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Overview: The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do-the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our...
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"What is the "best" diet? Do calories matter? And when it comes to protein, fat, and carbs, which ones are good and which are bad? Food writer and cook Mark Bittman and health expert David Katz, MD, answer all these questions and more in a lively and easy-to-read Q&A format. Inspired by their viral hit article in Grub Street--one of New York magazine's most popular and most-shared articles--here Bittman and Katz share their clear, no-nonsense perspective...
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Utah Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affection?and a healthy dose of attitude?the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state?s borders and in the chronicles of its history. A fun, accessible read, Utah Curiositiesis a who's who of unusual and unsung heroes. Full color with maps throughout, this compendium of the state's quirks and characters will amuse Vermont residents...
4) Utah trivia
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An extensive and entertaining question-and-answer trivia book about the amazing Beehive State.
Learn all about the great state of Utah! This engaging book is filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts about this colorful, historic state. Designed for use in a wide variety of settings—home, office, school, parties, and more—this book is divided into topics like geography, entertainment,...
Learn all about the great state of Utah! This engaging book is filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts about this colorful, historic state. Designed for use in a wide variety of settings—home, office, school, parties, and more—this book is divided into topics like geography, entertainment,...
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
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Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
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2023.
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Texas, here we come! Get ready for a whirlwind adventure around the Lone Star state! We'll pull on some cowboy boots, dance the Texas two-step, tuck into some Beaver Nuggets, take a trip on a water taxi and cheer on a high school football team. Along the way, we'll discover lots of weird and wonderful facts about the food, sports, history, people, and so much more!
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Wide Eyed Editions
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2021.
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"A state-by-state compendium of weird laws, quirks, one-offs, and unusual records only to be found in the wonderfully wacky US of A. Only in America! explores the strangest claims to fame and the most unusual place names every state has to offer. Visit the city of Dinosaur, drop by the Pizza Museum, find out where it is illegal to feed a pig without a permit, and check out the world's only "carhenge" (that's right, Stonehenge reconstructed using cars)."--...
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2020.
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The duo behind the massively successful podcast "Stuff You Should Know" offers an unexpected look at weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics, featuring new subjects that they've long wondered about and wanted to explore.
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The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. John Green's...
12) American greats
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PublicAffairs
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[1999]
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American Greats offers compelling evidence of the courage and character, invention and resilience, that helps define this nation. It's about action and, therefore, character. It celebrates what the late Commissioner of Baseball, Bart Giamatti described as "that compound whose mix forms the American character-of moral energy and pragmatic efficiency, optimism and guile, respect for law, admiration for the maverick, and love of the underdog." This book,...
14) Seven events that made America, America: and proved that the founding fathers were right all along
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Reveals seven lesser-known events that have significantly influenced America's development, from Martin Van Buren's creation of a national political party to Eisenhower's heart attack that prompted federal dietary recommendations.
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Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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