Panatis Extraordinary Endings Of Practically Everything And Everybody

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060962791
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody written by Charles Panati and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1989 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the curious stories behind the extinction of peoples, beliefs, fashions, customs, and inventions

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785834370
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things written by Charles Panati and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates facts and information about a host of ordinary things ranging from safety pins to negligees.

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody written by Charles Panati and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of facts and anecdotes about the demise of historic figures, diseases, beliefs, capital endings, and extinctions.

Author : Mike Pearl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501194151
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day It Finally Happens written by Mike Pearl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a VICE magazine columnist, “a deeply entertaining—if occasionally horrifying” (Joshua Piven, coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as nuclear war, a global internet collapse, antibiotics shortages, and even immortality. If you live on planet Earth you’re probably scared of the future. How could you not be? Some of the world’s most stable democracies are looking pretty shaky. Technology is invading personal relationships and taking over jobs. Relations among the three superpowers—the US, China, and Russia—are growing more complicated and dangerous. A person watching the news has to wonder: is it safe to go out there or not? Taking inspiration from his virally popular VICE column “How Scared Should I Be?,” Mike Pearl games out many of the “could it really happen?” scenarios we’ve all speculated about, assigning a probability rating, and taking us through how it would unfold. He explores what would likely occur in dozens of possible scenarios—among them the final failure of antibiotics, the loss of the world’s marine life, a complete ban on guns in the US, and even contact with extraterrestrial life—and reports back from the future, providing a clear picture of how the world would look, feel, and even smell in each of these instances. For fans of such bestsellers as What If? and The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook, The Day It Finally Happens is about taking future events that we don’t really understand and getting to know them in close detail. Pearl’s “well-researched speculations induce daydreams and nightmares and mark [him] as one of his generation’s most interesting writers” (Alec Ross, New York Times bestselling author).

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 : 9780140271447
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexy Origins and Intimate Things written by Charles Panati and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1998 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did the word love come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to the scientific and the scholarly, this engaging and eye-opening compendium of little known facts about sex is both informative and endlessly entertaining.

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060964771
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panati's Parade of Fads, Follies, and Manias written by Charles Panati and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1991 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the last one hundred years of American pop culture includes discussions of pop songs, books, and media

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433333
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man’yōshū (Book 2) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods.

Author : Charles Panati
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Browser's Book of Endings written by Charles Panati and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty & comprehensive look at the world's endings.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247694
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of a Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

Author : Govind Raghunath Dabholkar
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shri Sai Satcharita written by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: