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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. On thinking too much: how not to win a princess’s hand
2. On the run: all’s fair with bears?
3. A pill for everything?
4. In no time at all
5. Man with pulley: waving or drowning?
6. ‘Hi, I’m Sir Isaac Newton – don’t mention the apples’
7. Should we save the jerboa?
8. When one makes two: dressing up
9. The life model: beauty, burglars, and beholders
10. An offer you can only refuse
11. Slothful Sloth speaks: ‘What will be, will be’
12. ‘Women and men are equal’ – really?
13. Humpty Dumpty advises Ms Turkey
14. Man or sheep?
15. … and the living is easy
16. ‘My beloved is mine’ or ‘The trouble with football is the other team’
17. God, chocolate, and Newcomb: take the box?
18. The brain
19. What’s wrong with eating people? or even Who’s for dinner?
20. How to gain whatever you want
21. ‘I am the greatest’ or ‘There ain’t no Sanity Claus’
22. Veils of woe: beats and peeping Toms too
23. Paintings, within and without
24. The unobtainable: when ‘yes’ means ‘no’
25. Past caring?
26. Beauty awake
27. The greatest miracle?
28. Cocktails, rivers, and Sir John Cutler’s stockings
29. Hove and late: a gruesome affair
30. If this be judging …
31. Do we make the stars?
32. Without end?
33. Fragile creatures that we are …
Appendix 1. Further reading
Appendix 2. Notes, sources, and references
Appendix 3. Paradoxes and puzzles: a quick finder
General Index
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