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An Underground Education - Richard Zacks

Description: ISBN 0965843920 / Author: Richard Zacks / Genre: Encyclopedias / Reference / The guide to everything you didn't learn in school.

Newest Review: ... XIV never said "L'etat, c'est moi", as far as anyone can tell. The business section comes next, and covers ... more

... the evil deeds performed by many of our best-known 19th century industrialists, along with the various scams and scandals that have rocked the business world down the years. Basically, the message here is that if you want to get on in the world of business, you have to be either unscrupulous or mad. Or a bit of both. The crime and punishment section starts out with covering the niceties of execution and torture methods. Some of these are...more

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An Underground Education - Richard Zacks: Not the kind of education I got at school! (1185 words)
by - written on 07/08/01 (Very useful, 46 readings)
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An Underground Education, by Richard Zacks, bills itself as 'The unauthorized and outrageous supplement to everything you though you knew about art, sex, business, crime, science, medicine, and other fields of human knowledge'. And it's crammed full of the kinds of things you always wanted to know, or didn't want to know, or didn't know you wanted to know. The best way to describe it is to give some examples of the kinds of topics it covers. It's an American book, so of course the 'history' section is divided into 'The World' and 'America'. And there are a lot of Americanisms scattered about, but it's just as much fun ... Read the complete review