Oddly Informative by Tom Standage
The more we ponder, the odder the world can seem. How do footballers get their shirt numbers? Why does having daughters make couples more likely to divorce? How do you move a horse from one country to another? What counts as a journey into space? The keen minds at The Economist contemplate all these questions and more in their quest for the globe's most extraordinary quandaries and conundrums, with bizarre facts and headscratchers that show the world is even stranger than we might have thought. From plant-based milk and supermoons to the next Dalai Lama and what really happened at the storming of the Bastille, this collection of the oddest and most mindboggling explanations will amaze and delight in equal measure.
Praise for Tom Standage: 'Uncommonly brilliant * Daily Mail *
The Father Christmas of knowledge -- Giles Coren
Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anything * Daily Mail *
The Father Christmas of knowledge -- Giles Coren
Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anything * Daily Mail *
Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books, including Truly Peculiar, A Brief History of Motion, Uncommon Knowledge, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Wired.
| SKU | GOR012754189 |
| ISBN 13 | 9781800812093 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800812094 |
| Title | Oddly Informative |
| Author | Tom Standage |
| Condition | Very good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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