About The Size Of It: A Common Sense Approach To How People Measure Things - Couverture souple

Cairns, Warwick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447291476 ISBN 13 : 9781447291473

Editeur : Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

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 . . .

'A full and convincing account of why our well-tried and trusted traditional measures make human sense' Alexander McCall Smith

'His direct, engaging conversational prose is a delight to read... inspirational' Andrew Roberts

'Absolutely masterly. Lucid and wise and touching and absolutely right' Jilly Cooper

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447291476
• ISBN 13: 9781447291473
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 161
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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