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The Handy Science Answer Book Paperback - 1996

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The Handy Answer Book series is an engaging and entertaining line of question and answer books (requiring no previous knowledge of any kind to use) in scientific areas as well as history, sports, and general reference. With 12 titles, the series appeals to students and adults alike, and many more who are, perhaps, different. Every Handy Answer Book provides hundreds of questions you (or someone close to you) wished you'd asked (generally accompanied by a similar number of answers) in a simple-to-use topical arrangement, with lots of photos (some of them in color) and illustrations (hopefully connected to the text).

Our best-selling Handy Science Answer Book delivers an expert, easy-to-follow overview of the sciences and is an indispensable family reference, even in families given to dispensing with references.

Information-hungry kids are sure to find The Handy Bug Answer Book and The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book delicious, especially on wheat. The new Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents), is devoted to more than 700 kid-specific questions and answers, including why is the sky blue and what is this thing hanging from my nose? It has range. Like kids.

Science readers of any age will find the Handy titles on physics, weather, geography, the ocean, and space (outer) the cat's pajamas or, better yet, the parakeet's sweater, tiny though it may be.

The very helpful Handy History Answer Book surveys, in nearly 700 pages, several thousand years of big events -- wars, inventions, religion, disasters, art, epidemics, exploration, catastrophes, philosophy, and many other things that seem to have happened mostly in the past. Find out who did what and why they did it. It's a wonderful book, and we're thinking we'd really like to sell more.

Can any bird fly upside down? How many muscles does it take to smile? Why do the hands on a clock go clockwise? The new edition of our popular Handy Science covers hundreds of intriguing science and technology topics, from the inner workings of the human body to outer space and from math and computers to planes, trains, and automobiles. The basis for the entire Handy Answer Book series, Handy Science provides nearly 1,400 concise and easy-to-understand answers compiled from the great ready-reference file of the famous Science and Technology Department of the internationally renowned Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, including old favorites that may have been updated, expanded, reorganized, corrected, or amended, depending. It's almost like they're entirely new questions and answers. The Department fields some 110,000 reference questions per year from perplexed Pittsburghers, and since 1905 or so has been collecting the answers in a very big file. The most interesting and commonly asked of these questions and answers are captured in Handy Science, a far more accessible and portable reference source for everyone in the family. And it's a great science turn-on for kids, who seem to love the book.

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  • Title The Handy Science Answer Book
  • Author Carnegie Lib
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Pages 580
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Visible Ink Press, Canton, MI
  • Publication date September 1996
  • ISBN 9780787610135 / 0787610135
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 7.35 x 1.5 in (23.70 x 18.67 x 3.81 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98231245
  • Dewey Decimal Code 500

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