Nobody!

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Nobody Knows Consciousness!: Demystifying Life's Greatest Mystery (Goldman's Bulldog Presents, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

"Nobody! is the Rube Goldberg of popular science!" Nobody at The New Yorker "A pie in the face of consciousness!" Nobody at Soupy Sales "Soupy Sales meets Mr. Wizard!" Nobody at Harry Potter's Pea Soup ("Make sure you eat it before it eats you!") "Funny serious, not seriously funny!" Nobody at Serious Fun Anonymous "Nobody! is completely organic. He makes lemons out of lemonade!" Nobody at the Organic Citrus Growers of America "Twinkies for madeleines! Nobody! is the Proust of popular science!" Nobody at 21st Century Twinkies "Pasties for peasants! Nobody! is the Shakespeare of popular science!" Nobody at Pasty Central "We're absolutely certain that popular science doesn't need a Salvador Dali!" Nobody at the Broadway opening of Hello, Dali! "Popular science as literature? We think Nobody! is a quack! Let's send him a Duck Commander." Nobody at Duck Commander "A hybrid mix of Jonathan Swift and evolutionary science? We always suspected that Nobody! was a science Yahoo!" Nobody at Yahoo! Science "We thought that Nobody! was going to explain consciousness--not whack it!" Nobody at Folsom Prison "Makes you embarrassed to even have a consciousness!" Nobody at Consciousness Anonymous "Perhaps, we should make consciousness illegal." Nobody in Washington D.C.

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Autor

Nobody! is the pen name of the author and central character of the books:

Nobody Knows (The Thing That Really Matters About) Anything!: A Users' Guide for the 21st Century
Written by: Nobody!

Nobody Knows Evolution!: Bulldogs, Rottweilers and the Intelligent Designers
Written by: Nobody!

Nobody Knows Consciousness!: Demystifying Life's Greatest Mystery
Written by: Nobody!

"Who would've thought to reinvent non-fiction and make it funny in the process?" Nobody!

"'Back to the Future' of Literary Non-Fiction." Nobody at DeLorean Motor Cars

"It's as if the 'Extracts' ate 'Moby Dick!'" Nobody at Real Vanilla Extracts

"Out Nabakovs Nabakov. 'Pale Fire' for 'Idiots!'" Nobody at the Red Onion State Prison "Super-Prison Literary Society"

"'In Cold Blood'--without all the blood!" Nobody eating "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

"Nobody! has arrived just in time to save the publishing industry singlehandedly!" Nobody at "Publisher's Weakly" Magazine

"Nobody! writes for the cheap seats!" Nobody at Cheapseats.com

"Nobody! takes 'abstract' writing to a whole new level. Plus, he had the good sense to number things!" Nobody selling Jackson Pollock's Numbered Paintings ("They make people look at a picture for what it is--pure painting!")

"Nobody!'s genius was to realize that science was comedy!" Nobody at the University of Clown Science ("The Science of Clowns! The Clowns of Science!")

"Nobody! makes Anonymous irrelevant!" Nobody at Warner Books

"Irreverent--NO!--Irrelevant common sense. Nobody! Knows!" Nobody at "Rolling Stones" Magazine

"We think Nobody! should make a movie!" Nobody at the American Institute of Corn Porn ("Pornography made entirely from corn--for when the ethanol subsidies end! Think creamed corn--and COBS!")

To maintain his anonymity, Nobody! likes to pretend that he's Steve Martin ("to throw the paparazzi off the scent"). To be clear, Nobody! is NOT Steve Martin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nobody!
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311858931
• Artikelnr.: 48643030