The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0811845400 / Publisher: Chronicle Books, October 2006
Drawing on the disasters of the past to better prepare for the future, this tongue-in-cheek guide provides detailed advice for handling situations that may arise while delving into history and features hundreds of hilarious lists, Worst-Case Wisdom, and much more. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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Best-seller history repeats itself with this dynamic new "almanac" format that broadens the scope and content of theWorst-Case Scenario handbooks. The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History offers step-by-step illustrated scenarios on how to win a joust, survive in a dungeon, and overcome other plights of yesteryear, but the volume also features hundreds of pages of additionaland hilariousinformation in the form of lists (the worst jobs to have during the Industrial Revolution), offbeat profiles (Attila the Hun, Idi Amin), Worst-Case Wisdom (bad advice), descriptions of disasters narrowly averted, and much more. Packed with charts, graphs, maps, and timelines, The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History is an invigorating look at all that's gone wrong in the past and the best way to prepare for the future.
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