Mind Bombs: Exploding Conventional Wisdom - Softcover

Alder, Garrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715637665 ISBN 13: 9780715637661

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Did you know that...250,000 British people go missing every year, 50,000 of whom are never found? Psychopaths do better at work? An estimated 2000 Britons are killed by over-the-counter painkillers every year? One in 6 girls and one in 14 boys now hits puberty by the age of eight? In 'Mind Bombs' Garrick Alder, journalist and contributor to BBC's hugely popular 'QI' series, discusses the comfortable myths and shared presumptions that surround us daily but that we never even think about challenging. Packed with scary statistics and startling conspiracy theories, this book is essential reading for the disillusioned, the cynical, the blissfully ignorant and the merely curious...

About this title

About the Author

Garrick Alder is a journalist, freelance writer and researcher.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0715637665
• ISBN 13: 9780715637661
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160