The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know - Couverture rigide

Elledge, Jonn

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ISBN 10 : 1472276477 ISBN 13 : 9781472276476

Editeur : Wildfire, 2021

Synopsis

The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, inside you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity's most ridiculous wars; and, at last, the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man.

Bizarre, brilliant and filled with the unexpected, The Compendium covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It's a feast of facts for a hungry mind.

Includes entries on the cosmos, the human planet, questions of measurement, history/politics, the natural world, leisure and many 'oddities' that don't fit elsewhere...

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonn Elledge is a freelance journalist, writing for titles including the Guardian, Wired and Politics.co.uk, and contributing a weekly column to the New Statesman. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he was responsible for launching and editing the urbanism site CityMetric, hosting the Skylines podcast and writing a lot of angry columns about the housing crisis.

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The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, here you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity's most ridiculous wars; and, at last, the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man.

Bizarre, brilliant and filled with the unexpected, The Compendium covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It's a feast of facts for a hungry mind.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildfire
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472276477
• ISBN 13: 9781472276476
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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