The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders
10 best books like The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders (Barbara Ann Kipfer): The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto, An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Christmas in the Trenches, The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts about It, The Kolob Theorem: A Mormon's View of God's Starry Universe, National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather: North America, Random House Word Menu: New and Essential Companion to the Dictionary, The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto
| Author | Ted Nugent |
| ISBN | 1596985550 |
Despite the fact that he has made over forty albums over a career spanning fifty years, I had never heard any of the music from the Motor City Madman named Ted Nugent. I didn’t even know who he was to tell you the truth, until one day this crazy redneck mother was telling me about Ted Nugent and how he didn’t...
| Author | James Lipton |
| ISBN | 0140170960 |
An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards," a "parliament of owls," an "ostentation of peacocks," a "smack of jellyfish," and a "murder of crows"!
For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James...
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
What’s...
| Author | Terry L. Jordan |
| ISBN | 1891743007 |
Mr. Jordan pads out the pages of this otherwise-short book with the most basic facts about the great (and not-so-great) men who helped craft the greatest and most influential system of governing the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, he writes with a "gee-whiz" sensibility that begins to grate almost...
| Author | Lynn M. Hilton |
| ISBN | 1566846412 |
God's Throne and the Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial Kingdoms. The Kolob Theorem allows us to see more clearly the home we lived in before we were born and the home we will live in after we die. These places appear more real; they are made of matter, some of very fine and pure matter, and exist in time...
| Author | David McWilliams Ludlum |
| ISBN | 0679408517 |
Interest in our nation's weather patterns is rising -- as witnessed in the popularity of the Weather Channel -- and this guide is the most popular reference to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America. The 378 dramatic photographs capture cloud...
Random House Word Menu: New and Essential Companion to the Dictionary
| Author | Stephen Glazier |
| ISBN | 0679400303 |
This was by the most helpful book I’ve used, much better than a regular thesaurus, for finding the right word when writing, when it’s important to use the word I really want to use. It’s not comprehensive although I was always able to find a word I wanted to use.
(I do have to say thank goodness...
The most important documents of the United States of America are collected in this easy-to-read volume, which includes the Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and an appendix containing a list...
| Author | David Klinger |
| ISBN | 0787986038 |
What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers...
Duh!: The Stupid History of the Human Race
| Author | Bob Fenster |
| ISBN | 0740710028 |
Never kiss a rattlesnake. Put on the parachute before jumping from the plane. Don't bring your dog along if you're going to rob a bank. These seem like obvious enough strategies but, unfortunately, we seem to be a race of rattlesnake kissers.
Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race is a hilarious...
| Author | Bathroom Readers' Institute |
| ISBN | 1879682621 |
Find out what millions of trivia lovers already know: Uncle John is your #1 source when it comes to throne-room reading entertainment. This book celebrates the very best articles from the BRI’s first ten years--plus 150 all-new pages! As always, the contents are divided by length: short articles...
Who Put The Butter In Butterfly?
| Author | David Feldman |
| ISBN | 0060160721 |
Cooties, doozies, and heebie-jeebies, finks and funks, namby-pamby and gobbledygook, mugwumps and muumuus, red herrings and white elephants, deep six and cloud nine--our language is filled with familiar words that, when one thinks about them, are downright peculiar. And if we look to English to...
| Author | Joey Green |
| ISBN | 0767919920 |
Isn’t it time you knew the honest-to-goodness truth? We’ve all come to believe hundreds of “false facts”—myths that we’ve blindly accepted as truth, misconceptions that we’ve ignorantly retold to others—Contrary to Popular Belief provides an instant remedy for your pounding...
The Amazing Book of Useless Information: More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out
| Author | Noel Botham |
| ISBN | 0399534687 |
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information comes another fun, foolhardy and completely frivolous, fact-filled book.
The Useless Information Society's latest collection, The Amazing Book of Useless Information, will answer questions readers...
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals
| Author | National Audubon Society |
| ISBN | 0394502698 |
Perfect for mountain climbers and hikers, this valuable reference covers more rocks and minerals in North America than any other available guide. 794 full-color photographs depict all the important rocks, gems, and minerals -- in many variations of color and crystal form -- and the natural environments...
