Top 10 of Everything 2008 (Top Ten of Everything) [Hardcover]

Russell Ash (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0600616789 | ISBN-13: 978-0600616788 | Publication Date: October 1, 2007

With annual sales of 200,000 copies, The Top 10 of Everything is clearly the place people go to get the lowdown on what or who was the best, worst, richest, fiercest, deadliest, or simply biggest of practically anything. It features 600 lists on a diverse range of subjects, from blockbuster movies and music to stellar universities, from crime and punishment to popular drinks. Find out which stars of stage and screen shone the brightest and which terrestrial animals weigh the most. See which habitable buildings are the tallest and which bodies are the largest in the solar system. Check out stats on airlines, crops, natural disasters, and sports. Some of the lists are entirely new; some are updated with the latest news, and all appear on attractively illustrated spreads with excellent background information. “First” and “Fast” fact boxes pinpoint the pioneers and the most recent achievers in various endeavors. It’s entertaining and educational!

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“Stuffed with interesting facts…a browser’s paradise.”—The Sunday Times
“Appealing graphics and fun facts…Sure to satisfy.”  —Library Journal

About the Author

Russell Ash has a degree in anthropology and geography and written and contributed to over 100 successful books, as well as working at a senior level in publishing. He is regularly featured on TV and radio. Location: East Sussex, UK --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hamlyn (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0600616789
• ISBN-13: 978-0600616788
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,228,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book But Get the Specific Country Edition Released for Your Market, November 27, 2007

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James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Top 10 of Everything 2008 (Top Ten of Everything) (Hardcover)

The Top Ten of Everything is released in different markets as specific country editions such as Australian Edition (for Australasian region). So if you're not American you may be better off purchasing this elsewhere since although Amazon is a global seller and website the Amazon warehouse is in the USA so you'll probably get the US version. The advantage of buying the region specific version most appropriate to you is that your country/ies is/are included at the bottom of the country ranked lists in italics if they didn't make the top ten list. So you actually can learn what your country's population, unemployment rate and the hundred of other facts are as well as just find out who the top ten are. The other major advantage is that the metric system (so you have some idea how high, much things weigh etc) is used and prices quoted in lists are in your own currency so you can relate better to the lists.

The top ten of everything is a sensational collection of facts on the top ten of lots of topics from top selling music artists to tallest buildings. Sport results, movie takings, deaths by various animals, guns, crime and everything else are inside. Highest mountain, longest border, population and other demographic info is also ranked. This book is full of colour photographs and illustrations as well. It does come out before the year mentioned (ie this 2008 edition was published in 2007 (I am writing this review in November 2007), so obviously the book is not entirely up to date for the year on the title. It is still great though and an excellent source of trivia questions or answers to friendly bets. I have previously owned (and reviewed) the 2005 edition and a lot of the lists especially historical ones are still the same so depending on the lists or trivia you're interested in you may be better off buying a much cheaper previous year volume. If the latest stats such as highest grossing movie, latest sporting stats and so forth are important to you then you may want to fork out the extra for the current one.

If you're a teacher, trivia night fundraiser question writer, interested in history or just plain interested in what is the highest, longest, top selling, top performing, oldest, largest capacity and a heap of other achievements of a number of different topics from nature (eg deadliest animal to humans), man made structures (eg highest buildings), sport (eg most wins) economic (eg most expensive countries to buy a Big Mac), poverty (eg highest unemployment rates), agriculture (eg top ten list of various crop producing countries), natural resources (eg top ten list of various mineral producing and also consuming countries), disasters (eg worst passenger deaths from ferries), largest ports, oldest subways, busiest airports, these lists and more covering a vast range of interesting topics mean this is the book for you!

4.0 out of 5 stars Top Ten of Everything, May 10, 2008

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J. Lindner (Gem Lake, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Top 10 of Everything 2008 (Top Ten of Everything) (Hardcover)

This is a fun book. We used it for an evening of fun family entertainment and it kept us guessing and laughing for a couple of hours. However, it is rather easy to get through and I guess if you buy this book annually it would become rather repetative. But Mr. Ash has a lot of interesting and surprising catagories and it does provide an interesting look at many different subjects.

5.0 out of 5 stars Kids Love This Book, March 27, 2008

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Gepetto (Mendota Heights, MN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Top 10 of Everything 2008 (Top Ten of Everything) (Hardcover)

I got this book for a grandchild who loves facts and figures and history and seem to remember ALL this trivia. He loves it as well as several other grandchildren. Great book. Good price.