Mental Floss Presents in the Beginning From Big Hair to the Big Bang, Mental_floss Presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything

Name: Mental Floss Presents in the Beginning From Big Hair to the Big Bang, Mental_floss Presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything
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ISBN: 9780061251474

ISBN-10: 006125147X

ISBN-13: 9780061251474

Edition: 2007

Authors: Editors of Editors of Mental Floss, Mangesh Hattikudur, Mangesh Hattikudur, Mental Floss Editors

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The smart alecs who brought you Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets and Mental Floss: Genius Edition presents In the Beginning which looks at the origins of everyday things from inventions that changed the world to the Big Bang and the birth of nations. A must have for today's impossibly clever, cultured and sophisticated person.

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.17" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.