Satirical essays poke fun at a variety of subjects, including film festivals, running, job applications, psychiatry, and wedding announcements

How to Raise Your IQ by Eating Gifted Children

Humor & Entertainment

Frumkes, Lewis Burke

Humor

McGraw=Hill

Lewis Burke Frumkes, one of America's very best satirists, sharpens his pen on the fads, fears, and fashions of the urban landscape. Here are 49 hilarious ways to cope with them. Explore the benefits of aerobic typing. Wile a friend with "Exotic Gifts from Harry and Larry" including "Road Imperial ValiumAmerica's Favorite TranquilizerOnly Better." Take charge of your next meeting with Frumkes's "New Rules of Order," which include Blurting, Interrupting, and Bullwhipping. Jump in the saddle and rope a roachapartment style. And, of course, raise your I.Q. with a delicious "Gifted Child Fricassee."

How to Raise Your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Literature & Fiction

McGraw-Hill Companies

Do you have a favorite word? A beguiling bon mot? A linguistic delicacy that cheers you up whenever it's uttered (or read)? If so, this gem of a book will delight you - not to mention tickle, enrapture, enthrall, captivate, bewitch, charm, and transport you. Within its pages are the favorite words of 220 of our most gifted writers, scientists, educators, humorists, and celebrities, collected by Lewis Frumkes, the bestselling author of How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children. His respondents, who range from Norman Mailer to Linus Pauling, Ray Bradbury to Amy Tan, Dave Barry to Gloria Estefan - have written about their favorite words and why they are so enamored of them. For author Mary Higgins Clark it's memory ("the DNA of a writer"). For sports columnist Ira Berkow it's bamboozle ("the sound gives instant delight"). Actress Hedy Lamarr is partial to empathy, and comedian Phyllis Diller likes a lot of words: ephemeral, for one, and lollipop, and diaphanous. In these pages you will find words familiar (love, zest, goodness, chocolate, lullaby) and unfamiliar (chthonic, steatopygia, irredentist); words long (horripilating) and short (sex); words weird (jerzoid) and refreshingly down-to-earth (egg). There is a cornucopia of words in this irresistible volume that no self-respecting logophile should be without. For anyone bedazzled by language or curious about the verbal preferences of others, The Logophile's Orgy - sometimes eccentric, frequently funny, often surprisingly intimate and moving - is a delectable treat. As the author himself confesses, we often wonder about other people's favorite words. Now we know.

The Logophile's Orgy

Reference

Quotations

DELACORTE PRESS

A humorous approach to the difficulties of punctuation introduces new punctuation marks to help depict the innuendos, inflections, frowns, passions, and jabs of the English language. Original.

Metapunctuation (Entrepid Linguistic Library)

Laurel

Offers tongue in cheek explanations of men's and women's names from Aaron and Adele to Zbigniew and Zena

Name Crazy: What Your Name Really Means

Fireside

Manhattan Cocktail intoxicatesus, blending vintage Americana with modern mania. Frumkes puts a spin on our lives, adding a twise to our perceptions of children, social status, balding, executive giftmanship and all the other staples of daily living. Both old fans and new will be delighted and entertained as they immerse themselves in Frumkes' outlandish observations.

Manhattan Cocktail and Other Irreverent Observations on Life, Taxes and Meter Maids

Think the way the Mensans do! Just like a good physical workout, this mental exercise program by the world’s most intelligent people builds strength: It pumps up brainpower and unleashes your hidden genius. The benefits are almost amazing—it’s only a few short weeks to improved memory and reading comprehension, a better vocabulary, deeper logic abilities, and sharper math skills. Plus, the “Think Smart” plan boosts your store of knowledge and even stimulates creativity. Test out your grammar skills through a fun mystery story; take a crack at breaking codes, ciphers, and cryptograms; uncover the key to studying effectively; and have a blast with high-IQ trivia.

Mensa Think Smart Book: Games & Puzzles to Develop a Sharper, Quicker Mind

Salny, Dr. Abbie F.

Grosswirth, Marvin

Puzzles & Games

Galahad

The favorite words of 250 of the best and brightest contemporary thinkers and creators are collected in this volume that no self-respecting word lover should be without. From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to authors Yann Martel and Nicholson Baker, the writers, scientists, educators, humorists, and celebrities featured in this book write at length about their favorite words and why they are so enamored with them. The entries cover a range of responses, some witty and hilarious, some brilliant and profound, others linguistically clever and poignant. For Mary Higgins Clark it's memory ("the DNA of a writer"); for Arianna Huffington, it's trust ("both unutterably sacred and the old banana-skin joke on a cosmic scale"). Other favorite words include the familiar (love, zest, goodness), the unfamiliar (cthonic, steatopygia, irredentist), long words (horripilating) and short (sex), weird words (jerzoid), and refreshingly down-to-earth words (egg). This cornucopia of words is a frequently funny, sometimes eccentric, and often surprisingly intimate and moving look into personality and language.

Favorite Words of Famous People: A Celebration of Superior Words from Writers, Educators, Scientists, and Humorists

Marion Street Press, LLC

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