Автор: Will Pearson

Be amazing Who says you can’t? It’s time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniuses What good are the world’s greatest geniuses if you can’ …

Laugh and learn with this humorous compendium that sets the historical record straight-and "manages to educate and entertain simultaneously" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).Smarter than your o …

For ten years, the knowledge seekers at mental_floss have been hunting and trapping the world’s rarest facts, locking them into captivating lists for the world to admire. Thanks to their tireless eff …

The first comprehensive account of the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.GO! GO! GO! tells the action-packed story of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. It is a comprehensive, detailed a …

How were the hunter-gatherers of G bekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?Was the so-called ‘Wow!’ Signal a radio transmission from deep sp …

"An admirable job of covering 60, 000 years of human history in one volume. . . . fascinating stories, hilarious oddities, and plenty of fun." -School Library Journal The Mental Floss Histo …