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About The Size Of It: The Common Sense Approach To Measuring Things - Softcover

Cairns, Warwick

 
9780330450300: About The Size Of It: The Common Sense Approach To Measuring Things
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330450301 ISBN 13: 9780330450300
Verlag: Pan, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Why does the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks have more to do with a horse's rump than rocket science? Is there a correlation between the humble pint and the capacity of the human bladder? And why is an old Wellington boot as important an instrument of spacial awareness as was ever invented? About the Size of It is a hugely entertaining history of traditional weights and measures that will make you look at your everyday world in a completely different way . . .

'A full and convincing account of why our well-tried and trusted traditional measures make human sense' Alexander McCall Smith

'His direct, engaging conversational prose is a delight to read... inspirational' Andrew Roberts

'Absolutely masterly. Lucid and wise and touching and absolutely right' Jilly Cooper

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in 1962 in Dagenham, Warwick Cairns now lives in Windsor with his wife and two daughters. After studying English and Psychology at Keele and English at Yale, he went on to drill wells on a Sioux reservation in Dakota and travel to Africa with Wilfred Thesiger, before settling on a career in advertising. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Pan
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330450301
ISBN 13 
9780330450300
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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