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The de-textbook : the stuff you didn't know about the stuff you thought you knew / CRACKED.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Plume, 2013Description: xiii, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0452298202 (hbk.)
  • 9780452298200 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Detextbook : the stuff you didn't know about the stuff you thought you knew
Subject(s):
Contents:
A brief recap of your squandered education -- Health and anatomy: stuck inside an insane machine with a user's guide made of lies -- Biology : the propaganda campaign to make you think all cool animals are dead -- World history : if it was written by the winners, they are boring liars -- Sex education : lies about your junk and how to use it -- Physics : the universe is an unpredictable magic show -- U.S. history : the (bullshit) superhero movie -- Health and nutrition : tricked into living fat and dying young -- Practical psychology : how to keep your brain from screwing you.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 001.96 D278 Available 33111005222118
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

You are an idiot.

Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're even pooping wrong - Jesus, you're a wreck!

But it's going to be okay. Because we're here to help. Packed with more sexy facts than the Encyclopedia Pornographica, the Cracked De-Textbook will teach you about the true stars of history, why you picture everything from Velociraptors to Ancient Rome incorrectly, and finally, at long last - how to pop a proper squat. This book was built from the ground up to systematically seek out, dismantle and destroy the many untruths that years of misguided education have left festering inside of you, and leave you a smarter person...whether you like it or not. The De-Textbook is a merciless, brutal learning machine. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are informed.

A brief recap of your squandered education -- Health and anatomy: stuck inside an insane machine with a user's guide made of lies -- Biology : the propaganda campaign to make you think all cool animals are dead -- World history : if it was written by the winners, they are boring liars -- Sex education : lies about your junk and how to use it -- Physics : the universe is an unpredictable magic show -- U.S. history : the (bullshit) superhero movie -- Health and nutrition : tricked into living fat and dying young -- Practical psychology : how to keep your brain from screwing you.

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