The QI Book of General Ignorance
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The QI Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson
How much do we really know about anything? As someone else once said, it isn't what you don't know that does you harm, it's what you know that's wrong. This book shows you how much of what you know is wrong, incorrect, piffle, nonsense.
John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus: 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.' John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. He's with Einstein: 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571251391 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571251390 |
| Title | The QI Book of General Ignorance |
| Author | John Mitchinson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2009-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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