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Judy Jones, William Wilson
An Incomplete Education
by Ballantine Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1987-05-12)

John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
The Book of General Ignorance
by Harmony (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-08-07)

Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.Revealing the truth behind all the things we think we know but don’t, this book leaves you dumbfounded about all the misinformation you’ve managed to collect during your life, and sets you up to win big should you ever be a contestant on Jeopardy! or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.Besides ...

Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
The C Programming Language
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg
Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
by Three Rivers Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-07-26)

Is There a Doctor in the House?Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .•How do people in wheelchairs have sex?•Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?•Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?•Why does asparagus make my pee smell?•Why do old people grow hair on their ears?•Is the old adage “beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .” really true? . . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.Compiled by Billy ...

Mark Leyner, Billy Md Goldberg
Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D.
by Three Rivers Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-12-02)

CONGRATULATIONS! Your purchase of this book means that the admissions committee has thoroughly reviewed your application and we are pleased to welcome you to the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine.**A not quite fully accredited institutionLet’s Play Doctor is your instant guide to becoming a Real Fake Doctor. At the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine, we offer an informative, immersive, and incredibly entertaining course of study that will give you the special skills needed to get your M.D. on! By following the lessons in Let’s Play Doctor, you’ll learn:• Special mental exercises to give yourself that buff, bulging Doctor brain• How to impress your peers with big, polysyllabic, esoteric medical lingo (can you say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis?)• Easy ways to diagnose your girlfriend’s goiter or your father’s fistula• Do-it-yourself surgeries from hemorrhoidectomy to breast enlargement• And, most important, how to craft a ...

Peter Block
Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
by Pfeiffer (Hardcover)

Frederick Phillips Brooks
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
by Addison-Wesley (Paperback)

Peter Walsh
How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System
by Free Press (Hardcover)

Professional organizer Peter Walsh presents this witty and enormously practical guide to getting it -- and keeping it -- all together. With more than 500 easy-to-follow how-to instructions, How to Organize (Just About) Everything is packed with shrewd advice and insider tips to make your home, your workplace -- indeed, every imaginable aspect of your life -- run more smoothly. Step-by-step solutions help even the most organizationally challenged take on:KidsSchedulesStoragePhotosListsPoliticsEducationRemodelsMealsWeddingsFinancesHolidaysPartiesVacationsEmergencies

Ronald B Adler
Understanding human communication
by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (Paperback)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Howard Gardner
Five Minds for the Future (Your Coach in a Box)
by Your Coach in a Box (CD)

We live in a time of changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business, and the professions. In this audiobook, psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:The disciplinary mind - master of major schools of thought.The synthesizing mind - ability to integrate ideas.The creating mind - capacity to uncover and clarity problems, questions and phenomena.The respectful mind - awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings.The ethical mind - fulfillment of one's responsibilities.Armed with these well-honed capacities, a person will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future-as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these "minds," individuals will be at the mercy of forces they can't ...

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