The LowBrow Guide to World History

by Michael Powell

Book Overview

History - long ennobled as the privileged domain of lofty scholars and erudite minds -- really just boils down to four things if you think about it. Who killed who, who conquered who, who screwed who,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760762775
• ISBN13: 9780760762776
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fun Education.

THE LOWBROW GUIDE TO WORLD HISTORY really isn't as lowbrow as it would want one to believe, nor is there a whole lot of world history here. Granted it touches on everything from dinosaurs to King Tut to Alexander the Great to Bill Gates and proposes such ideas that perhaps the reason dinosaurs went extinct was because their testicles got too hot or that Hitler only had one testicle. Nevertheless, none of this subject matter is discussed in-depth and much of what one will find in here can be discovered in a standard set of encyclopedias. Still, THE LOWBROW GUIDE TO WORLD HISTORY is an entertaining book full of delightful nuggets of useless information, such as the fact the food ingredient MSG was first produced in 1908 or that tulips aren't originally from Holland. Overall, this is a fun little book that makes a great gift for any trivia nut or reluctant high school history student.