ISBN:

• 9780452298200
• 0452298202

Description: xiii, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm

Other Title: Detextbook : the stuff you didn't know about the stuff you thought you knew

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.

LCCN: 2013022408

Control Number: 967260

Subjects:

• Common fallacies.
• Errors, Scientific -- Miscellanea.
• History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
• Medical misconceptions -- Miscellanea.

Genre: Trivia and miscellanea.

Other Authors: Cracked.com.