Life in Five Seconds: Over 200 Stories for Those With No Time to Waste by Quercus

"Life in Five Seconds: Over 200 Stories for Those With No Time to Waste" was published on 1st  November by based in London Quercus and it's definitely a must have for those who love books and graphics.

This collection of ingenious pictograms made by H-57 (a creative studio who deals with design, advertising and illustration)  covers on its 256 pages the world's most famous events, inventions, great lives, places, animals and cultural icons. You know them for sure so now you should see the pictograms.

Here's the description taken from lifeinfiveseconds.com

In our jet-fuelled, caffeine-induced, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two?

C’mon, let’s face it, life’s too bloody short.

What you need is instant knowledge.

Life in Five Seconds takes 200 world events, inventions, great lives, places, animals and cultural icons that you really need to know about, and then, hey presto!, cuts away all the useless details.

The Last Supper, Lady Gaga, the moon landings, the Mona Lisa, the invention of electricity, Ikea, the Berlin Wall, celebrity chefs and everything in-between. This is the perfect gift for anyone with a sense of humour … and a short attention span.

So it's easy now: don't waste time, buy the book, download the Quercus Eye app and bring the stories to life.

Hmm.. I already know what I'm getting for Xmas... do you ?:)























If you want to see more extracts before getting the book check this link for more!

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