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Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopaedia of Useless Information by William Hartston
29.95 NZD
Category: Humour
Useless information - we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the newspaper, all containing a wealth of fascinatingly useless tidbits. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall st ...Show more
Numb and Number by William Hartston
33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else by William Hartston
45.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The ThingsThat Nobody Knows. Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great dealof weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takesthe ...Show more
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