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Guinness World Records 2012 (Guinness World Records)
It's an Olympic year, and to celebrate, the latest incarnation of the world's biggest selling annual unveils its most thrilling edition yet with a dynamic new "widescreen" design, thousands of new and classic records, never-before-seen photos and an exciting selection of new topics and features.
* Crisp, new design and color-coded sections to help organize and signpost th...more
* Crisp, new design and color-coded sections to help organize and signpost th...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
September 13th 2011
by Guinness World Records
(first published January 1st 2011)
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Guinness World Records. (2013) Guinness World Records 2012.
Brittany Ballard
Type of reference: Almanac
Brief Description: This almanac spans over the 2012 world records. This includes records that were broken and records that are still being help, crazy facts that you can't believe are true, and so much more!
Content/Scope: The content focuses on the things that happened in 2012 and is aimed at students grades 9-12. Not only does it focus on records, but their are also sections where students can...more
Brittany Ballard
Type of reference: Almanac
Brief Description: This almanac spans over the 2012 world records. This includes records that were broken and records that are still being help, crazy facts that you can't believe are true, and so much more!
Content/Scope: The content focuses on the things that happened in 2012 and is aimed at students grades 9-12. Not only does it focus on records, but their are also sections where students can...more
Why I decided to read this book: I decided to read this book because my cousin got it for me for Christmas.
Which category on the bingo board this book completes: A book that teaches you about a culture other than your own, this was interesting because of all the places the records are from and certain rituals that certain cultures do.
My favorite quote from this book: "Most T-Shirts worn at once - It was made by Krunoslav Budiseli on May 22, 2010 for wearing 245 T-shirts at the same time." This...more
Which category on the bingo board this book completes: A book that teaches you about a culture other than your own, this was interesting because of all the places the records are from and certain rituals that certain cultures do.
My favorite quote from this book: "Most T-Shirts worn at once - It was made by Krunoslav Budiseli on May 22, 2010 for wearing 245 T-shirts at the same time." This...more
Title: Guinness. (2012). Guinness World Records 2012. St. Louis, MO: Turtleback Books.
Reviewer: Jessica L. Cooper
Type: Almanac/Yearbook
Brief Description: Guinness World Records 2012 describes a variety of interesting record breaking accomplishments and natural phenomena.
Cost: $39.95
Review Citation: Children’s Digest. (2006). [Review of Guinness World Records 2006]. Children’s Digest, 56(1), 18-19. *Review is from a previous year of the book, but is still mostly relevant.
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Reviewer: Jessica L. Cooper
Type: Almanac/Yearbook
Brief Description: Guinness World Records 2012 describes a variety of interesting record breaking accomplishments and natural phenomena.
Cost: $39.95
Review Citation: Children’s Digest. (2006). [Review of Guinness World Records 2006]. Children’s Digest, 56(1), 18-19. *Review is from a previous year of the book, but is still mostly relevant.
Relevance and Relationsh...more
This book is a great book to know about the world. Want to learn more about animals, and engineering? We got it all on this book called Guinness World Records 2012 by Guinness World Records. It even tells us what is the most awesome stuff in each country. This book is mostly about the World records just as it says in the book. From Asia to North America learn about everything, and be smart! Every year there is one book all different from each other. This book is recommended for all ages since it...more
Well, here it is. The 2012 version of the Guinness Book of Records. Much of this is silly and baroque. Still, so much fun!
The very first record in this volume? The largest object lifted by helium balloons (in this case, a house). The last? The most layered bed-of nails sandwich (difficult to explain, but a little different!).
In between are myriad records, many of which are of little moment (such as most wins of the mashed potato wrestling championships). Others: Greatest distance pushing a mini...more
The very first record in this volume? The largest object lifted by helium balloons (in this case, a house). The last? The most layered bed-of nails sandwich (difficult to explain, but a little different!).
In between are myriad records, many of which are of little moment (such as most wins of the mashed potato wrestling championships). Others: Greatest distance pushing a mini...more
I chose to read this book for entertainment purposes and it fills in the "book written in 2011 or 2012" slot on the bingo board.
There are no settings or quotes in the "book" but rather many amazing achievements completed by some strange people all over the world. My favourite record though is, longest Pogo stick ride.
There are no main characters either although my favourite record breaker would have to be the man who ate 1 thousand big macs.
Something i learned from this book would be to give a...more
There are no settings or quotes in the "book" but rather many amazing achievements completed by some strange people all over the world. My favourite record though is, longest Pogo stick ride.
There are no main characters either although my favourite record breaker would have to be the man who ate 1 thousand big macs.
Something i learned from this book would be to give a...more
I read the book Guinness World Records 2012 by: Guinness World records. It is a book describing the achievements of people and innovators even if the achievement is abnormal. My favorite section of the book was probably the auto and speed section because it focuses on smart people who did something to help the world. For example a person set a world record for the safest car by making the seatbelt more securely fastened and by adding a jolt in the car if you start to fall asleep. There is not r...more
In this book it tells a lot about someone that does somethig weird or do something cool. In the other book of Guinness World Record i saw someone playing Speed Stack and i didnt know what is it? So when i came to Taiwain my cousin gave me it. Then i got interesed in. This book even tells about the people that are good athletes too.I even learned the longest word in the world!If you like sports and like to see amazing stuffs i recomend you to read it.
Now for this book it is great for engineering and culture but if you are a gamer you will find that there's pretty boring records about video games and there's hardly any of them but I suppose that if you don't like them thats good so now my review the book is pretty good itself but the nature and those sorts of categories they have lacked only a bit well I meen alot so this book is a 7/10 P.S I bought this book because I like the recent books.
I think this book was really interesting and weird.I advice you to read it beacause you will learn alot from it and know much more abou things and events happening around the world.You will know more about humans and know that they can do more that you can expect.There are many amazing facts in this book that are almost impossible to believe.
THIS BOOK HAS TO BE A BOOK THAT EVERYONE HAS TO READ. THIS BOOK SHOWS INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT ARE THE HIGHEST STANDARDS THAT A HUMAN BEAN MEETS. IT IS SO INTERESTING WHAT PEOPLE DO OR HAVE. SOMETIMES IT IS SCARY AND SOMETIMES IT IS COOL. YOURESLF CAN BE ON IT TO, JUST GET HIGHEST STANDARDS.
I think that this book is about people doing totally awesome stuff in this book but this book is kinda inappropriate stuff in this book. This book i rated was 5 stars because this is an awesome book and there's funny people in that book.
Mar 11, 2012
Horace Mann Family Reading Challenge
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
2-012-in-2012,
non-fiction
The book is really good but I wish it would use vocabulary like humungeous instead of big. You learn a lot of stuff about the year it was written for. I learned that the Colossal Squid is the biggest squid of all times. A.
Dec 29, 2011
Matthew
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone
Recommended to Matthew by:
No-one
I think it gives loads of information and facts.But it has some gross facts and records like:
Most tattoos on a man;Most pierced man and most pierced women.Best Book I've read!
Most tattoos on a man;Most pierced man and most pierced women.Best Book I've read!
I got this book a little while ago there is so cool, creepy, odd, funny and nasty stuff in the book but I like looking at all the records made from all around the world.
This book has the most records of stuff i have ever seen if my life it is very accurate. you would likeb this book its very instristing and its also informational.
Booktalking gold. Pointed out p. 94-95, "In a Minute." Most eggs crushed with the head, most balloons popped using a pogo stick, etc.
Fairly standard for Guiness. Makes for a great aid while teaching superlatives in an ESL class.
It has lots of weird things, i can picture me and my dog doing flips breaking a record.
I own this book i currently red this book is great. i love these books .
Sep 21, 2011
Muhammad
marked it as to-read
This is going to be a great world record book just like all the others!
this book is so amazing about people who did good records!!!!
its good(some of the pictures freak me out, HOW CAN HEY DO THAT?)
Cool facts and amazing world record holders.
Jan 17, 2013
Beth
added it
How do you read the books????
Lots of cool records
I like this book so mush.
i loved it was amazing
i think its cool
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Guinness World Records™, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records, is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently stolen books from public libraries in the Unite...more
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