A Year of Living Couriously

A book of daily shots of knowledge that will lift your spirits and expand your mind in a flash.

In 365 joyfully random, utterly fascinating entries, you'll learn what the Japanese mean by 'kuchisabishii' and how the Victorians communicated through flowers; you'll start to get a handle on quantum computing and discover the secret history of the bobble hat. Here are tales of footballing bees and Viking mice, the beginning of the thesaurus and the end of the library of Alexandria.

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