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Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Museum Book of Scary Things (and ways to avoid them)
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Museum Book of Scary Things (and ways to avoid them)
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Glenn Murphy
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:288 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 129 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780330477246
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| Classifications | Dewey:500 |
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Unabridged edition
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan
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| Imprint |
Macmillan Children's Books
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| Publication Date |
3 July 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
More wonderful weirdness from the author of How Loud Can you Burp? and Why is Snot Green?In Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is OK to be scared and that there are very good reasons why we are able to feel fear. He looks closely at our most common fears, including natural disasters, predators, spiders, disease, needles, dentists, crashes, darkness, speaking in public, heights, ghosts and monsters, to show us how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary.The result is a fun, carefully pitched, popular-science title that mixes great true-life stories with the psychology of fear, the statistical probabilities of things happening and a lot of reassurance.
Author Biography
Before moving to the US in 2007, Glenn Murphy worked at the Science Museum in London, recruiting, training and overseeing the management of the 75-strong team of dynamic, bubbly science communicators who perform shows and interact with the public in the galleries. He now lives in North Carolina with his wife.
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