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  Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed. She puts her guests at ease, which makes for rewarding listening. Insights abound and the humor is unstoppable.

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  The Joke-Off - A Comedy Knockdown

  Eric Spiegelman, Sam Hoffman

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  OldJewsTellingJokes.com is more than an internet sensation with a devoted, massive audience spanning generations and crossing cultural boundaries. It’s a living, breathing cultural phenomenon that has survived thousands of years: Old friends coming together to share company, memories, and, most importantly, side-splitting laughs. In that spirit, the Old Jews have gathered once again, this time for a face-to-face, smile-to-smile, roundtable session in which they perform all new jokes. With The Joke-Off, there is friendly sense of competition as one joke inspires another, but an even greater sense of delight in keeping a much-loved oral tradition alive.Includes:  “The Pickle Slicer”“The Blonde in First Class”“The Pimple”“Painting the Porch”“The Continuing Adventures of Becky and Jake”and many more.

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  Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z

  Gregory J. Kenicer

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  Names are incredibly powerful things and are a crucial part of the way we see and classify the world around us. Plant names are especially fascinating in this respect. Some are simply descriptive or speak of ancient uses and remedies, whilst others have religious origins or roots in wider folklore, and some are very recent inventions.
  This book introduces almost 300 plant names to showcase the enormous variety of Scotland's native species. It includes English, Gaelic and Scots (Including dialect) names, revealing the country's diverse linguistic history. Short descriptions, together with historical and cultural information in each entry, make this book an ideal companion for all those with an interest in Scotland's rich botanical tradition.

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  The Indisputable Existence of...

  Thomas Oléron Evans, Hannah Fry

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  How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night—or fatter—as he munches on cookies and milk in billions of houses across the world?In The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, distinguished mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans demonstrate, with eminent clarity, how applied mathematics are so thoroughly interwoven throughout our everyday lives by explaining mathematical concepts through one very merry motif: Christmas. In their quest to provide mathematical proof for the existence of Santa, the authors take listeners on a festive journey through a traditional holiday season, wherein every activity, from wrapping presents to playing board games to cooking the perfect turkey, is painstakingly and hilariously analyzed. Because who hasn't always wondered how to set up a mathematically perfect Secret Santa?Lighthearted and diverting with Christmasy equations, Markov chains, and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with a stockingful of mathematical marvels.

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  Fear of Flying Hypnosis -...

  Adrian Berry

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  What you are dealing with is real. 
  It is not silly. It is not weak. It is not something you should be over by now. It is one of the most common, deeply rooted, neurologically powerful fears a human being can have. And almost no one in your life truly understands what it feels like for you. 
  They see the calm cabin. The flight attendants smiling. The other passengers reading. They cannot understand why your hands have gone cold. Why your heart is racing for no visible reason. Why every small sound makes you flinch. 
  This fear has cost you. Not just in the moments on the plane, but in the slow narrowing of your life. The wedding you did not attend. The family reunion you skipped. The job opportunity you turned down because of the travel. The honeymoon that became a road trip. The dream of seeing the world that you started, quietly, to fold away. 
  Hear me clearly. 
  You are not weak. You are a nervous system trying to keep you safe in the only way it knows. 
  The reason you cannot logic your way out of this fear is that it does not live in the part of your brain that responds to logic. It lives in the amygdala, the ancient, lightning-fast threat-detection center of your brain that does not speak in numbers or evidence. Knowing the statistics has not helped because all that knowledge is happening in the wrong part of the brain. 
  To change the fear response, you have to reach the layer where the fear actually lives. The subconscious. 
  For the next four hours you will not be lectured. You will not be shamed. You will be guided gently into the deeply relaxed state where your subconscious opens, and 200 carefully crafted affirmations will begin to retrain your nervous system. This program was designed to be used at home, at the gate, during boarding, and even during the flight itself. 
  One day soon, you will board a plane and notice your hands are not shaking. Your chest is not tight. The door will close, and your stomach will not drop. The plane will taxi, and your body will relax.

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