Author: Graham Sharpe
Publisher: Anova Books
Keywords: gambling, strangest, years, series, over, history, true, moments, extraordinary, stories
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1861058640
ISBN-13: 9781861058645
Whether it be a dollar in the Lottery or a million dollars on the turn of a card, the instinct to bet is the same. And, over the centuries, there have been some very strange gambles and gamblers. From Oscar Wilde and the Marx Brothers to Ben Affleck and James Bond, from Monte Carlo to Las Vegas, this collection celebrates the fearless, the flamboyant, the fantastic.Endlessly entertaining, the Strangest… Series of mad miscellany abound with true accounts of history’s strangest characters and events—from potty potentates to dotty inventions. A mind-boggling excursion through the byways of
Author: Guy Boothby
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: case, strangest
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 055432654X
ISBN-13: 9780554326542
Illustrated by L.J. Bridgman and P. Hard
Author: John Harrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: thing, strangest, synaesthesia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-06-07
List price: $98.50
ISBN-10: 0192632450
ISBN-13: 9780192632456
Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of someone’s voice or music, the sound of which looks like ’shards of glass’. Throughout history, many notable artists and writers have claimed to suffer from synaesthesia, including, Arthur Rimbaud, Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Hockney. The condition remains as controversial now as when first brought to the public e
Author: George C. Eggleston
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag im Europäischen Hochschulverlag
Keywords: stories, strangest, history
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 3867413665
ISBN-13: 9783867413664
Author: Timothy J. Bradley
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: strangest, survival, sharks, paleo
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-03-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0811848787
ISBN-13: 9780811848787
If you think today’s sharks are fearsome, wait until you see what swam in the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago! Creatures with snouts like saws, and spiral jaws. Sharks so large they could swallow whales whole. Timothy Bradley’s vibrant illustrations and razor-sharp prose bring theseferocious fishand their tamer relativesto life with scientific detail. Learn how they survived catastrophic events that completely wiped other creatures out, and see which of their strange adaptations can still be seen in sharks today.
Author: Howard Zimmerman
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: fastest, strangest, baddest, biggest, dinosaurs
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0689832761
ISBN-13: 9780689832765
Dinosaurs! Here are those marvelous monsters of the Mesozoic as you’ve never seen them before! In this colossal collection, you will find dinosaurs larger than houses and dinosaurs as small as cats. Dinosaurs faster than Ostriches. Dinosaurs with 12-inch claws that could rip prey in two. Feathered dinosaurs. Dinosaurs heavier than a dozen African elephants, and dinosaurs more fearsome than T.rex. Dinosaurs! is filled with giant glorious illustrations -- over 75 paintings in all. Created by the world’s artists, they capture scientists’ latest way of looking at dinosaurs as
Author: Brian Clegg
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: strangest, phenomenon, science, entanglement, effect, quantum, god
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 031255530X
ISBN-13: 9780312555306
The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be trueWhat is entanglement? It’s a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected---instantly---in the other, be they in the same lab or light-years apart. So counterintuitive is this phenomenon and its implications that Einstein himself called it spooky” and thought that it would lead to the downfall of quantum theory. Yet scientists have since discovered that quantum entanglement, the God Effect,” was one of Einstein
