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Portable Pundit A Crash Course In Cockta

by T E Krieger

ISBN13: 9780446675673
ISBN10: 0446675679
Condition: Standard

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Want to amaze and astound party guests with witty repartee, dazzling erudition, and conversational savvy? The Portable Pundit covers questions like: What is that whole Director's Cut thing about? Into which Circle of Hell might you place Homer Simpson? How can I use adjectives like Proustian and Joycean? What influence did Plato have on the film The Matrix? From Art History to Philosophy, Wall Street to the Internet, The Portable Pundit has it covered.

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Now in its tenth edition, this concise handbook is for aspiring intellectuals in need of a crash course to cocktail party conversation. The impressive but utterly useless facts in this book will have readers talking like authorities on any subject in no time.

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ISBN:: 9780446675673
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 08/01/2000
Publisher:: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Pages:: 231
Height:: 7.20 in.
Width:: 4.03 in.
Thickness:: .56 in.
Number of Units:: 1
UPC Code:: 2800446675675
Author:: T E Krieger
Subject:: Humor
Subject:: Conversation

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