Remember when you couldn't care less about what people from high school were eating for dinner? Or where a friend of a friend of a friend is hanging out? These were the simpler days before social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare swallowed the Internet and nearly a billion people. Now there’s a place where people can return to the days of not sharing everything. When thoughts were still private. When immediate attention for every act wasn’t so craved. It’s not online. It’s in a book called The Anti-Social Network: A Place For All The Thoughts, Ideas and Plans You Don’t Want To Share. Inside are 200 pages waiting to be filled by you. It’s a journal of memories, a sketchbook of ideas, a sanctuary of thought. And privacy is only an issue if you lose it.

The Anti-Social Network: A Place For All The Thoughts, Ideas and Plans You Don’t Want To Share

Humor & Entertainment

Hartzman, Marc

Humor

Curious Publications

Have you ever gone to a yard sale and marvelled at the dubious treasures on display? Imagine seeing a homemade deer-poop paperweight for ten dollars, a lonely left boot, a belt with a glass eye embedded in its buckle. It would never be possible to find such fantastic oddities all in one thrift shop or garage. But, all these objects do exist and have been sold on eBay. Now these items and many, many more like them are collected for your viewing pleasure in this hilarious "museum" of priceless eBay artifacts. With thirty million registered users, eBay is one dotcom that has thrived, becoming the most popular shopping website on the net. The suspense of bidding online inspires fanatic obsession, and all kinds of people from grandmothers to teenagers come to eBay to buy and sell just about everything. If you're searching for a rare deal on a hard-to-find gift, eBay is the place. But, when it comes to the unusual, buyers can easily get more than they bargained for. The author has collected one hundred of these gimcracks and photographed them as if they were jewels. Here are a trucker's prayer plaque in its shining newness, a real frog coin purse that looks like it's about to hop off the page, and a strand of Abraham Lincoln's hair shot as a historical gem. Accompanying each image are the seller's original sales pitch and goofy email correspondence about the objects' possible but improbable uses. This pocket-size catalog of curiosities makes for a delightful novelty gift for the eBayer in anyone's family.

Found on eBay: 100 Genuinely Bizarre Items from the World's Online Yard Sale

Universe

Oliver Cromwell led the charge in the beheading of England's King Charles I in 1649. But little did he know that his own head would soon roll. And roll and roll-for the next three hundred years across the Commonwealth. The execution of Charles I ended the monarchy, and Cromwell became the Lord Protector of England until his own death from natural causes in 1658. His body was embalmed and buried in Westminster Abbey, only to be exhumed by King Charles II three years later. The new king had restored the monarchy and wished to avenge his father's death by hanging Cromwell and beheading him posthumously. Now, for the first time, the memoirs of Oliver Cromwell's embalmed head have surfaced, making it the first account of any world leader-or any human being for that matter-chronicling the afterlife. This remarkable memoir recounts its journey through the centuries, beginning with Cromwell's decapitation and the head's impalement on a post at Westminster Hall, where it stayed for more than twenty years before being freed by a heavy storm. Over the centuries, the head enjoyed a series of unexpected adventures, encountering a host of bizarre and well-known characters-from its many owners, curious anatomists and misled but obsessed phrenologists to other preserved decapitated heads and impostor Cromwell heads. These escapades came to an end only after the head was donated to Cromwell's alma mater, Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, where it was eventually buried for good in 1960.

The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell - A Memoir: The Complete History of the Head of the Ruler of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, ... Tales and Gathered Illustrations Until

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir: The Complete History of the Head of the Ruler of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland ... With Collected Tales and Gathered Illustrati

Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings? According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to present them for your pure reading enjoyment. Including: <ul>
<li> The man that God told to perform surgery on himself</li> <li> God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank</li> <li> The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station</li> <li> The woman God instructed to direct traffic—topless</li> <li> And, sadly, many more</li> </ul>

God Made Me Do It: True Stories of the Worst Advice the Lord Has Ever Given His Followers

Sourcebooks

Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and "human torso" Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes. 20,000 first printing.

American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers

Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin

A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, what's fake, and what's just downright bizarre. You've probably heard of Tom Thumb. The Elephant Man. Perhaps even Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins. But what about Eli Bowen, the legless acrobat? Or Prince Randian, the human torso? These were just a few of the many stars that shone during the heyday of the American sideshow, from 1840 to 1950. American Sideshow chronicles the lives of truly amazing performers, examining these brave and extraordinary curiosities not just as sideshow performers but as people, delving into the lives they led and the ways they were able to triumph over and even benefit from their abnormalities. American Sideshow discusses the rise and fall of the original sideshows and their subsequent replacement by today's self-made freaks. With the progress of modern medicine, technological advancements, and the wonderful world of body modification, abnormalities are being overcome, treated and even prevented: Siamese twins can now be separated, and in addition to this, tongues can be forked, horns surgically implanted, and earlobes removed. There are also, of course, modern-day giants, fire eaters, sword swallowers, glass eaters, human blockheads, and oh, so much more. These fascinating personalities are celebrated through intimate biographies paired with stunning photographs. Approximately two hundred performers from the past one hundred and sixty years are featured, giving readers a comprehensive and sometimes astonishing look into the history of the American sideshow

TarcherPerigee

The most comprehensive look at our relationship with Mars--yesterday, today, and tomorrow--through history, archival images, pop culture ephemera, and interviews with NASA scientists Mars has been a source of fascination and speculation ever since the ancient Egyptians observed its blood-red hue and named it for their god of war and plague. But it wasn't until the 19th century when "canals" were observed on the surface of the Red Planet, suggesting the presence of water, that scientists, novelists, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs became obsessed with the question of whether there's life on Mars.&nbsp; Since then, Mars has fully invaded pop culture, inspiring its own day of the week (Tuesday), an iconic Looney Tunes character, and many novels and movies, from Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to The Martian. It's this cultural familiarity with the fourth planet that continues to inspire advancements in Mars exploration, from NASA's launch of the Mars rover Perseverance to Elon Musk's quest to launch a manned mission to Mars through SpaceX by 2024. Perhaps, one day, we'll be able to answer the questions our ancestors asked when they looked up at the night sky millennia ago.

The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Quirk Books

Product Description 
Take a spirited tour through the supernatural history of America, from its haunted sites to its famous ghosts to its ghost-obsessed pop culture.\nGhosts are everywhere—whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know—and is embedded in the very fabric of American history.\nWriter and historian Marc Hartzman dons the mantle of tour guide, taking readers on a fascinating journey through supernatural history, including:\n• The Fox Sisters and the rise of Spiritualism 
 • The supernatural obsessions of famous figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
 • Famous haunted sites like the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and the LaLaurie House in New Orleans 
 • Famous ghosts like the Bell Witch of Tennessee and the Greenbrier Ghost of West Virginia 
 • Paranormal investigators like Ed and Lorraine Warren \nDeeply researched and highly entertaining, with archival images and black and white illustrations, 
Chasing Ghosts will satisfy believers and skeptics alike. 
 Review 
“A fascinating read for anyone who loves unique history or unsolved mysteries.”— 
Business Insider\n“A 
fantastic book.”—Ben Kissel, co-host of 
Last Podcast on the Left\n“This fascinating and lavishly illustrated compendium pulls back the veil on some of the strangest moments in the paranormal.”— 
Cult of Weird\n“Using humor, fun illustrations and interesting anecdotes that will appeal to readers of all ages, Hartzman makes the serious point that ghost stories say as much about the world of the living as they do about the dead.” 
—BookPage“An extraordinary, documented, inherently fascinating, and entertaining study.” 
—Midwest Book Review\n“Like a psychopomp on the river Styx, author Marc Hartzman transports us to the world of the spirits. Inside this delightful haunted history, dead celebrities write books, mediums levitate seventy feet above the ground, and a horse named ‘Lady Wonder’ predicts the future. 
Chasing Ghosts demonstrates just how deeply the supernatural is embedded in culture and makes a compelling case for those who don’t take ghosts literally to consider them seriously.” 
—Shannon Taggart, author of 
Séance“If you're looking for a good book on the subject [of ghosts] that's comprehensive but not crushingly so....it's great...It allows you to draw your own conclusions. Believers and skeptics alike I think would really really enjoy this book. I'm certainly glad I spent time with it.”—John Goforth, co-host of Hysteria 51 \n“A perfect guide that takes you through much of the unknown and fascinating world of Ghosts. As someone who has produced many hours of paranormal programming for many years, I highly recommend reading this entertaining and informational guide.”—Michael Yudin, executive producer of 
Ghost Adventures and president of MY Entertainment\n“A fun, readable, and most importantly informative look at ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists, séances, mediums, and spirit communication throughout history and culture.”—Loyd Auerbach, parapsychologist, paranormal investigator and Instructor, Rhine Education Center\n“A lively primer on all things paranormal. This book covers the gamut from ancient times to modern tech, and everything relevant in between. 
Chasing Ghosts should be required reading for any ghost tour guide!”—Andrea Janes, Owner and Founder of Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre New York City Walking Tours\n“Marc Hartzman perfectly balances his skepticism with boundless curiosity. His sincere desire to trace the origins of history's most famous ghost stories results in a spine-tingling survey of the supernatural. Read it with the lights on!”—Lindsey Fitzharris, Bestselling Author of 
The Butchering Art 
 About the Author \nMarc Hartzman is "one of America's leading connoisseurs of the bizarre" (ABCNews.com) and is the author of several books, including 
The

Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural

Do you want to believe? Explore our fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence through exclusive interviews, archival photos, and strange but true stories from history. After decades of cover-ups and denials, in a June 2021 report, the US government finally admitted what many people already knew: yes, UFOs are real, and no, we don't know what (or who) they are. Writer and historian Marc Hartzman separates fact from fiction and provides a comprehensive tour through the skies, including: <ul> <li>UFO sightings, from the famous to the obscure&nbsp;</li> <li>Alien abductions, including the Betty and Barney Hill abduction and the Pascagoula abduction</li> <li>Ancient aliens, from Biblical astronauts to the alien architects behind the pyramids</li> <li>Scientific evidence, including the "Wow!" radio signal and the interstellar 'Oumuamua object</li> <li>Cover-ups and conspiracies, including the Roswell Incident and Area 51</li> <li>Governmental and military findings, from Project Blue Book to reports of UFOs at nuclear weapons sites</li> </ul> Deeply researched and highly entertaining, We Are Not Alone will inform and enchant anyone who's ever doubted that we are really alone in the universe.

We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies

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The Anti-Social Network: A Place For All The Thoughts, Ideas and Plans You Don’t Want To Share

Found on eBay: 100 Genuinely Bizarre Items from the World's Online Yard Sale

The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell - A Memoir: The Complete History of the Head of the Ruler of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, ... Tales and Gathered Illustrations Until

The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir: The Complete History of the Head of the Ruler of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland ... With Collected Tales and Gathered Illustrati

God Made Me Do It: True Stories of the Worst Advice the Lord Has Ever Given His Followers

American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers

American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers

The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet

Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural

We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies