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How to Be a Genius: A Handbook for the Aspiring Smarty-Pants
André de Guillaume
#UB8182
Hardcover, 140 pages; 2007
$15.00
 Members' Price: $12.75
Get a notepad and write the word "IDEAS" on the front. If you're right-handed do it with your left hand and vice versa. That way it will look childish and historians will think you had your ideas in your prodigious youth.
Descartes, Shakespeare, Curie, Da Vinci, Mozart, [insert your name here]. To facilitate a quick and painless rise to genius status, André de Guillaume advises on choosing the appropriate field of expertise, developing a memorable legacy, dressing eccentrically, and functioning as a genius in a world of inferior intellects. This tongue-in-cheek "self-help" book for the intellectual elite offers such valuable tools as a quiz to evaluate the prodigy-potential of your youth, stock phrases of clever banter to practice in front of the mirror, and a worksheet for composing your Nobel Prize acceptance speech. There's even a section on how being a genius will affect your love life. With colorful illustrations and sidebars on other (established) geniuses throughout history, How to Be a Genius makes a great gift for a know-it-all with a sense of humor.
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