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Following up 2016's hit Go Figure and 2018's Sunday Times bestseller Seriously Curious, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist

About the Author

Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is author of several books, including Seriously Curious, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.

Reviews

For Go Figure:

"Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anything
*Daily Mail*

An uncommonly brilliant little book
*Daily Mail*