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Published in Great Britain in 2014 by Quercus, 21 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NS England.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Leslie, Ian, 1972—, author

Curious : the desire to know and why your future depends on it / Ian Leslie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77089-403-7 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-1-77089-404-4 (html)

1. Curiosity. I. Title.

BF323.C8L48 2014 155.2’32 C2014-902734-6

C2014-902735-4

Cover design: Nicole Caputo

We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.