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Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! (Science Museum)
Glenn Murphy
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Description for Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! (Science Museum)
Paperback. More wonderful weirdness from the author of HOW LOUD CAN YOU BURP? and WHY IS SNOT GREEN?. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AH; YFY; YNT. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330477246
SKU
V9780330477246
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Glenn Murphy
Glenn Murphy wrote his first book, Why is Snot Green?, while working at the Science Museum, London. Since then he has written around twenty popular-science titles aimed at kids and teens, including the bestselling How Loud Can You Burp? and Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story. His books are read by brainy children, parents and teachers worldwide, and have been translated ... Read more
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