Numberpedia
Author: Herb Reich
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2011-01-02
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1616080841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.
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Numberpedia
Author: Herb W. Reich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-01-02
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1626365989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the year the first Super Bowl was held and in which Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed. But maybe the year 1967 isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind. Maybe when you think about the number 67, you think of the . . . Age of George Washington at the time of his death, on December 14, 1799. Atomic number of the chemical element holmium, symbol Ho. Number of counties in each of the states of Alabama, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Most doubles hit in a season in Major League Baseball history (Earl Webb, Boston Red Sox, 1931). Number worn by partners Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin in the dance marathon scene in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Estimate number of miles, in millions, from Venus to the sun In Numberpedia, author Herb Reich examines all of the random, seemingly unrelated trivia related to numbers 1 to 100 in painstaking detail, revealing lore, myths, and every bizarre factoid you’d ever want to know about those numbers—except, of course, those concerning math.
Numberpedia
Author: Herb Reich
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781939082497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.
Ready Reference
Author: Robert R. Carter
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLies They Teach in School
Author: Herb W. Reich
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1616085967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebunks commonly accepted fallacies from history, including that George Washington was the first U.S. president, Johnny Appleseed was a fictitious character, and a cold can be brought on by chilly weather.
The De-Textbook
Author: Cracked.com,
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0698161521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou are an idiot. Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're even pooping wrong - Jesus, you're a wreck! But it's going to be okay. Because we're here to help. Packed with more sexy facts than the Encyclopedia Pornographica, the Cracked De-Textbook will teach you about the true stars of history, why you picture everything from Velociraptors to Ancient Rome incorrectly, and finally, at long last - how to pop a proper squat. This book was built from the ground up to systematically seek out, dismantle and destroy the many untruths that years of misguided education have left festering inside of you, and leave you a smarter person...whether you like it or not. The De-Textbook is a merciless, brutal learning machine. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are informed.
Nature's Building Blocks
Author: John Emsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780198503408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA readable, informative, fascinating entry on each one of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. Each entry comprises an explanation of where the element's name comes from, followed by Body element (the role it plays in living things), Element ofhistory (how and when it was discovered), Economic element (what it is used for), Environmental element (where it occurs, how much), Chemical element (facts, figures and narrative), and Element of surprise (an amazing, little-known fact about it). A wonderful 'dipping into' source for the familyreference shelf and for students.
Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300
Author: Janet Burton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-01-28
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521377973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the development of monasticism in England, Scotland and Wales from the last half century of Anglo-Saxon England to 1300. It explores the nature of the impact of the Norman settlement on monastic life, and how Britain responded to new, European ideas on monastic life. In particular, it examines Britain's response to the needs of religious women. It covers every aspect of the life and work of the religious orders: their daily life, the buildings in which they lived, their contribution to intellectual developments and to the economy. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between religious houses and their founders and patrons. This shows the degree of dependence of religious houses on local patrons. Indeed, one major theme which emerges from the book is the constant tension between the ideals of monastic communities and the demands of the world.
Quick(er) Calculations
Author: Trevor Davis Lipscombe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0192594001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of calculation, from a fresh perspective, to boost the speed at which you can add — whether a couple of numbers, or columns so long an accountant may faint. Find out how to subtract, multiply, divide, and find square roots more quickly. What's more, this book gives suggestions for how to find answers that are “good enough” for tricky tasks like dividing by 17. It includes brand new ways to multiply and divide irrational numbers such as pi, e, the square root of 2, and the golden ratio. It has sections devoted to ancient mathematics, and the techniques we can borrow from previous and other cultures, in order to calculate more quickly. Examples, some serious, some fun, come from everyday life or from history — like hot dog eating competitions, the Vatican's cricket team, the molecular weight of the molecule with the world's longest name, and the amount of people taken by Henry VIII to arguably history's biggest party, the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In an age of timed multiple-choice questions, the swifter you can sum, or rule out wrong answers, the better you will do. If you love to play with numbers, this book will be recreational reading. And if you ever wonder whether simple arithmetic problems can crop up in everyday life, this book provides a fresh perspective.
The Complete Book of Amulets & Talismans
Author: Migene González-Wippler
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780875422879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamine the infinite variety of charms and fetishes found in every civilization, from the distant past to the present. Learn the entire history of these tools, their geography, how they are part of each man and woman's search for connection with spiritual forces, and how to make and use them. Loaded with hundreds of illustrations, this is the ultimate reference guide.
