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Schott's Quintessential Miscellany
Ben Schott
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Hardcover, 160 pages; 2011
$16.00
 Members' Price: $13.60
Oscar Wilde once said, "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information." Well, Schott's Quintessential Miscellany would have cheered Wilde's world. This unique little book--featuring quaint illustrations and charts--compiles an abundance of fascinating minutiae. In no discernible order, the entries range from the practical (international weather symbols, the Greek alphabet), to the interesting (curious economic indicators, rare delusional conditions), to the just plain obscure (a chronology of Crayola crayon colors, unlikely "cures" for hiccups). This delightful compendium of odd trivia makes surprisingly compulsive reading--not to mention clever (or, perhaps, annoying) conversation fodder.
(AG)
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