Mezzanine, S4 bay 11, shelf 5 On shelf Something is wrong
All the trouble in the world / P. J. O'Rourke

A humorous examination of global challenges, including overpopulation, economic injustice, and environmental issues. The text explores these topics with an emphasis on finding positive perspectives amidst worldwide crises.
Author
ISBN
Publisher
CONNECTIONS

No connections
LOCATION HISTORY

Mezzanine, S4 bay 11, shelf 5 Current (vertical)
May 19, 2026 11:30
FULL RECORD

Accession Number: 6525
Site: Phrontisterion
Collection: N/A
Location: N/A
Binding Type: Hard Back
Book Images

Hover to see live images
All the trouble in the world / P. J. O'Rourke live spine
All the trouble in the world / P. J. O'Rourke cover
No live
Vernon Fields

View in Vernon Browser
vernon_accession	6525
vernon_id	10324
vernon_slug	all-the-trouble-in-the-world-p-j-orourke
vernon_authors	P. J. O'Rourke
vernon_tags	Ecology, Environmental sciences, Science, Medicine, Life sciences, Literature, Philology, Political science, Social sciences, Civilisation, War, International relations, Economics, Death, Life, Wit and humour, Satire, Diseases, Journalism, Famines, Starvation, World politics
vernon_production_date	1994
vernon_brief_description	When P.J. O'Rourke sets off around the world to find answers to some of our most pressing problems - famine in Somalia, plague in Haiti, multiculturalism in former Yugoslavia - he returns with some surprising observations. -- Cover.
vernon_object_type	Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication
vernon_locations	On Shelf
vernon_ob_status	Accessioned
vernon_isbn_issn	0330356313
vernon_subject_people	—
vernon_subject_objects	—
vernon_subject_classes	—
vernon_last_sync_timestamp	2026-05-19 09:30
vernon_cover_image_id	28508
VERNON RECORD

{
  "slug": "all-the-trouble-in-the-world-p-j-orourke",
  "opacObjectId": "10324",
  "opacCollection": {
    "opacCollectionId": "1"
  },
  "imagesCollection": {
    "images": [
      {
        "imageId": "28508",
        "cssColors": [
          {
            "hex": "483d8b",
            "hue": 248,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 21.38,
            "colorName": "darkslateblue",
            "lightness": 39,
            "colorGroup": "purple",
            "saturation": 39,
            "formattedColorName": "dark slate blue"
          },
          {
            "hex": "b0c4de",
            "hue": 214,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 59.76,
            "colorName": "lightsteelblue",
            "lightness": 78,
            "colorGroup": "blue",
            "saturation": 41,
            "formattedColorName": "light steel blue"
          },
          {
            "hex": "a0522d",
            "hue": 19,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 5.6,
            "colorName": "sienna",
            "lightness": 40,
            "colorGroup": "brown",
            "saturation": 56,
            "formattedColorName": "sienna"
          },
          {
            "hex": "bdb76b",
            "hue": 56,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 8.18,
            "colorName": "darkkhaki",
            "lightness": 58,
            "colorGroup": "yellow",
            "saturation": 38,
            "formattedColorName": "dark khaki"
          },
          {
            "hex": "778899",
            "hue": 210,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 2.68,
            "colorName": "lightslategray",
            "lightness": 53,
            "colorGroup": "gray",
            "saturation": 14,
            "formattedColorName": "light slate gray"
          }
        ],
        "rawColors": [
          {
            "hex": "313265",
            "hue": 238,
            "rank": 1,
            "presence": 21.38,
            "lightness": 29,
            "saturation": 34
          },
          {
            "hex": "f0f3f5",
            "hue": 204,
            "rank": 2,
            "presence": 59.76,
            "lightness": 95,
            "saturation": 20
          },
          {
            "hex": "9f654b",
            "hue": 18,
            "rank": 3,
            "presence": 5.6,
            "lightness": 45,
            "saturation": 35
          },
          {
            "hex": "c0a34b",
            "hue": 45,
            "rank": 4,
            "presence": 8.18,
            "lightness": 52,
            "saturation": 48
          },
          {
            "hex": "9995a8",
            "hue": 252,
            "rank": 5,
            "presence": 2.68,
            "lightness": 62,
            "saturation": 9
          },
          {
            "hex": "c2a093",
            "hue": 16,
            "rank": 6,
            "presence": 2.39,
            "lightness": 66,
            "saturation": 27
          },
          {
            "hex": "6c9480",
            "hue": 150,
            "rank": 7,
            "presence": 0.01,
            "lightness": 50,
            "saturation": 15
          }
        ],
        "imageLabels": [
          {
            "count": 281,
            "score": 90.89,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Smile",
            "imageLabelId": 207
          },
          {
            "count": 1140,
            "score": 87.73,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "World",
            "imageLabelId": 89
          },
          {
            "count": 23,
            "score": 84.18,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Globe",
            "imageLabelId": 205
          },
          {
            "count": 913,
            "score": 78.49,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Happy",
            "imageLabelId": 66
          },
          {
            "count": 18725,
            "score": 76.25,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Publication",
            "imageLabelId": 23
          },
          {
            "count": 19372,
            "score": 75.17,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Font",
            "imageLabelId": 12
          },
          {
            "count": 258,
            "score": 71.45,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Map",
            "imageLabelId": 202
          },
          {
            "count": 11604,
            "score": 69.51,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Poster",
            "imageLabelId": 21
          },
          {
            "count": 120,
            "score": 61.93,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Planet",
            "imageLabelId": 217
          },
          {
            "count": 5298,
            "score": 60.27,
            "status": "auto_verified",
            "imageLabel": "Advertising",
            "imageLabelId": 71
          }
        ],
        "imageDerivatives": [
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/large/296/6b92b6ada7a783460dc3079b9814779acacbf271.jpg",
            "width": "505",
            "height": "800",
            "identifier": "LARGE"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/medium/296/6b92b6ada7a783460dc3079b9814779acacbf271.jpg",
            "width": "252",
            "height": "400",
            "identifier": "MEDIUM"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/nano/296/6b92b6ada7a783460dc3079b9814779acacbf271.jpg",
            "width": "22",
            "height": "35",
            "identifier": "NANO"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/small/296/6b92b6ada7a783460dc3079b9814779acacbf271.jpg",
            "width": "95",
            "height": "150",
            "identifier": "SMALL"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/tiny/296/6b92b6ada7a783460dc3079b9814779acacbf271.jpg",
            "width": "47",
            "height": "75",
            "identifier": "TINY"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://browser.mona.net.au/records/images/xlarge/296/6b92b6ada7a783460dc3079b9814779acacbf271.jpg",
            "width": "757",
            "height": "1200",
            "identifier": "XLARGE"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "totalImages": 1
  },
  "objectSearchScore": 1.3078985,
  "opacObjectFieldSets": [
    {
      "identifier": "accession_no",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "6525"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "All the trouble in the world / P. J. O'Rourke",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "title",
              "value": "All the trouble in the world / P. J. O'Rourke"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "other_name",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "All the trouble in the world : the lighter side of famine, pestilence, destruction and death"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "artist_last_first",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "O'Rourke, P. J."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "1994",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "earliest_date",
              "value": "1994-01-01Z"
            },
            {
              "key": "latest_date",
              "value": "1994-12-31Z"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_date_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "edition",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "brief_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "When P.J. O'Rourke sets off around the world to find answers to some of our most pressing problems - famine in Somalia, plague in Haiti, multiculturalism in former Yugoslavia - he returns with some surprising observations. -- Cover."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "measure_desc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "credit_line",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "curr_loc_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "On Shelf",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "curr_loc_status:\"On Shelf\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "ob_status",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Accessioned"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "lender",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_owner",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_start",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_expiry",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "copyright_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "curr_loc",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Zone S4/Level 2 (Mezzanine)/Phrontisterion/MONA"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "object_type",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "object_type:\"Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "collection",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Main Collection/Library",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "collection:\"Main Collection/Library\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "prod_pri_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Sydney/New South Wales/Australia"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "physical_notes",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "xx, 340 pages ; 20 cm."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "language",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "English"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "isbn_issn",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "0330356313"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_1",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "818.5 ORO"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "usual_loc_being",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Zone S4/Level 2 (Mezzanine)/Phrontisterion/MONA"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_class",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "Death/Life",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Death/Life\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Diseases/Medicine/Life sciences/Science",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Diseases/Medicine/Life sciences/Science\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Ecology/Environmental sciences/Science",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Ecology/Environmental sciences/Science\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Economics/Social sciences/Civilisation",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Economics/Social sciences/Civilisation\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Famines/Starvation",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Famines/Starvation\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Journalism/Literature/Philology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Journalism/Literature/Philology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Literature/Philology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Literature/Philology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Political science/Social sciences/Civilisation",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Political science/Social sciences/Civilisation\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Satire/Literature/Philology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Satire/Literature/Philology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "War/International relations",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"War/International relations\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Wit and humour/Literature/Philology",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"Wit and humour/Literature/Philology\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "World politics/Political science/Social sciences/Civilisation",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_class:\"World politics/Political science/Social sciences/Civilisation\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_date",
      "opacObjectFields": []
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_period",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "20th Century",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_period:\"20th Century\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "subject_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": "United States of America",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_place:\"United States of America\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Somalia",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_place:\"Somalia\""
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "value": "Haiti",
          "opacObjectFieldAttributes": [
            {
              "key": "search",
              "value": "subject_place:\"Haiti\""
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_person",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_place",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_event",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "assoc_object",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "identifier": "user_sym_9",
      "opacObjectFields": [
        {
          "value": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "relationshipsCollection": {
    "relationships": [
      {
        "relatedRecords": [
          {
            "slug": "p-j-orourke",
            "title": "P. J. O'Rourke",
            "relatedRecordId": "12603"
          }
        ],
        "relationshipId": "object_prod_pri_person",
        "relatedRecordType": "person",
        "totalRelatedRecords": 1
      }
    ],
    "totalRelationships": 1
  }
}