Encyclopedia paranoiaca : the definitive compendium of things you absolutely, positively must not eat ... / compiled by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf and the Staff of the Cassandra Institute.
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback edDescription: x, 387 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1439199566 (pbk.)
- 9781439199565 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"An amusing and cruelly accurate cultural critique" ( The Wall Street Journal ), this informative and utterly debilitating compendium explores the many surprising ways you might die a horrible death.
DID YOU KNOW THAT CARROTS CAUSE BLINDNESS AND BANANAS ARE RADIOACTIVE? That too many candlelight dinners can cause cancer? And not only is bottled water a veritable petri dish of biohazards (so is tap water, by the way) but riding a bicycle might destroy your sex life? In Encyclopedia Paranoiaca , master satirists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf have assembled an authoritative, disturbingly comprehensive, and utterly debilitating inventory of things poised to harm, maim, or kill you--all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life. Thoroughly sourced and conveniently alphabetized for easy reference, this book just might save your life. (But it probably won't.)
"The indispensable guide to everyone and everything you should be afraid of or worried about"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
"An authoritative, disturbingly comprehensive, and utterly debilitating inventory of things poised to harm, maim, or kill you--all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life."--Back cover.