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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

By: Andre Bernard,Clifton Fadiman

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From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

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808

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Little, Brown

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ISBN 10

0446931268

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9780446931267

The New Joys of Wine

By: Clifton Fadiman,Sam Jay Aaron,Darlene Geis

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The New Joys of Wine

By: Clifton Fadiman,Sam Jay Aaron,Darlene Geis

COOKING/WINE

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450

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ABRAMS

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0810936526

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9780810936522

The Horrible Void Between the Trenches

By: Dr. Clifton Wilcox

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The Horrible Void Between the Trenches

By: Dr. Clifton Wilcox

Armies are virtually never ready to fight major wars. Warfare continues to change over time, which means no two wars are exactly alike. Armys leaders struggle to anticipate the next war, yet it is unrealistic to predict with perfection. The advent of new technology and tactics, unexpected adversaries, the vast size and complexity of military organizations, undetectable capabilities, and unforeseen goals signify gaps will exist between the war an army expects to fight and the war it must fight. Yet, throughout history there has been no army on Earth that has been accused of total unpreparedness than those that went to war in Europe in August of 1914. There is no conflict that more vividly conjures up the image of wasteful military incompetence than the First World War, in which a wholesale chain-of-command on both sides utterly failed to foresee the scale, duration and character of a war transformed by modern weaponry and mass mobilization. The millions cut down among the artillery barrages, machine gun fire and gas clouds have become the quintessential symbol of military unpreparedness and the inability to adapt.

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151

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Xlibris Corporation

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ISBN 10

1503564134

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9781503564138

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

By: Clifton Fadiman

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The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

By: Clifton Fadiman

A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

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1322

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Hachette+ORM

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0316084727

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9780316084727

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

By: Andre Bernard,Clifton Fadiman

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By: Andre Bernard,Clifton Fadiman

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Little, Brown

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The Lifetime Reading Plan

By: Clifton Fadiman

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The Lifetime Reading Plan

By: Clifton Fadiman

Now in print for almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative, and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio, and many others.This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; 1800-1900; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.

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291

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HarperPerennial

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0060961740

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9780060961749

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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

The New Joys of Wine

The New Joys of Wine

The Horrible Void Between the Trenches

The Horrible Void Between the Trenches

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

The Lifetime Reading Plan

The Lifetime Reading Plan

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