Do You Think You're Clever?

Author: John Farndon
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848311567
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
What happens if I drop an ant? What books are bad for you? What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow? The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to each, taking the reader through the fascinating histories, philosophies, sciences and arts that underlie each problem. This is a book for everyone who likes to think they're clever, or who thinks they'd like to be clever. And cleverness is not just knowing stuff, it's how laterally, deeply and interestingly you can bend your brain. Guesstimating the population of Croydon, for example, opens a chain of thought from which you can predict the strength of a nuclear bomb ...and that's just the start of it.

So, You Think You're Clever?

Author: John Farndon
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1785780786
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions. How would you poison someone without the police finding out? (Medicine, Cambridge) What makes a strong woman? (Theology, Oxford) Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of IKEA run the country? (Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge) How do you organise a successful revolution? (History, Oxford) Whether you're interested in going to Oxbridge or just want to give your brain a workout, join polymath John Farndon on another exhilarating journey through the twists and turns of thought, and explore just what it means to be genuinely clever – rather than just smart.

So, You Think You're Clever?

Author: John Farndon
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781848319325
Category : Judgment (Logic)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The sequel to the 50,000+ copy-selling "Do You Think You re Clever? "featuring even more brain-melting Oxbridge interview questions."

Clever Girl

Author: Matilda Martel
Publisher: Matilda Martel
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Jakob Liszt is forty-one. The eldest of the Liszt brothers, he takes care of his family. He’s handsome, successful and wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. He has everything except the one thing money can’t buy. He wants to fall in love. He wants a family of his own. Then he meets Daria. Daria James. His younger brother’s girlfriend’s sister. A genius with a quirky personality and a poor social filter, she’s beautiful, half his age and uncomfortable with his attention. They share a moment that Daria wants to forget. Jakob won’t let her. He’s certain she’s the girl of his dreams, his future wife and mother of his children. Nothing has ever meant more. Daria’s intrigued but cautious. In love for the first time, she fears what she can’t control. But nothing is keeping Jakob from winning the heart of his quirky, clever girl. This is a steamy, sweet romantic comedy with no cheating and a guaranteed Happily Ever After!

You Are Not So Smart

Author: David McRaney
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592407366
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.

Clever Fox

Author: Jeanine Pirro
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1401305024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
Prosecutor Dani Fox finds herself amidst warring crime families in the aftermath of a murdered Mafia capo's daughter. Drawing from her own past as a dynamic, hard-charging district attorney and judge, Emmy award winner Jeanine Pirro's page-turner is ripped from the headlines, full of gripping details, authentic thrills, and suspenseful realism that can only come from a courtroom litigator who's been in the trenches. Prosecutor Dani Fox has handled some gruesome homicide cases, but her investigation into the brutal murder of a local Mafia capo's daughter goes from tricky to downright dangerous. Although the victim has ties to the New Jersey Mafia, she was also secretly engaged in an affair with someone from a rival New York crime family. As if squaring off against two powerful crime families weren't enough, Dani suspects that the murder is more than a simple crime of passion, and getting to the bottom of this grisly homicide puts Dani and her long-term boyfriend, Will, in harm's way. Clever Fox has you rooting for Dani in this deadly fight between the ace prosecutor and an elusive and dangerous killer.

The Smart Set

Author: George Jean Nathan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 702

Book Description

The Greater Joy

Author: Margaret Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description

Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584

Book Description

Partners in Crime

Author: Josh Lanyon
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1945802359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Three classic novels of murder and suspense from “the Agatha Christie of gay mystery.” A disgraced FBI agent and a small-town sheriff team up to catch a serial killer in the atmospheric thriller Winter Kill. Probing the enigma of legendary 1960s artist Cosmo Bari’s disappearance proves deadly to his son in the traditional cozy Murder in Pastel. Murder and mayhem make for strange bedfellows at a mystery writing conference in the comic who-dunnit Somebody Killed His Editor (the first book of the Holmes & Moriarity series).