Truly Peculiar

Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction

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Tom Standage

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Frequently unasked questions include: Are overweight politicians less trustworthy? What can bosses learn from a hostage negotiator? What happened to the Vegas wedding industry last year? How can Big Macs measure the true size of China's economy? And why do dung beetles' love of human faeces result in scientific bias? The ever-keen minds of The Economist Explains ponder all these and more in this latest encyclopaedic excursion around the globe. From Hollywood to the underground hair trade, discover answers to the unconventional headscratchers you never thought to ask. This is an extraordinary compendium of the peculiarly true.

Author Biography:

Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books, including Uncommon Knowledge, Seriously Curious, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.

Release date NZ

November 4th, 2021

Author

Tom Standage

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

Main

Illustrations

charts and graphs throughout

Pages

272

Dimensions

128x196x22

ISBN-13

9781788168960

Product ID

34655695

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