mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again

Brush up your Shakespeare, your biology, your art history, your civics and much much more with this all-purpose guide to feeling smart again. From the team that brought you the enormously successful new magazine, mental_floss (named one of the top 10 new magazines of 2001 by Library Journal), Condensed Knowledge is a trove of fun and useful information that blurs the line between great education and great entertainment. Covering the major subject areas, from history to physics to economics, it condenses the entire body of human knowledge into tantalizing lists such as geniuses who died paupers , religious rituals that hurt like hell , poems nobody understands , explorers who fell short of their destinations but got credit anyway , and much much more. Leave it on the coffee table and you’ll find it dog-eared within the hour. Crib it before a cocktail party and you’ll have enough material to be interesteing all night!