The Top 10 of Everything (The Top Ten of Everything) - Hardcover

Russell Ash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0356192113 ISBN 13: 9780356192116

Publisher: Macdonald / Queen Anne Press, 1990

Synopsis

"Forget David Letterman's measly little top ten lists" (USA Today), this book offers the top ten best, worst, latest, and greatest of just about everything imaginable. From the busiest airports to the bestselling brands of frankfurters to the laziest animals, this unique book is filled with a wealth of fascinating facts. Over 800 photos & illustrations.

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Review

What's so appealing about a list? It's tidy, it's pithy, it's easy on the eyes and noggin. In this oversaturated age of information inundation, the list presents preorganized data in a format that doesn't require a lot of concentration or drain vast stores of brain wattage. Even the weariest intellect can enjoy a list of 10 data points. Ten most suicidal countries? Lithuania, Estonia, and Hungary get top billing. The bestselling postcard in the Tate Gallery is of The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, whereas the top postcard in London's National Gallery shows Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers. And the list of top 10 countries with the most video rental outlets starts with the U.S., Pakistan, and China, and South Korea and Romania don't trail far behind.

Russell Ash provides lists on the universe and the earth, animals and vegetation, births, deaths, and political achievements. There are city lists and country lists, building lists and park lists, as well as lists pertaining to music, books, movies, theater, transportation, sports, and the commercial world, plus a special section of millennium-milestone lists to prepare us for the next century.

The top 10 reasons to get The Top Ten of Everything? It is:

1. Entertaining
   
2. Educational
   
3. Fine Bathroom Reading
   
4. An Excellent Statistical Resource
   
5. Fun to Read Aloud to Anyone Who'll Listen
   
6. Doesn't Require a V-Chip
   
7. Portable
   
8. Great Classroom Reference
   
9. Keeps the Back Seat Quiet During Family Trips
   
10. It Has Only One Adverse Side-Effect: Know-It-All-ism.

--Stephanie Gold

From the Inside Flap

Special features for this edition. More than 1,00 lists give you the most comprehensive Top 10 of Everything ever. Stars highlight lists that are new in this edition. Then & Now lists pinpoint specific changes over the last decade. Nap Fact panels supplement the lists on many pages, providing additional nuggets of intriguing and unusual information. Anniversary panels are distributed throughout the book, recalling fascinating events that occurred 50, 100, or even 200 years ago. Caption lists are appended to many pictures to provide extra tidbits of data.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macdonald / Queen Anne Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0356192113
• ISBN 13: 9780356192116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256