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Joel Levy

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Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specializing in science and history. He is the author of over a dozen books, including The Little Book of Conspiracies and Scientific Feuds: From Galileo to the Human Genome Project. Phobiapedia is his first book for children.

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	Psychology in Bite Sized Chunks 3.49 avg rating — 667 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsolved Mysteries Bizarre Events That Have Puzzled the Greatest Minds 3.58 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why We Do the Things We Do: Psychology in a Nutshell 3.12 avg rating — 354 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poison: An Illustrated History 3.92 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychology for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know 3.68 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ninja: The Shadow Warrior 3.79 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Book of Conspiracies: 50 of the World's Greatest Theories by Joel Levy, Kenn Thomas (Introduction) 3.04 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Histories: Exploring the World's Most Famous Mysteries 3.47 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Natural History of the Unnatural World: Discover What Cryptozoology Can Teach Us About Over One Hundred Fabulous Creatures That Inhabit Earth, Sea and Sky 3.77 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Curious History of Mathematics: The Big Ideas from Early Number Concepts to Chaos Theory 3.83 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The ancient writer Suetonius tells the story that an inventor around 70 CE displayed to a Roman emperor a machine that could move columns, only to be dismissed with the objection that such labor-saving devices would cause the poor to starve by robbing them of employment.”
― Joel Levy, Unsolved Mysteries Bizarre Events That Have Puzzled the Greatest Minds

tags: roman-empire, suetonius

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“In 1597, financially, physically, and spiritually exhausted , de Berrio (Don Antonio de Berrio) passed away with the bitter epitaph, 'If you try to do too much you will end by doing nothing at all.”
― Joel Levy, Unsolved Mysteries Bizarre Events That Have Puzzled the Greatest Minds

tags: de-berrio, doing-too-much, overdoing-it

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“outcomes are arranged in a matrix, a different answer emerges: Fingers Malone Confess Deny Johnny Twotimes Confess 7/7 0/20 Deny 20/0 1/1”
― Joel Levy, The Infinite Tortoise: The Curious Thought Experiments of History's Great Thinkers

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