The Handy Science Answer BookCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Science and Technology Department "Fascinating stuff. Most readers will have hours of fun just picking pages at random". -- Pittsburgh magazine Can any bird fly upside down? Is white gold really gold? In response to reader requests, this new edition of our bestselling Handy Science answers hundreds of new sci-tech questions, from the inner workings of the human body to outer space and from math and computers to planes, trains and automobiles. Nearly 1,250 answers -- compiled from the ready-reference files of the Science and Technology Department of The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh -- including some old favorites we've updated and expanded. |
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