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The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Throw, Kick, Bounce and Bat by Josh Chetwynd Publisher Comments You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don't know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs The race to make better billiard balls led to the invention of plastics The Nerf ball was originally created... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Guinness World Records (Guinness Book of Records) by Guinness World Records Publisher Comments It's an Olympic year, and to celebrate, the latest incarnation of the world's biggest selling annual unveils its most thrilling edition yet- with a dynamic new widescreen design, thousands of new and classic records, never-before-seen photos and an... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson Staff Pick This book should be titled "It's Not What You Think." Because practically every answer in the book could begin with that phrase. What a great collection of facts about our world! Find out the truth about all kinds of things, from the first animal in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller with over 1.9 million copies in print, THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS poses 265 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. These questions are as intriguing as our very lives because they are... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class by David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim Publisher Comments This secular daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning is designed to inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati Publisher Comments For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the foremost specialist on everything tells how and why hundreds of the everyday items, expressions, and customs we take for granted came into existence. Learn the... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Readers' Institute (cor) Synopsis Uncle Johns 24th flagship edition is glittering with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world. The information miners at the Bathroom Readers... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott Publisher Comments Impossible to read at one sitting, but utterly unputdownable, Schott's Original Miscellany is a unique collection of fabulous trivia. What other book boasts an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and the seven deadly sins; dueling and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Guinness World Records 2011 (Guinness Book of Records) by Guinness Publisher Comments Guinness World Records 2011 continues to build on the intriguing, informative, inspiring and instructional records and superlatives that have made Guinness World Records one of the most famous brands and an annual best-seller around the world. Over 110... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Listomania: A World of Fascinating Facts in Graphic Detail by The Show Me How Team Publisher Comments Organized into eight chapters, Listomania covers questions of human behavior, trivia facts about geography (past and present), etymology, mythology, ancient and recent history, as well as pop culture. Some of the lists included are: 10 Tiny Terrors: a... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Schott's Quintessential Miscellany by Ben Schott Publisher Comments In 2003, a curious, old-fashioned, pocket-size book transformed the way we look at information. Since then, Schott's Original Miscellany and its two sequel volumes have been translated into more than fifteen languages and have sold some three million... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Hardcover
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Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett Publisher Comments This latest romp through history, politics, religion, and science from the dyno-duo Barrett and Mingo is sure to tickle the fancy of trivia buffs everywhere. Amuse your date, impress your boss, bore your kids, or be the 6th caller to win a pair of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg Publisher Comments Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, everyone is familiar with the tired clichés: women are bad drivers and are not good with money; only guys play video games and they give bad directions. Dan Abrams tackles the toughest case of his career in Man Down.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An underground education :the unauthorized and outrageous supplement to everything you thought you knew about art, sex, business, crime, science, medicine, and other fields of human knowledge by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals by Una McGovern and Paul Jenner Staff Pick Drawing on folklore, tradition, and superstition, this amusing collection is packed with the wisdom you wish your grandparents had passed down to you. It includes methods to cure drunkenness, predict the sex of a baby, and make antidotes to poison — in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks by Bethany Keeley Staff Pick As an editor, I have a "special" place in my heart for the unintentional hilarity caused by grammatical gaffes, unfortunate typos, and poor punctuation, so Bethany Keeley's Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks gave me plenty of chuckles.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred Origins of Profound Things: The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions by Charles Panati Publisher Comments Why do people pray with their hands together? Why are there nine classifications of angels? Who wrote the Bible, the Torah, the Koran? Why does Judaism allow divorce, but Roman Catholicism does not? Charles Panati, the bestselling author of Extraordinary... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oh Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by Joy Masoff Publisher Comments All the best stuff about some of the worst stuff on earth. From the liquids, solids and gases—especially the gases!—of the human body to the creepy, crawly, fetid, and foul phenomena of the world at large, OH YUCK! is the all-encompassing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard Publisher Comments In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design by Edward Yourdon Publisher Comments A valuable new approach to computer systems and program design, structured design is quickly becoming the standard industrial technique for significantly improving productivity, enhancing reliability, and lowering maintenance costs.... (read more) List Price $127.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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