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The Handy Answer Book series is an engaging and entertaining line of question and answer books (requiring no previous knowledge of any kind to use) in scientific areas as well as history, sports, and general reference. With 12 titles, the series appeals to students and adults alike, and many more who are, perhaps, different. Every Handy Answer Book provides hundreds of questions you (or someone cl... More

The Handy Answer Book series is an engaging and entertaining line of question and answer books (requiring no previous knowledge of any kind to use) in scientific areas as well as history, sports, and general reference. With 12 titles, the series appeals to students and adults alike, and many more who are, perhaps, different. Every Handy Answer Book provides hundreds of questions you (or someone close to you) wished you'd asked (generally accompanied by a similar number of answers) in a simple-to-use topical arrangement, with lots of photos (some of them in color) and illustrations (hopefully connected to the text).Our best-selling Handy Science Answer Book delivers an expert, easy-to-follow overview of the sciences and is an indispensable family reference, even in families given to dispensing with references.

Information-hungry kids are sure to find The Handy Bug Answer Book and The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book delicious, especially on wheat. The new Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents), is devoted to more than 700 kid-specific questions and answers, including why is the sky blue and what is this thing hanging from my nose? It has range. Like kids.

Science readers of any age will find the Handy titles on physics, weather, geography, the ocean, and space (outer) the cat's pajamas or, better yet, the parakeet's sweater, tiny though it may be.

The very helpful Handy History Answer Book surveys, in nearly 700 pages, several thousand years of big events -- wars, inventions, religion, disasters, art, epidemics, exploration, catastrophes, philosophy, and many other things that seem to have happened mostly in the past. Find out who did what and why they did it. It's a wonderful book,and we're thinking we'd really like to sell more.

Readers will step into the new millennium with a sure sense of the past with The Handy History Answer Book. A concise guide to all things historical, Handy History provides 1,000 questions and 1,000 thoughtful answers concerning people, times, and events from way back to the present day. A perfect companion for lonely history buffs of all ages, readers of biographies and historical tales, students with good grades, families and teachers, bookstore help, laborers, bakers, technology workers, and game-show contestants, Handy History is an ideal home reference for solving those riddles of the ages. How many wives did Henry VIII have and how many lost their heads? Handy History has the answer. You won't want to doze off to the History Channel "RM" without it. Handy History provides abundant information about many of the most frightful events of the past, like wars, disasters, epidemics, and so on. But it also supplies a context for the time with a wealth of information on invention, philosophy, science, politics, culture, sports, business, law, media, and religion. Wide-ranging and comprehensive with nearly 200 illustrations (some in color), it includes a concise chronology of major events for those who like their history instant.

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