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A short history of the world in 50 failures
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789297089
- Collation
- 288 p. ; ill. ; 18 cm
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- 909 GAZ a
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