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mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge (Editors of Mental Floss)
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge
Untertitel A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
Autor Editors of Mental Floss
Verlag Harper Collins
Co-Verlag William Morrow Paperbacks (Imprint/Brand)
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
Seiten 352 S.
Artikelnummer 19682538
ISBN 978-0-06-056806-1
CHF 23.50
Lieferbar in ca. 20-45 Arbeitstagen
Zusammenfassung

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 ...

"An ideal reference to settle arguments or jog your memory."

Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.