books tagged “general knowledge”

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  Arco Test Your Cultural Literacy
  by Diane Zahler, Kathy A. Zahler
  Softcover, Petersons, ISBN 0671847163 (0-671-84716-3)
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  Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
  by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Adrian Room
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc, ISBN 0304353817 (0-304-35381-7)
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  Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
  by Adrian Room
  Softcover, Cassell P L C, ISBN 0304358711 (0-304-35871-1)
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  The Browser's Book of Endings : The End of Practically Everything and Everybody
  by Charles Panati
  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada), ISBN 014028690X (0-14-028690-X)
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  The Cambridge Factfinder
  by David Crystal
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521456223 (0-521-45622-3)

  More editions of The Cambridge Factfinder:

  • The Cambridge Factfinder: Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521469910 (0-521-46991-0)
  • The Cambridge Factfinder: Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521565979 (0-521-56597-9)
  • The Cambridge Factfinder: Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521637708 (0-521-63770-8)
  • The Cambridge Factfinder: Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521794358 (0-521-79435-8)
  • The Cambridge Factfinder: Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521453062 (0-521-45306-2)
  • The Cambridge Factfinder: Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr, ISBN 0521551404 (0-521-55140-4)
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  The Commandos
  by Russell Miller
  Hardcover, Little Brown & Co, ISBN 0316849537 (0-316-84953-7)
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  The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
  by James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, E.D. Hirsch
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0395437482 (0-395-43748-2)

  More editions of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:

  • The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0395655978 (0-395-65597-8)
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  Dictionary of Misinformation
  by Tom Burnam
  Softcover, Perennial Library, ISBN 0060913150 (0-06-091315-0)

  More editions of Dictionary of Misinformation:

  • Dictionary of Misinformation: Softcover, Random House Publishing Group, ISBN 0345321340 (0-345-32134-0)
  • Dictionary of Misinformation: Hardcover, Crowell, ISBN 0690001479 (0-690-00147-9)
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  Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places: The Life and Legends of Ancient Sites Around the World
  by Robert Ingpen, Philip Wilkinson
  Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc, ISBN 1586630989 (1-58663-098-9)
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  Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places: The Life and Legends of Ancient Sites Around the World
  by Philip Wilkinson, Robert R. Ingpen
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0670827940 (0-670-82794-0)
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  Eureka!: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained
  by Michael MacRone, Tom Lulevitch
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 006272066X (0-06-272066-X)

  More editions of Eureka!: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained:

  • Eureka!: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0062700960 (0-06-270096-0)
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  Everyday Wonders
  by Barry Evans
  Softcover, McGraw-Hill Trade, ISBN 0809237989 (0-8092-3798-9)
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  Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask
  by Lynette Padwa
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA, ISBN 0140513221 (0-14-051322-1)
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  Guinness Book of Answers
  by Tina Persaud
  Hardcover, Facts on File, ISBN 0816030073 (0-8160-3007-3)
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  Guinness Book of Answers
  by Norris McWhirter
  Hardcover, Guinness Books, ISBN 0851122639 (0-85112-263-9)

  More editions of Guinness Book of Answers:

  • Guinness Book of Answers: Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc, ISBN 0851123341 (0-85112-334-1)
  • Guinness Book of Answers: Hardcover, Facts on File, ISBN 0851129579 (0-85112-957-9)
  • The Guinness Book of Answers: Hardcover, Guinness Superlatives Ltd, ISBN 0900424354 (0-900424-35-4)
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  History of Knowledge : Past, Present and Future
  by Charles Van Doren
  Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation, ISBN 1559720379 (1-55972-037-9)

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  • A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future: Softcover, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345373162 (0-345-37316-2)
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  How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers
  by Neil Schlager, Sharon Rose
  Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, ISBN 1579122744 (1-57912-274-4)
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  An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't
  by William Wilson, Judy Jones
  Hardcover, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345468902 (0-345-46890-2)

  More editions of An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't:

  • An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't: Hardcover, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345295706 (0-345-29570-6)
  • An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't: Hardcover, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345391373 (0-345-39137-3)
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  The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, And Roam Confidently With the Cultured Class
  by David Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr, ISBN 1594865132 (1-59486-513-2)
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  A Little Knowledge: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained
  by Michael MacRone
  Softcover, Ebury Press, ISBN 0091886236 (0-09-188623-6)
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  The Modern Woman's Guide to Life
  by E. Chapman, Karen Kriberney, Maggie Kassner
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060962488 (0-06-096248-8)

  More editions of The Modern Woman's Guide to Life:

  • The Modern Woman's Guide to Life: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 006055116X (0-06-055116-X)
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  The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
  by Joseph F. Kett, E.D. Hirsch, James S. Trefil
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0618226478 (0-618-22647-8)
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  The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind
  by New York Times Staff
  Hardcover, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312313675 (0-312-31367-5)
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  The Order of Things
  by Barbara Ann Kipfer
  Hardcover, Random House Information Group, ISBN 0679444785 (0-679-44478-5)
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  The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders
  by Barbara Ann Kipfer
  Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0375701648 (0-375-70164-8)

  More editions of The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders:

  • The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders: Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0375719695 (0-375-71969-5)
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  The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy
  by Yuri Stoyanov
  Softcover, Yale Univ Pr, ISBN 0300082533 (0-300-08253-3)
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  Oxford English Reference Dictionary
  by Judy Pearsall, Bill Trumble
  Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr, ISBN 0198606524 (0-19-860652-4)

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  • Oxford English Reference Dictionary: Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr, ISBN 0198600461 (0-19-860046-1)
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  Oxford English Reference Dictionary
  by Bill Trumble, Judy Pearsall
  Hardcover, Oxford University Press, ISBN 019860050X (0-19-860050-X)
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  Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody
  by Charles Panati
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060962798 (0-06-096279-8)

  More editions of Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody:

  • Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody: Hardcover, Perennial Library, ISBN 0060159200 (0-06-015920-0)
  • Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 006055181X (0-06-055181-X)
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  Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
  by Charles Panati
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060964197 (0-06-096419-7)

  More editions of Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things:

  • Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things: Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060960930 (0-06-096093-0)
  • Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060550988 (0-06-055098-8)
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  The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know
  by Andrea Barham
  Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services, ISBN 1843171325 (1-84317-132-5)

  More editions of The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know:

  • The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know: Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group, ISBN 0385340168 (0-385-34016-8)
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  Pocket Ref
  by Thomas Glover
  Softcover, Sequoia Pub, ISBN 1885071337 (1-885071-33-7)

  More editions of Pocket Ref:

  • Pocket Ref: Softcover, Sequoia Pub, ISBN 1885071000 (1-885071-00-0)
  • Pocket Ref: Softcover, Pub Group West, ISBN 0962235903 (0-9622359-0-3)
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  Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany
  by Ben Schott
  Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, ISBN 1582344205 (1-58234-420-5)

  More editions of Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany:

  • Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany: Hardcover, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0747566542 (0-7475-6654-2)
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  Schott's Original Miscellany
  by Ben Schott
  Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, ISBN 1582343497 (1-58234-349-7)
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  A Short History of Nearly Everything
  by Bill Bryson
  Hardcover, Bt Bound, ISBN 1417665483 (1-4176-6548-3)

  More editions of A Short History of Nearly Everything:

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything: Softcover, Broadway Books, ISBN 076790818X (0-7679-0818-X)
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything: Hardcover, Random House Large Print, ISBN 0375432000 (0-375-43200-0)
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything: Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group, ISBN 0767908171 (0-7679-0817-1)
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition: Hardcover, Broadway Books, ISBN 0767923227 (0-7679-2322-7)
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  Test Your Cultural Literacy
  by Diane Zahler, Kathy A. Zahler
  Hardcover, Arco, ISBN 0139037586 (0-13-903758-6)
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  A to Z of almost Everything: A Compendium of General Knowledge
  by Trevor Montague
  Hardcover, Little Brown Uk, ISBN 0316731374 (0-316-73137-4)
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  Welcome to the Real World: A Guide to Making Your First Personal, Financial, and Career Decisions
  by Annie Moldafsky
  Hardcover, Doubleday, ISBN 038514119X (0-385-14119-X)
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  What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? and 100 Other Great Cultural List S--Fully Explicated
  by Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish
  Softcover, Random House Inc, ISBN 0385490623 (0-385-49062-3)
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  Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: An Imponderables Book
  by David Feldman, Kassie Schwan
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060740922 (0-06-074092-2)
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  Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise and Other Imponderables
  by David Feldman
  Softcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 0060915153 (0-06-091515-3)

  More editions of Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise and Other Imponderables:

  • Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise and Other Imponderables: Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN 006015781X (0-06-015781-X)
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  The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004
  by Ken Park, World Almanac Editors
  Softcover, Griffin Publishing Group, ISBN 0886879108 (0-88687-910-8)

  More editions of The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004:

  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004: Hardcover, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0886879116 (0-88687-911-6)
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  The World of Order and Organization : How Things are Arranged into Hierarchies, Structures and Pecking Orders
  by Barbara Ann Kipfer
  Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing, ISBN 0517208687 (0-517-20868-7)
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  A-Z of Everything: The Daily Telegraph Compendium of General Knowledge
  by Montague
  Hardcover, Little Brown & Company, ISBN 0316854859 (0-316-85485-9)

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  Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo/a Short History of Nearly Everything
  by Bryson Bill
  Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas, ISBN 8478713808 (84-7871-380-8)