ENCYCLOPEDIA PARANOIACA

Book ID/图书代码： 04300011B49635

English Summary/英文概要： The Encyclopedia Paranoiaca is an informative compendium of surprising ways you might die a horrible death at any moment.

A comprehensive, authoritative, and indispensable compendium of hundreds of things you absolutely, positively must not eat, drink, wear, take, grow, make, buy, use, or do, including an awful lot of toxic, lethal, horrible stuff that you thought was safe, good, or healthy; all sorts of really bad people who are out to get you; and a whole host of hidden threats and looming dooms that make global warming, giant meteors, and planetary plagues look like a walk in the park (with its high risk of skin cancer, broken bones, bee stings, allergic seizures, animal attacks, criminal assaults, and lightning strikes).

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《The Encyclopedia Paranoiaca》為您詳盡羅列了在各種情況下的死亡威脅！

這本工具書全面、權威、詳盡羅列了幾百種你絕對不能吃，不能喝，不能穿，不能拿，不能種植，不能做，不能買，不能用，不能做的事和物。還有一些你原本認為絕對的安全的東西其實是有毒、甚至致死的。還有那些可能傷害到你的各種壞人；外加各種全球性的隱患，比如地球變暖、巨型流星、全球性瘟疫等等。一些很平常的事，有可能隱藏了各種危險，例如皮膚癌、骨折、被蜜蜂蟄、過敏、動物的攻擊、刑事襲擊和閃電等等。(Celia)

Awards/获奖情况：Beard 和Cerf是美國有名的諷刺大師。現在，他們把各種常見的危險情況和新型隱患按字母順序編成了一本百科全書。這本緊湊編撰、交叉引用的大部頭書想要告訴我們的真相是：現代生活中處處都是危險——有宏觀的，如全球變暖；有微觀的，如床蚤；有微不足道的東西，如藍莓；有不尋常的，如僵屍小說；有普通的事，如上廁所……生活在這個後工業時代，似乎在哪兒都很容易死。尤其現在農藥亂撒，輻射無處不在，超級細菌越來越強大，事故頻發。這本大辭典寫的是現代威脅，用的卻是復古的手法。作者用學者和書呆子喜歡的工具書樣式寫這本內容另類的書，足以吸人眼球。這一嚴肅的外表也足以讓讀者嚴肅對待內容。這個乳製品變質，檸檬片腐壞，維他命致死和超市手推車出問題的世界，我們不得不謹小慎微，Beard 和Cerf則用這本書好好諷刺了一把。

National Lampoon luminaries Beard and Cerf have created a guide to all the common nightmares, with a few hundred new ones tossed in. Their alphabetized, intensively cross-referenced tome confirms the great truth of modern life: everything is bad for you. The list includes the big (global warming), the small (bed bugs), the innocuous (blueberries), the unusual (zombification), and the ubiquitous (sitting on the toilet). Life, it seems, is inevitably fatal, especially on a postindustrial globe filled with pesticides, radiation, superbugs, and random accidents. Despite its presentation of contemporary dangers, the book is charmingly old-fashioned, with a structure and format that pay tribute to the reference books that lined the shelves of academics and nerds before the Internet reshaped the personal library (“cybersex” earns an entry in an age when “over 15 million Americans are using cybersex in ways that are risky and showing signs of compulsivity”). In another nod to outmoded fashions, Beard and Cerf write with wit in this ironic take on a world where we live in constant fear of dairy products, lemon wedges, shopping carts, and vitamins. (Nov.)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4391-9955-8
...And here’s another great review from The Barnes & Noble Review (January 11): Encyclopedia Paranoiaca
“As two founders of the National Lampoon, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf are responsible for some of the sharpest satirical humor of the past forty years. Their latest opus is a tongue-through-the-cheek encyclopedia of modern neuroses -- a work that will both confirm all your fears, then dispel them with fits of laughter.”

About the Author/作者介绍：
亨利•比爾德是著名諷刺大師，他撰寫或合著了十種滑稽改寫作品，其中五篇是紐約時報的暢銷作品。他創作了幾十種諷刺作品，包括《Latin for All Occasions》，《French for Cats》和《Bill Gates’ Super Secret Laptop》。他還和作家道格拉斯•甘迺迪共同建立了國家諷刺性幽默作品刊物，在雜誌業繁盛的19世紀70年代擔任此刊編輯。

克里斯多夫•瑟夫合著了多部社科書，比如《政治原則正確的詞典和手冊》、《海灣戰爭的讀者》、《伊拉克戰爭的讀者》和《八十年代：回望動盪的十年1980-1989》。他曾是國家諷刺幽默刊物的特約編輯，另外合編了嘲諷小報《不是紐約時報》。

Henry Beard attended Harvard College and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon during the period when it published nationally noted parodies of Playboy, Life, and Time. He went on to found the National Lampoon with Douglas Kenney (the writer/producer of Animal House and Caddyshack) and served as its editor during the magazine’s heyday in the 1970’s. He is the author or coauthor of five New York Times bestsellers and more than two dozen other popular humorous works, including Latin for All Occasions and Bill Gates’ Super Secret Laptop.

Christopher Cerf is the co-editor of The Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, The Gulf War Reader, The Iraq War Reader, and The Eighties: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989. He is a former contributing editor to the National Lampoon, and he co-edited the newspaper parody Not the New York Times.

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