Steve Martin est réputé pour son style de comédie absurde et intellectuel distinctif qui a propulsé ses premières routines vers la célébrité nationale. Plus tard, il a évolué pour devenir un acteur et dramaturge respecté. Son écriture se caractérise par une observation fine et des rebondissements inattendus, offrant aux lecteurs une exploration réfléchie de la condition humaine.
Dans cette édition XXL du SUMO d'Annie Leibovitz, la célèbre photographe présente plus de 40 ans de travail, des portraits emblématiques aux images inédites. Le livre, qui mêle histoire politique et culturelle, offre une expérience personnelle et non chronologique, invitant les lecteurs à une véritable montagne russe visuelle.
That's a Job? I Like Sport is the perfect guide for children who love sports and want to know all about what careers they could have.
How Many Spots Has a Cheetah Got? is full of mind-blowing number facts. Did you know that the average cheetah has over 2,000 spots? Or that your face has 43 muscles? Packed with stats and figures about every topic imaginable – from sharks and stars to knights and pirates – there’s tons to explore and discover. Featuring a humorously-written text and beautiful, friendly illustrations by Amber Davenport, this is the perfect book for curious children aged 6 and up.
Filled with over 200 incredible and totally awesome facts, and featuring hilarious artwork by Andrew Pinder, this fun, info-packed book will keep curious 6-year-olds entertained for hours on end.
Filled with over 200 incredible and totally awesome facts, and featuring hilarious artwork by Andrew Pinder, this fun, info-packed book will keep curious 8-year-olds entertained for hours on end.
"Explores the eight powerful human traits that help determine whether what we have to say gets heard or lands on deaf ears. The authors show how seemingly irrelevant details about our demeanour influence others' responses. They explain how trust is won, even when it may not be deserved. They show how the most trivial of signals - like the shape of our face, the shoes we wear or the car we drive - can influence how people respond to us."--Publisher
Mr et Mrs Gilbreth avaient décidé, le jour de leur mariage, qu'ils auraient douze enfants. Et, en effet, ils eurent six garçons et six filles. Douze petits rouquins élevés par des parents obnubilés par l'étude du rendement ! Comment apprendre une langue étrangère en se brossant les dents, soigner à la chaîne toute sa famille atteinte de rougeole... ? Chez les Gilbreth, il y a toujours une solution surprenante ! Découvrez les avantages et les inconvénients d'une ramille nombreuse hors du commun ! Les aventures de la tribu des Gilbreth sont un chef-d'œuvre d'humour.
This entertaining and informative guide is full of tips to help you remember...everything!Learn cool tricks for remembering:• How to spell "calendar"• The correct order of operations for math equations• Important dates in history• The difference between "there," "their," and "they're"• Grammar rules• Signs of the zodiac• Animal classificationsWith helpful illustrations, rhymes, phrases, acronyms, rules, and popular sayings, this book is sure to amuse, inform, and entertain.
At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - perhaps ask a colleague a favour, negotiate with a contractor or get your spouse to put out the recycling. In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice - Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini - describe how, in today's information-overloaded world, it is now the smallest changes that lead to the biggest differences in results.Offering deceptively simple suggestions and explaining the extensive scientific research behind them, the small BIG presents over fifty small changes - from the little adjustments that make meetings more effective to the costless alteration to correspondence that saved a government millions. The small BIG is full of surprising, powerful - and above all, tiny - changes that could mean the difference between failure and success.
#1 New York Times Bestseller • Washington Post Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • Los Angeles Times Bestseller "I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy's last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a caption mystified me. I felt like, yeah, sometimes I'm funny, but there are these other weird freaks who are actually funny. You can understand that I was deeply suspicious of these people who are actually funny." So writes the multitalented comedian Steve Martin in his introduction to A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection. In order to venture into this lauded territory of cartooning, he partnered with the heralded New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. Steve shared caption and cartoon ideas, Harry provided impeccable artwork, and together they created this collection of humorous cartoons and comic strips, with amusing commentary about their collaboration throughout. The result: this gorgeous, funny, singular book, perfect to give as a gift or to buy for yourself.