MARC details
000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
02980cam a2200349 a 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
006399500 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20180722204152.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
050113s2005 nyua b 000 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2005920534 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0764159178 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780764159176 |
029 1# - (OCLC) |
OCLC library identifier |
NLGGC |
System control number |
291735177 |
029 1# - (OCLC) |
OCLC library identifier |
NZ1 |
System control number |
10646090 |
029 1# - (OCLC) |
OCLC library identifier |
YDXCP |
System control number |
2235570 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)62186570 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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YDXCP |
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BTCTA |
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IHI |
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NFG |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
Authentication code |
pcc |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
NFCA |
Copy statement |
1 |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
902 |
Item number |
W425 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Weir, Stephen, |
Dates associated with a name |
1957- |
9 (RLIN) |
101709 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Encyclopedia idiotica : |
Remainder of title |
history's worst decisions and the people who made them / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Stephen Weir. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Hauppauge, N.Y. : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Barron's, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2005. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
256 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill. ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256). |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
In the beginning: Adam and Eve, the original idiots -- Menelaus and his lost wife -- Hannibal and the avalanche -- Cleopatra's men -- Nero and the burning of Rome -- Erik the Red's dream island: the first real estate scam -- Pope Sylvester and the end of the world -- Pope Alexander and the search for Prester John -- George Podiebrad, the last Bohemian, and world peace -- Moctezuma and the returning God -- Johan de Witt, New Amsterdam and Pulau Run: the worst deal ever made -- Lord North and King George III's tea party -- Napoleon, the march to Russia--and Frankenstein -- The war office versus the lady with the lamp: disease in the Crimea -- The War Office versus the Indian Army: mutiny and beef fat -- Thomas Austin's rabbits -- General Custer and Little Big Horn -- King Leopold and the scramble for Africa -- Nicholas, Alexandra, and the mad monk -- Ismay's lifeboats -- Gavrilo Princip's deli sandwich: the assassination of Franz Ferdinand -- Winston Churchill and the disaster at Gallipoli -- Trench warfare, General Haig, and the Battle of the Somme -- Maginot's line -- Winston Churchill strikes again: the map of Iraq -- Stalin and the great purge --Shenton Thomas's little men and the fall of Singapore -- Suhrawardy, partition, and the Bengal rice famine -- Wakefield's nuts -- Mohammed Mossadegh, Time's man of the year, and democracy in Iran -- The British nuclear legacy: the black mist of Maralinga -- Sir Anthony Eden, Suez, and speed -- Grrünenthal's outstandingly safe drug: Thalidomide -- Vaccines, AIDS, and the chimps of the Congo -- Mao and the great leap forward -- Robert McNamara's terrible wrong: Agent Orange -- Murphy's Law and the missing hyphen -- Bernard Dowiyogo's bird droppings -- Drinking Jim Jones's kool-aid: the Jonestown suicides -- Union Carbide's cost cutting: Bhopal -- Robert Maxwell and the mirror pensioners -- The Soviet nuclear legacy: Chernobyl -- Ahmed Bahdib, Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, and the CIA -- Gerald Ratneer's "crap" |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
History |
Form subdivision |
Miscellanea. |
9 (RLIN) |
84033 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
Adult Book |
994 ## - |
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C0 |
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NFG |
998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
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006399500 |