AJ Jacobs
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“Thanks A Thousand” (2018)
After Being Dared By His Son, A. J. Jacobs Decided To Thank Every Single Person Involved In Producing His Morning Cup Of Coffee. The Resulting Journey Takes Him Across The Globe And Transforms His Life.
“It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree” (2017)
Traces The Author's Three-year Investigation Into What Constitutes Family, Describing How, After Receiving An E-mail From A Stranger Who Claimed To Be A Distant Cousin, He Embarked On An Effort To Build The Biggest Family Tree In History. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 303-305) And Index. Introduction -- The Eighth Cousin -- The World Family Tree -- Dna Sharing Is Caring -- A Great (or Possibly Terrible) Idea -- A Pandemonium Of Genealogists -- Historical Voyeurism -- Genetic Jambalaya -- Groundhog Sam And My 2,585 Southern Cousins -- Embracing Failure -- Should Family Be Abolished? -- The Good Cousin -- Adam And Eve -- Kissing Cousins -- The Greatest Generation (and The Upside Of Cigarettes) -- Thank You For Having Sex -- Biological And Logical Families -- Ellis Island -- Our Neanderthal Cousins -- Family Feuds -- Who's Your Father? -- Son-in-law Of The American Revolution -- The Mega-tree Revolution -- Our Animal Cousins -- Big Love -- The Other Side Of The Dash -- Privacy -- The Genius Of Isaac Newton -- Fathers And Sons -- Twins And Twins, Also More Twins -- Five Mothers -- Black Sheep -- My Presidential Cousin -- Tradition! -- The Kevin Bacon Delusion -- The Pilgrimage -- An Ocean Of Cousins -- Cheers To The Dead -- My Celebrity Cousins -- 51 Percent Of The Family Tree -- The Melting Pot -- The Fbi And My Grandpa -- The Great Surname Challenge -- Awkward Family Photos -- Brother Versus Brother -- The Global Family Reunion -- We Are, Without A Doubt, Irrefutably, Family -- A Brief And Subjective Guide To Getting Started On Your Family Tree. A.j. Jacobs. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
“Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction Series)” (2012)
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction Series)
“The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment” (2009)
The uproarious New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All gathers his adventures as a human guinea pig into one of the funniest and most enlightening books of the year. • An irresistible page-turner filled with surprising wisdom: For his first hit book, Jacobs read the Encyclopedia Britannica. For his second, he followed every single rule in the Bible. Now comes a collection of his most outrageous and thought-provoking experiments yet. In The Guinea Pig Diaries, Jacobs goes undercover as a beautiful woman. He outsources everything in his life to India, from answering his emails to arguing with his wife. He spends two months saying whatever is on his mind. He lives like George Washington. Plus several other life-changing experiments—one of which involves public nudity. • Amazing sales record: The humor of A.J. Jacobs has produced sales that are anything but laughable. His books have more than half a million copies in print, and they have spent a combined twenty-nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists and counting. He has inspired many imitators, but none has matched his ability to combine side-splitting entertainment with profound life lessons. • A media favorite: To promote his books, Jacobs has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today show, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, Conan O’Brien, and NPr’s Fresh Air. Jacobs is all over the Internet as well, from Slate to the Huffington Post to Playboy.com. He is a regular contributor to NPR’s Weekend Edition. And he’s the editor-at-large at Esquire magazine, where versions of some of these experiments have appeared.
“The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible” (2007)
Raised In A Secular Family But Interested In The Relevance Of Faith In Our Modern World, A.j. Jacobs Decides To Attempt To Obey The Bible As Literally As Possible For One Full Year. He Vows To Follow The Ten Commandments. To Be Fruitful And Multiply. To Love His Neighbor. But Also To Obey The Hundreds Of Less Publicized Rules: To Avoid Wearing Clothes Made Of Mixed Fibers; To Stone Adulterers. The Resulting Spiritual Journey Is At Once Funny And Profound, Reverent And Irreverent, Personal And Universal And Will Make You See History's Most Influential Book With New Eyes. Jacobs Embeds Himself In A Cross-section Of Communities That Take The Bible Literally: He Tours A Creationist Museum And Sings Hymns With Amish; He Dances With Hasidic Jews And Does Scripture Study With Jehovah's Witnesses. He Wrestles With Seemingly Archaic Rules That Baffle The 21st-century Brain, And He Discovers Ancient Wisdom Of Startling Relevance.--from Publisher Description. A.j. Jacobs. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [335]-348) And Index.
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