Curiosities category: 913 books
by John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Australia is a land of extremes where searing heat and devastating floods can both take their toll. It is also a land of vast distances, leaving it vulnerable to calamaties at sea, by rail and in the air. AUSTRALIAS GREATEST DISASTERS charts the events that have caused not only tragic loss of human life,...
by Dorota Gierycz
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The author, a former senior United Nations official stationed in Sukhumi and Tbilisi, tells the stories of people in Abkhazia and Georgia proper, intertwined with astute and timely analysis of the political events that have shaped the small Caucasus nation in the years since she gained her independencefrom...
1st Grade American History: Early Pilgrims of America
First Grade Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Did you know that children are more photographic than they are textual? Science says so; therefore, it important to use the right resources that would tap their interest. With that, a good tool to use when teaching about history is a picture book. Picture books illustrate what words fail to create pictures. They are engaging and are a highly relaxing approach to learning. Buy a copy today!
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
An entertaining almanac of fun-filled information…for girls only.
We locked the bad boys at the BRI in the water closet and let the fairer gender run things for a while. The result: For Girls Only! You’ll discover a secret stash of cheeky stories written for girls of all ages (but mostly...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Get ready to walk on the wild side!
Once upon a time, Uncle John set his ghouls on a task to create three new For Kids Only! books: Strange & Scary, Wild & Woolly, and Under the Slimy Sea. But then a giant green creature oozed out of the muck and gobbled them all up! And what did that horrible...
Presidential Confidential
Sex, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Presidential Confidential serves up the behind-the-scenes stories that the schoolbooks left out -- deliciously juicy stories like secret (and sometimes sordid) affairs, dirty tricks, criminal acts, embarrassing moments, and much more. From George Washington stepping out on Martha to George Bush stepping...
Freak Out!
Animals Beyond Your Wildest Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Did you know that the viperfish uses a glowing lure to attract its prey? Or that a giant squid has eyeballs the size of volleyballs? This book is full of facts about all sorts of freaky animals!
by Dr. Leland Benton
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Latin Phrases - Translate Latin Phrases to English is a book that takes business and everyday Latin phrases and translates them into English. Have you ever wondered what "Quid Pro Quo" means or any of the Latin phrases that are used daily in business terminology? Business quotes phrases abound in...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Take a fascinating quantum leap into the fun side of science.
From the amazing to the amusing, this byte-sized collection will bring you the inside stories behind earth-shattering discoveries, accidental inventions, and outlandish studies. Featuring Uncle John’s most mind-bending science...
How to Fight a Bear...and Win
And 72 Other Real Survival Tips We Hope You'll Never Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From the world leader in fascinating facts and amusing true stories comes a book about how to feed, clothe, and protect yourself in the wilderness…and might even make you want to avoid anything resembling the wilderness forever.
For more than 25 years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has helped...
Foodie Facts
A Food Lover's Guide to America's Favorite Dishes from Apple Pie to Corn on the Cob
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A treasury of trivia—plus recipes—for lovers of good old-fashioned comfort food.
Who pitted the first cherries and nestled them into pie crust? Was a meatloaf sandwich the result of a late-night refrigerator run? And does anyone really crave green bean casserole, complete with fried onions...
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia
Revised and updated edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.
Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts....
Script and Scribble
The Rise and Fall of Handwriting
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
"A witty and readable (and fetchingly illustrated and glossed) excursion through the history of handwriting." —The Wall Street Journal
**Let a self-confessed "penmanship nut" take you on a tour of the strange and beautiful world of handwriting. **
Since her Catholic...
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions
The Curious World of the Demoulin Brothers and Their Fraternal Lodge Prank Machi nes - from Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to ElectricCarpets and SmokingC
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"This stuff is more than just fancy pranks. It's Americana. Never has nonsense been taken so seriously...This book is a fascinating, appetite- whetting glimpse for the, if you'll pardon the expression, uninitiated."
-David Copperfield, from the foreword
At the beginning of the twentieth...