Almanacs category: 3486 books
Tortured Artists
From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Great art comes from great pain.
Or that's the impression left by these haunting profiles. Pieced together, they form a revealing mosaic of the creative mind. It's like viewing an exhibit from the therapist's couch as each entry delves into the mental anguish that afflicts the artist and affects...
Do Fish Drink Water?
Puzzling And Improbable Questions And Answers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Is it true that elephants are afraid of mice?
How much gold does the United States store in Fort Knox?
Why do I get a headache when I eat ice cream too fast?
How did the "seventh inning stretch" originate?
As the official webmaster for Xerox, Bill McLain was surprised by the kinds...
What the Great Ate
A Curious History of Food and Fame
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
What was eating them? And vice versa.
In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food
• As code: Benito Mussolini used...
Don't You Believe It!
Exposing the Myths Behind Commonly Believed Fallacies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Our cherished culturally shared beliefs stem from a variety of sources, many of which propagate old wives’ tales, myths, self-serving fantasies, innocent fallacies, or sheer nonsense. History is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we...
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News
Shocking but Utterly True Facts
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
From the most-read humor site on the internet, Cracked.com
YOU MIGHT BE A ZOMBIE…
You're going to wish you never picked up this book.
Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in:
* A zombie apocalypse?...
by John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller.
Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature,...
The De-Textbook
The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
You are an idiot.
Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're...
Because I Said So!
The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings “reveals the truth behind all those things you tell your children” (Parade) in this entertaining and useful New York Times bestseller “armed with case histories, scientific finds, and experiments on himself and his own children” (Los Angeles Times).
Is...
5 People Who Died During Sex
and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
All in perfectly bad taste
Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across...
The Darwin Awards Next Evolution
Chlorinating the Gene Pool
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
**The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift! **
New York Times bestselling author Wendy Northcutt is back, asking, Have we evolved at all? The answer: Not all of us.
What crazy cocktail of DNA leads Homo sapiens to do pull-ups off the edge of a...
Brain Candy
Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Feed Your Brain
Tastier than a twizzler yet more protein-packed than a spinach smoothie, Brain Candy is guaranteed to entertain your brain—even as it reveals hundreds of secrets behind what’s driving that electric noodle inside your skull.
These delicious and nutritious pages are packed...
The Mental Floss History of the United States
The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Smarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the founding fathers, and more American than apple pie, The Mental Floss History of the United States is an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff). From the editors of MentalFloss.com and...
Contrary to Popular Belief
More than 250 False Facts Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Is Everything You Know Wrong?
Set the record straight!
Debunk myths!
Learn the truth behind fallacies, falsehoods, hearsay, and lies!
Isn’t it time you knew the honest-to-goodness truth? We’ve all come to believe hundreds of “false facts”—myths that we’ve blindly...
Strange Medicine
A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true...