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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 by Richard Zacks (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew Out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human, Paperback by Zacks, Richard, ISBN 0385483767, ISBN-13 9780385483766, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A compendium of odd facts, stories, photographs, and images

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The Unauthorized and Outrageous supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385483767
ISBN-13
9780385483766
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Richard Zacks
Publication Name
Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew about Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
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418 Pages

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9.2in
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7in
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20.3 Oz

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Astonishing facts! Bizarre photographs! Fascinating & sometimes deeply weird true stories! Just a small taste of the intellectual smorgasbord contained in this volume. Did you know: that in the original story of Goldilocks the bears torture and kill their impolite visitor? that Pope Leo XIII appeared in an advertisement for cocaine-laced wine in the 1880s? that people didn't eat with forks until the 1700s? that Sir Isaac Newton's famous humble-pie quote "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" was actually written to a dwarf scientist named Robert Hooke and clearly meant as an insult? that Thomas Edison secretly helped develop the electric chair in a scheme to have the lethal machine named after his arch-rival, George Westinghouse? that the first pediatric guide written in the United States recommended that expectant mothers breastfeed puppies? that for two centuries French scientists obsessively experimented on freshly decapitated heads in an effort to discover whether the bodiless brain still functioned? that Cleopatra was ugly as sin?, Astonishing facts! Bizarre photographs! Fascinating & sometimes deeply weird true stories! Just a small taste of the intellectual smorgasbord contained in this volume. Did you know: that in the original story of Goldilocks the bears torture and kill their impolite visitor? that Pope Leo XIII appeared in an advertisement for cocaine-laced wine in the 1880s? that people didn't eat with forks until the 1700s? that Sir Isaac Newton's famous humble-pie quote "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" was actually written to a dwarf scientist named Robert Hooke and clearly meant as an insult? that Thomas Edison secretly helped develop the electric chair in a scheme to have the lethal machine named after his arch-rival, George Westinghouse? that the first pediatric guide written in the United States recommended that expectant mothers breastfeed puppies? that for two centuries French scientists obsessively experimented on freshly decapitated heads in an effort to discover whether the bodiless brain still functioned? that Cleopatra was ugly as sin? From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
1999
Topic
Form / Trivia, Trivia, Curiosities & Wonders, Aims & Objectives
Dewey Decimal
031.02
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, Référence, Humor

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by justcurious222Oct 04, 2007
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This book is the wildest and craziest collection of true facts and stories that the average person will never get to see. There are some great vintage photos too, like the man with 2 functioning male organs, old photos of historic figures and the original fairy tale stories before they were tamed and tweeked to be more child friendly. Did you know that the original Sleeping Beauty was raped by the Prince and gave birth to twins?! I highly recommend this book if you enjoy the macabre and have a facination for the unusual. This is strictly a book for adults.
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by 6972myra9303Jan 23, 2016
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I read this back in high school and found it very entertaining. I have now bought it for my son, and he feels the same way!
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by tsr5lyekrk6@del...Jan 26, 2008
great book very interesting and very funny
My friend from work was reading it and i saw the cover and from then it seemed like book i would like. Its very informative it makes you actually wonder WOW that happened. I showed my husband and we both laughed. and told all our friends to read it.
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by sureshotdimeDec 09, 2016
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Entertaining and informative. Great source for trivia.
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