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Author : Anders Henriksson
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063154747
Presents a collection of bloopers, malapropisms, revisionist histories, and interpretations of history from college students' term papers and blue book examinations.
Author : Anders Henriksson
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780761153832
Now in chunky format, the funniest book ever written about the history of Western Civilization. Originally published under the title Non Campus Mentis, this book made four national bestseller lists—The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and BookSense; has 200,000 copies in print; and garnered praise from across the country: "Glorious . . . equal-opportunity idiocy for every era."—Philadelphia Enquirer. "A horrifically hilarious compendium . . . knitting together errors, assumptions, and creative fact-making that are shocking and hysterical."—Associated Press. "You'll laugh until you cry, shedding tears for the state of American education."—Baltimore Sun. Compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson from the term papers and blue book exams of students who clearly made it to college before the advent of "No Child Left Behind,"Ignorance Is Blitz is unput-downable. You won't believe what you just read, and won't want to wait to see what's coming next, from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, "If I Had a Hammer." And who knew: Caesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March, when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus." Rasputin was a pheasant by birth. Victims of the black plague grew boobs on their neck. Judyism had one big God named Yahoo. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for inventing the radiator. And "During the Dark Ages, it was mostly dark."
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0941711811
A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.
Author : Thomas Howard
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642290349
In this new edition of a modern classic, Thomas Howard contrasts the Christian and secular worldviews, refreshing our minds with the illuminated vision of reality that inspired the world in times past and showing us that we cannot live meaningful lives without it. Howard explains in clear and beautiful prose the way materialism robs us of beauty, depth, and truth. With laser precision and lyrical ponderings he takes us through the dismal reductionist view of the world to the shimmering significance of the world as sign and sacrament. More timely now than when it was first written, this book is a prophetic examination of modern society's conscience.
Author : Anders Henriksson
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780761154655
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.
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496695
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
Author : Saul Alinsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307756893
“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
Author : John Mitchinson,John Lloyd
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307405517
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head? About two years. What do chameleons do? They don’t change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states. How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. How many toes has a two-toed sloth? It’s either six or eight. Who was the first American president? Peyton Randolph. What were George Washington’s false teeth made from? Mostly hippopotamus. What was James Bond’s favorite drink? Not the vodka martini.
Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190494315
Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.
Author : Ben Applebaum,Ryan McNally,Derrick Pittman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780812974461
The Web hosts of CollegeStories.com reveal amazing campus stories of hilarious extracurricular adventures and eccentricies culled through thousands of tall but true tales of psycho roommates, legendary pranks, hellish hookups, and vertigo nights.
Author : Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982131821
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Engrossing...studded with wisdom about long-held bonds.” —People, Book of the Week “Enthralling, masterfully written...rich with social and psychological insights.” —The New York Times Book Review “A magnificent storytelling feat.” —The Boston Globe The “utterly engrossing, sweeping” (Time) story of a lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly. Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, a philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She strives to create beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships, and in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons—but what is it that Polly wants herself? Agnes’s designs are further muddied when an enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her memoirs. Agnes’s resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all. “An ambitious and satisfying tale” (The Washington Post), Fellowship Point reads like a 19th-century epic, but it is entirely contemporary in its “reflections on aging, writing, stewardship, legacies, independence, and responsibility. At its heart, Fellowship Point is about caring for the places and people we love...This magnificent novel affirms that change and growth are possible at any age” (The Christian Science Monitor).
Author : Dániel Margócsy,Mark Somos,Stephen N. Joffe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004336308
The current work provides bibliographic information, a worldwide census, ownership records, and a description of the annotations in all the copies of Vesalius’ Fabrica. It reconstructs the travels of the Fabrica across the globe since 1543 and its annotated readership.
Author : John Willis Clark
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547305392
The Care of Books by John Willis Clark is about the care of books in a wide variety of different libraries, such as monastic libraries. This comprehensive essay, as dubbed by Clark, is complete with floor plans, illustrations of medieval bookcases, and photographs of 20th-century Italian libraries.
Author : Karl J. Eschmann
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0804103747
The account of the 1972 twelve-day assault by the U.S. on targets around Hanoi and Haiphong is provided through the personal words of the pilots and crew who flew the missions
Author : Lawrence Douglas,Alexander George
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781416584827
Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentive authors to plagiarizing poets; from snake-oil therapists to bestselling illiterati. This singular collection by Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together their most popular pieces, along with many brand-new ones, including: • The Academy Awards for novels -- with categories for "Best Female Protagonist -- Doomed," "Best Narrator -- Unreliable," and "Best Novel -- Unfinishable by Reader" • Home Shopping University -- offering the greatest ideas in Western history at rock-bottom prices • I'm Okay, I'm Okay: Accepting Narcissism -- the best in "Self-helplessness books" • The Penis Orations -- Iron Man's answer to The Vagina Monologues • "Ask the Academic Ethicist" -- their notorious advice column, which has shocked higher education