About The Size Of It - A Common Sense Approach To How People Measure Things - E-book - ePub

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Why does the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks have more to do with a horse's rump than rocket science? Is there a correlation between the humble pint... Lire la suite
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Résumé

Why does the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks have more to do with a horse's rump than rocket science? Is there a correlation between the humble pint and the capacity of the human bladder? And why is an old Wellington boot as important an instrument of spacial awareness as was ever invented? About the Size of It is a hugely entertaining history of traditional weights and measures that will make you look at your everyday world in a completely different way .

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    07/04/2011
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-0-230-22515-2
  • EAN
    9780230225152
  • Format
    ePub
  • Nb. de pages
    160 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages
      160
    • Protection num.
      Contenu protégé

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Biographie de Warwick Cairns

Born in 1962 in Dagenham, Warwick Cairns now lives in Windsor with his wife and two daughters. After studying English and Psychology at Keele and English at Yale, he went on to drill wells on a Sioux reservation in Dakota and travel to Africa with Wilfred Thesiger, before settling on a career in advertising. This is his first book.

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