Life in Five Seconds - Van Gogh

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Channel: Waterstones · 2012 · Entertainment

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In our jet-fuelled, caffeine-induced, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two?

C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge. Told in ingenious pictograms that are witty, provocative and to the point, Life in Five Seconds takes 250 world events, inventions, great lives, places, animals and cultural icons that you really need to know about, and then, hey presto!, cuts away all the useless details.

This is the perfect gift for anyone with a sense of humour... and a short attention span.

Buy the book at your local Waterstones bookshop (http://bit.ly/s6sdlu) or online at Waterstones.com.

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