The Pedant S Revolt
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The Pedant S Revolt
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Author : Andrea Barham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Pedant S Revolt written by Andrea Barham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Humor categories.
Debunking common misconceptions and myths that have become accepted wisdom, an irreverent and informative trivia handbook sets the record straight on a wide variety of topics, ranging from history and science to the arts, famous quotations, and food. 20,000 first printing.
The Pedant S Revolt
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Author : Andrea Barham
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2011-05-20
The Pedant S Revolt written by Andrea Barham and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-20 with Reference categories.
This intriguing book sets the record straight, exposing misconceptions that have become entrenched in everyday thought.
The Pedant S Revolt
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Author : Andrea Barham
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2007-08-28
The Pedant S Revolt written by Andrea Barham and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-28 with Reference categories.
Pedants, revolt! In this irreverent, smart, obscenely entertaining book, Andrea Barham shatters the myths, misconceptions, fallacies, and falsehoods about all the things you thought you knew (and a few you never considered). Lead pencils can give you lead poisoning.… Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head….One dog year equals seven human years….Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat cake!”…Spelling Christmas “Xmas” is disrespectful….Fact or fiction?The Pedant’s Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Knowsets the record straight on everything from the truth about starving a fever to why you shouldn’t “go for the burn.” In chapters literary, medical, grammatical, historical, scientific, and biblical, you’ll discover the facts behind the fallacies that have somehow become accepted wisdom. From insects to food, grooming to Greeks, bumblebees to whales…from the animal kingdom to assassinations, Harpo Marx to Shakespeare, and questionable quotes such as “It’s all Greek to me,” this remarkable book reveals the often surprising origins of the legends and folklore we mistake for the gospel truth—and teaches you to think twice before repeating them.
The Pedant S Return
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Author : Andrea Barham
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2007
The Pedant S Return written by Andrea Barham and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Reference categories.
In The Pedant's Revolt you learned that you were wrong about everything you thought was right. Now the Pedant returns--with a twist. The Pedant's Return is an addictive collection of outlandish assertions that are so absurd...they must be true. Prepare to discover that you're wrong about, well, even the things you think are wrong. Apple seeds are poisonous? An electric eel can actually electrocute you? The S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything? Everyone knows those are old wives' tales...or are they? Luckily the Pedant has returned to rescue you from your ignorance and to explain to you why: -Eating too many carrots can turn you orange -Bone china contains actual bones -Men have a higher pain threshold than women -Charles Darwin married his first cousin -A beer shortage caused the Pilgrims' early landing at Plymouth -Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, had a genital piercing -A citizen's arrest is legal From the entertainment industry to the Bible, food and drink to medical matters, royalty to birds and insects, The Pedant's Return sets the record straight about everything you thought you knew. Prepare to be fascinated--and flabbergasted--at just how wrong you've been all along
The Pedants Return
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Author : Andrea Barham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Pedants Return written by Andrea Barham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Hot on the heels of the 2005 hit The Pedant's Revolt (which has sold over 35,000 copies in the UK and reached no. 6 in the amazon charts) comes The Pedant's Return, the latest in Andrea Barham's popular pedantry series. Aimed at everyone from pedants to know-it-alls, as well as those simply wishing to 'get it right', the book will appeal to the modern passion for factual accuracy. How many times have you encountered an extraordinary 'fact' in your everyday life that's led you to think, 'That can't possibly be true!'? Or you've heard something highly improbable and completely dismissed the chances of it being in the least bit authentic? In The Pedant's Return a great many doubts will be dispelled, as a range of surprising statements that sound as though they couldn't possibly be genuine, are, through careful and committed research, revealed to be 100 per cent correct.
Fourteenth Century To The French Revolution With A Glimpse Into The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Frederick Denison Maurice
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Fourteenth Century To The French Revolution With A Glimpse Into The Nineteenth Century written by Frederick Denison Maurice and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Fathers of the church categories.
The Shakespeare Revolution
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Author : J. L. Styan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-04-29
The Shakespeare Revolution written by J. L. Styan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-04-29 with Drama categories.
This is a succinct and finest history of Shakespeare studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Moral And Metaphysical Philosophy Fourteenth Century To The French Revolution With A Glimpse Into The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Frederick Denison Maurice
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Moral And Metaphysical Philosophy Fourteenth Century To The French Revolution With A Glimpse Into The Nineteenth Century written by Frederick Denison Maurice and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Fathers of the church categories.
The Complete Works
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2019-06-03
The Complete Works written by G. K. Chesterton and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-03 with Fiction categories.
Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited G. K. Chesterton collection: The Father Brown Stories: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown The Secret of Father Brown The Scandal of Father Brown The Donnington Affair The Mask of Midas Novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man who was Thursday The Ball and the Cross Manalive The Flying Inn The Return of Don Quixote Short Stories: The Club of Queer Trades The Man Who Knew Too Much The Trees of Pride Tales of the Long Bow The Poet and the Lunatics Four Faultless Felons The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond The White Pillars Murder The Sword of Wood Poetry: Greybeards At Play The Wild Knight and Other Poems Wine, Water, and Song Poems, 1916 The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses The Ballad of the White Horse Gloria in Profundis Ubi Ecclesia Rotarians Plays: Magic – A Fantastic Comedy The Turkey and the Turk Literary Criticism: A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Victorian Age in Literature Charles Dickens - Critical Study Hilaire Belloc Robert Louis Stevenson Historical Works: A Short History of England The Barbarism of Berlin Letters to an Old Garibaldian The Crimes of England The New Jerusalem Theological Works: Heretics Orthodoxy The Everlasting Man The Catholic Church and Conversion Eugenics and other Evils Essays: The Defendant Varied Types All Things Considered Tremendous Trifles What's Wrong with the World Alarms and Discursions A Miscellany of Men Divorce versus Democracy Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays The Superstition of Divorce The Uses of Diversity Fancies Versus Fads The Outline of Sanity The Thing Come to Think All is Grist Sidelights on New London and Newer York All I Survey The Well and the Shallows As I was Saying Other Essays… Travel Sketches: Irish Impressions What I Saw in America Biographical Works Autobiography by G. K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton – A Critical Study by Julius West
The French Revolution
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Author : Thomas Carlyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
The French Revolution written by Thomas Carlyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with France categories.