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  • BEES MAKE THE BEST PETS
    JACK MINGO
    All the Buzz for Beekeeping Beginners “The book oozes with bee facts and trivia….Bees do make good pets and this book is a gentle introduction to the world of backyard bee keeping.” —Patsy Bell Hobson, writer and master gardener emeritus #1 New Release in Entomology and Insects & Spiders What happens when a writer sets up a backyard beehive? You get a beekeeping book full of fu...

    $229.00

  • AL CAPONE WAS A GOLFER
    ERIN BARRETT / JACK MINGO
    What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective? More than one person has seen their loved one become consumed with the details of the quality of wood used in clubs, or the type of cleats on their shoes. What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective? More than one person has seen t...

    $179.00

  • BEN FRANKLIN'S GUIDE TO WEALTH
    ERIN BARRETT / JACK MINGO
    It isn’t all about the Benjamins! A revolutionary way of looking at money and value, based on the writings of the Founding Father. Ben Franklin’s Guide to Wealth is the modern version of the treatise The Way of Wealth by Richard Saunders—one of Ben Franklin’s many pseudonyms. Franklin practiced what he preached in the treatise, and it made him rich enough to have a full life, t...

    $119.00

  • DRACULA WAS A LAWYER
    ERIN BARRETT / JACK MINGO
    True tales of trials and errors over the long, strange course of legal history, from the authors of Doctors Killed George Washington. Did you know . . . If a husband in ancient Rome caught his wife drinking wine, he had the legal right to kill her. Gandhi, John Cleese, and Julio Iglesias were all lawyers before moving on to other jobs. The ice cream sundae was invented as part ...

    $109.00

  • DOCTORS KILLED GEORGE WASHINGTON
    ERIN BARRETT / JACK MINGO
    A trivia collection that puts medical history under the microscope—with more than 500 little-known facts about doctors, diseases, and more. Did you know . . . Before the advent of surgery, ancient Egyptian doctors put their patients under by hitting them on the head with a mallet. Working with pigs can raise your risk of appendicitis. The Catholic Church has patron saints for m...

    $119.00

  • NOT ANOTHER APPLE FOR THE TEACHER
    ERIN BARRETT / JACK MINGO
    From devastating remarks made by teachers ("Addled, backward dunce" said about young Thomas Edison) to the rich and famous on campus (William Randolph Hearst kept a pet alligator at Harvard), this is a spirited and humorous collection of facts about teachers and students. ...

    $179.00

  • RANDOM KINDS OF FACTNESS
    ERIN BARRETT / JACK MINGO
    A trove of trivia from the creators of the Ask Jeeves series and question writers for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Amuse your date, impress your boss, bore your kids, or be the sixth caller to win a pair of tickets to the nose-flute band concert! All because you know that a Twinkie in the microwave will explode in 45 seconds, that you have a 1 in 3,448,276 chance of dying fro...

    $119.00