Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
by Elizabeth Hunt, Mangesh Hattikudur
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Author: Elizabeth Hunt, Mangesh HattikudurEditor: Will Pearson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-27
ISBN: 0060568062
Number of pages: 345
Publisher: Collins
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Summary: 4 Stars
If you like cocktail party nuggets of knowledge, then you'll enjoy this compendium. Each chapter contains an array of quirky topics, and each has a few paragraphs on the subject, which might be about odd subjects such as religions with supernatural females, or how certain emperors met their fate. It is the light hearted kind of tome you can pick up and put down repeatedly, and each time find something new.
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Summary of Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
Armed with expert information and a biting wit, mental floss's Condensed Knowledge officially takes the chore out of learning. The book's 15 chapters, covering everything from pop culture to physics, are jam-packed with lucid explanations, intriguing facts, and a smug irreverence you're bound to love. Who else is going to tell you about 3 Major Mistakes on Your World Map, or which 5 Literary Classics Were Written Under the Influence, or which Nobel Prize Should Never Been Awarded, or what the 4 Things Einstein Got Wrong are?Brush over the titles, flip through the pages, ease into a paragraph of your choice. And an hour later, when your kids are tugging at your pant legs and your spouse is burning dinner, and you're busy wondering just where the time went, you'll realize that learning isn't just easy, it's addictive.
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