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He's back. Anders Henriksson, author of
The New York Times bestseller
Non Campus Mentis (retitled
Ignorance Is Blitz), returns with even funnier, nuttier, more outrageous material culled from the actual exam books of real college students. And it's a hoot that covers all subjects of the core curriculum, including:
American History: "The Underground Railroad was built as the nation's first public transit system."
Art: "Cubism is art from Cuba."
Religion: "Moses led his Islams out of Egypt. Bananas from heaven arrived to feed the hungry people. These events are described in the Book of Zeus."
Philosophy: "Plato did his thinking in the Cave of Al Gore."
Economics: "The theory of surplus value is Marx's idea that you always shop with coupons."
Music: "Bach's sacred choral music includes the B Minor Mess. . . . All one million of his famed works can be found in his BMW. He had over one hundred children and was, of course, very famous for his work with his organ. Two of his successful sons were Jesus Christ Bach and Bacherini."
Literature: "Jay Gatsby moved to East Egg because it would be a good place to raise his chickens." And
Psychology--or is it
Theater Arts: "Most people are either straight, gay, or thespian."
Published in the irresistible form of a spiral notebook, a pure parody of a course-by-course study guide (complete with doodles), College in a Nutskull is stuff that just cannot be made up--bloopers and blunders and desperate attempts to bluff the right answer, woven together to give a hilarious, unintentionally brilliant report on the state of American higher education. A comedy, that is, for anyone not paying tuition.
Synopsis
The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Ignorance Is Blitz" returns with even funnier, nuttier, more outrageous material culled from the actual exam books of real college students.
About the Author
Anders Henriksson is a professor of history at Shepherd College in West Virginia. Author of
Ignorance Is Blitz, he has been featured on
The Today Show,
CBS Sunday Morning, and National Public Radio. He and his wife live in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Table of Contents
Contents:Introduction
1. Religious Studies
Bananas from Heaven
2. Philosophy
The Rule of Thump
3. Psychology
Neutering Mothers
4. Music
With a Song in Our Hair
5. Art
Pigment of the Imagination
6. English Literature
Seminole Works
7. Language
Rope Learning
8. Ancient & Medieval History
The Bluebonnet Plague
9. Modern European History
Prancing on Thin Ice
10. American History
Business Unusual
11. The Modern World
The Beer Hall Pooch
12. Government
Dude Process
13. Political ScienceA Night at the Revolution
14. Anthropology & Sociology
Upherd Mobility
15. Economics
Grosser National Products
16. Geography
Out There Somewhere
17. Science & Technology
Critical Mess
Random Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author