What's In An Age?: Who Did What When, From Age 1 to 100
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Book Overview
Counting up year by year, from 1 to 104, this fascinating collection of human feats and follies is for all who suspect that their lives have yet to start or have passed them by. Feel too young to be... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0760732809
ISBN13:9780760732809
Release Date:January 2002
Publisher:Barnes and Noble Books
Length:156 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
great party conversation material
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Finally! Want to have something off-beat and smart (and maybe funny, too) to say at a party, or tell your uncle who's always ragging you about what you have yet to do with your life (like he's Mr. Accomplishment?)? This book has it all - composers, scientists, athletes, writers, presidents, bad men, prodigies, people who took their sweet time to make their mark on the world. And stuff like how old the guy was who invented the donut, the Slinky, Silly Putty (no, it wasn't all the same person), and more. This really is one of those books that you can't put down. And the pictures are hilariously brilliant.
Fascinating entries and v. funny illos-ideal birthday gift!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
If you're looking for motivation to finally write that screenplay/start that new career/invent a gizmo that will make you rich, you'll find it here. Andrew Postman clearly did his homework. Who would've thought that at age 9 Genghis Khan became chief of his mongol tribe? That at age 42 Sigmund Freud stopped having sex? Or that at 87 Mary Baker Eddy founded the Christian Science Monitor? Nick Galifianakis's illustrations are so wickedly funny you want to tear them out and stick them on your refrigerator. A perfect birthday gift for the person who has it all--including a sense of humor.
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