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The Pedant's Revolt Newspaper &Magazine Reviews E directory The Pedant's Revolt by Andrea Barham Who enjoys being wrong? Make sure you always get it right with The Pedant's Revolt guaranteed to settle any argument. How many of the so-called facts' we all take for granted are actually a pile of old toffee? How do you know if something is a myth, a legend or just a plain old lie? With The Pedant's Revolt you can sort the facts from the fiction, astound friends with the depth of your knowledge, and best of all, win every argument in the pub and make people you don't like look stupid.Compiled by writer Andrea Barham, this informative yet amusing tome aims to add some right to a world that's all too full of wrong. Okay, it isn't going to bring about world peace, cure famine or get Dale Winton off the telly, but it can help you live your life free from misconceptions and fabrications. Once you know that the you can't commit suicide by holding your breath, things will change forever. Some people think being pedantic is a bad thing, and that knowing obscure facts is sad'. These people are just jealous. Trust us, it's much more fun being right than being wrong, or just plain ignorant. Covering everything from food and drink to the human body via history and the arts, The Pedant's Revolt is a veritable bible of surprising truths and falsehoods....www.edirectory.co.uk Swindon Books  PEDANT'S REVOLT: WHY MOST THINGS YOU THINK ARE RIGHT ARE WRONG by BARHAM, ANDREA ISBN 1843171325 Subject REFERENCE & LANGUAGES Publisher MICHAEL O'MARA UK Publication 2005 Edition Hardcover Version Original Description : The modern age has long been awash with facts and figures relating to a wealth of different subjects, but how many of these snippets of information can be verified as accurate? Which examples of trivia can be proven to be nothing more than falsehoods or fabrications? This intriguing book sets the record straight by exposing a great many of the common myths and fallacies that have become entrenched in everyday thought. Covering a wide range of diverse topics, from history to science, the arts, the animal kingdom, medicine, the human body, and food and drink, and presenting its well-researched facts in a highly accessible and entertaining manner, The Pedants’ Revolt is guaranteed to inform the misinformed and enlighten the confused. www.swindonbooks.com Amazon Synopsis: Aimed at pedants to know-it-alls, as well as those simply wishing to 'get it right', this book will appeal to the modern passion for factual accuracy. The ultimate book to settle any pub argument, it exposes a wide range of facts that we have always believed to be true, but which are, in fact, completely false. It also covers a broad spectrum of subjects in a highly entertaining, yet informative, style. The modern age has long been awash with facts and figures relating to a wealth of different subjects, but how many of these snippets of information can be verified as accurate? Which examples of trivia can be proven to be nothing more than falsehoods or fabrications? Covering a wide range of diverse topics, from history to science, the arts, the animal kingdom, medicine, the human body, and food and drink, and presenting its well-researched facts in a highly accessible and entertaining manner, this intriguing book sets the record straight by exposing a great many of the common myths and fallacies that have become entrenched in everyday thought. www.amazon.co.uk Michael O'Mara Books The ultimate book for settling any pub argument. Covering a wide range of diverse subjects, The Pedant’s Revolt puts right popular misconceptions such as the idea that your heart stops when you sneeze (it doesn’t); Harpo Marx really couldn’t talk (he could); you can kill yourself by holding your breath (you can’t) or that an owl can turn its head through 360 degrees (it can’t). The book also explains how these erroneous facts came about and why they are so completely wrong. www.mombooks.com Play.Com  Review: An attractive hardback gift book aimed not at pedants and know-it-alls, but at those simply wishing to 'get it right'! The ultimate book to settle any pub argument Accuracy is now, officially, cool. The recent publishing success of books which, for example, detail the finer points of grammar, as well as the numerous collections of arcane facts designed to bestow a faux wisdom on the armchair academic, all indicate a welcome shift towards exactitude. With that in mind, The Pedant's Revolt exposes many of the common myths and fallacies that have become firmly entrenched. Covering every conceivable subject matter, from history to science, the arts, the animal kingdom, medicine, common sayings, law, the human body, inventions, and food and drink, The Pedant's Revolt will clear up those niggling points of fact endlessly disputed at social gatherings and among friends, in an accessible and categorized format. Examples of the falsehoods disproved include: Food and Drink - After drinking alcohol, coffee will sober the drinker up. Plant Life - Spinach makes you strong. Inventions and Discoveries - The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.  www.play.com Searchsa.com The Pedant's Revolt - Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong We are all, nowadays, bombarded with facts and figures, but how many of them are accurate? Have you ever stopped to wonder? The Pedant's Revolt is for everyone who wants to throw out received wisdom and welcome in the facts. This is a truely fascinating book that will have you questioning what you thought was generally accepted as true by the masses. Here is a taste of some of the myths that Andrea has set out to put right, once and for all... :: Chewing pencils causes lead poisoning Not only does the author point out that lead pencils contain only graphite, but also that they never, ever contained lead. Eve gave Adam an apple in the Garden of Eden As it turns out, the type of fruit is never specified. In Jewish tradition it is the fig, since the leaves from which Adam and Eve made aprons (girdles) to cover their nakedness were taken from the fig tree.  Moths eat clothes and mothballs should be used to ward them off We learn here that it is only a specific moth (tineola bisselliella), which very rarely flies, is the actual culprit of the myth, but even then it's only in the larvae form that it will eat fabric. More importantly we learn that mothballs don't just stop at killing moths and that many infant deaths have been reported after the babies were simply exposed to blankets and clothing which has been stored with mothballs.  The modern flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper As it turns out, during the 1880's various types of siphonic systems were being patented at the rate of about 20 per year - but none by Thomas Crapper. To find out more, and there is much more, you'll have to pick up a copy of the book for yourself. I can guarantee that it will provide endless amazement as you discover that what you may have believed in, in a variety of cases, simply may not be true. The Pedant's Revolt would make a great gift! www.searchsa.com.au

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