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Gyles Brandreth WAL STATISTICS
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, Qyles Brandreth's Vital Statistics is no average book. Where the Guinness Book of Records highlights the physical extremes of the tallest, shortest, heaviest, lightest, strongest and most out-of-the-ordinary members of the human race, this is to celebrate the other 4,650,000,000 of us who collectively represent Mr, Mrs and Ms Average. This is the ultimate book about the average human being.
From the 100,000 hairs on your scalp - if you are an average brunette (rather more if you are a blond or blonde and fewer for redheads), which grow 4? inches (12.06 cm) a year to a round lifetime total of 25 feet (7.62 m) -to the nails at the end of your toes which only manage a growth rate of 1| inches (3.81 cm) a year, Vital Statistics is an authoritative and entertaining survey of every feature of the average human being.
Throughout the book the emphasis is on clarity. Each topic covered features all the necessary graphs, charts, lists... Tovább

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Gyles Brandreth WAL STATISTICS
Longman^
, Qyles Brandreth's Vital Statistics is no average book. Where the Guinness Book of Records highlights the physical extremes of the tallest, shortest, heaviest, lightest, strongest and most out-of-the-ordinary members of the human race, this is to celebrate the other 4,650,000,000 of us who collectively represent Mr, Mrs and Ms Average. This is the ultimate book about the average human being.
From the 100,000 hairs on your scalp - if you are an average brunette (rather more if you are a blond or blonde and fewer for redheads), which grow 4? inches (12.06 cm) a year to a round lifetime total of 25 feet (7.62 m) -to the nails at the end of your toes which only manage a growth rate of 1| inches (3.81 cm) a year, Vital Statistics is an authoritative and entertaining survey of every feature of the average human being.
Throughout the book the emphasis is on clarity. Each topic covered features all the necessary graphs, charts, lists and diagrams to ensure quick and easy access to the data presented. It is candid too. The odds against dying of heart disease or cancer in the west are matched with the principal causes of death in the developing world. The risks involved in maintaining the average western diet, smoking the average number of cigarettes and drinking the average amount of alcohol are examined, along with detailed information on the average life expectancy past and present.
For the most part the book concentrates on the average man and woman as adults.
although comparative changes in characteristics such as strength, stature and the senses covering the average lifetime from birth to death are included wherever they help to broaden the reader's interest and further his or her understanding.
Each detail and fact is drawn from an extensive body of up-to-the-minute, internationally recognized and verifiable research material, embracing both medical and social sciences, to produce a fascinating, fact-filled and statistically accurate portrait of the average man and woman that offers something of interest and insight to readers the world over.
Gyles Brandreth was bom in 1948. He was a scholar at New College, Oxford, where he read history and modern languages. Since graduating he has worked principally as a writer and is the author of over fifty books, ranging from an international study of penal institutions to a biography of Dan Leno, from The Complete Home Entertainer 10 The Complete Husband.
As a broadcaster he has made over a thousand appearances on radio and television in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, in programmes ranging from Start the Weeklo Just a Minute, from Panorama to Call My Bluff and more recently Countdown, The Railway Carriage Game and TVam every Wednesday morning.
Jacket photograph by Martin Dohm, Design by Mick Keates.

Gyles Brandreth's Vital Statistics is no average book. Where the Guinness Book of Records highlights the phpical extremes of the tallest, shortest, heaviest, lightest, strongest and most out-of-the-ordinary members of the human race, this is to celebrate the other 4,650,000,000 of us who collectively represent Mr, Mrs and Ms Average. This is the ultimate book about the average human being.
From the 100,000 hairs on your scalp -if you are an average brunette (rather more if you are a blond or blonde and fewer for redheads), which grow 4? inches (12.06 cm) a year to a round lifetime total of 25 feet (7.62 m) - to the nails at the end of your toes which only manage a growth rate of 1| inches (3.81 cm) a year, Vital Statistics is an authoritative and entertaining survey of every feature of the average human being.
Throughout the book the emphasis is on clarity. Each topic covered features all the necessary graphs, charts, lists and diagrams to ensure quick and easy access to the data presented. It is candid too. The odds against dying of heart disease or cancer in the west are matched with the principal causes of death in the developing world. The risks involved in maintaining the average western diet, smoking the average number of cigarettes and drinking the average amount of alcohol are examined, along with detailed informadon on the average life expectancy past and present.
For the most part the book concentrates on the average man and woman as adults, although comparative changes in characteristics such as strength, stature and the senses covering the average lifetime from birth to death are included wherever they help to broaden the reader's interest and further his or her understanding.
Each detail and fact is drawn from an extensive body of up-to-the-minute, internationally recognized and verifiable research material, embracing both medical and social sciences, to produce a fascinating, fact-filled and statistically accurate portrait of the average man and woman that offers something of interest and insight to readers the world over. Vissza