Publisher's Synopsis
This work sets out to instruct and delight - to present fascinating facts and superfluous knowledge.;Each chapter is devoted to a major discipline such as eonomics, art history, film, literature or psychology. The authors invite the reader to learn about the three well-worn arguments for the existence of God, discover the ten burning questions in the history of science, probe five psychoanalytical cases, distinguish a brougham from a curricle and malmsey from claret and learn 11 arias to sing in the shower.
