Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: William Morrow & Co (edition 0), 1997
ISBN 10: 0688152821 ISBN 13: 9780688152826
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 0. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: William Morrow & Co (edition 0), 1993
ISBN 10: 0688079466 ISBN 13: 9780688079468
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Schwartz, Amy (illustrator). 0. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: William Morrow & Co (edition 0), 1987
ISBN 10: 0688061869 ISBN 13: 9780688061869
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 0. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.
Zustand: Used - Very Good. Emphasizing simplicity and flavor, a popular author offers more than 150 easy recipes that can be made in one pan, like Cranberry Pork Roast, Veal Orzo, and Seashell Shrimp Salad, using woks, pasta pots, pressure cookers, and of course regular ovens and stoveware.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: William Morrow & Co (edition 0), 1985
ISBN 10: 0688057055 ISBN 13: 9780688057053
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Library Binding. Zustand: Fair. 0. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.
Anbieter: Jadewalky Book Company, HANOVER PARK, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. Discusses how State Department officials obtained U.S. backing for France's efforts to reclaim its colonies in Indochina.
Anbieter: Jadewalky Book Company, HANOVER PARK, IL, USA
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.
Anbieter: Jadewalky Book Company, HANOVER PARK, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. In Hazardous Duty - a real life, nonfiction thriller set in the ruins of Bosnia and the sands of Saudi Arabia, the deadly alleys of Mogadishu and the teeming streets of Port-au-Prince - Colonel David Hackworth completes a second tour of battlefield duty, this time as a war correspondent. In his hard-hitting, inimitable style, he tells of the sacrifices of ordinary grunts in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Korea, and Haiti, and offers a tough-love critique of American military leadership, explaining America's role in new post-Cold War conflicts.Colonel David H. Hackworth is America's most decorated living soldier, with more than one hundred awards, including two Distinguished Service Crosses, nine Silver Stars, eight Bronze Stars for valor, and eight Purple Hearts, which he considers the most meaningful because, he says, "they can't be faked." More than any other military commentator, he has the trust and confidence of the millions of soldiers - from foreign armies as well as our own - who cheered every word of his widely acclaimed autobiography.A wake-up call for military reform, Hazardous Duty pulls no punches in calling America's top political and military leaders to account for selling out duty, honor, and country. Colonel Hackworth returns from America's new battlefields to report that the Pentagon is wasting billions of dollars. He offers no-nonsense solutions for streamlining the military services and rationalizing their missions to confront the new face of war.
Anbieter: Jadewalky Book Company, HANOVER PARK, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. Book by Gelb, Norman.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: William Morrow & Co (edition 0), 1991
ISBN 10: 0688094767 ISBN 13: 9780688094768
Anbieter: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Library Binding. Zustand: Fair. 0. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.