How to Predict the Weather with a Cup of Coffee
and Other Techniques for Surviving the 9-5 Jungle
Matthew Cole(Author)
Collins (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-00-731508-6 (ISBN)
Description
Dust off your native survival instincts and update them for the modern world -- whether it's negotiating the car park at Tesco, anti-interrogation techniques at customer service desks, or navigating by electricity pylon. A smart, spoof survival guide -- to the 9-5. Ray Mears' and Bruce Parry's advice is all very well if you're stuck up the Amazon without a paddle, but what about finding your way to a seat on a crowded bus, predicting the weather with a coffee in Starbucks or getting rid of cold callers with a microwave? Harnessing the laws of science, nature and human behaviour, this book revisits and reinvents the tricks that got us through our savage past and updates them for the 21st century. It arms you with a caveman's toolkit for survival wherever you may be -- Starbucks, the office, or a crowded tube on a Friday night -- and tells you all you need to know to transform your daily grind into a non-stop adventure (you don't even have to wear khaki).
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
(b/w illus throughout)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-731508-6 (9780007315086)
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Matthew Cole
How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee
And Other Techniques for Surviving the 9-5 Jungle
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05/2010
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Person
Matthew Cole is a television producer who loves to write books. He lives in Bristol with his wife and their two children. He has a black belt in building flat pack furniture and in his spare time restores antique metronomes.