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  Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition

  by The Onion

  Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan , "Allah's Cat Box," to the Ukraine , "The Bridebasket of Europe." Today's news-parody consumer cannot possibly understand... (more)
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  Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion

  by The Onion

  “The Onion is laugh-out-loud, go-tell-your-friends, get-angry-you-didn’t-think-of-it funny.” –Conan O’Brien “Outside of maybe Dario Fo, an Italian who few are sure exists, the Onion people make the most consistently perfect and excoriating social commentary we currently have. But will those Nobel bastards honor them, too? Only God, our merciless and just God, knows.” –Dave Eggers “The funniest publication in the... (more)
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  Our Dumb Century

  The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

  by Scott Dikkers, The Onion

  The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as editor-in-chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it... (more)
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  Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

  by Onion Editors, Scott Dikkers

  After more than three centuries in print, The Onion remains the world’s most popular news source, making sense of the world for more than four million readers a week. Our Dumb Century , first published in 1999, was The Onion’ s first bound volume, and now, in this exceptionally packaged deluxe edition, it will be the crowning pinnacle of your Onion book collection. From the dawning of what President McKinley... (more)
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  The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

  by Nathan Rabin

  As a child and teenager, Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape. Today, pop culture is his life. For more than a decade, he's served as head writer for A.V. Club, the entertainment section of The Onion. In The Big Rewind, Rabin shares his too-strange-for-fiction life story. From a psilocybin-addled trip to the Anne Frank House to having focus groups for his movie-review panel show opine... (more)
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  Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion [Paperback]

  by Onion Staff (Author)The Onion (Author) Robert Siegel (Author)

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  Embedded in America

  The Onion Complete News Archives Volume 16

  by The Onion

  All The News That’s Fit to Reprint The latest book in the New York Times bestselling Onion series includes every news story, opinion piece, news-in-brief, horoscope . . . yes, every last word that appeared in The Onion between mid-October 2003 and mid-November 2004. And this is the biggest book yet in the series. That’s right— Embedded in America includes eight additional weeks of award-winning coverage... (more)
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  Homeland Insecurity: The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 17 (Onion Ad Nauseam)

  by Scott Dikkers

  Hot off the reprint presses! Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, ... (more)
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  The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1

  by Robert Siegel, Scott Dikkers, The Onion

  The Onion is the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century , was a New York Times #1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onion returns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including: --Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia: Operation Vowel Storm Will Make Countless Bosnian Names More Pronounceable --Jesus... (more)
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  The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives, Volume 13

  by Robert Siegel, Carol Kolb, Todd Hanson, John Krewson, Onion Editors

  The first installment of an ambitious new series, this book features everything published during The Onion’s thirteenth year: every news story, opinion piece, news in brief, horoscope . . . every last damn word that appeared between October 2000 and October 2001. The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives features loads of material no longer available online or anywhere else. Look for a new volume every year.
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  The Tenacity of the Cockroach

  Conversations with Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders

  by Stephen Thompson

  For ten years, The Onion A.V. Club—the entertainment section of the award-winning humor publication The Onion—has been interviewing entertainers and storytellers of every style and stripe. But it has always placed an emphasis on those with fascinating, hard-won careers, from amiable retirees and passionate visionaries to bitter, jilted, eternally warring cranks. Collecting dozens of The Onion A.V. Club’s most... (more)