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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? - Really Bad Ideas Throughout History
by Felton, Bruce
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0762726679
- ISBN 13
- 9780762726677
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 274 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and a faint partial crease on the front cover; no interior markings. The Contents are: Thousands Flee as Mutant Cheese Attacks White House - Bad Ideas in American Politics and Government; Making the Whole World British - Bad Ideas in Politics and Government Beyond U.S. Shores; The Plot to Kill Hitler's Mustache - Bad Ideas in War and Peace; The Strange Journey of Haydn's Head - Bad Ideas in Arts and Letters; Officer Arrest that Projectionist - Bad Ideas in Popular Culture; Nuking the Moon - Bad Ideas in Science and Medicine; Selling the Babe - Bonehead Plays in the Field of Sports; Honey I Drained the Canal - A Miscellany of Moronic Stunts, Pointless Heroics, and Unsafe Practices; Board Games from Hell - and Other Marketplace Excesses; Thanks but I Had a Big Lunch - A Smorgasbord of Unappetizing Ideas; Monsieur Sauvage's Flying Egg - Transportation Ideas that Hopped the Track; Look Younger and Have Fewer Hemorrhoids - Bad Ideas for Better Living; When Tommy Dorsey Played for Apes - Bad Ideas in Flora and Fauna; Fat Men in Chimneys - Lamebrained Crimes Misdemeanors and Legal Pronouncements; and The End - Death as the Ultimate Bad Idea..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227107
- Title
- WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? - Really Bad Ideas Throughout History
- Author
- Felton, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0762726679
- ISBN 13
- 9780762726677
- Publisher
- The Globe Pequot Press
- Place of Publication
- Guilford, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- united states; america; delusion; political; germany; adolf; nazi;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - General;
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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