Bluffer's Guide to ...

Series · 88

books · 1911-2025

By Martin Gurdon, Peter Gammond, David Mitchell, and more

Books in series

The Bluffer's Guide to Sex

1987

The titles in this humorous, best-selling series contain facts, jargon and inside information - all you need to know for instant expertise.

The Bluffer's Guide to Rugby

2014

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of rugby. Know what to say, what not to say, what to do in the company of rugby fans, and what excuses to make when the drinking games start. On the field of play never again confuse a Garryowen with a grubber, a blindside with an eye-gouge, or a spear tackle with a turnover. Bask in the admiration of your fellow rugby lovers as you pronounce confidently on the chances of your team trouncing the opposition, impress them with your seemingly extensive knowledge of rules and tactics, and make sure that youíre well versed in the difference between the two ëcodesí of rugby league and rugby union. Above all know that the origins of the game lie in a blatant display of cheating.

#10

The Bluffer's Guide to Football

2001

Never before has the ability to bluff your way in football been as vital as now. From boardroom to building site, from wine bar to pub, every other conversation seems to be about the game. The smartest dinner parties, which once echoed to talk of Plato and the Old Vic, now concern themselves with Pele and Old Trafford. In short, if you cannot talk about football, you cannot take part in modern life. Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.

#12

The Bluffer's Guide to Psychology

2005

Be an instant expert on psychology and bluff your way with all those who seek self-knowledge. No contemplation required, just a sense of humor. From 'Cognitive Therapy' to the 'Collective Unconscious', and from 'Free Will' to 'Freudian Slips', The Bluffer's Guide to Psychology projects all you need to know to understand behavior and babble with the best.

#13

The Bluffer's Guide to Cars

2013

From 'Station Wagons' to 'Hatchbacks', and from 'Cadilla' to 'Pontia', The Bluffer's Guide to Cars provides everything you need to know to get your conversation into gear.

#14

Bluffer's Guide to Bluffing

1989

Book by Mary Ellen Snodgrass; Peter Gammond

#15

The Bluffer's Guide To Management

1985

Good management The secret of good management is avoiding bad management. Similarly, the test of good managers is that they cannot be observed or remembered for the deviations and idiosyncrasies which make bad managers so memorable. Real management The acid test of the true manager under pressure is that he or she is the only one not immediately doing something. The real manager is thinking before acting. Even if it's only a bluff. Proper management If you devote even a fragment of the working day to some thought about managing properly you can rise above the norm. Right management Good management is not necessarily about flair or excellence. It may often be about getting things right more than 90 per cent of the time, by avoiding the crass errors of your contemporaries. Simple management Good managers have every right to insist that presentations of all kinds, within and without the organization, be presented in words of few syllables which a child of four could understand.

#16

The Bluffer's Guide to Japan

Bluff Your Way in Japan

1989

The country, the people, travel, culture. Bluffers Guides are the Cliff Notes to real living. And anyone going to work in Japan should read this, stat.

#19

The Bluffer's Guide to Stand-up Comedy

2014

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of stand-up comedy. Never again confuse a nail with a bomb, a flop sweat with a cotton mouth, or a tag line with a zinger. Bask in the admiration of your fellow comedy aficionados as you pronounce confidently on the comparative merits of the greatest performers in the history of stand-up, and hold your own in any discussion about the best gags of all time.

#20

The Bluffer's Guide to Skiing

1996

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#22

The Bluffer's Guide to Sex

1999

All readers need to know on the subject of sex to raise their standing in any social intercourse.

#23

The Bluffer's Guide to Management

2013

From 'Delegation' to 'Deadly Sins', and from 'Planning' to 'PEST Analysis', The Bluffer's Guide to Management offers everything you need to know to be perceived as knowing it all.

#25

The Bluffer's Guide to Bond

2006

Be an instant expert on Bond and bluff your way with 007 aficionados. There is no risk required, just a sense of humour. From 'Bond's lifestyle' to his 'one-liners', and from 'the line to take' to 'the link with JFK', here's the guide that gives you a licence to thrill in any company. Pronounce confidently on the finer points of the books, films and the character of the man himself, and hold your own against the most dismissive of doubters.

#28

Bluffer's Guide to Music

Bluff Your Way in Music

1985

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#29

The Bluffer's Guide to Golf

1985

Be an instant expert on golf and bluff your way with those who have a real grip on the sport. No handicap required, just a sense of humour. Unsure about the must-have clothing or clubs or downright mystified by the game? From 'baffy' to 'bogey', and from 'courses' to 'cleeks', here's all you need to know to put yourself on an even par with friends and colleagues.

#30

The Bluffer's Guide to Fishing

2014

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of ?shing, with The Bluffer’s Guide to Fishing. Know what to say, what not to say, what to do on the water, what to do in the water, and what excuses to make if you can’t put a lugworm on a hook or take a 12lb rainbow off one. Never again confuse a bone?sh with a kipper, a PVA bag with a popper, or a gozzer with a Hairy Mary. Bask in the admiration of your fellow ?shermen as you pronounce con?dently on the comparative literary merits of Izaak Walton, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Torday, and JR Hartley. Above all, know exactly how to hold your own against the sort of ?shing fantasist who claims that he once wrestled a 200lb Giant Trevally into submission on a river bank in outer Mongolia. (Hint: look him in the eye and say: �Really? I thought the �GT” was more likely to be engaged in combat on a remote Tahitian atoll.’) And never wear a hat saying �Wanna see my tackle?’.

#31

The Bluffer's Guide to Tax

2000

Book by A.J. Carroll

#35

The Bluffer's Guide To Men

1998

From brawn to brain, this book encompasses everything one needs to know to sort the men from the boys.

#37

The Bluffer's Guide to Journalism

Bluff Your Way in Journalism

1992

#39

The Bluffer's Guide to World Affairs

Bluff Your Way in World Affairs

1990

#40

Bluffer's Guide to Science

Bluff Your Way in Science

1996

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#41

The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate

2014

If 'life is like a box of chocolates' then Neil Davey's 'Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate' is just what you need to help you 'work, rest and play.' This 'Bluffer's' guide celebrates pure indulgence for chocoholics everywhere.

#42

The Bluffer's Guide to Rock Music

2013

From 'Rock and Roll' to 'Post-Britpop', and from 'Lo-fi' to 'Led Zeppelin', The Bluffer's Guide to Rock Music contains everything you need to know to pass yourself off as a serious music enthusiast.

#44

Bluff Your Way in Consultancy

1993

Consultancy is a euphemism for the state of being unemployed. This book is for...those who seek to earn a living from consultancy without knowing anything about it.

#46

The Bluffer's Guide to Literature

1971

#48

Bluff Your Way in Marketing

1999

Marketing activity involves taking something simple and obvious and packaging it to go. This is a skill which all good bluffers quickly learn.

#49

The Bluffer's Guide to Opera

Bluff Your Way in Opera

1991

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#50

The Bluffer's Guide to Ballet

2003

All you need to know on the subject of ballet so that you can get your point across in any discussion.

#51

Bluffer's Guide to Bluffing

1987

#52

The Bluffer's Guide to the Classics

Bluff Your Way in the Classics

1999

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#54

The Bluffer's Guide to the Cosmos

2009

Size doesn't matter When it comes to the size of the cosmos, just remember that it's not size but how you bluff it that matters. True bluffers won't bother about the size of the Solar System. It's too small. Things are always colliding with each other. Size does matter While Galileo got by with a lens the size of a mandarin orange, today's astronomers scour the heavens using mirrors that range from the size of an average swimming pool to a new class of telescopes destined to exceed tennis court size?one of which is sited in Chile and aptly named the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Cosmologists are happiest when stating the obvious. Another one in prospect is of football-field proportions, and known as the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL for short). Measure for measure The Hubble trouble that sabotaged the $1.5 billion space telescope project was an error of 1.3 mm (.05 inches), and it required a space mission to fix it. More recently, instructions using imperial instead of metric measurement sent a Mars probe into oblivion. Condensed milk All the stars seen in the night sky are in Earth's home galaxy, which got its name, Via Lactea, from the Romans who, lacking imagination, simply borrowed the name from a Greek myth involving the breast of a goddess spurting milk across the sky.

#55

The Bluffer's Guide To Women

1999

From "chromosomes" to "A Good Cry", this book contains everything one needs to know to appreciate womanly wiles.

#56

Bluffer's Guide to Whisky

Bluff Your Way in Whisky

1993

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#59

Bluff Your Way in Computers

1993

The general public holds computers and computer people as intrinsically clever and interesting. At no time should the public be given the slightest hint of the truth.

#60

The Bluffer's Guide to Life Coaching

2008

Life encroaching Life coaching on the other hand is not about the past. It works on the assumption that what you make of your life is up to you. Coachees need to take careful note of this, for it is the main term and condition in every life coaching agreement. In short, success is up to the coachee to address here and now, the coachee has the answers, and the coachee needs to make his or her own changes. The road less traveled As the Chinese proverb has it (one of many obscure Chinese proverbs that are of considerable value to the life coach, because they only really make sense to the recipient well after the session has ended): “If you don’t change the direction you are traveling in, you are going to arrive at where you’re going.” Discipline disciples Apostles of life coaching will point out that everybody has something they would like “fixed,” even if it’s something that without benefit of alcohol and intimacy, they might not choose to share with the wider world. Belief relief Life coaches keep their own beliefs pretty much to themselves. You won’t catch a life coach saying, “I believe” very often, unless it’s followed by “I’m seeing you again next Tuesday” or “we’ve made a lot of progress”. They will shy away from anything that to the coachee smacks of a personal conviction or belief, on the grounds that (as any experienced bluffer will remind listeners in world weary tone) it’s the coachee’s belief that counts.

#61

The Bluffer's Guide to Women

1998

Book by Mason, Myriam

#62

The Bluffer's Guide to The Simpsons

2007

Homer's Odyssey Homer's marriage to Marge has been occasionally rocky but always sturdy. You can't really imagine Fred and Wilma making the same kind of amorous noises in the boudoir (and several other locations over the years) but the Springfield Posh & Becks seem to have no qualms about getting jiggy with it after lights out and, occasionally, with the lights on. Hair Raising Nobody's ever satisfactorily explained away Marge's trademark beehive, the height of which is as impressive as its deep blue hue. So, let's do some reckoning: If Marge is the average height for a woman—say 165cm—then her barnet has to be in excess of 140cm. Add those together and Mighty Marge Simpson stands over 10 feet tall in old money. It's known that Marge keeps a couple of dozen cans of hairspray in her dressing table drawer so the hole in the ozone layer over Springfield must be the size of Canada by now, which probably explains the peculiar yellow skin of the local populace. It's lesser known that Marge has been “grey as a mule since she was seventeen.” She uses Blue Dye no. 52. Um diddle diddle After Marge suffers from stress, The Simpsons get a nanny in the form of Shelley Bobbins—no, absolutely no similarity between her and a certain Disney Corporation character should be made or implied—who flies in and turns 742 Evergreen Terrace upside down with a wealth of twee magic and song. Who can help but be engrossed by the deliciously irreverent "It's The American Way," which in no way resembles “A Spoonful of Sugar” either, by the way. Bart and Moe crank it up... One of the many highlights from all the Simpsons seasons to date are (usually) Bart's crank phone calls to manic depressive bartender Moe Szyslak. It is claimed that this running gag originated in the Tube Bar, Jersey City, in the 1970s but it's obvious even to the most intellectually challenged of Shelbyville that these gems go further back than that and are based in classic "knock-knock" jokes: "knock-knock/who's there/Isobel/Isobel who?/Isabel necessary on a bicycle?" Simpsons Bluffer Rule #2 The competent Bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as “the voice talent” never “actors.” For extra effect, drop their first names and simply use “Castellaneta,” “Kavnar,” and so forth. This implies some tacit familiarity and your Bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in the Wizard of Oz.

#65

The Bluffer's Guide to Chess

1995

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#67

Bluff Your Way in Advertising

1994

Book by Foster, Nigel

#68

Bluffer's Guide to Teaching

Bluff Your Way in Teaching

1999

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#72

Bluff Your Way in Theatre

1989

Book by Mogan, Fidelis

#73

Bluff Your Way on the Internet

1997

the Internet the Information Superhighway Cyberspace the World Wide Web-all describe the same simple computers linked by telephone lines. But like any good con artist the Internet uses several names each designed to deceive in different ways. However the Internet has one highly important quality. People believe it must be interesting. Unlike normal computing which is important and useful the Internet is trivial and virtually useless. Thus its greatest appeal is to people who are themselves fascinating but trivial and useless

#74

The Bluffer's Guide to Middle Age

2005

All readers need to know on the subject of middle age to convince themselves and others that they are able to handle it with panache.

#75

Bluffer's Guide to Stocks and Shares

2004

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#81

Bluff Your Way in Literature

1996

Book by Kerrigan, Michael

#82

Bluff Your Way on the Flight Deck

1992

Helps the bluffer understand some of the technology involved as well as appreciate the lives of pilots. However the bluffer should not use all the bluff found in this book. Overdo it and the captain might make you carry out the landing.

#83

The Bluffer's Guide to Antiques

Bluff Your Way in Antiques

1992

#84

Bluff Your Way in Rugby

1992

#86

Bluff Your Way in Champagne

2025

Bluff Your Way in Champagne, The Bluff Guid

#88

The Bluffer's Guide to Middle Age

2006

Facing facts In middle age, feeling beleaguered on all fronts is a way of life—not all of which is visible. Always look on the bright side of life Middle age is a fertile arena for the bluffer's talents. And what makes it satisfyingly easy is the fact that, against all the evidence, most people in middle age are only to willing to believe there is a bright side. Testing Testosterone occurs naturally in both sexes, and it appears that a post-menopausal woman who takes a testosterone supplement can revive a flagging libido and even match the increased vigor of her TRT-powered partner—without getting a hairy chest. As time goes bye-bye The middle-aged are only too aware that time is slipping by. Not only do they have a sharpened sense of mortality; they also have an accompanying concern about their impending old age. They are reminded incessantly about it—by the government, by insurance companies, by their doctors—and implored to plan for it. But in planning meticulously for old age, many people run the risk of allowing middle age to pass them by. Doris Day expressed this fear when she said, “the really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.” Forget me knot A familiar condition of middle age is to be struck by amnesia and deja-vu simultaneously, in which case you will have the uncomfortable feeling that you have forgotten the same thing before.

#89

The Bluffer's Guide to Antiques

1972

Book by Launay, Andre

#90

The Bluffer's Guide to Interior Decorating

1988

June Flaum Singer

#91

The Bluffer's Guide to Relationships

2004

Since Adam first bit the apple, Eves the world over have been trying to teach their counterparts how to bite a little bit more gently. The Bluffer's Guide to Relationships will help both men and women understand just a little bite more about the secrets and joys that have brought us all together since that first night in Paradise.

#92

The Bluffer's Guide to the Olympics

2008

Olympic achievement It is also worth noting that the original games were Pan-Hellenic (“all Greek” to you, and anyone who will listen) although some potential competitors were considered unwelcome while others simply refused to take part. This has become an established Olympic tradition. United we stand - Vision 2 of de Coubertin That the games should foster the ideal of the Brotherhood of Man. With the ideal of the Brotherhood of Man can be twinned the concept of Brotherly Love (here you could mention quietly that Philadelphia means Brotherly Love), which is demonstrably lacking at key Olympic moments. Second chance The most important three seconds in Olympic history were those added at the end of the controversial 1972 men's basketball final which gave victory to the USSR over the USA. Tennis anyone This is one of the most enduring of Olympic sports. It has been in and out of favor over the years and has appeared in a number of different forms. These include real tennis, lawn tennis, indoor tennis, and table tennis. The modern form of the game, as played in the Grand Slam, re-emerged as an Olympic sport in 1988 after a gap of more than 60 years.

#93

The bluffer's guide to gourmet cooking

1972

small book with humorous guide to gourmet cooking

#94

The Bluffer's Guide to Rugby

2007

Crazy logic With that indefinable sense of logic that pervades all the laws of rugby, the only direction that you are allowed to pass the ball is the opposite direction from the way you actually want to go. Hazard to your health Never run with the ball. If, by accident, you get the ball, pass it as quickly as possible. Running with the ball is very tiring and can be hazardous to your health. It is far better to let someone else take the blame for losing it to the opposition. Fitness levels Despite the lawmakers' attempt to make rugby faster and more exciting, it is still the only contact sport where you can get away with the same fitness levels as the average professional darts player. Forward or back The first thing to get right is whether you are a “forward” or a “back.” In soccer the forwards are the fast, skillful ones who score the points and the backs are the big, vicious ones who try to injure forwards. In rugby, just to confuse, the situation is completely reversed. That is, except for New Zealand, where everyone is fast, skillful, big, and vicious.

#95

The Bluffer's Guide to Surfing

2008

For readers wanting to pass themselves off as knowledgeable about surfingthey would be considered weird sixties-style, dope smoking, free loving, tree-hugging, vegan urine-embracing naturists.

#96

Εγκόλπιον του Καλού Μπλοφαδόρου για τις γυναίκες

2006

H σειρά Εγκόλπια του Καλού Μπλοφαδόρου έχει χαρακτηριστεί από τον ελληνικό και διεθνή τύπο "μικρή εγκυκλοπαίδεια" για τον πλούτο και την ακρίβεια των πληροφοριών της. Το Eγκόλπιον του Καλού Μπλοφαδόρου για τις Γυναίκες επιβεβαιώνει, με τον σαφέστερο τρόπο αυτές τις κρίσεις. Ένα μικρό απάνθισμα εγκύρων πληροφοριών που περιέχονται σ' αυτό μπορεί να πείσει και την πιο δύσπιστη αναγνώστρια (και περισσότερο αναγνώστη): - H μεγαλύτερη απάτη που έχει γίνει ποτέ εις βάρος των γυναικών είναι η αντίληψη ότι οι άλλες γυναίκες είναι με το μέρος τους. - O γάμος είναι ο φούρνος του κοινωνικού ζευγαρώματος, η συμβίωση χωρίς γάμο ισούται με φούρνο μικροκυμάτων. - Στην πραγματικότητα εκείνο που χρειάζονται οι γυναίκες από τον γάμο είναι η ονομασία σύζυγος. - Τα ψώνια διεγείρουν την ενδορφίνη (τη φυσική μορφίνη του σώματος), η οποία προσωρινά προκαλεί ένα "αίσθημα" καλής διάθεσης και η οποία, όπως και η σοκολάτα, είναι εθιστική. Έχοντας σίγουρη πια την εγκυρότητα των πληροφοριών του ανά χείρας εγκολπίου, μπορείτε να αναζητήσετε σ' αυτό και τους δύο σπέσιαλ και πολύ χρηστικούς πίνακές του: τους 12 τρόπους για να εκνευρίσετε μια γυναίκα και τα 12 πράγματα που η γυναίκα σχεδόν ποτέ δεν λέει σ' έναν άντρα. Ένα από αυτά είναι "Έχεις δίκιο"...

#97

The Green Bluffer's Guide

1990

Cover is glossy with two mild creases on the back. Pages are lightly tanned, but very clean and unmarked. Ships fast from California.

#99

Bluffer's Guide to Tax

2004

#101

The Bluffer's Guide to Tennis

2014

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of tennis. Never again confuse topspin with a flatshot or a reflex volley with a bolo. Bask in the admiration of your fellow tennis lovers as you pronounce confidently on the merits of the windshield wiper, the reverse forehand, and the run-around. Above all, never wear a headband.

#103

Bluff's Guide to the Bar

1911

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

#104

The Bluffer's Guide to British Class

Bluff Your Way in British Class

1990

#105

The Bluffer's Guide to the EU

Bluff Your Way in the EU

1988

Book by Unknown

#106

Bluff Your Way in Feminism

1991

#107

The Bluffer's Guide to Surfing

2013

Be an instant expert on surfing and bluff your way with the best. No heroics required, just a sense of humour. Unsure of what to wear and what type of board to be seen with or baffled by all of the different competitions and tours? From 'reefs' to 'retro surfers', and from 'full rail carving' to 'competitions', here's everything you need to know to keep your end up in and out of the ocean.

#109

The Bluffer's Guide to Banking

2008

"Relationship Bank employee whose job is to ensure you maintain your relationship with his/her bank, rather than starting a new one with another bank." " Death duty? Banks are more than willing to continue serving their customers in death, particularly as this is the area of work in which they receive fewest complaints from their customers." " Moooving Theoretically, the instruction to pay someone could be written on the back of a cow, although presenting it at a bank may prove difficult."

#110

The Bluffer's Guide to Men and Women

2004

Since Adam and Eve first laid eyes on each other men and women have struggled to understand their other halves. The Bluffer's Guide to Men and Women removes the fig leaves and exposes all the foibles and guile of men and women for all to see.

#112

The Bluffer's Guide to Negotiation

2008

Strategic thinking Given a choice between preparing the subject matter by studying it or preparing a strategy, most negotiators are content to skip the subject matter. This frequently leads to negotiations where neither party knows much about what they are bargaining over, but each has a complex plan to ensure that they win. This usually works out remarkably well. Noto bene Every negotiator knows the expression “perception is reality” and some even know what it means. This probably explains why negotiators are fond of bringing notes to the negotiation. Any notes (they don’t have to be on the subject at hand) are valuable. They will give the perception that some preparation has been done. In some circles large folded drawings can create a good impression. Trivial pursuit In order to secure a bargain in which you get what is important and concede what is trivial, it helps immeasurably if you can distinguish one from the other. The best negotiators will create a lengthy squabble about a trivial point, with every intention of conceding it. By contrast, many novice bluffers fall into the trap of conceding the trivial far too easily, often without getting anything in exchange.

#114

Bluff Your Way At Bird Watching

1989

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

#115

Bluff Your Way in the Theatre

1971

Book by Crown

#116

The Bluffer's Guide to Divorce

Bluff Your Way in Divorce

2005

#117

The Bluffer's Guide to the Races

Bluff Your Way at the Races

1993

#120

Bluffer's Guide to Small Business

Bluff Your Way in Small Business

1999

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#121

Spectral Mapping Theorems

A Bluffer's Guide

2014

Written by an author who was at the forefront of developments in multi-variable spectral theory during the seventies and the eighties, this guide sets out to describe in detail the spectral mapping theorem in one, several and many variables. The basic algebraic systems – semigroups, rings and linear algebras – are summarised, and then topological-algebraic systems, including Banach algebras, to set up the basic language of algebra and analysis. Spectral Mapping Theorems is written in an easy-to-read and engaging manner and will be useful for both the beginner and expert. It will be of great importance to researchers and postgraduates studying spectral theory.

#122

The Bluffer's Guide to Traveling.

1972

Book by Glass, Sandy

#128

The Bluffer's Guide to Football

1988

Paperback, some wear to cover

#133

The Bluffer's Guide to Surfing

2014

From 'reefs' to 'retro surfers', and from 'full rail carving' to 'competitions', here's everything you need to know to keep your end up in and out of the ocean.

#135

The Bluffer's Guide to Modern Art

Bluff Your Way in Modern Art

1995

Art has always been modern... It represents its time, a fact which increases its commercial value. This book teaches the bluffer to recognize modern art, how to become a modern artist, movements, quotes, etc.

#137

Bluffer's Guide to Doctoring

Bluff Your Way in Doctoring

1999

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

#148

A Blokes Guide to Cooking "The Ultimate Bluffers Guide"

2008

Blokes in their natural environment have hectic lives, what between Cricket, Baseball, World Cups, World Series, Friday Night Football and Test Matches. Its amazing we have anytime left for work let alone romance or learning how to cook. A Blokes Guide to Cooking The Ultimate Bluffers Guide delves into the world of bluffing to show easy and creative international recipes within the grasps of the common man Bloke. It unravels the whole process from what utensils you need, picking the right menu then all the way to hiding the evidence after cooking to protect the innocent (mainly us). Now this isnt just another heres the recipes and this is what it should look like type of book. It covers all you need to know to get what you want from cooking, which by the way usually doesn't have much to do with just eating. The mere survival of the bloke species could be threatened if the Bloke does not go forth and multiply (or at least get out of the dog house with the Mrss for just being a bloke). The staple diet of meat and 3 veg still has its place in the blokes natural habitat but cooking to impress (see, I told you cooking didnt have much to do with just eating) takes a little bit more contemplation. Especially if you want to be rocketed to legend status, with the latest fling. We are man, we created fire! So we should be able to cook if someone just gives us a few tips, right?

#149

Bluff Your Way in Weather Forecasting

1990

#150

The Bluffer's Guide to Law

Bluff Your Way in Law

1998

#152

Bluff Your Way In Hollywood

1989

Book by Nelson, Virginia J

#154

The Bluffer's Guide to Accountancy

2000

This book is for those who know nothing about accountancy, but feel they ought to, and those around the fringes. It offers a basic grounding which will enable you to mingle with accountants and finance staff without being spurned as a rank outsider.

#155

Bluff Your Way in Accountancy

1971

#159

Bluff Your Way in Astrology & Fortune Telling

1996

Book by Ravette, Publishing, Ravette Books

#161

The Bluffer's Guide to Being a Top Secretary

Bluff Your Way as a Top Secretary

2000

A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information—all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.

Authors

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Having first disguised himself under alias as Martin Vernon in case his Bluffer's Guide to Law caused him to be struck off, David Mitchell now feels sufficiently safe to own up to being himself. At the age of nine he was dispatched to Sussex where he spent seven years dressed in knee breeches and yellow stockings marching up and down to a band. These peculiar traits, combined with the failure of his studies in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, inexorably led to a career in the law. He has pursued the sport of litigation in London, occasionally in foreign climes, and now in the Midlands. He has dabbled as a Deputy District Judge and is now a mediator (which he reckons is like meditation in front of an audience) but regards squash as the only proper alternative activity, perhaps influenced by his disabilities at tennis, golf, windsurfing, skiing and sex. Observation of the failures of others during his time spent as a divorce lawyer has sustained his own happy marriage and amused his long-suffering family. A senior partner within his firm, he has been heard to observe that a partnership is like marriage, but that he never expected to have around 25 spouses, nor that only three of them would be women. (Biography obtained from Amazon.com's product description of The Bluffer's Guide to Law: Bluff Your Way in Law.)

Nicholas Yapp 1938-

Patrick Keating is an associate professor of Communication at Trinity University. He teaches courses in film studies and video production. Additionally, he has served as the chair of the interdisciplinary minor in Film Studies. He earned a B.A. (Film Studies) from Yale University, a M.F.A. (Film Production) from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. (Communication Arts) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a native of Los Angeles. He has previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford University, and Hofstra University.

Mark Mason's previous non-fiction includes The Importance of Being Trivial, Walk the Lines, The Bluffer's Guide To Football and The Bluffer's Guide To Bond. He is also the author of three novels, and has written for most British national newspapers (though never about anything too heavy), and magazines from The Spectator to Four Four Two. He lives in Sussex with his partner and son.

Doctor Sarah Brewer

John Winterson Richards

Author · 3 books

John Winterson Richards is a Welsh entrepreneur, writer, and former local councillor. He held his first company directorship at 19, and at 22 founded a consultancy specialising in small business. He is the author of the Bluffer’s Guide to Small Business and the Xenophobe’s Guide to the Welsh, published by Oval Books. These two books have between them been reprinted twenty times in English and have been translated into eight other languages. More recently, he has been a regular contributor to the Mind Your Own Business podcasts and main contributor to that website’s blog. In 1986, aged 22, he won a by-election for the seat of Lisvane and Old St Mellons on Cardiff City Council, becoming the youngest member of that Council. Six months later he was promoted to Shadow Chairman of the City’s Economic Development Committee, then under the Chairmanship of Alun Michael, MP. He eventually rose to become, at the age of 31, the last Leader of the Opposition on the City Council before Local Government Reorganisation. He played an important role in lobbying for that Reorganisation, which established unitary authorities throughout Wales. He was the only Conservative elected to the new Cardiff County Council in 1995. He also stood as a Conservative and Unionist in the Rhondda, the safest Labour seat in the country, in the 1992 General Election. He was not elected but retained his deposit. In 1999 he decided to let his membership of the Conservative Party lapse and not to stand for the Council again. In 2004, he co-founded Cardiff Independent Citizens as a vehicle for those wishing to stand for the Council as Independents.

A former teacher of English and Latin to high school and university students, Mary Ellen Snodgrass has been an award-winning textbook and reference book author for 35 years. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

Since reading Classics at Oxford, Ross Leckie has worked variously as a farm labourer, roughneck, schoolmaster, and insurance broker. He is best known for his Carthage trilogy. He is now a full time writer living in Edinburgh.

Librarian's note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Virginia J. and Clements Nelson

He was born in Sussex in 1954. A former teacher, fireman and postman, he is now a full-time writer, researcher and editor. He has published four novels and a number of other books, the latest being The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations. Resides in Dorset.

Fidelis Morgan

Author · 7 books

Actor, writer, director and historian, Fidelis Morgan is the author of a series of mystery novels featuring the Countess Ashby dela Zouche and a cast of outrageous characters. The books have been described as ‘A 17th century Armistead Maupin’, ‘Flashman for Girls’ ‘A bawdy PG Wodehouse’ and ‘Cagney and Lacey in Corsets.’ She has published many influential non-fiction works, mainly about the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her latest suspense novel, The Murder Quadrille, is a modern day mystery. It is available as an eBook