Numberland Mitchell Symons

Name: Numberland By Mitchell Symons
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Numberland by Mitchell Symons

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Summary

Numberland interprets the world around us through numbers, breaking the most amazing and revealing of facts down to their bare bones. Ordered in easily digestible sections such as 'Around the World', 'the USA', 'Money', 'Religion' and 'History', the book navigates an ordered path through a noisy world of information overload.

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Numberland: The World in Numbers by Mitchell Symons

The world is full of fascinating facts and statistics, but presented without context and in no particular order they can be overwhelming. Numberland: The World in Numbers interprets the world around us through numbers, breaking the most amazing and revealing of facts down to their bare bones. For example, did you know that the average eyelash lasts five months? That 400 quarter-pound hamburgers can be made out of one cow? Or that the average human will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime? Ordered in easily digestible sections such as 'Around the World', 'the USA', 'Money', 'Religion' and 'History', the book navigates an ordered path through a noisy world of information overload.

Numberland Reviews

A fun new book has got our number Saga the lavatory book of the year The Guardian An extraordinary proliferation of daft numerical facts Spectator Trivia fans should flock in their numbers to acquire this treasury of numerical delights The Good Book Guide Perfect for pub quiz fans and anyone who likes fascinating facts and figures NFU Countryside magazine

About Mitchell Symons

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. He wrote an award-winning weekly column for the Daily Express and currently writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express. He has written over sixty books - including fifteen for children with more in various stages of preparation. He has won the Blue Peter Best Book With Facts Award for the past two years running. In naming Mitchell as the friend he would phone (as a Phone-A-Friend) if he were appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Chris Tarrant said: "Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on earth".

Additional information

Sku

GOR005188873

ISBN 13

9781782430605

ISBN 10

1782430601

Title

Numberland: The World in Numbers by Mitchell Symons

Author

Mitchell Symons

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Year published

2013-09-19

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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