Curiosities Wonders category: 913 books
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A compendium of kookiness, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Wonderful World of Odd digs up the oddest, strangest, most bizarre tales and true facts from this weird, weird world.
This volume--*Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Wonderful World of Odd--*exposes the best of the weirdest news, facts,...
Book of Odds
From Lightning Strikes to Love at First Sight, the Odds of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
From the popular Book of Odds website, this stylish and accessible reference book offers a fascinating peek at the probabilities that govern every aspect of human life
Did you know that your odds of dying from drowning are higher than the odds of meeting your mate on a blind date? That the...
The Ultimate Book of Useless Information
A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know (But Probably Don't)
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
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 to be useful to be entertaining. Now they present a new collection of their most fascinating,...
by Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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 transfixed by the most trivial of trivia, or mesmerized by the most minor of minutiae, The Useless...
by Donald Lemke
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A brand-new Guinness World Records book for kids!
Super Humans! is all about the incredible people who push it to the physical limit. Whether it’s swallowing the most swords, single-handedly pulling a 200-ton plane, or balancing for the longest time, these Guinness World Records holders show...
Fish Are Fantastic
Amazing Animals Adventure Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Welcome to the Amazing Animals Series!
Come with us around the globe to explore the animal world.
In this book we will be visiting some fascinating, fun and fishy underwater creatures. We will be looking at the many wonderful and unusual fish that live in watery environments.
What...
by Marian Joyce Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Surprise! What you are seeing is almost double in size of Vol. I, as Vol II shares many more researched patterns that make the whole reading process even more student Reader friendly, + older students get the "used to be hard parts" even easier! Vol. II helps students connect familiar traffic...
Ireland 366
A Story a Day from Ireland's Hidden History
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
In this entertaining and engaging book, Frank Hopkins delivers an episode from Ireland's history for every single day of the year, including 29 February. Some are surprising, some sensational and others sad, but they are always fascinating. The Whiteboys, the Ribbonmen, the Invincibles, the cat o'nine...
by Juan José Jurado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2016
¿Te gusta el fútbol? ¿El baloncesto? Quizá seas más de tenis, béisbol o rugby
Aunque también puede ser que te interese el golf, la natación o el balonmano… Sea como fuere, el libro que tienes en tus manos te brinda la oportunidad de adentrarte en el mundo de los deportes desde una...
This Phenomenal Life
The Amazing Ways We Are Connected with Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Entertaining, colorful, and deceptively full of facts, This Phenomenal Life tells the story of the wondrous ways that humans are always completely at one with our surrounding world. From the vast galaxies above to the miniature microbes within, humans are organically connected to the complex cycles...
by Dan Karr
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
If you buy insurance, drive a car, ride in a car, ride a bike or walk on roads where cars drive, this book is a must read. Exceptionally different than the books written by attorneys, this book is written by an injured person who recovered more than a quarter-million dollars. Based on a true story,...
The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-O-Pedia
A Startling Collection of Over 1,000 Things You'll Never Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Did you know that cats were once used to deliver mail in Belgium? That the “huddle” in football became popular after a deaf player began using it to prevent other teams from reading his sign language? That the average American eats 30 pounds of cheese in a year? Organized from A to Z, there are...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
A loving look at toys and games—and the people who make and play them—from the past and present.
Albert Einstein once said, “Play is the highest form of research.” Uncle John adds: “And it’s really fun!” And so is this e-book, which includes several classic articles from the Bathroom...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From the world-wide leader in strange-but-true stories comes a fascinating book full of the marvels of mechanical men, glimpses into tomorrow’s technology…and what happens when machines go mad. It’s a robot invasion!
For more than 25 years, the writers at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute...