{"product_id":"the-pessimists-guide-to-history-3e-an-irresistible-compendium-of-catastrophes-barbarities-massacres-and-mayhem-from-14-billion-years-ago-to-2007-006143101x","title":"The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem-from 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 006143101X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flexner, Doris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe classic irreverent look at the past-now updated with even more appalling facts!Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded-and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds of devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larger cup half-empty. This enthralling, enlightening, and devilishly entertaining chronicle of disasters and dastardly deeds brings to light the darkest events in history and the most abysmal calamities to strike the planet . . . so far.88 BC: Mithridates VI Eupator provides an early example of genocide by massacring 100,000 Romans.1347: Saint Vitus' Dance Epidemic shimmies across Europe like a deadly disco fever, leaving its victims twitching, uncontrollably leaping, and foaming at the mouth.1888: Jack the Ripper stalks through the dark alleys of Whitechapel, England, turning the world's oldest profession into the world's most dangerous one.1939: A Swiss chemist wins a Nobel Prize for developing DDT-and the environment gets another nail in the coffin.2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast. In a classic double whammy, the government response also devastates the Gulf Coast.And much, much more!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51598802157856,"sku":"NEW006143101X","price":13.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71SpRZi7zhL.jpg?v=1778450074","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-pessimists-guide-to-history-3e-an-irresistible-compendium-of-catastrophes-barbarities-massacres-and-mayhem-from-14-billion-years-ago-to-2007-006143101x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}