An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge

By Richard Zacks

Book Overview

The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965843920
• ISBN13: 9780965843928
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

What a great book!

This is currently one of my go-to books for quick reading. It has a lot of stuff I didn't know until I read it. And it's all delivered with a dry wit that's right up my alley... Highly-recommend!

Entertaining

This is my third copy. I keep loaning it out and it never comes back to me! I have used it as an off-the-wall reference book.

This is a stellar, stellar book, just...

...be warned. If you're like me, you've read the reviews and you can think of half a dozen people you would like to buy "An Underground Education" for as a present. How perfect for Larry, John, and Dad. Well, maybe not Dad. I had intended to buy this for my father as a Christmas present, but when I received my copy, I realised that there was a problem. "An Ungerground Education" is littered with photographs. There are castrated men (full frontal) & lots of early porn and all sorts of other fascinating and freaky things. It's all very interesting, except that I cannot even begin to imagine giving it to my father... It's still a good read, though, and I highly recommend it. Just not as a gift for ol' Dad.

Awesome book...

This book was definitely one of the better trivia-oriented books I have read. It goes deep into the details that everyone wants to know about, in some strange fascinating sort-of way, such as Queen Anne and her merry maids at the dinner table, or strange facts on corsets. It's got everything from executions to cults. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in learning the little quirks in history.