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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A shockingly counterintuitive book of trivia that cuts through the misconceptions that most of us call "facts" to show how wrong we are about . . . well, everything. "Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place."--The New York Times Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.    Challenging commonly held assumptions in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty "gotcha" compendium of verifiably true answers to seemingly easy questions, like: Who was the first American president?Peyton Randolph. How long can a chicken live without its head?About two years. How many legs does a centipede have?Not a hundred. How many toes does a two-toed sloth have?It's either six or eight. Check out The Book of General Ignorance for fun entries and complete answers to these and many more questions. You'll be surprised at how much you don't know.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A shockingly counterintuitive book of trivia that cuts through the misconceptions that most of us call "facts" to show how wrong we are about . . . well, everything. "Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place."--The New York Times Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.    Challenging commonly held assumptions in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty "gotcha" compendium of verifiably true answers to seemingly easy questions, like: Who was the first American president?Peyton Randolph. How long can a chicken live without its head?About two years. How many legs does a centipede have?Not a hundred. How many toes does a two-toed sloth have?It's either six or eight. Check out The Book of General Ignorance for fun entries and complete answers to these and many more questions. You'll be surprised at how much you don't know.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. By slashing interest rates to bail out investors, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan made a lot of people rich but his actions resulted in the dot-com disaster of 2000 and the mortgage mess of 2007. This title reveals the truth behind Greenspan's recklessness. It offers an economic wake-up call for citizens and investors.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. By slashing interest rates to bail out investors, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan made a lot of people rich but his actions resulted in the dot-com disaster of 2000 and the mortgage mess of 2007. This title reveals the truth behind Greenspan's recklessness. It offers an economic wake-up call for citizens and investors.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz, ?one of the funniest people in America? (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a ?Swiftian satirist? (The Wall Street Journal) and ?one of the country?s finest satirists? (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column ?The Borowitz Report.? Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he offers a witty, spot-on diagnosis of our country?s political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading, embarrassing, and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan?s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn?t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz, ?one of the funniest people in America? (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a ?Swiftian satirist? (The Wall Street Journal) and ?one of the country?s finest satirists? (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column ?The Borowitz Report.? Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he offers a witty, spot-on diagnosis of our country?s political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading, embarrassing, and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan?s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn?t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment . [with] elegance and grace." -- Washington Post Book World "Nothing short of masterful."  -- Newsweek A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match." We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Only those who return after 20 years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Kundera is the only author today who can take dizzying concepts such as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment . [with] elegance and grace." -- Washington Post Book World "Nothing short of masterful."  -- Newsweek A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match." We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Only those who return after 20 years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Kundera is the only author today who can take dizzying concepts such as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. "Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment . [with] elegance and grace." -- Washington Post Book World "Nothing short of masterful."  -- Newsweek A brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match." We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion. Only those who return after 20 years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Kundera is the only author today who can take dizzying concepts such as absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair.

Zustand: very_good. Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Compiled by a Professor from the term papers and blue book exams of students, this work presents extracts ranging from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, 'If I Had a Hammer'.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Compiled by a Professor from the term papers and blue book exams of students, this work presents extracts ranging from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, 'If I Had a Hammer'.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Compiled by a Professor from the term papers and blue book exams of students, this work presents extracts ranging from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, 'If I Had a Hammer'.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Presents a collection of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes. This book includes facts and figures for trivia, pub quiz and general knowledge enthusiasts.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Presents a collection of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes. This book includes facts and figures for trivia, pub quiz and general knowledge enthusiasts.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An instant New York Times bestseller: the first work of straight nonfiction from Andy Borowitz, Americas sharpest political satirist (The Washington Post), Profiles in Ignorance: How Americas Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber examines modern American politics in five entertaining and enlightening profiles.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An instant New York Times bestseller: the first work of straight nonfiction from Andy Borowitz, Americas sharpest political satirist (The Washington Post), Profiles in Ignorance: How Americas Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber examines modern American politics in five entertaining and enlightening profiles.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. New edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco?s first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spain against her renegade husband.So begins the labyrinthine legal tale and engrossing drama of an explorer and his two wives, skillfully reconstructed through the expert and original archival research of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Drawing on the remarkable records from the trial, the narrative of Francisco?s adventures provides a window into daily life in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as the mentalitÉ and experience of conquest and settlement of the New World. Told from the point of view of the conquerors, Francisco?s story reveals not only the lives of the middle class and minor nobility but also much about those at the lower rungs of the social order and relations between the sexes.In the tradition of Carlo Ginzberg?s The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis? The Return of Martin Guerre, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance illuminates an historical period-the world of sixteenth-century Spain and Peru-through the wonderful and unusual story of one man and his two wives.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.