Myth-Informed: You may think you know what you know, but at least some of what you know is not what you think. This rich, myth-shattering compilation debunks thousands of myth-taken "facts." Organized by category into more than forty chapters, it is a veritable Baedeker to indelible beliefs that just ain't so.

Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery: Scams, Scandals, And Skulduggery presents seventeen tales of the world's most outrageous frauds. These stories range from the past (such as the master forger and the Brazilian aristocrat who sold six copies of the Mona Lisa to wealthy and dishonest collectors -- and then had to steal the original painting to maintain the fiction) to the present, such as the famous case of the forged Hitler diaries

Devious Derivations: In Devious Derivations, word maven Hugh Rawson brings you a marvelously entertaining roundup of 1,000 spurious etymologies, then enlightens you with their genuine counterparts.

Biggest Secrets: From the author of the bestselling Big Secrets, here are even more hidden secrets revealed for the first time. From JFK's secret home movies of his own death -- filmed months before his assassination -- and Saddam Hussein's plans to have himself cloned to secret rituals of the Boy Scouts, this is a riotous trove of often startling information that is impossible to put down.

Big Secrets: Are there really secret backward messages in rock music, or is somebody nuts? What goes on at Freemason initiations? Feverish rumor has it that Walt Disney's body was frozen and now lies in a secret cryonic vault somewhere beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean exhibit at Disneyland. Big Secrets has complete explanations and diagrams, nothing left to the imagination.

More Misinformation: The book that demystifies myths, exposes exaggerations, and fires away at fibs, flimflam, and frauds.

More of the Straight Dope: Since 1973, the redoubtable Cecil Adams has collected, corrected, inspected, and dissected thousands of reader's questions, reporting his sagacious findings in the popular weekly column, THE STRAIGHT DOPE. His first book amazed millions. Now he returns with another incomparable compendium of fantastic facts, insouciant information, and delicious data on every subject of import to personkind: Is it true Thanksgiving was invented by the editor of HARPER'S BIZARRE? Why do your fingers wrinkle in the bathtub? And hundreds more burning questions explained at last!

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