Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves and No Such Thing As a Fish podcast hosts James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories, including the psychology of soccer chants, comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests and professi...
CrowdsourcingWhen faced with a burning question, ask the audience - not the expert. Wikipedia and Lego are onto it already, and stock markets have operated on the basis of crowdsourcing for decades.The MenaissanceThe hottest trend in male behaviour. Exit sarong-sporting Beckham, enter head-butting Zidane: the'menaissance' is here.The Maturialistic GenerationMiddle-aged adults who spend money like teenagers, giving rise to 'born-again bikers', ...
Based on 3 years of on-the-ground reporting from every side of the Syrian conflict, HUNTING SEASON is Harkin's quest to uncover the truth about how and why Islamic State came to target Western hostages, who was behind it and why almost no one outside a small group of people knew anything about it until it was too late. He reveals how the campaign of kidnapping and the development of IS were joined at the hip from the beginning.
Features a selection of 1, 342 facts such as: trees sleep at night, Google searches for 'How to put on a condom' peak at 10.28pm, there is no word for time in any Aboriginal language, Scotland has 421 words for snow, Emoji is the fastest growing language in history, and, astronauts wear belts to stop their trousers falling up.
A fascinating book . . . Compelling . . . . The research is excellent' Management TodayThere's a new rule in business: forget about the general audience and instead stake out an identifiable niche.Woolworths suffered from a lack of identity and found that low quality and low price wasn't enough, General Motors crashed as motorists failed to distinguish between cars in their range. Yet HBO, Moleskine and specialist media like The Economist have...
