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The best-selling author of The Wish List and The Order of Things takes readers step by step through the inner workings of everyday things, detailing hundreds of processes that range from popcorn popping, to radio signal transmission, to the decaffeination of coffee. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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Ever wonder how caffeine wakes you up, how a bill becomes a law, how holes form in Swiss cheese, or how the cream filling gets into a chocolate? Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer, explains in step-by-step detail the inner workings of everyday things. This compulsively readable trivia miscellany describes hundreds of processes, from popcorn popping to radio signal transmission to salsa dancing.
About the Author
Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer is a lexicographer, archaeologist, and the author of mrore than 25 books, includnig 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, The Order of Things, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List, and many others.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0375720820
- ISBN 13 9780375720826
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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