The Ideas Companion: Crafty Copyrights, Tricky Trademarks and Peerless Patents (A Think Book) - Hardcover

Acton, Johnny

9781861058355: The Ideas Companion: Crafty Copyrights, Tricky Trademarks and Peerless Patents (A Think Book)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861058357 ISBN 13: 9781861058355

Publisher: Anova Books, 2005

Which famous brand was known as the Mae West? Why did the Got Milk?” ads offend the Spanish? What on earth is a face bra? The Ideas Companion has all the answers and so many more. You’ll even discover the invention that alerts one to a nuclear air strike and protects one’s cat flap at the same time!

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About the Author:

Johnny Acton is the perfect 'Companion' author: he has published books on subjects as wide-ranging as the balloonist who deliberately floated off into space, and new recipes with mushrooms, making him the ideal writer for the weird and wonderful world that makes up 'The Ideas Companion'.

Review:

Ever wonder what happens to the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IV’s coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? These delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable volumes are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.

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