Curiosities & Wonders

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilliam Hartston has spent over ten years writing for The Independent. He also writes columns for The Express. He has written several books of useless information...

A beautifully illustrated picture atlas designed to take children on an exciting journey around the world. The atlas opens with the continents, then presents a world view of countries before exploring deeper into each country and the exciting places to...

Bizarre tales you won't believe of The Titanic, nuclear cockroaches, alligators in the subway, the two-headed dog, Black Bart the Pirate, Bonnie and Clyde, The Bunny Man, and much more! Fact or fiction?Did you hear about the kids who found a Ferrari...

A giant humorous collection of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, hilarious blunders and gaffes--over 1000 extraordinary cases from around the world. Who needs urban legends, when these are all true? It's everything readers love about Ripley's Believe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922233205Author Ken SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Blast Books,U.S.Publisher Blast Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

A smorgasbord of vignettes and tidbits about the quirky-and sometimes downright odd-origins of various kitchen inventions, products, and foodstuff, How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun includes seventy-five short essays that will dispel popular myths and draw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680228434Author Publications International LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956720Author Laurie TriefeldtFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 356mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440563621Author Dan LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Adams Media CorporationPublisher Adams Media CorporationWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a wide range of topics, filling in all those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge of this fair isle.Inspired by the UK citizenship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735204676Author Don MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Books Canada LtdPublisher Penguin Books Canada LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112709Author Kate AscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 275mm *...

We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true-roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees-but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and compellingly readable reference work will answer all...

Vampires and Vampirism (1914) is a work from another era, a time when belief and wonder led some to travel down pathways of knowledge in search of truth and terror, not knowing what they would find. Written in response to an "awakened [popular]...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250268563Author Ben BowlinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 196mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920599Author Karl ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

The natural world is full of awesome surprises, and the animal kingdom is no exception. As The Secret Lives of Animals reveals, it seems that the more we discover about the unusual species that populate our planet, the more we understand just how...

Over 200 pages of legends, spells, facts and mermaid crafts! Do you need a little more magic in your life? What about shimmer? Look no further. Mermania is here! Packed full of over 200 enchanting pages of legends, spells, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078773Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035442Author Michael FarquharFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345468901Author Judy JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1276gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774856918Author Angela ValdezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon DoughPublisher Simon DoughWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060740917Author David FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

With more than 120 illustrations to accompany instructions to more than 100 tricks, and a new foreword by Steven Cohen, a master of sleight of hand, this edition of Jean Hugard's classic is an essential edition to any illustionist's library.If you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738744773Author Pauline CampanelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615932064Author Liam K WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint TIFF, Ink. LLCPublisher TIFF, Ink. LLCWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

A Perfect Resource for Analyzing and Interpreting All Kinds of Dreams! "Dreams are the royal road to the subconscious." -Sigmund Freud What did you last dream of? Were you soaring above city skyscrapers? Or perhaps you were dancing with hippopotamuses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585427994Author Francesca GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606111222Author Timothy Green BeckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Inner Light - Global CommunicationsPublisher Inner Light - Global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450888431Author Publications International LtdFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Publications International, LimitedPublisher Publications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954214071Author Pamela K KinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Dreampunk PressPublisher Dreampunk PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062223234Author Gemma Elwin HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

After reading The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (more than 3 million copies sold worldwide), did you ever wonder what it feels like to be attacked by a great white shark? Or how it feels to be launched into space? Or what it's like to contract...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789995998073Author Jonathon TabetFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Nayden KostovPublisher Nayden KostovWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060740924Author David FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Discover remarkable information about science, animals, history, and more with this collection of 150 interesting and intriguing facts.Did you know peanut butter could be turned into diamonds? Or that one teaspoon of honey is the life work of a dozen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962496087Author Anne ParkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Oak Harbor PressPublisher Oak Harbor PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312369705Author Martin PlimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Hot on the heels of the sensational success of the "World's Greatest Book of Useless Information", the Official Useless Information Society brings you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. Were you aware,...

During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be...