EVER WONDERED.. . Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? & why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange & no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons who has the answer to these crazy questions & many more. ...

Perfect for early elementary students who nned to know about their bodies & maintaining their health & hygiene this title in the My Body series explains dental care in a simple straightforward manner. Labeled diagrams illustrate body parts & processes & activities give kids a chance to explore to test themselves & watch how their bodies react. We are after all each a very interesting science experiment. Notes for parents & teachers are appended. ...

Perfect for early elementary students who nned to know about their bodies & maintaining their health & hygiene this title in the My Body series explains the importance of sleep in a simple straightforward manner. Labeled diagrams illustrate body parts & processes & activities give kids a chance to explore to test themselves & watch how their bodies react. We are after all each a very interesting science experiment. Notes for parents & teachers are appended. ...

Perfect for early elementary students who nned to know about their bodies & maintaining their health & hygiene this title in the My Body series explains the importnace of handwashing in a simple straightforward manner. Labeled diagrams illustrate body parts & processes & activities give kids a chance to explore to test themselves & watch how their bodies react. We are after all each a very interesting science experiment. Notes for parents & teachers are appended. ...

You know how it is...you're at a party you've had a drink or two & then someone introduces you to a friend. He's a doctor. & it seems like the perfect time to ask all those strange questions you've always wondered about but never had the courage to ask: Can poppy seeds make you test positive for heroin? What are goosebumps? Why does asparagus make your wee smell? Why do old people get hairy ears? Is it possible to lose your contact lenses inside your head forever? Why do some people have an outie" belly button & some people an "innie"? Does warm milk really help you sleep? Is it actually possible to get scared to death? This book gives the answer to these & many more questions
- pretty much everything you've ever wanted to know
- but never had enough Dutch courage to ask!"

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The names of the 300 or so London underground stations are part of the everyday landscape for the Londoners who strap-hang their way across the capital. We hardly ever question their meanings or origins
- yet these well-known names are linked with fascinating stories of bygone times. Until the mid-19th century London was almost unbelievably rural with names belonging to a countryside we could never recognise or imagine today. Who in the twenty-first century thinks of a real flesh-&-blood shepherd lolling back on a specially-trimmed hawthorn bush when travelling through Shepherds Bush underground station? & who travelling through Totteridge & Whetstone on the Northern Line imagines medieval soldiers sharpening their swords & daggers at the aptly named Whetstone just before engaging in the appallingly bloody battle of Barnet? David Hilliam not only uncovers the little-known history behind the station stops below ground but also explores the eccentric etymology of some of Londons landmarks from Acton to Wimbledon offering trivia boxes that will delight the visitor & Londoner alike. This entertaining book will ensure that you will never view your normal journey to work in the same way again.
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This is an engaging & accessible explanation of Einstein's equation that explores the principles of physics through everyday life. Professor Brian Cox & Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein's most famous equation. Breaking down the symbols themselves they pose a series of questions: What is energy? What is mass? What has the speed of light got to do with energy & mass? In answering these questions they take us to the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted. Lying beneath the city of Geneva straddling the Franco-Swiss boarder is a 27 km particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider. Using this gigantic machine
- which can recreate conditions in the early Universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang
- Cox & Forshaw will describe the current theory behind the origin of mass. Alongside questions of energy & mass they will consider the third & perhaps most intriguing element of the equation: 'c'
- or the speed of light. Why is it that the speed of light is the exchange rate? Answering this question is at the heart of the investigation as the authors demonstrate how in order to truly understand why E=mc 2 we first must understand why we must move forward in time & not backwards & how objects in our 3-dimensional world actually move in 4-dimensional space-time. In other words how the very fabric of our world is constructed. A collaboration between two of the youngest professors in the UK Why Does E=MC2?" promises to be one of the most exciting & accessible explanations of the theory of relativity in recent years."


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DID YOU KNOW? Stinky ear wax has been hanging around in the ear canal for nearly a month before it is pickable! Humans share a third of their DNA with lettuce. Cockroaches fart every fifteen minutes. Giraffes never kneel. The average person spends six months of their life on the loo. Amaze your friends & fascinate your family with this book packed with jaw-dropping eyebrow-raising facts. ...

An irreverent sleuth tackles the riddle of existence that has puzzled man since the dawn of time. Why is there a world rather than nothing at all? remains the most curious & most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens Roger Penrose & Stephen Hawking the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad lively & deeply informed narrative that traces all our efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. With sly humour & a highly original personal approach Holt takes on the role of cosmological detective. Suggesting that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God & the Big Bang he tracks down among others an eccentric Oxford philosopher a Nobel Laureate physicist a French Buddhist monk & John Updike just before he died to pursue this cosmic puzzle from every angle. As he pieces together a solution
- while offering useful insights into time consciousness & eternity
- he sheds fascinating new light on the meaning of existence.

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Chris Smith left his Worcestershire home but instead of cycling the routine twelve miles to work he kept on pedalling. 13 months later he arrived in Beijing. This is the account of an epic quest to rediscover a misplaced sense of identity in which exhilaration & exhaustion trade positions against a backdrop of prodigious physical endeavour. ...