An edition of It's all relative (2017)

It's all relative

adventures up and down the world's family tree

Large print edition.
It's all relative
Jacobs, A. J., Jacobs, A. J.
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An edition of It's all relative (2017)

It's all relative

adventures up and down the world's family tree

Large print edition.

"New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family -- where it begins and how far it goes -- and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind." A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database." That's enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs's three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history. Jacobs's journey would take him to all seven continents. He drank beer with a US president, found himself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. After all, we can choose our friends, but not our family. "Whether he's posing as a celebrity, outsourcing his chores, or adhering strictly to the Bible, we love reading about the wacky lifestyle experiments of author A.J. Jacobs" (Entertainment Weekly). Now Jacobs upends, in ways both meaningful and hilarious, our understanding of genetics and genealogy, tradition and tribalism, identity and connection. It's All Relative is a fascinating look at the bonds that connect us all" --

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Pages
459

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Table of Contents

Introduction
The eighth cousin
The world family tree
DNA sharing is caring
A great (or possibly terrible) idea
A pandemonium of genealogists
Historical voyeurism
Genetic jambalaya
Groundhog Sam and my 2,585 southern cousins
Embracing failure
Should family be abolished?
The good cousin
Adam and Eve
Kissing cousins
The Greatest Generation (and the upside of cigarettes)
Thank you for having sex
Biological and logical families
Ellis Island
Our Neanderthal cousins
Family feuds
Who's your father?
Son-in-law of the American Revolution
The mega-tree revolution
Our animal cousins
Big love
The other side of the dash
Privacy
The genius of Isaac Newton
Fathers and sons
Twins and twins, also more twins
Five mothers
Black sheep
My presidential cousin
Tradition!
The Kevin Bacon delusion
The pilgrimage
An ocean of cousins
Cheers to the dead
My celebrity cousins
51 percent of the family tree
The melting pot
The FBI and my grandpa
The great surname challenge
Awkward family photos
Brother versus brother
The global family reunion
We are, without a doubt, irrefutably, family.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-454).

Series
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction, Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Other Titles
It is all relative, Adventures up and down the world's family tree
Copyright Date
2017

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Dewey Decimal Class
929.1
Library of Congress
CS21 .J33 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
459 pages (large print)
Number of pages
459

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26940578M
ISBN 10
1432844458
ISBN 13
9781432844455
LCCN
2017046320
OCLC/WorldCat
1012615929

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