Compiles entertaining, bizarre, and informative data pertaining to a wide variety of events, personalities, and achievements

Felton and Fowler's Best, Worst, and Most Unusual

FELTON, Bruce

Reference

Fawcett Books

Felton and Fowler's More Best, Worst, and Most Unusual

Humor & Entertainment

Fowler, Mark

Trivia & Fun Facts

One of a Kind: A Compendium of Unique People, Places, and Things

Random House Value Publishing

Gathers little known and unusual facts about presidents, statesmen, royalty, religion, science, language, literature, architecture, the United States, sports, movies, money, animals, disasters, and crime

History

Americas

Quill

All new second volume of fascinating facts and entertaining opinions on every conceivable subject including: Worst bank robber. Most unusual will. Best special effects. Most unusual hallucinogen. Worst high-school reunion and Best watchdog.

Crowell

What could Tommy Dorsey have been thinking in 1940 when he installed his orchestra in the monkey house of the Philadelphia Zoo to perform a concert for the apes? Could artist Rudy Giacomo have been serious when he proposed building a 39 mile manicotti around Manhattan Island? Was the Nobel Prize Committee on drugs when they conferred the 1949 prize in Medicine to the man who perfected the lobotomy? Bad ideas are everywhere--they're the tile grout of history, the crabgrass of civilization, poking up through every crack in our thinking. According to government statistics, they outnumber good ideas six hundred to one. What Were They Thinking is a compendium of some 400 harebrained schemes, fool notions, and misguided obsessions both grandiose and mundane. In it readers will uncover one man's effort to market a board game based on the Lebanese civil war...an Iowa State University professor's proposal to blow up the moon...and Senator Victor Biaka-Boda's ill-considered campaign trip to the Ivory Coast hinterlands. (Not only did he lose the election, his constituents ate him.) Within these pages, the aim has not been to probe the motives behind bad ideas, but simply to recount and, above all, revel in them. The stories in What Were They Thinking? range from the horrific to the hilarious; many are both. But none are fanciful. Every item has been carefully researched from published, non-fiction sources such as newspapers, trade journals, magazines, government reports, research studies, corporate literature, and reference books. Says Felton, "To have been any less exacting in my insistence on accuracy would have been a terrible idea."

What Were They Thinking?: Really Bad Ideas Throughout History

Globe Pequot Pr

Mary Phelps Jacob, inventor of the first modern brassiere, and Dr. Robert J. White, transplanter of heads, are among more than 300 overlooked Americans whose deeds, eccentricities, and oddities are recounted

Felton and Fowler's Famous Americans You Never Knew Existed

Teen & Young Adult

Stein & Day Pub

In this, the biggest volume of bizarre knowledge ever, seekers of unique trivia will find the answers to many fascinating questions. It includes every possible field, from astronomy to taxidermy, sculpture to sociology. The authors have scoured hundreds of public records, news reports, critical opinions, and statistics to cull the absurd, the great, and the not-so-wonderful from all walks of life. The findings are often humorous, occasionally appalling, sometimes downright strange—but always compelling.

The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual: Noteworthy Achievements, Events, Feats & Blunders of Every Conceivable Kind

Galahad

Now revised and expanded, this best-selling compendium of some 400 harebrained schemes, fool notions, and misguided obsessions both grandiose and mundane covers bad ideas in politics, science, sports, and more.

Lyons Pr

"When I see a great short-order cook with grace and great economy of gesture", Gloria Steinem says in these pages, "I think that's taking a human endeavor to its peak". Others interviewed here offer less encompassing parameters to define the boundaries of creativity. CREATIVITY: Conversations with 28 Who Excel, however, does not resolve philosophical questions such as "What is creativity?" or "Who is an artist and how did they get that way?" Instead, acclaimed achievers from a remarkable spectrum of disciplines offer invaluable glimpses into private creative cauldrons. Their lessons and insights allow the reader to synthesize his or her own answers to the big questions. Or better yet, simply to enjoy. Here, for example, is screenwriter Frank Pierson explaining why he almost killed the classic line "What we have here is a failure to communicate" from his Cool Hand Luke script: "I looked at it and said, 'Oh shit, that's good.' But then my next thought was, 'This redneck can't say that.'" Or actor E. G. Marshall explaining how he disagreed with Woody Allen's direction in one Interiors scene: "But I did it his way because it was his idea. Ironically, it turned out that Ingmar Bergman praised that scene and praised me for doing it that way. That's why I always say I shouldn't put myself into the part. I should put the part into myself". Other masters from fields traditionally labeled as creative - literature, visual arts, music - give the reader similar views inside their professional lives. No businessmen or doctors are on the roster, but a renowned attorney reveals why preparing for the courtroom is like writing a play. A master chef illustrates how the astute gourmet's aesthetic judgmentis clouded by childhood experiences at the dinner table. And a Hall of Fame baseball announcer suggests that a Southern tradition of storytelling helped him become a painter of vivid word pictures for millions of radio liste

Creativity: Conversations With 28 Who Excel

Ferguson, Tom

Charlotte, Susan

Arts & Photography

Momentum Books, LLC

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Felton and Fowler's Best, Worst, and Most Unusual

Felton and Fowler's More Best, Worst, and Most Unusual

One of a Kind: A Compendium of Unique People, Places, and Things

One of a Kind: A Compendium of Unique People, Places, and Things

Felton and Fowler's More Best, Worst, and Most Unusual

What Were They Thinking?: Really Bad Ideas Throughout History

Felton and Fowler's Famous Americans You Never Knew Existed

The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual: Noteworthy Achievements, Events, Feats & Blunders of Every Conceivable Kind

What Were They Thinking?: Really Bad Ideas Throughout History

Creativity: Conversations With 28 Who Excel