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An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
An Underground Education The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art Sex Business Crime Science Medicine and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
Author: 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. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780965843928
ISBN-10: 0965843920
Publication Date: 1/1/1997
Pages: 418
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3.8 stars, based on 33 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Book Type: Paperback
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I liked this book,I read it over a couple of times when I just wanted some light, entertaining reading. Contains some good conversation starters.
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reviewed An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge on + 28 more book reviews
The unauthorized and outrageous supplement to everything you thought you knew about art, sex, business, crime, science, medicine, and other fields of human knowledge
ilovedale3 avatar reviewed An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge on + 524 more book reviews
Interesting little known trivia about historical people and events as well as cultural ideals through the ages. Definitely things you won't find in a regular textbook (like women only began wearing panties or "bloomers" in the 1800's or that Cleopatra was really unattractive in real life)!
Erinyes avatar reviewed An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge on + 279 more book reviews
This is exactly the sort of history book that I love. I could not put it down once I started reading it.


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