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How Do They Do That? Paperback - 1982
by Sutton, Caroline
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- Title How Do They Do That?
- Author Sutton, Caroline
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Publication date 1982-07-01
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3394901-6
- ISBN 9780688011116 / 068801111X
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.15 x 0.77 in (23.44 x 15.62 x 1.96 cm)
- Category Reference
- Library of Congress subjects Technology - Popular works, Science - Popular works
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 82000478
- Dewey Decimal Code 031.02
- Quantity available 3
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
HOW DO
THEY
DO THAT?
THEY
DO THAT?
- How do they make mirrors?
- How do sword swallowers swallow swords?
- How does a Polaroid picture develop in broad daylight?
- How do camels go without water?
- How do they splice genes?
- How do they create spectacular fireworks?
How indeed?
Ever found yourself wide-eyed at the wonders of science? Awestruck by the arts? Mystified by the miracles of nature or the marvels of technology?
Relief is at hand. Within these pages answers abound. How Do They Do That? clarifies what used to mystify. It explains the inexplicable and makes known the unknown.
Here is a book for both the mildly curious and the grand inquisitor. Take a few hours or take a few minutes to browse through this repository of riddles revealed. You'll discover that it's not hocus-pocus that put the whole pear in the bottle of pear brandy or sorcery that suspends a suspension bridge. But if not by magic, how do they do that?
The answer awaits within. A questioner's cure, an anodyne of answers, How Do They Do That? is a puzzler's paradise.
Caroline Sutton, a graduate of Wesleyan University, fives in New York City, where she writes and edits for the Hilltown Press.
