Mind Bombs: Exploding Conventional Wisdom - Brossura

Alder, Garrick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0715637665 ISBN 13: 9780715637661

Casa editrice: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

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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Recensione

'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 '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

L'autore

Garrick Alder is a journalist, freelance writer and researcher.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0715637665
• ISBN 13: 9780715637661
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile