wonders modern world explained von sutton caroline (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Vincent, Tom (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Vincent, Tom (illustrator). Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Paperback book is in good shape overall with some signs of wear on cover, corners, and/or spine. Pages are clean and unblemished. An entirely readable and usable copy.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. Vincent, Tom (illustrator). From School Library Journal YA-- For anyone who has ever wondered how lawyers research members of the jury before deciding whether to challenge them, how clothes are dry-cleaned, how guide dogs are taught to cross at green lights, and much more, this is the book. The authors answer more than 100 questions about science, the natural world, and contemporary life in this delightful collection of trivia. All queries are taken seriously, and responded to in laypeople's terms. Sources are included for each question. This resource is a real treat for those who like to browse for extraneous information, enjoy gathering minutiae, or want to impress their friends and colleagues with their breadth of knowledge. In addition, teachers and librarians could use it to perk up the interest of students gathering information for reports.- Pat Royal, Crossland High School, Camp Springs, MDCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Answers questions about detecting counterfeit money, Oscar nominations, the rabbit in the hat trick, dry cleaning, newspaper recycling, voter registration, fake photographs, and shredded wheat From Publishers Weekly Like its predecessors How Do They Do That? and How Did They Do That? , the current volume is largely devoted to popular science, but some of the 102 essays deal with law, the arts, the press and various sociological phenomena. Markey and Sutton detail how an electric eel stuns its prey, how margarine is made to taste like butter, how crack is concocted and how scientists determine what dinosaurs ate. Curious about how cartoons are selected for the New Yorker , how People chooses its covers, how the major obituaries in the New York Times come about, or how to teach a bear to ride a bicycle? Look no further. This is a fine book for reading piecemeal. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Your trivia buffs may demand this sequel to Sutton's How Do They Do That? ( LJ 7/82) and How Did They Do That ( LJ 1/84). Readers will learn how the New York Times writes its headlines, how antilock brakes work, how bubbles get into seltzer water, how calories in food are calculated, how shredded wheat is made, and more. Libraries with an adequate core reference collection can answer most of these dilemmas. Each answer lists the source of the information explicated. Compare this title (and others in this series) to David Feldman's Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? (HarperCollins, 1987) and Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life (HarperCollins, 1989). This is a fun book recommended for secondary school and public libraries that collect trivia titles. --Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Zustand: Good. Vincent, Tom (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 292 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. Vincent, Tom (illustrator). 256 Seiten ex Library Book aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 545.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Quill ed., later printing ; 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 068801111X (pbk.) :; 9780688011116 (pbk.) LCCN: 82-478 ; LC: T47; Dewey: 031/.02 ; OCLC: 8194946 ; paper wrappers ; "A Hilltown book." ; originally published by Morrow in 1981 ; "This diverting hodgepodge of information may remind readers with long memories of the old, random Book of Knowledge. And these are mostly questions that spring, in everyone, from a childlike curiosity. 'How do they get the stripes into Stripe toothpaste?' 'How can they tell what a dinosaur looked like from a single bone?' 'How do they decide who is pictured on US paper currency?' (The answer to the first may surprise you-the toothpaste isn't striped inside the tube.) Many of the queries are old-hat (on salmon migration, sawing a woman in half, preserving a mummy, etc.); some--on notating choreography, detaching a fresco from a wall--refer to nothing more extraordinary than specialized skills. And a question like 'How do they pick Nobel Prize winners?' is over its head here altogether. But the explanations vary in length--from a paragraph to a few pages; they are careful to indicate the limits of knowledge (how a firefly flashes is known--but not, still, why); they are clear yet not cut-and-dried, informal yet not cutesy. For fact-fanciers, then, 150 variegated, easy-to-take capsules"--Kirkus ; VG. Book.