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The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e

By Doris Flexner

The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e

By Doris Flexner

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The classic irreverent look at the past--now updated with even more appalling facts!Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded--and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds of devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larger cup half-empty. This enthralling, enlightening, and devilishly entertaining chronicle of disasters and dastardly deeds brings to light the darkest events in history and the most abysmal calamities to strike the planet . . . so far.88 BC: Mithridates VI Eupator provides an early example of genocide by massacring 100,000 Romans.1347: Saint Vitus' Dance Epidemic shimmies across Europe like a deadly disco fever, leaving its victims twitching, uncontrollably leaping, and foaming at the mouth.1888: Jack the Ripper stalks through the dark alleys of Whitechapel, England, turning the world's oldest profession into the world's most dangerous one.1939: A Swiss chemist wins a Nobel Prize for developing DDT--and the environment gets another nail in the coffin.2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast. In a classic double whammy, the government response also devastates the Gulf Coast.And much, much more!
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
512
Release Date:
2008-05-27
Publication Date:
2008-06-01
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
006143101X
ISBN13:
9780061431012
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
639 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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