The Be Better Now Series
Whether you want to be smarter, happier, richer, or healthier, the Be Better Now series offers simple, practical steps you can take today, to make your life better right away.
Be Happier Now
Backed by the latest scientific research and vetted by a professional psychologist, Be Happier Now gives readers 100 simple things they can do right now to make an immediate and positive difference in their lives. Plus, built-in habit trackers on the book’s inside jacket help you turn your favorite tips into lifelong habits.
Decades of research shows that happiness isn’t about what you have or what you look like, but what you do. With a life-changing tip on every page, flip anywhere in this instant, browsable book to learn a new healthy skill.
Live Smarter Now
Backed by the latest scientific research and vetted by a professional psychologist, Live Smarter Now easily guides readers through 100 quick tips to teach their brains to instantly grow, create, learn, plan, and reason better. Plus, built-in habit trackers on the book’s inside jacket help you turn your favorite tips into lifelong habits.
Decades of research shows that intelligence is not fixed, and indeed, humans have astonishing potential for intellectual growth. With a life-changing tip on every page, flip anywhere in this instant, browsable book to learn a new healthy skill.
The Government Manual Series
Written with Matthew David Brozik, the Government Manual series consists of three handbooks from worlds almost, but not quite, like our own. Although all three books were originally intended for grownups, New Superheroes and New Wizards are entirely kid-friendly. New Pirates is a little bit saucier; if it were a movie, it might be rated PG.
The Government Manual for New Superheroes
The Government Manual for New Superheroes (2005) is a useful guide to designing a costume, finding an arch-enemy, and ensuring that your secret crimefighting lair meets local zoning regulations.
The Government Manual for New Wizards
The Government Manual for New Wizards (2006) is a useful guide to choosing a familiar, keeping your broom in good working order, and disposing of cursed objects in the volcanic fires whence they were forged. (IMPORTANT: DO NOT FLUSH CURSED OBJECTS DOWN THE TOILET.)
The Government Manual for New Pirates
The Government Manual for New Pirates (2007) is a useful guide to rum, wenches, rum, looting, rum, and also rum.
Have you ever read a parenting book that left you feeling inadequate and/or terrified? In other words, have you ever read any parenting book whatsoever?
How Not to Kill Your Baby
From writing a birth announcement that won’t attract the attention of kidnappers, to doing criminal background checks on the other parents before having a playdate, How Not to Kill Your Baby is a parody of every paranoid-inducing, crazy-making parenting book you’ve ever read.
“This laugh-out-loud hilarious book is mandatory reading for parents, and should be taught in schools as the ‘cautionary tale’ portion of Sex Ed. Run don’t walk to buy it, and if you’re a baby with lethal parents, crawl don’t roll.” —Rob Kutner (Conan, The Daily Show)
“If you don’t buy this book and then your baby dies, how are you going to feel? Pretty bad, I imagine.” —Larry Doyle (I Love You Beth Cooper; Go, Mutants!; The Simpsons)