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Encyclopedia Paranoiaca

Hardcover • 2013 • English

Encyclopedia Paranoiaca

By Henry Beard

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About the book

In Encyclopedia Paranoiaca, master satirists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf have assembled an authoritative, disturbingly comprehensive, and utterly debilitating inventory of things poised to harm, maim, or kill you - all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life. Beard and Cerf cite convincing evidence that everyday things we consider healthy - eating leafy greens, flossing, washing our hands - are actually harmful, and items we thought were innocuous - drinking stra...Show more

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9780715646069

Publisher

Duckworth Overlook

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Encyclopedia Paranoiaca

Format

Hardcover

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