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My Experimental Life by A.J. Jacobs
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For his first book, AJ Jacobs read the entire "Encyclopedia Britannica". For his second, he followed every single rule in the Bible. Now comes a collection of his most outrageous, hilarious and thought-provoking experiments yet. In "My Experimental Life" Jacobs puts himself to a series of bizarre and ri ...Show more
Thanks a Thousand - A Gratitude Journey by A. J. Jacobs
$22.99 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, mor ...Show more
The Know-it-All :One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the world by A.J. Jacobs
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent ...Show more
The Know-it-All : One man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world by A. J. Jacobs
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting, and some might say insane, task: to fill the holes in his education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica. With endearing and disarming frankness, The Know-It-All r ...Show more
The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? With female adulterers in Manhattan, even that could be grounds for accusations of assault. So what's a ...Show more
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