Printed in an irresistible new gift format, this pocket dictionary brings new meaning to the things said at sea. The cleverly essential volume defines and illustrates the terms of sailing, from "ahoy" to "zephyr". Drawings throughout.

"Golf%ing" is even funnier than when it was originally published as Beard--now an avid golfer--brings the same passion to writing about golf as he does to playing it. This humorous pocket dictionary is the perfect gift for the golfer in the family. Drawings throughout.

From cocktail party chitchat, to bumper stickers, to personal ads--everything you'll ever need to say in perfect Latin! A backlistius bestsellerus.

The authors mince their way through all the pretension and confusion of cooking jargon to serve up more than two hundred delicious definitions spiced with fifty full-page illustrations

Title on half t.p.: A gardener's dictionary. A list of garden terms with humorous definitions.

Bestselling humorist Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations. In "X-Treme Latin" he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the secret power of Latin to deliver, in total safety, hundreds of impeccable put-downs, comebacks, and wisecracks.

Joining Golf¥ing, Sail¥ing and Fish¥ing in the new bulging Pocket Dictionary format, Ski¥ing is the lexicon with 200 hilarious definitions--completely revised by an inspired Henry Beard, who added 50% new material--and over 50 equally funny line drawings. From advanced skier: anyone who can remain standing while skiing down a mountain for as long as he or she stood in line waiting to go up-to zipper: handy fastener found on skiwear that can be easily operated by anyone who can pick his or her nose while wearing oven mitts--Ski¥ing celebrates the obsession. After a day on the slopes, Ski¥ing is the perfect aprs-ski entertainment--somewhere between le soaking of les tootsies, la long nap, le stiff drink, le big wait at la fancy dump for le lousy meal, and le checking on le airline to see if they have la earlier flight home.

A book for everyone who's ever cheated just a little bit at golf or gone to a party instead of visiting a sick friend, "The Mink Was Already Dead" offers dozens of perfect rationalizations for behavior that ranges from the thoughtless to the boorish.

This title on the art of angling looks irreverently at the fishing life, including definitions such as: hook - an irritating but highly reliable device used to quickly and precisely locate the position of one's thumb at the bottom of a tackle box.

Vice president Dick Cheney is at the receiving end of Beard's barbs in this hilarious send-up of Dan Brown's bestseller.