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Academia Obscura - The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education - cover

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Academia Obscura - The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education

Glen Wright

Publisher: Unbound

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Academia Obscura has 129k Twitter followers.The hardback edition (2017) sold over 5,000 copies.This is a perfect gift book for anyone currently in higher education... or who has ever liked a cat video on the internet. for fans of the QI Book of General Ignorance, Schott’s Original Miscellany, The Book of Lists, Randall Munroe.
Available since: 11/16/2017.

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