Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. This work presents the taped conversations that Feynman's had with his friend Ralph Leighton over a period of years.

180 true stories to make you glad to be alive, taken from one of the best-known and most frequently accessed web sites.

Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius - possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and a gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life. This collection features his short pieces and reminiscences as he describes topics ranging from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think.

As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , the author uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us.

More major mishaps of man from the writer of the bestselling THE DARWIN AWARDS and THE DARWIN AWARDS II.

William Ellery Channing claimed that, One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography . This collection conducts the reader on an informal tour through history and humanity at their most entertaining and instructive, featuring over 2000 people, from Harold Acton to Zog I and Mao to Madonna.

More true stories that will make you glad to be alive - the bestselling book taken from one of the best-known and most frequently accessed web sites.

Knitting finally takes its rightful place on the spectrum of personal obsessions, alongside golfing, fishing, and gardening. The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in these 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.

After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months' worth of his Mail on Sunday columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.

The first volume of the classic adventures and misadventures involving the young vet, James Herriot, in the Yorkshire Dales from 1937 onwards.

A handbook for surviving and succeeding during the teen years. It contains lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future and the value of respect for yourself and others. It also deals with tough issues like death, suicide and the loss of love.

'The funniest cookbook ever written' Sunday Telegraph

A new roundup of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.

This collection of stories shows the human face of science. 'Eurekas and Euphorias' contains around 200 anecdotes illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and more.

Clever comebacks and witty retorts from history's great wits and wordsmiths.

This is a collection of Robert Fulghum's favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings.