The New York times presents Smarter by Sunday : 52 weekends of essential knowledge for the curious mind

**__A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular__ New York Times __knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic__**Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since__?__ Always wondered who really invented the World Wide Web? Here is the book for you, with all the answers you've been looking for: __The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday__ is based on the premise that there is a recognizable group of topics in history, literature, science, art, religion, philosophy, politics, and music that educated people should be familiar with today. Over 100 of these have been identified and arranged in a way that they can be studied over a year's time by spending two hours on a topic every weekend.

A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic

Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since? Always wondered who really invented the World Wide Web? Here is the book for you, with all the answers you've been looking for: The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday is based on the premise that there is a recognizable group of topics in history, literature, science, art, religion, philosophy, politics, and music that educated people should be familiar with today. Over 100 of these have been identified and arranged in a way that they can be studied over a year's time by spending two hours on a topic every weekend.

Keep your mind agile, gain insight into the most essential and basic subjects that no one can do without, and get started on remembering or learning all about such fascinating topics as The Iliad and The Odyssey, the big bang, Muslim beliefs and practices, Renaissance ideas and literature, the creation of the U.S. Constitution, global warming and climate change, the Shakespeare controversy, Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion, the Thirty Years' War, the history of modern dance, the Reign of Terror, the Manhattan Project, the civil rights movement, the Roaring Twenties and many more in a 52-weekend crash course