8000 Things You Should Know

8000 Things You Should Know
Title 8000 Things You Should Know PDF eBook
Author Belinda Gallagher
Publisher Bardfield Press
Pages 512
Release 2006-09-01
Genre Animals
ISBN 9781842368046

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"This incredible reference resource covers eight subject areas and provides 8000 bulleted facts. There are 800 panels, each containing an illustration and ten key facts, star facts and news flashes. There are no long passages of text ..."--P [4] of cover.

8000 Amazing Things You Should Know

8000 Amazing Things You Should Know
Title 8000 Amazing Things You Should Know PDF eBook
Author Miles Kelly
Publisher 512-Page Fact
Pages 511
Release 2016-08-01
Genre
ISBN 9781786170811

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8000 Awesome Things You Should Know

8000 Awesome Things You Should Know
Title 8000 Awesome Things You Should Know PDF eBook
Author Miles Kelly
Publisher 512-Page Fact
Pages
Release 2016-08-01
Genre
ISBN 9781786170804

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Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks
Title Four Thousand Weeks PDF eBook
Author Oliver Burkeman
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 140
Release 2021-08-10
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 0374715246

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

8000 More Things You Should Know

8000 More Things You Should Know
Title 8000 More Things You Should Know PDF eBook
Author Miles Kelly Publishing, Limited
Publisher
Pages 511
Release 2007
Genre Animals
ISBN 9781842369432

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My Last Eight Thousand Days

My Last Eight Thousand Days
Title My Last Eight Thousand Days PDF eBook
Author Lee Gutkind
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 270
Release 2020-10-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0820358061

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As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.

Random Illustrated Facts

Random Illustrated Facts
Title Random Illustrated Facts PDF eBook
Author Mike Lowery
Publisher Workman Publishing
Pages 209
Release 2017-10-31
Genre Reference
ISBN 0761189955

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Trivia meets its match. Did you know that Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits? Or that the Mars Rover sang itself “Happy Birthday”? How about the odd ingredient Civil War soldiers used to make coffee? From Jupiter’s diamond showers to why pirates wore eye patches to the delightful link between dancing goats and the discovery of coffee, this collection of obscure and fascinating facts is brought to you by Mike Lowery, an illustrator and connoisseur of the offbeat. Featuring four gatefolds and hundreds of infographic webs that connect the trivia in dozens of surprising ways, it’s a little book that delivers endless delight.