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Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Erika Engelhaupt, founding editor of National Geographic's Gory Details blog, explores oft-ignored but alluring facets of biology, anatomy, space exploration, nature, and more. Featuring reporting and interviews with leading researchers in the field, Gory Details illuminates the world's most intriguing real-world applications of science"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Explore the past, present, and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of amateur beachcombers have helped scientists study ocean currents. Explore how the search for a death ray led to the creation of the microwave oven and ready meals. Discover the surprising link between sticky tape and the Nobel Prize. Uncover the extraordinary stories of ordinary objects in this perfect gift...
Author
Publisher
words & pictures, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the forests, burrow under the ground, and dive into the deep to discover nature's most peculiar creatures and learn about their behavior, diet, and habitat, as well as folk beliefs about each animal. Hidden away in Earth's forests, caves, and oceans, these creatures might look or behave in peculiar ways but, as you will soon find out, every oddity serves a purpose: the long, skeletal finger of an aye-aye, used by this lemur to tap on trees...
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Language
English
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Description
American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks.
There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:
• The man who preached good health through blood-drinking.
•...
There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:
• The man who preached good health through blood-drinking.
•...
Author
Publisher
Harriman House LTD
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thousands of scientists in fields as unrelated as history, botany, anthropology, terrestrial magnetism, sociology, and economics - to name only a few - are accumulating facts and figures which promise to make the age-old dream of foretelling the future at least a partial reality. This new science deals with the behavior of events recurring at reasonably regular intervals throughout the universe, and it may ultimately enable us to predict, scientifically...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Philomena Cunk is one of the greatest thinkers of the 21st century, and in Cunk on Everything she turns her attention to our biggest issue: why are there so many books? Wouldn't it be better if there was just one? This is that book -- an encyclopedia of all human knowledge, delving into not only life's greatest mysteries but our most important political figures and cultural touchstones. "--Publisher website.
Author
Series
Totally random questions volume 3
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Got a random question? This book has the answer! Packed with fascinating facts and colorful photos, this book presents snack-size answers to 101 totally random questions about our wnoderfully wild world! Test your knowledge and stump your friends with the incredible info you'll find inside about animals, science, sports, food, and more."-- Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Astonish your friends and family with this incredible collection of mind-boggling facts about the scariest animals ever to walk the Earth. This unbelievably fascinating dinosaur book for children will teach you all you need to know about prehistoric animals, like which dinosaur had the sharpest teeth, the longest claws, the smallest brain, the largest droppings, and lots more! Did you know that the largest dinosaur was longer than a tennis court but...
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Language
English
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Description
"On his regular walk one morning, Spike Carlsen realized there was an entire world outside his front door that he knew nothing about. How does that fire hydrant work, he wondered? Why are street lights shining more brightly than ever before? And, on a more personal level, why does an easy stroll around the neighborhood always leave him feeling more creative and spry, better able to take on the day? A simple walk around the block set Carlsen off on...
Author
Publisher
The British Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection of miscellaneous historical advice gathered from the archives of the British Library. Drawing on medieval manuscripts, Victorian manuals, and early twentieth-century self-help guides, this book uncovers an extraordinary range of advice dealing with everything from etiquette to apiculture, medicine to mechanics.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's where humans have kept their most sacred treasures and their darkest secrets. It's where we have found evidence of our past and may, at some point, find an escape route for our uncertain future. But what would we find there today? From the underground cities of Cappadocia to smuggling...
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
'Even a seasoned art history buff will find new things to discover in this book.' - Hyperallergic 'Fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes.' - The Art Newspaper The perfect miscellany for every art lover - an essential and engaging collection of facts, figures, and findings about art, artists, and the art world, past and present This extraordinary compendium of compelling facts, figures, and findings gathers and distils obscure and fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Quadrille
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
If the Sun is the size of a Grapefruit, the Earth is a grain of sand, then the distance between the two is a London bus. Scale is intriguing. Scale is everywhere. Scale is our experience of the world, from our perception of time to physical distance to weights and measures. The human scale is 1:1, the point of reference. Everything is designed around it. Wealth is an example of scale, so is a sculpture, a building, a planet or a molecule. Scale is...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Put the fun back into learning and take children on a number-crunching journey around the animal kingdom. From colossal mammals to tiny insects and everything in between, learn all about your favorite animals with more than 1,000 weird and wonderful numbers"-- Provided by publisher.
79) The curiosity
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Language
English
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Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Remarkably, the frozen man's brought back to the lab and successfully reanimated. As he begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was--is--a judge, Jeremiah Rice, and the last thing he remembers is falling overboard into the Arctic Ocean in 1906. Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control,...
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