An irreverent A-to-Z survey of more than three thousand historical causes of death includes stories about famous and everyday people whose demises were brought about by a range of bizarre causes, from flying causes and bingo games to frozen toilets and spontaneous combustion. Original.[...]

David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore.The Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird pla[...]

An eyebrow-raising exposE of the strange and shocking side of history's religions, cults, and spiritual movements What is the meaning of life? Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has sought to answer the mysteries of existence. Unfortunately this restless search for the divine has, all too of[...]