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MENTAL FLOSS PRESENTS CONDENSED KNOWLEDGE
A DELICIOUSLY IRREVERENT GUIDE TO FEELING SMART AGAIN |
| By: |
Editors of Mental Floss |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0060568062 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780060568061 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC |
| Pub. date: |
27 April, 2004 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Brush up your Shakespeare, your biology, your art history, your civics and much more with this all-purpose guide to the things you used to know but forgot, or never knew but should. |
| Synopsis: |
Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!Ingredients include:5 tiny nations that get no respect * 4 civilizations nobody remembers * 5 classics written under the influence * 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold * 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex * 4 things Einstein got wrong * 5 classical tunes you know from the movies * 3 famous studies that would be illegal today * 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry * 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ... |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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