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Soccer's Most Wanted II: The Top 10 Book of More Glorious Goals, Superb Saves, and Fantastic Free-Kicks
ISBN: 9781597971935 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soccer is the world's game, more popular than any other sport. Fans fill stadia, and players strive to perform at the highest levels for them. Soccer's Most Wanted(TM) II presents more of the best and brightest, funniest and freakiest, and the highs and lows of soccer. It highlights the crazy incidents and interesting bits of trivia that have helped make soccer (football to the rest of the globe) the most-watched sport on the planet.Everyone remembers the World Cup winners, but what about the best teams who fell just short? And what about the great players who never got to appear on...
Soccer is the world's game, more popular than any other sport. Fans fill stadia, and players strive to perform at the highest levels for them. Socc...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not Frog Oddities & Trivia
ISBN: 9781893951334 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a fun armchair journey through the rapidly shrinking world of amphibians. Frogs and other amphibians are rapidly going extinct. It is believed that 500 of the 6,000 known species will become extinct within the next 10 years. This book is loaded with original Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoons, and fun to-the-point facts and trivia about amphibians that will both educate and amuse the reader. Created in 2008 to celebrate the Year of the Frog, all proceeds from this book will be going to various world-wide frog foundations for study and research.
Here is a fun armchair journey through the rapidly shrinking world of amphibians. Frogs and other amphibians are rapidly going extinct. It is believed...
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All about Weddings
ISBN: 9781550028850 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the engagement to the honeymoon, the act of getting married is surrounded with tradition and superstition. In All About Weddings, the ultimate question-and-answer book on matrimony, light is shed on the mysteries behind the rituals and rites of marriage; the past, present, and future of the enduring ceremony are explored worldwide; and the meaning of everything from boutonniere and confetti to woo and wet bargain is explained. Along the way you ll also discover:
From the engagement to the honeymoon, the act of getting married is surrounded with tradition and superstition. In All About Weddings, the ultimate... |
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The Years Gone Bye: A Yearly Snapshot of the People, Places, and Things that Captured Our Attention for 50 Years
ISBN: 9781434391797 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Years Gone Bye takes you back to a time when . . . A. a thong was something you wore on your feet A. a blackberry was something you ate A. and mini skirts raised eyebrows A. Elvis was drafted into the army A. Archie called Edith a "dingbat" A. and Forrest Gump became a household name A. America landed on the moon A. divers found the Titanic after 73 years A. and the police chased a white Bronco down the LA Freeway These snippets are just a few threads of the thousands of strands of pop culture and history that weave this book into a tapestry of the last half-century.
The Years Gone Bye takes you back to a time when . . . A. a thong was something you wore on your feet A. a blackberry was something you ate A. and min...
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The Years Gone Bye: A Yearly Snapshot of the People, Places, and Things that Captured Our Attention for 50 Years
ISBN: 9781434391780 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Years Gone Bye takes you back to a time when . . . . a thong was something you wore on your feet . a blackberry was something you ate . and mini skirts raised eyebrows . Elvis was drafted into the army . Archie called Edith a "dingbat" . and Forrest Gump became a household name . America landed on the moon . divers found the Titanic after 73 years . and the police chased a white Bronco down the LA Freeway These snippets are just a few threads of the thousands of strands of pop culture and history that weave this book into a tapestry of the last half-century.
The Years Gone Bye takes you back to a time when . . . . a thong was something you wore on your feet . a blackberry was something you ate . and mini s...
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86,95 |
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You Are One-Third Daffodil: And Other Facts to Amaze, Amuse, and Astound
ISBN: 9780767932462 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did you know that most toilets flush in E-flat? Or that American Airlines once saved $40,000 by removing a single olive from each salad served in first class? Well, now you will with this clever, fun, and occasionally shocking compendium of facts from around the world.
Organized into witty categories, including Battle of the Sexes: Facts About Men and Women and The Past Is a Foreign Country: Facts About History, You Are One-third Daffodil contains hundreds of weird and wacky facts, including: *In Milan, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times, except during funerals or... Did you know that most toilets flush in E-flat? Or that American Airlines once saved $40,000 by removing a single olive from each salad served in firs...
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The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities
ISBN: 9780805088540 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest organs (the liver) In this addictive collection of trivia, Nicholas Bakalar, the "Vital Signs" columnist for The New York Times, spoons out the things you never realized you really want to know about your body and your health. Bakalar shares the wonders of medicine, from medical firsts (in 1667, the first survivor of a blood transfusion received sheep's blood) to medical onlys (rabies is the only infectious disease that... Delightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest ... |
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Now You Know Football
ISBN: 9781554884537 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but the true football fan has the answers all week long. Doug Lennox, the all-pro of Q&A, leads the drive as he tells us why a touchdown is worth six points, who first decided to pick up the ball and throw it, and how a children's toy changed the sport's biggest championship. Along the way we'll meet players great and not-so-great and encounter the various leagues that have come and gone throughout the world.
It's easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but the true football fan has the answers all week long. Doug Lennox, the all-pro of Q&A, leads the d... |
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1,000 Things to Love about America: Celebrating the Reasons We're Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home
ISBN: 9780061806285 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we're proud to call America home--from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger. Chock full of anecdotes and often surprising insights and historical information, 1,000 Things to Love About America is a smart, breezy, and unabashed love song to the good old U.S.A.
From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 Peo...
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Knowledge Is Power
ISBN: 9781441599322 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Big Book of Mysteries
ISBN: 9781554887798 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Atlantis to Nostradamus, Masons to Templars, Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe have explored some of the greatest mysteries ever known in this world and beyond. Now, in The Big Book of Mysteries, the Fanthorpes attempt to answer, among other questions:
From Atlantis to Nostradamus, Masons to Templars, Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe have explored some of the greatest mysteries ever known in this wor... |
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Great Smoky Mountains Trivia
ISBN: 9781606390177 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb: And 333 Other Surprising Facts That Will Make You Wealthier, Healthier and Smarter Than Everyone Else
ISBN: 9780062008350 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Di Vincenzo, the New York Times bestselling author of Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, brings us another book of fascinating, eminently useful facts certain to make you healthier, wealthier, and wiser. Readers of Schott's Miscellany and other compendiums of helpful information will delight--and profit--from these little known tidbits about health, money, food, death, bugs, politics, history, geography, and more or less everything under the sun.
Mark Di Vincenzo, the New York Times bestselling author of Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, brings us another book of fascinating...
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You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking But Utterly True Facts
ISBN: 9780452296398 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the most-read humor site on the internet, Cracked.com
YOU MIGHT BE A ZOMBIE You're going to wish you never picked up this book. Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in: * A zombie apocalypse? It could happen. 50% of humans are infected with a parasite that can take over your brain. * The FDA wouldn't let you eat bugs, right? Actually, you might want to put down those jelly beans. And that apple. And that strawberry yogurt. * Think dolphins are our friends? Then these... From the most-read humor site on the internet, Cracked.com
YOU MIGHT BE A ZOMBIE You're going to wish you never picked up this book. ... |
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The Little Book of the East End
ISBN: 9780752457178 / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Little Book of the East End' is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without.
'The Little Book of the East End' is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information whi...
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All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780823231744 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where in Manhattan did Washington sleep? Where was Teddy Roosevelt born? Where did James Monroe die? Where is the birthplace of the Twist? Where was Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's multi-million dollar penthouse? Where is the site of the country's first traffic fatality? These tidbits are among the more than 2,000 fascinating entries comprising All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, the definitive guide to historic New York.All Around the Town brings the city's history to life, street by street, building by building, in all its diversity. The entries, organized in an...
Where in Manhattan did Washington sleep? Where was Teddy Roosevelt born? Where did James Monroe die? Where is the birthplace of the Twist? Where was P...
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The Last Stand of Chuck Norris: 400 All New Facts about the Most Terrifying Man in the Universe
ISBN: 9781592406456 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reign of terror continues...Chuck Norris is back in the New York Times bestselling humor series.
Just when you thought it was safe to read, Chuck Norris is back with another roundhouse kick to the face. Fans of this bestselling series will rejoice at this newest addition to the hilarious anthology. The Last Stand of Chuck Norris contains 400 all-new, kick-ass facts about the book's indomitable namesake, including: ? Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun. ? When Chuck Norris crosses the street, the cars have to look both ways. ? Chuck... The reign of terror continues...Chuck Norris is back in the New York Times bestselling humor series.
Just when you thought it was... |
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Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths About Animals
ISBN: 9781451624274 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did you know that...
- shark embryos can attack? - caterpillars can tap dance? - koalas have fingerprints almost identical to those of humans? And, who would have guessed that... - chimpanzees talk about food? - male animals from hot climates make bad fathers? - owls employ snakes as babysitters? - rats can learn the differences between languages? - some parasites castrate their victims? - dogs can see moving objects up to 985 yards away? - ants won't cross a chalk line? - a sloth moves so slowly that fungus grows on its feet? Astonishing new facts about animals... Did you know that...
- shark embryos can attack? - caterpillars can tap dance? - koalas have fingerprints almost identical to those of humans? ... |
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The Mammoth Book of Weird But True
ISBN: 9780762437283 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A giant humorous collection of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, hilarious blunders and gaffes--over 1000 extraordinary cases from around the world. Who needs urban legends, when these are all true? It's everything readers love about Ripley's Believe it or Not with an added punch of humor.
A giant humorous collection of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, hilarious blunders and gaffes--over 1000 extraordinary cases from around the worl...
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100,15 |
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101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic . . . But Didn't!
ISBN: 9780143119098 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from... April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
People have an endless fascination with the Titani... |
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92,48 |
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