The QI Book of the Dead is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. - Gustave Flaubert Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have. The QI Book of the Dead compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the uncaring universe* throws at us. Collected into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as 'There's Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life', Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone' and 'Is That All There Is?' here is a chance to share the secrets of the Dead, to celebrate their wisdom, to learn from their mistakes, and to marvel at their bad taste in clothes. The man who is not dead still has a chance. LEBANESE PROVERB *We do' t rule out the alternative possibility of a compassionate God whose motives are beyond our ken.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571244911
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93422623
Product Key Features
Book Title
Qi: the Book of the Dead
Author
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biology, Trivia
Publication Year
2010
Type
Dictionary
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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