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The New Domestic Automakers in the United States and Canada: History, Impacts, and Prospects

By A. J. Jacobs

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Hardcover:

9780739188255 | Lexington Books, December 16, 2015, cover price $180.00

The World's Cities: Contrasting Regional, National, and Global Perspectives

Product Description: The Worldâs Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth...read more

By A. J. Jacobs

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Hardcover:

9780415894852 | Routledge, August 9, 2012, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The Worldâs Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth.

Paperback:

9780415894869 | Routledge, August 9, 2012, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: The Worldâs Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth.

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

Product Description: After sharpening his mind in "The Know-It-All" and achieving spiritual enlightenment in "The Year of Living Biblically", A.J. Jacobs had only one thing left to tackle in the self-improvement trinity: the body. But his mission wasn't just to lose a couple of pounds, but to turn his current self - 'a mushy, easily winded, moderately sickly blob' - into a paragon of health and vitality...read more

By A. J. Jacobs

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9780434020102 | Gardners Books, May 10, 2012, cover price $21.70 | also contains Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection, Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection | About this edition: After sharpening his mind in "The Know-It-All" and achieving spiritual enlightenment in "The Year of Living Biblically", A.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780743598767 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 10, 2012), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: New York Times bestselling author and king of âimmersion journalismâ A.

Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like: *To Walk on the Moon*To Be Gored by a Bull*To Survive an Avalanche *To Swallow Swords*To Go Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel*To Be Shot in the Head*To W

By A. J. Jacobs (editor)

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9780307522986 | Crown Pub, June 16, 2010, cover price $12.95

The Year of Living Like Jesus: My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do

Product Description: âIt may appear from the cover that this is a nice book about growing a beard because Jesus did but be warned- you will quickly discover that Ed's adventure takes him, and us, deep into the heart of grace, mercy and the endless discovery of just what the way of Jesus looks like - which, of course, has very little to do with having a beard...read more

By Ed Dobson and A. J. Jacobs (foreword by)

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9780310247777 | 1 edition (Zondervan, September 18, 2009), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: âIt may appear from the cover that this is a nice book about growing a beard because Jesus did but be warned- you will quickly discover that Ed's adventure takes him, and us, deep into the heart of grace, mercy and the endless discovery of just what the way of Jesus looks like - which, of course, has very little to do with having a beard.

Paperback:

9780310519690 | Zondervan, September 18, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Evangelical pastor Ed Dobson had a radical idea…“Live one year as Jesus lived.

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life As an Experiment

For his first hit title, 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 experimentsâone of which involves public nudity.

By A. J. Jacobs

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Hardcover:

9781410420817 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 2, 2009), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: For his first hit title, Jacobs read the Encyclopedia Britannica.

9781416599067 | Simon & Schuster, September 8, 2009, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781439104996, titled "My Life As an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself by Living As a Woman, Becoming George Washington, Telling No Lies, and Other Radical Tests" | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 13, 2010), cover price $15.00 | also contains The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life As an Experiment

La Biblia al pie de la letra/ The Year of Living Biblically

Product Description: A.J. Jacobs se propuso obedecer todos los mandatos de La Biblia durante un aÃ±o, desde los Diez Mandamientos hasta otra serie de advertencias menos conocidas (no vestiras ropa de distintas fibras, lapidaras a los adulteros, no usaras un asiento antes ocupado por una mujer menstruanteâ¦)...read more

By A. J. Jacobs

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9788466638432 | Italian edition edition (Ediciones B, September 17, 2008), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A.

The Year of Living Biblically

Jacobs immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, fights idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife's chagrin. His beard grows so unruly that he is mistaken for a member of ZZ Top. He tours a Kentucky-based Creationist museum, dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and studies scripture.

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9780434017119 | Gardners Books, February 7, 2008, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Jacobs immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, fights idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife's chagrin.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible

Product Description: In this timely and fascinating audiobook, A.J. Jacobs tries to follow such famous Scriptural laws as the Ten Commandments, be fruitful and multiply, and love your neighbor. But he also obeys dozens of less-publicized instructions, including growing a beard, avoiding clothes of mixed fibers and, yes, stoning adulterers...read more

By A. J. Jacobs

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9780743599337 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, September 8, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In this timely and fascinating audiobook, A.

The Know-it-all 2006 Calendar: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World

Product Description: A hilarious, intelligent-trivia-packed story from a man who read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Early in his career, A. J. Jacobs found himself putting his Ivy League education to work at Entertainment Weekly. After five years he learned which stars have fake boobs, which stars have toupees, which have both, and not much else...read more

By A. J. Jacobs

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9780740755231 | Pag edition (Andrews McMeel Pub, July 5, 2005), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: A hilarious, intelligent-trivia-packed story from a man who read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World

Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, sharing the humorous and unexpected mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed dynamics in his family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa and win a spot on Jeopardy! By the author of Fractured Fairy Tales. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

By A. J. Jacobs

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Hardcover:

9780786271313 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 20, 2005), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

9780743250603 | Simon & Schuster, September 21, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

Paperback:

9780743250627 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2005), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781565119086 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, October 11, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

The Know-it-all

Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

By A. J. Jacobs

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781565119055 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 27, 2004), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781565119048 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 23, 2004), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the 'Encyclopedia Britannica' from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.

What It Feels Like

Exactly what it says on the tin: short, first-hand accounts of what it actually feels like to walk on the moon or be struck by lightning; to participate in an orgy or be shot in the head; to be 7'6' tall, or be bitten by a shark.

By A. J. Jacobs (editor)

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Paperback:

9780007177394 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, October 20, 2003, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: Exactly what it says on the tin: short, first-hand accounts of what it actually feels like to walk on the moon or be struck by lightning; to participate in an orgy or be shot in the head; to be 7'6' tall, or be bitten by a shark.

Esquire Presents What It Feels Like: To Walk on the Moon, to Be Gored by a Bull, to Survive and Avalanche, to Swallow Swords, to Go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel, to Be Shot in the Head

Based on the popular 'What It Feels Like' articles that appeared in Esquire magazine, this zany collection of vivid accounts explains what it was really like to get shot, be struck by lightning, walk on the moon, participate in an orgy, win an Oscar, or experience a wide variety of offbeat, life-threatening, or exciting real-life events. Original. 25,000 first printing.

By A. J. Jacobs (editor)

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9780609809761 | 1 edition (Three Rivers Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of first-person accounts of experiences that capture the imagination, including what it feels like to be struck by lighting, to be bitten by a shark, and to give birth.

Cuentos De Hadas Retorcidos

Product Description: Cuentos de hadas deliciosamente retorcidos, en los cuales es imposible saber que va a ocurrir en la siguiente fraccion de segundo y mucho menos, deducir con quien se casara el principe, si es que se casa.

By A. J. Jacobs

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9788478082872 | 4th edition (Sirio Editorial, March 1, 2001), cover price $15.45 | About this edition: Cuentos de hadas deliciosamente retorcidos, en los cuales es imposible saber que va a ocurrir en la siguiente fraccion de segundo y mucho menos, deducir con quien se casara el principe, si es que se casa.

Fractured Fairy Tales

Culled from the 1960s television cartoon series of the same name, a collection of off-the-wall revisions of immortal fairy tales is illustrated with art from the original series

By A. J. Jacobs

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Hardcover:

9780553099805 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Culled from the 1960s television cartoon series of the same name, a collection of off-the-wall revisions of immortal fairy tales is illustrated with art from the original series

Paperback:

9780553373738 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Culled from the 1960s television cartoon series of the same name, a collection of off-the-wall revisions of immortal fairy tales is illustrated with art from the original series

America Off-Line: The Complete Outernet Starter Kit

A parody of guides to the Internet offers advice on negotiating the real world, including fonts (handwriting), mail (the Postal Service), virus protection (scarves and mittens), and accessing news (reading a newspaper)

By A. J. Jacobs

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9780836224337 | Andrews McMeel Pub, September 1, 1996, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A parody of guides to the Internet offers advice on negotiating the real world, including fonts (handwriting), mail (the Postal Service), virus protection (scarves and mittens), and accessing news (reading a newspaper)

The Two Kings: Jesus & Elvis

Product Description: FIRST Edition 1995 by Jossey-Bass Publ, Hardcover w dust jacket 320 pages.

By A. J. Jacobs

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Hardcover:

9780517169643 | Random House Value Pub, July 1, 1996, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: FIRST Edition 1995 by Jossey-Bass Publ, Hardcover w dust jacket 320 pages.

The Two Kings: Jesus Elvis

Armed with Elvis biographies and a King James Bible, an investigative journalist compares the King of Rock and Roll to the King of Kings, in a hilarious, outrageously illustrated exploration of Elvis's claim that he was the Messiah. Original. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo.

By A. J. Jacobs and Eric White (illustrator)

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9780553373752 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1, 1994, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Armed with Elvis biographies and a King James Bible, an investigative journalist compares the King of Rock and Roll to the King of Kings, in a humorous exploration of Elvis' claim that he was the Messiah

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