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  • A People's History of the Peculiar

    A Freak Show of Facts, Random Obsessions and Astounding Truths

    de Nick Belardes ...
    Did you know that Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was an ax murderer? Do you delight knowing that some dinosaurs were as teeny tiny as hens? Wonder what it’s like to live in Hell Town at the End of the World? How about an ailment so surreal it’s named after Alice in Wonderland? In A People's History of the Peculiar, historian Nick Belardes has dug into the raw source material found in historical ... Leer más

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  • Random Obsessions

    Trivia You Can't Live Without

    de Nick Belardes ...
    Did you know Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was an ax murderer? Don’t you delight knowing some dinosaurs were teeny tiny as hens? Before buying that plane ticket, don’t you NEED to know which exotic islands still have cannibals? Wonder what it’s like to live in Hell Town at the End of the World? How about an ailment so surreal it’s named after Alice in Wonderland? In Random Obsessions: Trivia You Can ... Leer más

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    The Hinge Factor

    From the Trojan Horse to a photograph snapped in Vietnam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Despite impossible odds, invincible armies fall in bitter defeat to weaker opponents. How and why does this happen? What decides the fate of battle? In this fascinating book, Erik Durschmied takes us through the major conflicts of history-from Agincourt to ... Leer más

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  • Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild

    Series series Facts to Go
    The outdoors roars to life in this ferocious new e-book from Uncle John!Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! And plenty of other wild beasts (including wildebeests)! Whether you find it under a rock, in the sea, or up in the sky, if it has fangs, venom, horns, or an electric tail that really stings, you’ll be much safer reading about it from the confines of this entertaining e-book. So let Uncle ... Leer más

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  • Uncle John's Weird Weird World

    Who, What, Where, When, and Wow!

    Beauty pageants, bad musicals, bizarre diseases, and more: it's all covered in this collection of fascinating trivia and full-color pictures!It's finally here: the book that Uncle John's fans have been asking for: a full-color, illustrated edition featuring the most entertaining articles from the world's bestselling bathroom trivia series! Hundreds of eye-popping photographs add a new dimension to ... Leer más

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  • What's the Difference?

    Enlighten Up Already!Monet? Manet? Who can even tell the difference? Well, with the help of the newest mental_floss tome, you can! Want to learn how to tell egg rolls from spring rolls, nuclear bombs from dirty nuclear bombs, or even how to tell an idiot from a moron (there's a real scientific difference)? Piece of cake! Whether you're trying to impress your boss, your mother-in-law, attractive ... Leer más

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  • The Course of History

    Ten Meals That Changed the World

    An entertaining seat at the table of ten power meals that shaped history—including the menus and recreated recipes!Some of the most consequential decisions in history were decided at the dinner table, accompanied-and perhaps influenced-by copious amounts of food and drink. This fascinating book explores ten of those pivotal meals, presenting the contexts, key participants, table talk, and outcomes ... Leer más

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  • The Motion of Light in Water

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    This Hugo Award–winning memoir is "a very moving, intensely fascinating literary autobiography from an extraordinary writer" (William Gibson, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Neuromancer).With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the landlord reserves for interracial couples. Between playing folk music in the evenings at the same Greenwich Village ... Leer más

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  • The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

    Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

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    Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio... ... Leer más

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  • 1774

    The Long Year of Revolution

    From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of ... Leer más

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  • Uncle John's Facts to Go Where'd THAT Come From?

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    Hundreds of incredible origin stories, ranging from everyday items to social customs to history-altering inventions.Uncle John’s Where’d That Come From? delivers the true stories behind all sorts of things, even things you never thought of as having origins. Covering a wide range of topics--pop culture, science, sports, politics, customs, superstitions, language, and more--you’ll discover the most ... Leer más

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