???People who rely on stereotypes are often vilified. But really, is there a better way to classify people? There are some taxonimical difficulties, though. Exactly how many types of people are there? What behaviours are characteristic of each particular group? How do you know if you've spotted an armchair psychologist or a kleptomaniac? Gabe Foreman's A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People is not your average reference book. It turns a series of sociological case studies into a functional encyclopedia that doubles as a unique, achingly funny, always engaging collection of poems. 'Bridesmaids,' 'Day Traders,' 'Entomologists' and 'Number Crunchers' are all dutifully catalogued in a series of luminously strange, compellingly original lyric and prose poems. The resulting field guide to our disparate humanity is often absurd, sometimes sad, and frequently a mixture of both, as each entry unravels according to its own spidery logic.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Poems Edited by Kevin Connolly"--Colophon Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770562851 9781552452448
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.F674
- LCCN Item number
- C66 2011eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (93 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00229735 (OCoLC)785782129 (CaOOCEL)443761
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- C YA N M A G E N TA Y E L L O W B L A C K 1
- A Complete Encyclopedia 5 x 8 stock 70lb Zephyr 96 pg spine .32 1
- 350 2100 550 6
- Little Bundles of Joy 10
- Optimists 14
- Zygotes 18
- Suspects 26
- Buns in the Oven 34
- 1998 38
- 1980 1840 39
- 1982 1986 39
- Chosen Ones 52
- Wrong Numbers 56
- Colonels of Truth 60
- Frequent Flyers 62
- Piano Tuners 64
- 1 2 3. 4. 5. 81
- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 81
- Underdogs 82
- Queue Jumpers 82
- Zombies 86
- History Buffs 86
- Working Stiffs 87
- Little Bundles of Joy 87
- Organ Donors 88
- 550 89
- 416 979 2217 97
- 800 367 6360 97