The Book of Common Fallacies: Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life - Softcover

Ward, Philip; Edwards, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616083360 ISBN 13: 9781616083366

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2012

Synopsis

An A-to-Z compendium of almost 500 pages of “facts” that are misleading, oversimplified, exaggerated, or just plain wrong. Long before Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight.

By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. You’ll be amazed and baffled and might think that everything you were ever taught was wrong. Do you believe…

• Absinthe is a hallucinogen
• Accutane use leads to suicide
• Acne is caused by eating chocolate and stress
• Algebra can make 2 = 1
• Altars are of Christian origin
• Arctic is significantly colder than the rest of the world.

All correct? NO, ALL WRONG! And those are just some of the A’s!

Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.

About this title

About the Authors

Philip Ward is a librarian, playwright, writer, poet, and world-traveler. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Julia Edwards is a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she concentrated in creative writing and nineteenth-century literature. In addition to personal writing and blogging, she has contributed writing, editing, and research work to various projects at Skyhorse Publishing, most significantly The Book of Common Fallacies. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616083360
• ISBN 13: 9781616083366
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496