You are holding a unique book in your hands. It most fully, accurately and interestingly analyzes a huge number of misconceptions, illusions and myths of modern man, myths inherent to us, people of the early 21st century. This includes myths relating to health and nutrition, love and sex, history and geography, pedagogy and psychology, sociology, biology, art and a whole range of tips and recommendations for those who want to be guided in life by common sense and see life as it is in fact. The encyclopedia will be useful and interesting to almost everyone. Read and be surprised, read and laugh, read and think! Due to the very large volume of illustrations in the original, they are excluded from the electronic version.