The Book of Percentages: Over 500 Bizarre, Obscure, Random, Surprising, and 100 Per Cent Enlightening Facts on Just About Nothing - Tapa dura

Readers will now be able to wow their friends, scare their kids, and bargain with their spouses as they use "The Book of Percentages" to legitimise bad decisions, idle threats, and risky ventures. With this one-stop statistical resource, sharp readers will have plenty of numbers to back up whatever they want (or don't want) to do. Covering all aspects of everyday life, this enlightening little trivia book shows people that numbers can be informative yet entertaining - and work to their advantage. It's a guaranteed enlightening read 100 per cent of the time.

Tom Philbin (Centerport, NY) has been a longtime freelance writer. He has written a variety of books, both fiction and nonfiction. His latest are Barbaro: A Nation's Love Story; Two Minutes to Glory: The Official History of the Kentucky Derby, which was entered by the publisher for a Pulitzer Prize in history; and The Killer Book of True Crime. He also writes for Reader's Digest.