Almanacs category: 3486 books
Listful Thinking
Using Lists to Be More Productive, Successful and Less Stressed
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
What do Madonna, Martha Stewart, John Lennon, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Franklin, Ronald Reagan, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Johnny Cash have in common? Each is (or was) a list maker. These successful people, along with CEOs and successful entrepreneurs, all use lists to keep track of their ideas,...
Wordcatcher
An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau...
by Hans Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Paranormal expert Hans Holzer investigates some of the strangest and most difficult cases of loved ones who are simply not ready to leave their earthly lives
The “stay-behind,” a term coined by professor Hans Holzer, is a ghost who is not prepared to move to the “other side,” but prefers...
What Makes Flamingos Pink?
A Colorful Collection of Q & A's for the Unquenchably Curious
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Do spiders sleep? Why are barns red? Why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
As the Xerox Corporation's official webmaster, Bill McLain often fielded as many as 1,000 questions a day on just about everything under the...
American History Revised
200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
“American History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than revise American history, it reinvents it.”—James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory
**This...
America the Ingenious
How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“Among the many rewards of America the Ingenious, Kevin Baker’s survey of Yankee know-how, is stumbling on its buried nuggets. . . . Baker examines a wide range of the achievements that have made, and still make, America great again—and again.”
—The Wall Street Journal
All made in...
How to Organize (Just About) Everything
More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Professional organizer Peter Walsh presents this witty and enormously practical guide to getting it—and keeping it—all together.
With more than 500 easy-to-follow how-to instructions, How to Organize (Just About) Everything is packed with shrewd advice and insider tips to make your home,...
Unusually Stupid Americans
A Compendium of All-American Stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A hilarious collection of lists, statistics, news items, quotations, and facts detailing stupid acts of Americans from all walks of life—by the authors of the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said
Everyone knows that America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave,”...
The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday
52 Weekends of Essential Knowledge for the Curious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic
Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since*?* Always wondered...
by Hans Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Join paranormal expert and storyteller extraordinaire Hans Holzer as he explores ghostly manifestations of every variety and delves into the true nature of the “other side”
In this groundbreaking work, professor Hans Holzer provides a thorough introduction to the art and science of successful...
by Rob Shelsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2012
The authors of DARKER SIDE OF THE MOON "They" Are Watching Us! now delve into the Mysteries of Time Travel, and explore 35 true cases of:
- The incredible Map of the Creator, a 120-million-year-old, aerial map
- The 500- million-Year-old hammer
- An ancient atomic war still making people...
by Hans Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Paranormal expert Hanz Holzer investigates some of the most famous poltergeists in history
Poltergeist is a German term that translates simply to “noisy ghost.” One of the main characteristics of a poltergeist is its high level of activity; it often manifests itself by moving or even throwing...
Cause of Death
A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
FACE IT. WE CAN GO ANYTIME.
BUT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS!
Death becomes you, and it's just another fact of life explored in Cause of Death, a revealing abundance of startling data, false perceptions, bizarre fallacies, and some totally unexpected statistics about how, why, when, and where...
by Edmundo Llamas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Un libro de preguntas directas que el estudiante se encontrará con frecuencia en los exámenes de admisión a las universidades de habla hispana. Incluye preguntas de las áreas de biología, química, física, matemáticas, inglés, español, etimlogías, cultura general, geografía, filosofía e historia. Todas incluyen la respuesta, y las que lo requieren traen además una explicación.