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Go Figure ! - Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know : The Economist Explains

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He joined the magazine in 1998! and has been Technology Editor! Business Editor and Digital Editor. He is author of six books! including Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2!000 Years and The Victorian Internet! and his writing has appeared in the New York Times! Daily Telegraph! Guardian and Wired. Klappentext Things you didn't know you didn't know. Smart answers to universal questions from the highly popular "Economist Explains" and "Daily Chart" blogs! a treat for the downright curious. Smart, savvy answers to universal questions, from the highly popular Economist Explains and Daily Chart blogs, a treat for the knowing, the uninitiated and the downright curious Zusammenfassung Which James Bond drinks the most martinis? What do Satanists really believe?How do hurricanes get their names?Why are bees disappearing?Is chocolate healthy?...Go Figure has the answers. Bringing together the very best from the clever people at The Economist! Go Figure explains the mind-boggling! the peculiar and the profound! things you might always have quietly wondered about and yet more you didn't know you didn't know.Figure out why so many Koreans are called Kim! how bitcoin mining works! why eating insects makes sense and how to get ahead under a dictator - a treat for the knowing! the uninitiated and the downright curious.

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Authors Tom Standage
Publisher Profile Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 30.11.2016
 
EAN 9781781256251
ISBN 978-1-78125-625-1
No. of pages 247
Dimensions 129 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
Series Economist Books
The Economist
THE ECONOMIST
Subject Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy

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