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  • The Cultural Tutor

    A Modern Guide to History, Art and Philosophy in 49 Short Chapters

    'The Cultural Tutor is dedicated to a cosmopolitan view of culture. It writes about every continent, every religion, every tradition of art and poetry' TOMIWA OWOLADE, THE TIMES'For anyone who has enjoyed The Cultural Tutor on X, this book will be more of the same delight. Expect nuggets of insight and wisdom, wrapped in the author's trademark warmth and wit' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A rema... ... Leer más

    Antes $361 MXN Ahora $236 MXN

  • Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits

    Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things

    Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now?Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating ... Leer más

    $126 MXN

  • Ask A Historian

    50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

    de Greg Jenner ...
    'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past? Who invented maths?Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through ... Leer más

    $204 MXN

  • The Professor and the Madman

    A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    A New York Times Notable BookThe Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, ... Leer más

    $208 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Etymologicon

    A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

    de Mark Forsyth ...
    This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example,do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.The Etymologicon is a ... Leer más

    $201 MXN

  • Imponderables

    de David Feldman ...
    Series Libro 1 - Imponderables Series
    Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum?Why do people cry at happy endings?Why do you never see baby pigeons?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® series, Feldman's book arms readers with ... Leer más

    $151 MXN

  • The Charles de Gaulle Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Charles de Gaulle

    This book is your ultimate Charles de Gaulle resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Charles de Gaulle's whole picture right away. Get countless Charles de Gaulle facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Charles de ... Leer más

    $245 MXN

  • Don't Know Much About® Literature

    What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors

    Series Libro 12 - Don't Know Much About Series
    From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential literary worksand writersDid a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece?Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration?Which French-speaking high school football star shook up the literary world?Do you freeze when someone mentions Faulkner? When the ... Leer más

    $170 MXN

  • An Underground Education

    The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields

    de Richard Zacks ...
    The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge.Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American countries when we feel like it. But really, is this kind of knowledge going to make you the hit of ... Leer más

    $90 MXN

  • Don't Know Much About® Anything

    Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!

    Series Libro 15 - Don't Know Much About Series
    In his wildly entertaining, winningly irreverent, New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series, author Kenneth C. Davis has amused and edified us with fascinating facts about history, mythology, the Bible, the universe, geography, and the Civil War.Now, the sky's the limit in his latest irresistible installment—a grand tour of knowledge that carries us from the Great Smoky Mountains to ... Leer más

    $170 MXN

  • The Minimum wage Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Minimum wage

    de Frank Norris ...
    This book is your ultimate Minimum wage resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Minimum wage's whole picture right away. Get countless Minimum wage facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Minimum wage Handbook is the ... Leer más

    $276 MXN

  • The Kanban Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Kanban

    This book is your ultimate Kanban resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Kanban's whole picture right away. Get countless Kanban facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Kanban Handbook is the single and largest Kanban ... Leer más

    $248 MXN

  • The Dangerous Book for Boys

    The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Greg Mottola (Superbad).In this digital age, there is ... Leer más

    $296 MXN

  • An Incomplete Education

    3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't

    A completely updated, revised edition of the classic, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Here’s your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint yourself with all the facts you once knew (then promptly forgot), catch up on major developments ... Leer más

    $139 MXN

  • 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over

    'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris EvansThe sixth book in the bestselling series brings bizarre, astonishing, conversation-starting facts from the clever clogs at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI.Did you know that:Iceland imports ice cubes.A group of ladybirds is called a loveliness.It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandi.Eight billion particles of f... ... Leer más

    $134 MXN

  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Leer más

    $317 MXN

  • The Elie Saab Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Elie Saab

    de Seth Mack ...
    This book is your ultimate Elie Saab resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Elie Saab's whole picture right away. Get countless Elie Saab facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Elie Saab Handbook is the single and ... Leer más

    $248 MXN

  • 10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse

    and 100 More Dreadfully Distasteful Lists

    de Karl Shaw ...
    Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of 5 People Who Died During Sex. Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw’s eclectic lists of the world’s very worst.DID YOU KNOW……that according to recent estimates (2010) your body is worth between $10,000- ... Leer más

    Antes $108 MXN Ahora $90 MXN

  • 52 Times Britain was a Bellend

    The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

    de James Felton ...
    SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT HAS SOLD OVER 100,000 COPIESTwitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, fully illustrated and chronicling 52 of the most ludicrous, weird and downright 'baddie' things we Brits* have done to the world since time immemorial - before conveniently forgetting all about them, of course. Including: ... Leer más

    $267 MXN

  • The Book of General Ignorance

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A shockingly counterintuitive book of trivia that cuts through the misconceptions that most of us call “facts” to show how wrong we are about . . . well, everything.“Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.”—The New York TimesThink Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented ... Leer más

    $216 MXN

  • Harry Potter - The Ultimate Book of Facts

    Are you a huge fan of Harry Potter? You have probably read every book and seen every film many times over. But how much do you really know? This excellent book has more than two hundred facts that will surprise and amaze you in equal measure. Sections include:-Harry Potter and Daniel Radcliffe-Quidditch-Hermione Granger and Emma Watson-The Ministry of Magic-The Triwizard Tournament-Hogwarts-And ... Leer más

    Antes $79 MXN Ahora $68 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The FC Barcelona Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About FC Barcelona

    This book is your ultimate FC Barcelona resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about FC Barcelona's whole picture right away. Get countless FC Barcelona facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The FC Barcelona Handbook is the ... Leer más

    $248 MXN

  • Catwatching

    Why Cats Purr and Other Feline Mysteries Explained

    This book, the first in the popular Watching series, explains everything from why cats purr to why we say it's raining cats and dogs. 26 black-and-white photographs. ... Leer más

    $90 MXN

  • 101 Amazing Nintendo NES Facts

    Includes facts about the Famicom

    de Jimmy Russell ...
    Series Libro 2 - Games Console History
    In this fact-filled installment in Jimmy Russell's Games Console History series, we learn 101 amazing facts about Nintendo's seminal NES, the most significant console in Nintendo history. The facts cover many areas, including the history, the hardware, game titles both rare and popular and some incredible information you probably never knew! Everyone from retro gamers who were there at the time to ... Leer más

    Antes $79 MXN Ahora $68 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus