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'Fascinating, funny and disturbing. If this doesn't rattle the bars of your intellectual cage, nothing will' - Lobster. 'Scary - you may well shred your donor card after reading this book - but it is always informative - if you don't learn something useful from it, you must work at the highest level of government or for the secret services' - Morning Star. 'A breathtaking firestorm of ideas, mercilessly annihilating terraces of home truths, page by relentless page' - John Lloyd, creator of the 'QI'. 'Few people have the time to thoroughly research a subject so we carry on reiterating "popular myths" ... [This] fascinating books explodes many of these, making us wonder how we could be quite so gullible' - Good Book Guide.
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Did you know that...250,000 British people go missing every year, 50,000 of whom are never found? Psychopaths do better at work? An estimated 2000 Britons are killed by over-the-counter painkillers every year? One in 6 girls and one in 14 boys now hits puberty by the age of eight? In "Mind Bombs" Garrick Alder, journalist and contributor to BBC's hugely popular "QI" series, discusses the comfortable myths and shared presumptions that surround us daily but that we never even think about challenging. Packed with scary statistics and startling conspiracy theories, this book is essential reading for the disillusioned, the cynical, the blissfully ignorant and the merely curious...
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- EditorialGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Año de publicación2008
- ISBN 10 0715637665
- ISBN 13 9780715637661
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de páginas160
- Contacto del fabricanteno disponible
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Mind Bombs: Exploding Conventional Wisdom
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Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1696
ISBN 10: 0715637665
ISBN 13: 9780715637661
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Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR003600457
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Mind Bombs: Exploding Conventional Wisdom
Publicado por
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1696
ISBN 10: 0715637665
ISBN 13: 9780715637661
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR006915174
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