The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

IAN URBINA

Vintage

"Life's Little Annoyances is a collection of stories, sorted into chapters with themes such as Going Postal, Press "1" for Aggravation, and Bills, Banks and Bile. Each story describes a situation where a pet peeve has driven a person to react, sometimes quite elaborately. While many of us dream of the perfect revenge to such petty behavior, few follow through. If you are one of the timid, take heart in the stories of the brave and ingenious who take revenge on those who are behind "life's little annoyances." And for those who create these petty moments of distress, be forewarned, there are those out there who are unafraid to take action! Life's Little Annoyances is pure entertainment, a short and endearing read that provides that much-needed life break - especially after those days when you've encountered one of many possible little annoyances." Regan Windsor

Life's Little Annoyances (TRUE TALES OF PEOPLE WHO JUST CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

TIMES BOOKS HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore.What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think.For some of us, it's the automated voice that answers the phone when we'd rather talk to a real person. For others, it's the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee "tall." Or perhaps it's those pesky subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life. In Life's Little Annoyances Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough. We meet the junk-mail recipient who returns unwanted "business reply" envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage, and the woman, fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, who replaces them with dog biscuits that look like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us.A compendium of human inventiveness, this audiobook will provide comfort and inspiration to anyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people. 

Life's Little Annoyances

Renaissance Press

The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortionists, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways: drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Bodley Head

The Outlaw Ocean

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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