Mental Floss: What's the Difference?

Zusatztext "An ideal reference to settle arguments or jog your memory." Informationen zum Autor Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness. Klappentext Enlighten Up Already! Monet? Manet? Who can even tell the difference? Well, with the help of the newest mental_floss tome, you can! Want to learn how to tell egg rolls from spring rolls, nuclear bombs from dirty nuclear bombs, or even how to tell an idiot from a moron (there's a real scientific difference)? Piece of cake! Whether you're trying to impress your boss, your mother-in-law, attractive singles, or a pack of fourth graders (you know how they love semantics), mental_floss gives you all the tips and tricks to have you sounding like a genius. Zusammenfassung Enlighten Up Already! Monet? Manet? Who can even tell the difference? Well! with the help of the newest mental_floss tome! you can! Want to learn how to tell egg rolls from spring rolls! nuclear bombs from dirty nuclear bombs! or even how to tell an idiot from a moron (there's a real scientific difference)? Piece of cake! Whether you're trying to impress your boss! your mother-in-law! attractive singles! or a pack of fourth graders (you know how they love semantics)! mental_floss gives you all the tips and tricks to have you sounding like a genius.

Product details

• Authors: Editors of Mental Floss, Hattikudur Mangesh, Mental Floss, Pearson Will
• Assisted by: Dan Green (Editor), Mangesh Hattikudur (Editor), Will Pearson (Editor)
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2006
• EAN: 9780060882495
• ISBN: 978-0-06-088249-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 181 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy; Education, Humour, Reference works, Social and cultural history, Teaching skills and techniques, General and world history, Travel and holiday, Puzzles and quizzes, Gender studies: women and girls, Higher education, tertiary education, Card games, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Research methods: general, Gambling: theories and methods, HUMOR: General, TRAVEL: Reference, REFERENCE: Research, GAMES: Trivia, GAMES: Card Games / General, GAMES: Puzzles, GAMES: Quizzes, EDUCATION: Research, EDUCATION: Schools / Levels / Higher