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In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was later incorporated into the covers of ...
No. 7 on The Wall Street Journal bestselling e-book list (December 2017) [75] Quiet was voted No. 1 nonfiction book of 2012 in the "Goodreads Choice Awards". [76] John Dupuis collated information from 69 "Best of 2012" book lists, and wrote for the National Geographic Society's ScienceBlogs that Quiet was the most listed science related book. [77]
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, released January 3, 2013, [1] is a book written by Maria Konnikova exploring ways to improve mindfulness, logical thinking and observation using Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character Sherlock Holmes as an exemplar. Konnikova intertwines her analysis of Holmes's "habits of mind" with findings ...
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Blink received an 74% from The Lit Review based on 13 critic reviews. The consensus says, "It's all about quick decisions ... read it now!". [9] On Metacritic, the book received a 67 out of 100 based on 25 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [10] In the March/April 2006 issue of Bookmarks, the book
Emotions frighten her, and she believes that talking about things makes them more dangerous. When I was 13 or 14, I told my father I was thinking about suicide very often. He explained that people who kill themselves go to “the astral hells.” My father was a New Age guru and believed in reincarnation and many different planes of existence.
As of 2012 the book had sold over one million copies. [23] On the year of its publication, it was on the New York Times Bestseller List. [4] The book was reviewed in media including the Huffington Post, [24] The Guardian, [25] The New York Times, [2] The Financial Times, [26] The Independent, [27] Bloomberg [11] and The New York Review of Books.
Brainwashing was first published in hardcover format on 16 December 2004 by Oxford University Press, and again in paperback format on 24 August 2006.The book was "highly commended" and runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award, and also made it to the shortlist for the 2005 MIND "Book of the Year Award".