The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday: 52 Weekends of Essential Knowledge for the Curious Mind
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0312571348 / Publisher: St. Martin's Press, October 2010
Organized by subjects ranging from the Big Bang and China to the Internet and Philosophy, a compendium of everyday facts that people may have forgotten are arranged so that they can be studied on weekends throughout the course of a year.
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A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since? Always wondered who really invented the World Wide Web? Here is the book for you, with all the answers you've been looking for: The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday is based on the premise that there is a recognizable group of topics in history, literature, science, art, religion, philosophy, politics, and music that educated people should be familiar with today. Over 100 of these have been identified and arranged in a way that they can be studied over a year's time by spending two hours on a topic every weekend.
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