A Less Boring History of the World

Informationen zum Autor Dave Rear is a writer and lecturer who has spent his life reading, writing, and talking about history. While he hasn't time-travelled yet, it would be a convenient way to make him vanish. He lives in Tokyo with his wife and two kids, who – by law – are required to read all his books. They also wish he could time-travel. Klappentext Dave Rear is a writer and academic who lives and works in Tokyo. He read history at Cambridge and, out of sheer lack of imagination, almost became a school teacher, until he came to his senses and emigrated. He now lectures in English language, history, social science and anything else his students let him get away with. He is married with a young son, who occasionally gives him five minutes or so to write. Zusammenfassung Tells you what you need to know from the Big Bang to Barack Obama, taking in the Byzantines, the Black Death, Bin Laden and the fall of bankers along the way, all boiled down to bite size chunks so that you can finally piece together all the different bits of history - and see how on earth we ended up in the mess we are today.

Product details

• Authors: Dave Rear, Rear Dave
• Publisher: Square Peg
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9780224087025
• ISBN: 978-0-224-08702-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 215 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HUMOR / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Reference, natural history, Humour, General & world history, History: earliest times to present day, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, General and world history, History: plagues, diseases etc, The Earth: natural history: general interest, History: plagues, diseases, famines