The Book of Percentages
Over 500 Bizarre, Obscure, Random, Surprising, and 100 Per Cent Enlightening Facts on Just About Nothing
Published on 18. July 2009
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Hardback
256 pages
978-1-60550-108-6 (ISBN)
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Readers will now be able to wow their friends, scare their kids, and bargain with their spouses as they use "The Book of Percentages" to legitimise bad decisions, idle threats, and risky ventures. With this one-stop statistical resource, sharp readers will have plenty of numbers to back up whatever they want (or don't want) to do. Covering all aspects of everyday life, this enlightening little trivia book shows people that numbers can be informative yet entertaining - and work to their advantage. It's a guaranteed enlightening read 100 per cent of the time.
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Tom Philbin
The Book of Percentages
Over 500 bizarre, obscure, random, surprising, and 100% enlightening facts on just about everything nothing
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06/2009
Adams Media
€2.96
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Tom Philbin (Centerport, NY) has been a longtime freelance writer. He has written a variety of books, both fiction and nonfiction. His latest are Barbaro: A Nation's Love Story; Two Minutes to Glory: The Official History of the Kentucky Derby, which was entered by the publisher for a Pulitzer Prize in history; and The Killer Book of True Crime. He also writes for Reader's Digest.
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Inside readers will learn interesting tidbits like:; While 30 percent of all shoplifters are under thirty, 95 percent of shoplifters are females - just another thing for teenage boys to throw in their parents' faces; Ditching a diet is the fad thing to do, as 60 percent of dieters fail and go back to eating fatty foods; Finding a faithful contractor is much easier than finding a faithful husband: Only 10 percent of home improvement contractors are reported larcenous while 22 percent of married men have committed adultery; The world would have a whole lot more female vegetarians if people had to kill their dinner - 90 percent of women would give up beef if they had to kill the cow; Americans have a 40 percent chance of just dropping dead every day.