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    Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals

    Una McGovern and Paul Jenner
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The Joy of Worry

by Ellis Weiner

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Publisher Comments:

Stressed out? Wringing your hands? Great! You're on the path to success, enlightenment, and happiness. Author Ellis Weiner and illustrator Roz Chast, experts in the field of fretting, reveal how to maximize worry, harness its power, and achieve personal goals — wealth, great sex, safer driving, and world travel. Through focused worrying, dedicated practitioners not only lose weight, they even control exactly where they will shed the pounds. And if they're pregnant, they can worry for two! Let us now abandon our quest for inner peace and embrace that gnawing tension!

Review:

"'Worry is fear harnessed to imagination.' With this brilliant re-definition of an old bugaboo, Weiner begins this perfectly pitched spoof of the lifestyle how-to. The New Yorker and National Lampoon writer 'has been apprehensive most of his life,' notes his publisher, thus he knows whereof he writes. The 'motivational' text is accompanied by sidebars delineating types of worry (fretting, brooding, etc.) and the number of calories burned by worrying about particular things (e.g., 311 calories burned for worrying about destruction of the ozone layer). You can, Weiner shows, worry your way to wealth and health, not to mention happiness. So if you're worried about your worrying (too much? not enough?), relax and have a laugh with this book instead." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

Author Weiner and illustrator Chast, experts in the field of fretting, show readers how to harness the power of worry and achieve goals. Learning how to cultivate anxiety can lead to personal wealth, great sex, safer driving, and world travel.

Synopsis:

Worry your way to wellness, wealth, and wisdom with this humorous illustrated guide to the fantastic benefits of worrying in every aspect of life.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780811841399
Author:
Chast, Roz
Publisher:
Chronicle Books
Illustrator:
Chast, Roz
Location:
San Francisco
Subject:
Anxiety
Subject:
Form - Parodies
Subject:
Worry
Subject:
Comics & Cartoons
Series Volume:
3144
Publication Date:
June 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
149
Dimensions:
7.66x5.58x.45 in. .47 lbs.
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