For more than 25 years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has helped readers learn amazing things. Now, Uncle John shows you how to do things you didn’t know how to do . . . and probably should never, never, never actually do, unless you’re in a survival situation and really, really, really need to. Uncle John’s How to Fight …
Lists of Note: An Eclectic Collection Deserving of a Wider Audience
Lists of Note curates 125 unputdownable entries from a list of names that are as eclectic and intriguing as its contents, which include myriad reasons given by ancient Egyptians for missing work, Albert Einstein’s demands of his estranged wife, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s extensive conjugation of “to cocktail,” and many more. Rarely intended for the public eye, these lists …
Fox Tossing: And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games
In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany and The Dangerous Book for Boys, a quirky collection of history’s most bizarre sports and stories of mankind’s most daring and ridiculous recreational pursuits—from baby boxing, to octopus wrestling, and ice tennis.Have you ever wondered what people did for fun throughout history? Edward Brooke-Hitching began to wonder the same thing while flipping …
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one …
Uncle John’s Canoramic Bathroom Reader (Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader)
Weighing in at a whopping 544 pages, Uncle John’s Canoramic Bathroom Reader presents a wide-angle view of the world around us. It’s overflowing with everything that BRI fans have come to expect from this bestselling trivia series: fascinating history, silly science, and obscure origins, plus fads, blunders, wordplay, quotes, and a few surprises (such as some of the …
Celebrate sixty years of jaw-dropping records. From the oldest person who ever lived (at 122) to the first music video filmed in space, from the tallest self-built castle to the fastest blindfolded text message—the most amazing feats from around the world can be found in this special diamond anniversary edition. Guinness World Records 2015 presents the most …
Weird Civil War delves into the peculiar history and ghastly legacy of the bloodiest period in American history, featuring the era’s most gripping tragic tales, fascinating facts, spooky scenarios, and eccentric characters. This brand-new volume—which compiles the most compelling Civil War stories from the bestselling Weird series—will excite precocious history students, Civil War buffs, and the multitude of …
Ponder, if you will …Do snakes sneeze?Why didn’t the three musketeers carry muskets?What happens to the holes that are punched out of looseleaf paper?Why don’t people smile in old photos?Pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these questions and much more in How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? Part of the Imponderables® series — the unchallenged source of answers …
World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 1,007 UNESCO Workd Heritage Sites
“No school, public, or academic library could go wrong including the very affordable World Heritage Sites in both reference and circulating collections.” –Booklist (for a previous edition) More than 52,000 copies of the previous editions of World Heritage Sites have been sold. This sixth edition fully updates the UNESCO World Heritage List …
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts: And Bizarre Information (Bathroom Readers)
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts combines the most intriguing, enlightening material from nine previous Bathroom Reader favorites into one concise volume. Flush with delightfully useless and sometimes even useful information about sports, movies, music, politics, American and world history, and much more, the book is the most extensive reference guide in the series …