NUMBERLAND: THE WORLD IN NUMBERS
Book ID/图书代码： 09220013B64475
English Summary/英文概要： The world is full of fascinating facts and statistics, but presented without context and in no particular order they can be overwhelming. Numberland: The World in Numbers interprets the world around us through numbers, breaking the most fascinating and revealing of facts down to their bare bones. For example, did you know that the average eyelash lasts five months? That 400 quarter-pound hamburgers can be made out of one cow? Or that the average human will grow 590 miles of hair in their lifetime?
Ordered in easily digestible sections such as ’Around the World’, ’the USA’, ’Money’, ’Religion’ and ’History’, the book navigates an ordered path through a noisy world of information overload.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 世界是由各种惊人的事实和数据构成的，然而如果没有以语境或者特殊的顺序呈现出来，它将不会如此势不可挡。《数字之国：数字构成的世界》通过数字为我们解读身处的世界，将最迷人的事实以最为彻底的方式揭露呈现。例如，你是否知道通常睫毛只有5个月的寿命？一只奶牛便可以制成400个四分之一磅的汉堡？一个人一生中头发将生长到590英里那么长？书中的章节顺序安排合理易读，如“身边的世界篇”，’美国篇"“金钱篇”“宗教篇”等，在一个被信息充斥的喧嚣世界中，本书将带领你有序地远航。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：有趣的全新力作，以我们身边的数字为主题。--Saga
A fun new book has got our number --Saga
About the Author/作者介绍： 米歇尔•西蒙斯，1957年出生于伦敦并于米尔希尔学院及伦敦政治经济学院接受教育，主修法律。作者曾于BBC电视太担任调查员和导演，离开后便从事写作、广播和记者职业。他曾经担任了线上桌游 Trivial Pursuit早期的文本写作工作，并设计了许多电视节目。作者曾为《每日电讯报》写作每周专栏，并曾因此而获奖，现阶段他已创作了60余部书籍作品--包括50余本为各阶段儿童创作的书籍。
因其过去两年中的突出贡献，他赢得了蓝皮特最佳图书奖的事实真相奖。
如果他出现在“谁想成为一名百万富翁”中，那么他一定是为了纪念朋友米歇尔。克里斯•塔伦特说：“米歇尔比世界上的任何人都要更加了解那些各种无聊的事情和无用的东西”。
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. He wrote an award-winning weekly column for the Daily Express and currently writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express. He has written over sixty books - including fifteen for children with more in various stages of preparation.
He has won the Blue Peter Best Book With Facts Award for the past two years running.
In naming Mitchell as the friend he would phone (as a Phone-A-Friend) if he were appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Chris Tarrant said: "Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on earth".
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