Kategoria BISAC: Reference >> Curiosities & Wonders

Within the pages of "Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?" you will find the public's answers to many intriguing and thought provoking questions, such as:

What factors attract you to the opposite sex? If you were going to have a baby and could choose its gender, what would it be? Have you ever called into work sick when you weren't really sick?...

• How do they make mirrors?
• How do sword swallowers swallow swords?
• How does a Polaroid picture develop in broad daylight?
• How do camels go without water?
• How do they splice genes?
• How do they create spectacular fireworks?

How indeed?

Ever found yourself wide-eyed at the wonders of science? Awestruck by the arts? Mystified by the miracles of nature or the marvels of technology?

Relief is at hand. Within these pages answers abound. How Do They Do That? clarifies what used to mystify. It explains the inexplicable...

All in perfectly bad taste

Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.

Did you know...

...that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he inspired the expression "drunk as a pope"? (From "10 Historic Drunks")

...that as a special honeymoon treat, Prince Charles read Princess Diana passages from the...

• Phantom panthers haunting eastern North America
• Bay State ghosts and spirits
• Mad gassers in Illinois
• Champ, the famous Lake...

In The Complete Guide to Labyrinths, renowned British psychic and folklorist Cassandra Eason explores the mystery of this sacred symbol and explains how to harness its power for personal transformation, protection, healing, and enlightenment. The book features instructions for creating...

Could a Civil War POW have fashioned a working camera from a tin can, a spyglass lens, and a pine plank? What can an ancient and battered banjo reveal about America's musical and segregated past? How could a man save his own life by proving that he had forged a painting? These are just a few of the intriguing and puzzling questions posed to super sleuths Wes Cowan, Elyse Luray, Gwendolyn Wright, and Tukufu Zuberi in this fascinating book.

The perfect companion to the hit public television...