"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of--or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists--who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. Like all of Roach's books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.

《是，大臣》的续集。在《是，大臣》中，大臣哈克通过党内角力当上了首相，而老派官僚汉弗莱爵士也提前一步升迁为首相秘书，伯纳德则荣任首相的私人秘书。于是，官僚帝国的故事继续在唐宁街十号展开。
《是，大臣》、《是，首相》根据英国BBC同名剧集改编，该剧在20世纪80年代上映后，广受好评，英国下院议员为收看该剧翘班回家，首相撒切尔夫人也心痒客串过一集小品。该剧集获得三项BAFTA（英国电影和电视艺术学院电视奖）编剧奖，四项BAFTA表演奖，另有三项BAFTA提名。 2004年的时候，它在英国最佳情景喜剧的投票中名列第六。这套电视剧集被英国电影学院评为史上十大最佳节目之一，至今还能在BBC电台节目中收听这部剧的录音剪辑。
之后，创意和编剧乔纳森•林恩（Jonathan Lynn）、安东尼•杰伊（Antony Jay）将剧本改编为小说，以吉姆•哈克的日记为主，辅以其他政府官员的备忘录、信件等，同样的事件在不同的记录中互相参照，幽默、辛辣，非常精彩。销量超百万，译本也非常多，位列20世纪80年代最受欢迎的图书第二、第三名。

Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction... at its frequent best Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times 'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy' - Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP ' Yes Prime Minister ... is not only a continuing marvel of editing by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a collector's must' - John Coldstream in the Daily Telegraph ' Yes Prime Minister is a comedy in a class of its own' - Celia Brayfield in The Times

When they have to promote themselves. When an acquaintance says hello by kissing them on a cheek. When they owe a favour. When they wait for a bus in pouring rain, but there´s already someone under the pentice. When they run out of coffee.
That´s when it happens. A finnish awkward moment.
The character of Karoliina Korhonen´s comic strips is finnish Matti, who loves silence and personal space. If someone gets angry or is behaving badly, he wonders what he has done wrong.
Finnish Nightmares is a book about what it is like to be a finn in social occasions. For a foreigner the book opens implied codes that can be difficult to understand but are shared with all finns.

本书是一本奇怪的小说。它在表达作家对世界历史的看法时充满了怀疑主义的态度，对历史，对爱这些在一般人看来是“早有公论”的思考对象进行了重新的思考。当作家把真实与虚构、现象与本质、物质与精神、灾难与拯救、爱情与死亡等都囊括于小说之中，当作家把宗教传说、故事新编、历史记载、个人叙述等都进行拼贴于小说之中时，这种斑驳陆离的形态在带有后现代文学的显著特征之同时，也构成了巴恩斯对人类生存境况的一种感知和体验的态度。有意思的是，巴恩斯从来不承认自己是在运用后现代的表现形式和表现技巧写小说。

《言语幽默的图论模型》立足于语言学传统的幽默研究，在前人成果的基础上提出了“笑话的简式图论模型”，开创了研究幽默文本特别是笑话的一条新途径。全书内容翔实，深入浅出，并用大量的幽默语料向读者揭示笑话之所以令人发笑的深层动因。全书用清晰易懂的英语写成，适合有一定英语基础的语言专业的学习和研究以及对英语幽默语言感兴趣的广大读者。

人们是在看了老舍先生的小说与戏剧之后，熟悉了他的幽默风格。文学评论家也是从他的小说与戏剧中，分析论证得出他的文学创作独具幽默风格。他的幽默让人发出的笑，是使人感到温暖的笑，或是先笑后悲的含泪的笑。这样的笑不同于尖刻讽刺的讥笑与冷笑，不同于耍贫嘴的嘻笑，也不是小丑的滑稽逗笑。这九位画家的插图，在创作的时间上，延续了六十年，可每一幅的构图极简练奇巧，无论单线白描，墨色勾勒，渲染或木刻线知都极见功力。尤其在人物刻画上独具匠心，与流行的欧美式，日韩式，港台式的漫画人物绝不雷同，都自成一家，是咱们民族气派的人物造型。每一幅图都准确地把握，充分表现了老舍先生诗与文里的幽默内涵。这些插图既写实传神，又夸张好笑，它们的表现力、感染力，使这本书图文并茂，相映成趣，引人思考。

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!

这是一本独特的政治学兼文学著作，旨在讽刺英国文官制度。以一位大臣的亲身阅历展现英国官僚政治内幕。同名BBC电视剧曾在全球热播（当年在中国播出的“正大综艺版”也成为一代人追忆的经典），本书和续篇《是！首相》也在全世界风行。
“从这本写实的书中读者可以欣赏到圆熟的套语，逗乐的幽默、奇妙的行话，以及一连串非加注释不能懂的缩略语。书中每一章节都构成一个完整的故事，且情节曲折，引人入胜。”