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  • Strange Medicine

    A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages

    by Nathan Belofsky ...
    Discover the astonishing and peculiar history of medicine with this perfect gift for history buffs, doctors, and anyone looking to be amazed by the brilliant and bizarre ideas that shaped the world of medicine as we know it.From the use of electric eels in ancient Egypt to medieval dentists burning candles to combat invisible worms, this book uncovers the weirdest medical practices throughout ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities

    Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of theLaw That Make Us AllUnsuspecting Criminals

    by Nathan Belofsky ...
    You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it.Did you know...? Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and "pizza police" visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies?? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black flag?? It is illegal to sell stuffed articles depicting female breasts within a thousand feet of any county highway ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Strange Medicine

    A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages

    by Nathan Belofsky ...
    Narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 10 min

    Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors, scientists, and dreamers who ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Science of Liberty, The

    Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

    by Timothy Ferris ...
    Narrated by Fred Stella ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 26 min

    "Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called "the best popular science writer in the English language today" by the Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by the Washington Post—makes a passionate case ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Time of Their Lives

    The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

    by Al Silverman ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 5 People Who Died During Sex

    and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists

    by Karl Shaw ...
    All in perfectly bad tastePrepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.Did you know……that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Run of His Life

    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie BrittonThe definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    The Great White North is revealed as the Great Weird North in this entertaining tome from the best-selling Bathroom Reader series.Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga? That’s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting readers in Uncle John’s quirky celebration of Earth’s second largest country. You’ll find page after page of bizarre history (like why the beaver was once ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    The twenty-seventh Bathroom Reader in the beloved, bizarre trivia series with more than fifteen million copies in print!At a whopping 544 pages, Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader is overflowing with everything that Bathroom Readers' Institute fans have come to expect from this bestselling trivia series: fascinating history, silly science, obscure origins . . . plus fads, blunders, wordplay, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of General Ignorance

    by John Mitchinson, John Lloyd ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A shockingly counterintuitive book of trivia that cuts through the misconceptions that most of us call “facts” to show how wrong we are about . . . well, everything.“Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.”—The New York TimesThink Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Law 101

    Everything You Need to Know About American Law, Fourth Edition

    by Jay Feinman ...
    In each of the first three editions of the bestselling Law 101, Jay Feinman gave readers an upbeat and vivid examination of the American legal system. Since the third edition was published in 2010, much has happened: several key Supreme Court cases have been decided, we've seen sensational criminal trials, and the legal system has had to account for the latest developments in Internet law. This ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A People's History of the Peculiar

    A Freak Show of Facts, Random Obsessions and Astounding Truths

    by Nick Belardes ...
    Did you know that Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was an ax murderer? Do you delight knowing that some dinosaurs were as teeny tiny as hens? Wonder what it’s like to live in Hell Town at the End of the World? How about an ailment so surreal it’s named after Alice in Wonderland? In A People's History of the Peculiar, historian Nick Belardes has dug into the raw source material found in historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD