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020 $a9780061781711 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
020 $a9780061781728 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aFlexner, Doris $q(Doris Flexner).
245 14 $aThe Pessimist's Guide to History$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c2008.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThe 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!
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cHarperCollins,$d2008.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3926 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 526 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3926 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 526 KB).
653 #0 $aHistory
653 #0 $aNonfiction
653 #0 $aReference
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
776 1 $cOriginal$z9780061431012
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