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10 best books like The People's Almanac (David Wallechinsky): Baaa, The Oxford History of Byzantium, The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad, The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, قاموس أساطير العالم, The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists #3, More of the Straight Dope, Property (Aspen Casebooks), The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People

Baaa
AuthorDavid Macaulay
ISBN0395395887


where humans have gone extinct, sheep begin to take our places.

Sadly, for them, they adopt all our nasty habits - even the really DIRTY stuff like banking and politics!

(How this is all accomplished without opposable thumbs is anyone's guess . . .)

As you might imagine,...
The Oxford History of Byzantium
AuthorCyril Mango
ISBN0198140983
The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive...
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad
AuthorLarry Gonick
ISBN0060760087
“From the Bastille to Baghdad,” The Cartoon History of the World Part 2 is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick’s award-winning and bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form. Picking up after the American Revolution, where Part 1 left off, Part 2 opens with the...
The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s
AuthorPaul Slansky
ISBN0671673394
This book thoroughly answers the question: Were the Reagan years really as awful as many people believe? The answer, it turns out, is no. They were far, far worse.

Published in 1989 (and therefore without intervening years to romanticize and deify our most inept president) this book is a scathing...
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
AuthorMiranda Aldhouse-Green
ISBN0500279756
Warlike, exuberant and superstitious, the ancient Celts saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility and death. They possessed a complicated array of concepts and rituals, a powerful priesthood - the Druids - and...
قاموس أساطير العالم
AuthorArthur Cotterell
ISBN9789334074
أصل الأسطورة:
إن الاهتمام الحديث بالأسطورة بشكل اعترافاً عاماً بقوة هذه القصص الشعرية، ولكن لازال هناك عدم اتفاق على مدى قوة الأسطورة فأفلاطون مثلاً...
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists #3
AuthorAmy Wallace
ISBN0553278681
Several people have wondered over the last year which review I've been trolled on most often. In an effort to answer this vital question, I've compiled another list. Here, you can see all my reviews on which the comment thread contains at least 100 comments:

The Quran (613)

Harry...
More of the Straight Dope
AuthorCecil Adams
ISBN0345351452
"Smart, saucy answers...the kind of book you'd buy as a goofy present for your wackiest friend--and then keep."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Since 1973, the redoubtable Cecil Adams has collected, corrected, inspected, and dissected thousands of reader's questions, reporting his sagacious...
Property (Aspen Casebooks)
AuthorJesse Dukeminier
ISBN0735524378
When a casebook remains the best seller in its field edition after edition, you know the authors are doing things right. PROPERTY set the standard of excellence and continues to uphold it.
Once again, this expert author team provides an engrossing and enlightening teaching package:
- full...
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
AuthorIrving Wallace
ISBN1851522387
This encyclopedia looks at the sexual habits, deviations and quirks of nearly 200 famous, notorious or otherwise distinguished people from all walks of life. Each entry describes the subject's fame and achievements, and within this context examines their sexual activities. The entries are preceded...
Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
AuthorMangesh Hattikudur
ISBN0060882514
Friends? Romans? Countrymen?
You never know whom you'll have to impress
at your next corporate shindig or keg party.

Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch bowl isn't the trick. In fact, that's exactly why we're handing you Cocktail Party...
Weird Washington: Your Travel Guide to Washington's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
AuthorJefferson D. Davis
ISBN1402745451
Ah, Washington: evergreens, coffee, rock, and rain. That's pretty much it, right? Well, no. There is a whole lot of weird going on in our state. Washington is home to some of the weirdest travel destinations, scariest legends, and most colorful folks in the United States.

Because there are...
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
AuthorMichael Frassetto
ISBN1933346124
More than perhaps any other time, the average person of the European middle ages found their identity bound up in religious and moral norms. In this book, Michael Frassetto discusses what can happen when some thinkers pushed the boundaries of traditional religious understanding, and were eventually...
World History Atlas
AuthorJeremy Black
ISBN0756609674
Wow! This is quite a read, I must say! 287 pages of world history presented through maps, pictures and grids. DK has attempted the impossible and almost succeeded brilliantly, if it were not for Professor Jeremy Black's worldview, which colors the book.

Let me begin by saying that the book is...
The New York Public Library Desk Reference
AuthorNew York Public Library
ISBN0671850148
Cleaning my bookshelves is always dangerous because I end up wanting to sit down with every other book and get lost in it. The NYPL Desk Reference is particularly tempting. Google be damned, this book - full of all sorts of helpful &/or fascinating charts, lists, graphs, signs, symbols, useful addresses!...
National Geographic Atlas of the World
AuthorNational Geographic Society
ISBN0792275438
Combining state-of-the-art cartographic technology and information with dynamic and diverse physiographic and cultural content, the Eight Edition is National Geographic's most accurate and interesting record of the world yet. The opening section, Ninety Years of Mapping at National Geographic,...
The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories 1
AuthorJames McConnachie
ISBN1843534452
The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories is the definitive guide to the world''s most controversial conspiracies. From phoney crucifictions to fake moon landings, and from stolen elections to manufactured viruses, there''s always another story lurking behind the ''official version''. This guide...
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0517065037
Within the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts "are many hours of entertaining and informative reading--little-known facts that will make you exclaim, time and again, "I didn't know that!"
Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book:
-Emperor Caligula appointed his...
The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World
AuthorBernard Comrie
ISBN0816033889
This is not a deep, heavy work, it is intended to be an overview of languages around the world - an Atlas of Languages. It takes each continent and describes the languages found there, starting with Europe and Eurasia, then South and Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the Pacific, Australia,...
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0316273015
This is my desert island book. I've read this too many times, always straight through. Hang out with all the great personalities of western history, but only for those 5 minute periods when they are funniest or at their most interesting. My hard copy has rings from the beer cans placed upon it, has fallen...
The Simpsons Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued
AuthorMatt Groening
ISBN0060987634
Picking up where The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to our Favorite Family left off, The Simpsons Forever! brings all the history, tidbits, and cold hard facts on every episode from the past two years, and much, much more. Fans will find the highlights of all the shows from seasons nine and ten, plus eyeball–busting...
Final Fantasy XIII: Complete Official Guide - Collector's Edition
AuthorPiggyback
ISBN0307468380
·   The Final Fantasy XIII collector’s edition guide is a pristine coffee table book, printed on highest-quality, 100# paper and encased in a hard cover. It is limited to just one print run and each copy will be sequentially numbered.
 
·   Exclusive additional 16-page section...
World of Warcraft Atlas
AuthorBrady Games
ISBN0744004411
BradyGames’ World of Warcraft Atlas, Second Editionincludes the following:

EVERY REGION AND CITY MAP: Every region map includes its sub-regions, connections to other regions, dungeons, and towns – everything needed for players to make their way through Azeroth!  Special “lay-flat”...
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