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| Size | | Length: | 230 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
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The Times Q & A lifts from the newspaper's weekly column in its science section. Because the column is written in New York, what's visible out the skyscraper window inspires many questions: the disposition of pigeon carcasses and the survival of the fittest street tree are typically parochial preoccupations of the letter writers. But there are enough general-interest questions to entertain us provincials, which editor Ray divides between semihard science ('Why is the moon visible in daytime?') to softies inspired by such household objects as pets, plants, and food. An entertaining armchair curio.
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The questions are provocative, the replies are direct and clearly written, and the pages are illustrated with delightful cartoon drawings. This handy little book is chock full of questions about our world--questions that frequently befuddle us and whose answers usually are not easily found in textbooks or even within the computer that fills our heads. Here is a handy compendium of science curiosities that will amuse and interest the student from grade school through high school, as well as parents, teachers, and other readers.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
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