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“the knowledge commons”

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  • Instant Genius: Smart Mouths

    by The Knowledge Commons ...
    The smartest and funniest quotations of all time, artfully arranged into witty—and surprising—categories. Every page will entertain, educate, and delight.Uncle John's dedicated team of quotationeers have scoured the worlds of entertainment, history, literature, politics, sports, and more to bring you this unique collection of utterances that bear repeating. From silly to profound, from Aristotle ... Read more

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  • Instant Genius: Fast Food for Thought

    by The Knowledge Commons ...
    Open this book anywhere, any time, any place for bite-size morsels of essential (and not-so-essential) knowledge.We have two mottos here at Portable Press: "Get smart" and "Have fun." As the publishers of the wildly popular Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series, we have twenty years' experience in translating our mottos into bestselling books, but we also know that not every reader is a bathroom ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Mohicans

    by James Fenimore Cooper — not in English Common Knowledge ...
    It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in ... Read more

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  • The Pioneers

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series Book 1 - The Leatherstocking Tales
    Originally published in 1823, "The Pioneers" (in full "The Pioneers; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna") is the first of five novels, but the fourth chronological story, in the series The Leatherstocking Tales by American writer James Fenimore Cooper."The Pioneers" began the saga of frontiersman Natty Bumppo, also called Leather-Stocking, and tells the interlocking story of three characters in ... Read more

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  • The Prairie

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series Book 3 - The Leatherstocking Tales
    Written at speed after "The Last of the Mohicans" established Cooper’s reputation, and published just a year later in 1827, "The Prairie", the third published novel of the Leatherstocking Tales but the last in Deerslayer’s chronology, depicts Leatherstocking, now known as the trapper or the old man, in his final days.The setting is the edge of the Great Plains, the time is 1805, and the hero is in ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Facts to Go Playtime!

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Facts to Go
    A loving look at toys and games—and the people who make and play them—from the past and present.Albert Einstein once said, “Play is the highest form of research.” Uncle John adds: “And it’s really fun!” And so is this e-book, which includes several classic articles from the Bathroom Reader archives along with a few all-new entries (including an inside look at the Angry Birds phenomenon). So ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays, his decency and warmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act version which was never produed, as well as the full test of the final three-act ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Attack of the Factoids

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    Bite-sized bits of information to give you the edge on trivia night—from crime and punishment to the rich and famous to ghosts, ghouls, oddballs, and more!Packed with more than 400 pages, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Attack of the Factoids is a fact-a-palooza of obscure information. Like what, you ask? Here are just a few extraordinary examples:* Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.* In ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Readers
    Celebrate the winners of this competition for Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Hilarious Trivia of the Year . . .Forget the Oscars, Grammys, and Golden Globes—after two decades of producing interesting and mind-boggling stories—the folks at the Bathroom Readers' Institute have come up with their own collection of pop-culture awards!This unique volume provides a new way to recognize some of the world's ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: WISE UP!

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    With this volume filled with thousands of bizarrely fascinating facts, we're on a roll!Is there any other single book in the universe with this many awesome tidbits of bite-sized information? Nope. And that's a fact! At nearly 400 pages (with a handy index for your fact-seeking convenience), Wise Up! is a must-have for anyone who likes their information on the go. It's organized into hundreds of ... Read more

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  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Series Book 9 - Delphi Parts Edition (Alexandre Dumas)
    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Three Musketeers’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Alexandre Dumas’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi ... Read more

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  • The Jungle Book - With Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling & Others

    by Rudyard Kipling ...
    Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling ...
    The Jungle Book' - Rudyard Kipling's 1894 collection of short stories, first published in magazines between 1893 and 1894. The tales of this volume represent fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that convey various moral messages. The most famous stories include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', the tale of a brave mongoose, and 'Toomai of the Elephants', the story of a young elephant-handler. This timeless ... Read more

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