Humour category: 17948 books
Dictionnaire d'humeur d'une mamie
Un recueil décalé et plein de malice
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Une ancienne élève de Science Po partage avec nous sa vision pleine d'humour de la société !
Arrivée de province, sans année préparatoire, Françoise Huguet Devallet débarque à Science Po, et est diplômée en 1966. Pour son anniversaire, elle a décidé de sortir ce dictionnaire pour...
Balivernes et pitreries
59 dessins humoristiques sur la vie
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Avec humour et décalage, l'auteur aborde dans ses dessins les petits et grands tracas du quotidien.
La vie est drôle.
Elle est encore plus comique dans cet album lorsqu’elle est croquée en 59 dessins humoristiques qui abordent, par les petits côtés, les problèmes de tous les jours :...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene.
The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment...
House of Lies
How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
In the bestselling tradition of "Liar's Poker" comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting.
Risky Living
Interviews with the Brave Men and Women who Work the World's Most Dangerous Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In the tradition of Studs Terkel, this collection of fascinating interviews shares candid stories from men and women who face mortal danger on the job.
Oral historian Tom Jones set out to discover why certain people pursue careers that routinely put their own lives at risk. In Risky Living,...
Adland
Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
James P. Othmer, advertising executive turned novelist, gives us a hilarious, personal, and sneakily profound chronicle of the past, present, and future of the advertising business. On one level it’s the wickedly funny, compelling personal chronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man;...
Il Vangelo secondo... Steve Jobs
Dalla mela di Adamo a quella dell’iPhone
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Un genio del nostro secolo che non si è mai occupato di religione, ma ha inventato un modo di comunicare da cui sarebbe bene trarre spunto per essere convinti e convincenti nell’annuncio cristiano. Steve Jobs era un industriale a volte spregiudicato e con un carattere molto difficile, ma amava...
Teethmarks on my Chopsticks
A Knucklehead Goes to Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
What’s it really like to work on Wall Street? Follow Matt Connolly as he moves from entry-level gofer to head trader to federal defendant. Fresh out of college in 1987, Connolly stumbles onto a job as a clerk at JP Morgan. Through hard work, dumb luck, and a watchful eye, he learns how to trade...
by Ian Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
I have worked in construction for many years (since 1978) and worked in many countries including the UK, the Channel Islands, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Qatar, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait. I have enjoyed the work (a bit) and experienced loads of new and interesting things.
However...
Now for the Disappointing Part
A Pseudo-Adult?s Decade of Short-Term Jobs, Long-Term Relationships, and Holding Out for Something Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
True stories from the world of temporary employment for anyone terrified of being stuck in a job they hate.
When Steven Barker was twelve, his father, in pursuit of the American Dream, moved the family from Canada to Connecticut, having worked his way up from an IBM mailroom to landing a vice...
by Ian Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
I have worked in construction for many years (since 1978) and worked in many countries including the UK, the Channel Islands, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Qatar, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait. I have enjoyed the work (a bit) and experienced loads of new and interesting things.
However...
by Jasmin Hajro
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Hello dear reader,
how are you doing ?
I am doing good, and I am very excited
because I have translated all 10
books from my first series.
It has taken me some time to get it done,
because I have a business to run as you probably know, and a lot of greetingcards...
by Ian Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
I have worked in construction for many years (since 1978) and worked in many countries including the UK, the Channel Islands, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Qatar, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait. I have enjoyed the work (a bit) and experienced loads of new and interesting things.
However...