 | Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Plunges into History
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.88 The title says it all--one of the best "bathroom readers" for history
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 | Armchair Reader: The Amazing Book of History by Editors of West Side Publishing
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $35.76 A new (2008) and worthy rival to the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into History"
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 | Armchair Reader World War II (Armchair Reader) by Editors of Westside Publishing
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.76 Brief entries describing events known and obscure from World War II
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 | History's Last Stand by Gerard Del Re
Buy used from: $0.01 History's Finales--some grand, some not, but all interesting
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 | Dirty Little Secrets of the Twentieth Century by James F. Dunnigan
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.01 Dunigan may sometimes be in error, but he is never in doubt!
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 | The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium Of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres And Mayhem From The Big Bang To The New Millennium by Doris Flexner
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Death, destruction and disaster--just like reading the daily newspaper! Remember, no matter how just the cause or white the knight--sometimes, the dragon wins.
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 | The Optimist's Guide to History by Doris Flexner
Buy used from: $0.01 The dark side of pessimism: sometimes, the optimists win.
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 | Just Curious About History, Jeeves by Erin Barrett
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 History questions from the Net--each of which can be answered in one sitting
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 | The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $6.81 Short, sweet and entertaining
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 | Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Awaken your inner skeptic--an entertaining romp through American History
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 | Armchair Reader Civil War (Armchair Reader) by Michael Amedeo
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.28 The American Civil War in a series of brief articles
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 | Legends , Lies & Cherished Myths of World History by R. Shenkman
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $0.01 You can never be too cynical--world history debunked, one sitting at a time.
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 | Quirky Quotations: More Than 500 Fascinating, Quotable Comments and the Stories Behind Them by Tad Tuleja
Buy used from: $0.01 The histories behind the quotations, often very funny.
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 | American History in 100 Nutshells by Thaddeus F. Tuleja
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.01 Interesting and witty.
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 | The 365 Most Important Events of the 20th Century by Paul Baldwin
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Informative--and you can quibble about which events should have made the list!
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 | They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions by Paul F. Boller Jr.
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $2.40 The joy of debunking--one quotation at a time!
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 | Overrated/Underrated by Editors of American Heritage Magazine
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 Who's overrated and who's underrated, in 100 different categories--guaranteed to provoke reflection and arguments.
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 | What Were They Thinking?: Really Bad Ideas Throughout History by Bruce Felton
Buy used from: $0.01 From a British governor's plan to raze the Taj Mahal to the War of Jenkins' Ear, this is history told one bad idea at a time.
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 | History Bites: The Past's Strangest Moments in Bite-size Portions by Judith Millidge
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.99 The quirks of history, one short paragraph at a time.
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 | It's About Time: How Long History Took by Mike Flanagan
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $0.01 From the 1/400th of a second that it took to photograph the flag raising on Iwo Jima to the age of the universe, one easy page at a time.
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 | Mindblowers!: A Look Back at History That Will Change the Way You Look at the World Today by Jim Rhine
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 Short essays about interesting historical events, some well known, some obscure, by Emmy Award-Winning Jeopardy Writer Jim Rhine. The title doth protest too much, though--more amusing than "mindblowing," but a perfect addition to the bathroom historian's library.
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 | Contrary to Popular Belief: More than 250 False Facts Revealed by Joey Green
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.75 Setting the record straight: popular beliefs about history and other topics, debunked one page at a time.
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 | Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $13.99 The twists and turns of history in short, digestible portions.
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