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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 15/05/1995
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ISBN: 9780749396282
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
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Weight: 224g
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RRP: £10.99
Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 15/05/1995
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ISBN: 9780749396282
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
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Weight: 224g
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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In the age of innumerable populist polymaths, Eco is the exception, a commentator who makes sense of what so often seems senseless. All the more reason to read him
Time Out
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That he can write with equal agility on such subjects as the World Cup, St Thomas Aquinas, and how the wearing of tight blue jeans constricts the interior life as well as the body...in a a style that is both serious and diverting, is an achievement unparalleled in British journalism
New Statesman
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There is enough liveliness here, and enough imaginative suggestiveness, to keep the reader furiously entertained
Sunday Times
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A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our time
Los Angeles Times
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Eco is...a highly entertaining and perceptive "decoder" of the world
Times Literary Supplement
