This Book Is Not a Toy! Friendly Advice on How to Avoid Death and Other Inconveniences

Name: This Book Is Not a Toy! Friendly Advice on How to Avoid Death and Other Inconveniences
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ISBN: 9780312303761

ISBN-10: 0312303769

ISBN-13: 9780312303761

Edition: 2005

Authors: Chuck Goldstone

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THIS BOOK IS NOT A TOY! Friendly Advice on How To Avoid Death and Other Inconveniences - Our brain: Friend or Foe? - Why it is not good to step on a snake's neck - Common sense tips for daredevils - How to crash $800 billion worth of Boeing aircraft - Mount Everest tours where "Kids Climb Free!" - Why your house it out to get you In this wry, wistful, deeply wise, and trouser-wetting funny collection of essays, nationally known humorist and public radio commentator Chuck Goldstone shows us why we humans are a fluky bunch, agents of our own undoing, who dive blindly into life, too often underestimating the potential for danger and overestimating our competence. This Book Is Not a Toy! is…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



In Lieu of Acknowledgments


The Spirit of Adventure


My Mother's Warning


The Home Depot Chain Saw Massacre


You've Been Warned


Bully for Fear


Wildlife Television


We Are No Match


To Be Safe, Always Carry a Mongoose


That's Entertainment


Dating a Woman from Snake Country


Communing With Exotic Pets


Not An Animal Family


No One Will Ever Call Me "Lieutenant"


A Smudge in the Record Books


Cutting Life Short in Your Spare Time


Adventure Vacations


The Revenge of Mountains


Flights of Fancy


Your House Is Out to Get You


Instruments of Our Personal Destruction


Patio Peril


Life Is Risky: An Epilogue