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Encyclopedia Paranoiaca

Editat de Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 noi 2013
An amusing and cruelly accurate cultural critique ("The Wall Street Journal"), this informative and utterly debilitating compendium explores the many surprising ways you might die a horrible death.
DID YOU KNOW THAT CARROTS CAUSE BLINDNESS AND BANANAS ARE RADIOACTIVE? That too many candlelight dinners can cause cancer? And not only is bottled water a veritable petri dish of biohazards (so is tap water, by the way) but riding a bicycle might destroy your sex life? In "Encyclopedia Paranoiaca," master satirists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf have assembled an authoritative, disturbingly comprehensive, and utterly debilitating inventory of things poised to harm, maim, or kill you all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life. Thoroughly sourced and conveniently alphabetized for easy reference, this book just might save your life. (But it probably won t.)"
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ISBN-13: 9781439199565
ISBN-10: 1439199566
Pagini: 383
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster

Notă biografică

Henry Beard attended Harvard University and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon. He went on to found the National Lampoon with Douglas Kenney and served as its editor during the magazine’s heyday in the 1970s. He has written numerous bestselling humor books, including Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life and (with Christopher Cerf) The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook.