from our rich comic canon, from Orwell ("Every joke is a tiny revolution") to Oscar Wilde, this is the essential handbook for natives and foreigners alike. Mrs Kennedy: "I don't think, Mr Churchill, that I have told you anything about my grandchildren."Winston Churchill: "For which, madam, I am infinitely grateful."

Автор: George Mikes
Название: How to Be A Brit
ISBN: 0140081798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140081794
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Contains such book as "How to be an Alien", "How to be Inimitable" and "How to be Decadent".

Автор: Michael Moore
Название: Mike`s Election Guide 2008
ISBN: 0141039817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141039817
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Описание: Why should I vote? It only encourages them. Can my vote be bought (and what`s the starting price)? The candidates seem to think I`m stupid. Should I just go along to keep them happy? It seems like just anyone can run for office. Is that a good idea? This book answers these questions.