The Mental Floss History of the World, (Paperback)

from figre

The quick review. A lightly irreverent but interesting, fun, and fact-filled run through the entire history of humans on this planet (and a little bit off the planet - there is the moon after all.) In brief snippets and various sidetracks, this book does as good a job as possible of providing the...

from marshapetry

Enjoyable, the title says it all. Highly recommend for those that like to find their knowledge gained thru odd facts. You'll end up saying... a lot... "you don't say...". Excellent narrator

from PeggyK49

Given to me by my son, I had no idea I would ever read this entire book....after all, it was history and history classes in school were SO boring. Although it took a while to read in bits & pieces, I did read the whole book and, for the most part, found Mental Floss' version of the history of the...

from BooksOn23rd

THE MENTAL FLOSS HISTORY OF THE WORLD is chock-full of interesting nuggets of history that you probably never heard before. From 60,000 BCE to present day, Mental Floss brings you real history spiced with puns and sidebars of humorous character notes, origins of inventions, or quotes.Each chapter...

from JeffV

Mental Floss is a series of books (and I think magazines?) that provide executive summary - like distillations of otherwise heady topics. The description of this book on eMusic suggested it might be a little more humor-infused than it was (I was hoping for a lot of funny anecdotes). But it really...