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The teacher is droning, the students are moaning, and every minute seems like an hour. And next comes the tedium of study hall. Yawn! There's only one thing for a kid to do: grab this entertaining follow-up to last season's Don't-Get-Caught Doodle Notebook, an absolute lifesaver for the child drowning in dullness. On the surface it looks exactly like an ordinary red marble composition book. But inside it's totally subversive, with oodles of doodles to complete, amusing multiple-choice questions to answer, and comic caricatures lampooning the “bored of education” and adults in general. And if the teacher should come around to see? Easy--just turn to the fake class notes in the middle of the book and no one will be the wiser!
A Selection of the Children's Book of the Month Club.

Lovable Max Elmore is back with time-tested wisdom: "True achievement is something better than it has to be." His simple message is: Right here, right now, you can stop living an ordinary life. In today's rapidly changing world, ambition and goal-setting are not enough. (Everyone else is rolling those dice already.) Far more essential is an understanding of the randomness of achievement. In Experiments Never Fail, to help you win the "achievement lottery," Dale Dauten has completely rewritten the book, The Max Strategy, updating it and adding a new creativity tool called “Instant Brains.” By the end of the book you will be a lightning rod for new ideas, going beyond problems to the anti-problem and beyond failures to the anti-failure.

Though we have hundreds of entertainment options today--video games, the Internet, CD and MP3 players, home entertainment centers, sporting events, megamalls, movie theaters, and even robotic toys--Western culture is battling an insidious disease. It's an epidemic of boredom.Intrigued by this "deadness of soul," Richard Winter uses the latest historical, physiological and psychological research to probe the nature, causes and effects of boredom. He explores

• why some people are more likely to get bored than others
• the indifference and the loss of meaning among youth
• the attraction of extreme sports
• how advertising promotes apathy
• the link between boredom and addictions to violence and pornography

Not satisfied with mere description and analysis, Winter also offers practical ways to counteract boredom by learning to live with passion and wonder. So don't just turn on the TV, surf all the available channels and complain "there's nothing on." Instead, read this book!

A Best of from Much Revered Geelong Riff-O-Zoids that Takes in 33 Tracks from Mosta their Releases, from the Self Titled 12" in 88 to the Final, Never Issued Recordings in 94.

In the tradition of The Little Rascals and The Sandlot, this rollicking comedy from the writer and director of Uncle Nino brings home all the fun and laughter of summer vacation, when anything can happen and everything is possible. What starts out as a boring day for Bobby (Evan Gabriel), Johnnie (Shaun Poremba) and Chuck (Seth Fjerstad) quickly escalates into a riotous backyard adventure. A swarming beehive, a lawn mower with a mind of its own, a mysterious junkman and the neighborhood bully are just some of the hilarious encounters these close-knit friends will experience on a day that began with the classic kid question of all time: "What do you guys wanna do?"

For everyone who has delighted in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy masterwork-or anyone who's just looking for a good laugh-this is the million-copy selling comic extravaganza that will convince lovers (and haters) of fantasy that they've finally experienced it all, and that they'll never need to read another fantasy parody again.

Written in the gloaming of their college days, just before they started National Lampoon, Douglas C. Kenney and Henry N. Beard wrote Bored of the Rings. It's dated--references to Nixon, drugs, and consumer products circa 1969 crowd every page--but darn it, Bored of the Rings is still funny nearly 30 years later: "'Goodbye, Dildo,' Frito said, stifling a sob. 'I wish you were coming with us.'

'Ah, yes. But I'm too old for that sort of thing now,' said the old boggie, feigning a state of total quadriplegia. 'Anyway, I have a few small gifts for you,' and he produced a lumpy parcel, which Frito opened somewhat unenthusiastically in view of Dildo's previous going-away present [the ring]. But the package only contained a short, Revereware sword, a bulletproof vest full of moth holes, and several well-thumbed novellas with titles like Elf Lust and Goblin Girl..."

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Whether you’re bored, burned out, retired, or fired, Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums offers solutions, ideas, and practical tools for shaking up your professional life for the better. Based on real case studies, this smart and practical career guide will help you discover the causes of your professional problems and give you the inspiration and confidence to take action and seize new opportunities. This is the perfect prescription for a new and exciting professional life.