Books : The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation: 101 Things that Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Mife, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quassh, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry and X,Y Z You!
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by: Laura Lee
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 081
EAN: 9781579122171
ISBN: 1579122175
Label: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 01, 2001
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Sales Rank: 726261
Studio: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Product Description:
From airline food, bagpipes and Barney to soggy cereal, telemarketers and warts, here is the first A-to-Z, illustrated compendium of everyday annoyances-complete with truly informative scientific explanations and wry commentary.
When it comes to aggravation, it's the little things that count. Car alarms, fingernails on a blackboard, having a song stuck in your head, cookie mush at the bottom of your coffee cup, mosquitoes, mimes, chain letters-and those silly curtains between First Class and Coach, what are those about?
THE POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGGRAVATION is a unique tour through the things that drive us crazy, full of fascinating details about their inner workings, causes, remedies and histories. Deadpan cross-sections, diagrams and technical drawings bring such things to life as VCRs that flash 12:00-12:00-12:00 and the sound waves created by nails on a chalkboard or crinkly candy wrappers.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Chuckles and giggles.
The book was great, it's fun to share it with other's who look like they could use a pick me up at the coffee shop.
The errors do however, jump off the page at me, as I edit for a living.
Other than that, I'd recommend it.
For the record. respiratory tract
respiratory tract
n : the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Inc.
respiratory tract
The ... Read More
Rating:  - carry it with you
This book is a real hoot. I take it with me when I travel and when people see me reading it they invariably ask me about it.
Most of these are serious aggravations but handled in a typicaly British humourous fashion. Some entries are less serious such as:
Why is the your destination always on the fold of your map?
Using the equation P = A/mn = 2b(2/m + 1/n - 4b/mn), scientists determined there is a better than 50-50 chance your destination on a map will fall into the ... Read More
Rating: - Aggravations and Semantics
Using the word "aggravation" in the sense of "annoyance" is not incorrect. While most dictionaries list the first definition of "aggravation" as "to make things worse," they also list as a second or third defnition the use of "aggravation" as a synonym for "annoyance." The American Heritage Dictionary, for example, gives the definition of aggravation as: 1. The act of aggravating or the state of being aggravated. 2. A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble. 3. Exasperation. The Cambridge ... Read More
Rating: - very enjoyable
I very much recommend this book. It was a quick read on my daily train commute and I actually resented getting off the train and walking home (it is difficult to read in the dark while you're walking). However, I found a few things "aggravating" about it.
First, the term "aggravating" is being misused here since the word is not synonymous with "annoying", which would have been the correct one to use. "Aggravating" means getting or making something worse but it has become one of those slang words currently ... Read More
Rating: - informative and hilarious!
This book is awesome, not only does it discuss the things that aggravate and irk is, but Laura Lee goes in depth and explains the reason and science behind them, from crinkly candy wrappers to lost luggage to slow drivers in the fast lane! I enjoyed this book and its humor so much, I hope Laura Lee writes another book on the things that aggravate us!
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