Relearn the essential rules of the English language, from grammar and punctuation to sentence construction. Also includes parts of speech and how to improve your spelling and vocabulary. I Used To K……続きを見る
著者:Noel Botham
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年05月02日
Bigger, better, and more useless than ever!
In their groundbreakingly useless book, The Book of Useless Information, the members of the Useless Information Society proved that knowledge doesn't have……続きを見る
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 c……続きを見る
Scan the QR codes to reveal the answers in the coolest quiz book craze sweeping the internet!
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Scan the QR codes to reveal the answers in the coolest quiz book craze sweeping the internet!
This interactive quiz book allows you to instantly find out the answer just by scanning the QR code with……続きを見る
Known as "the sport of kings," horse racing has been around the track, so to speak. Out of the gates as early as ancient Greeces Olympic Games, racing would truly find its footing centuries later wh……続きを見る
The Renaissance Survival Guide is a irreverent, yet fact-based guide to the many aspects of the modern Renaissance Faire.
It covers subjects such as Pirates, Renaissance Music, and many others, inve……続きを見る
Every player has a 50/50 chance of getting the right answer! Because for each statement can only be real or fake!
Ideal for pub nights or quizzes at home with the family and friends. Anyone can play……続きを見る
Why do we find the mishaps of others amusing? Do we sort pleasure in the falls from grace of our peers? Is it a primal, evolutionary urge to see the weaker of the pack fall away, to be engulfed by a……続きを見る
This book contains 200 clue-based questions that will send you on a scavenger hunt throughout the city. If you want to add a little bit of history into your relationship, then you won’t want to mis……続きを見る
If you can tell the difference between the Petes in Pete & Pete, know every step to the Macarena by heart, and remember when The Real World was about more than just drunken hookups, The Totally Swee……続きを見る
Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flightof just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spiri……続きを見る
Long a family-friendly tourist destination and educational mecca for students, Washington, DC, is immediately recognizable for its world-class museums and monuments riddled with symbolism. Washingto……続きを見る
著者:Helen Rappaport
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年02月03日
Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family, in this first of two books about the Romano……続きを見る
著者:Emma Marriott
出版社: Michael O'Mara
発売日: 2012年07月26日
Travel back through time to learn about the invasions of Britain, the Renaissance, the American, French and Russian Revolutions, World Wars I and II and the Cold War... and everything else you forgo……続きを見る
This is a follow-up to last year's runaway bestseller Now You Know ... The Book of Answers, which went through five printings and sold over 20,000 copies!
Why do we shout "Fore" on a golf course? Wh……続きを見る
著者:Noel Botham
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another enlightening, entertaining, and ultimately useless assortment of trivia.
If you find yourself tran……続きを見る
March 13: The Story of a Special Day
March 13 is the anniversary of the discovery of Uranus
...The anniversary of Muhammad’s victory at the Battle of Badr
...The day the Kraków Ghetto was liquidated……続きを見る
This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and……続きを見る
著者:Noel Botham
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2006年06月27日
What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not……続きを見る
Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till tonight.
-Romeo and Juliet
Antony and Cleopatra, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Hu……続きを見る
April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction.……続きを見る
For decades Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeen has been one of the most sought-after out-of-print books; it has become something of a cult classic. Now, it’s available once more.
An Independent Comedy B……続きを見る
March 25: The Story of a Special Day covers everything that makes this day very special.
From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month ……続きを見る
著者:Albert Jack
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年03月10日
FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?
WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!
What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. ……続きを見る
著者:Cary McNeal
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年09月04日
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll s#*t yourself!
Back by popular demand, the mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling 1,001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You. An all-new collection of entert……続きを見る
March 22: The Story of a Special Day covers everything that makes this day very special.
From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month ……続きを見る
著者:Michael Heatley
出版社: Music Sales Limited
発売日: 2010年01月07日
Sex, drugs, egos, money, fans, music, god and who we love and hate... the rock stars have their say.
Featuring over 2,000 words of wisdom and stupidity from all your favourite rock stars and five de……続きを見る
Some 600 words and phrases from the world of sports that are now part of the vernacular. Terms from baseball, boxing, football, basketball, hockey, cricket and rugby pepper the English language, whe……続きを見る
With hit cop TV dramas like the various CSI and Law and Order shows, Bones and Criminal Minds. everybody seems to think they’re a forensics expert. But what do we really know? Now, with Now You Know……続きを見る