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Paperback:
9780688059149 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1987), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A compendium of true answers to more than one hundred perplexing mysteries, including why a mile is 5,280 feet, how the order of the alphabet was determined, and which fruits are in Juicy Fruit gum
Hardcover:
9780060157814 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This compilation of arcane facts about everyday objects, practices, and traditions reveals how Teflon sticks to cookware; why firehouses have dalmations; why '2 x 4s' don't measure two inches by four inches; why the sides of aluminum foil are different, and other mysteries
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9780060915155 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This compilation of arcane facts about everyday objects, practices, and traditions reveals how Teflon sticks to cookware, why the sides of aluminum foil are different, and other mysteries
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780898458350, titled "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise and Other Imponderables" | Caedmon Audio Cassette, February 1, 1989, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: This compilation of arcane facts about everyday objects, practices, and traditions reveals how Teflon sticks to cookware, why the sides of aluminum foil are different, and other mysteries.
Paperback:
9780688082529 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Feldman, David
Hardcover:
9780060160722 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips.
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9780060916619 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1990, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The author presents a thorough examination of the origin of words with peculiar and oddball histories as he traces the idiosyncrasies of the English language
Hardcover:
9780060161613, titled "When Do Fish Sleep: And Other Imponderables of Everyday Life" | Harpercollins, October 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author draws on his store of unusual knowledge to respond to his readers' most challenging queries--such as Why are tennis balls fuzzy?
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9780060920111 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author draws on his store of unusual knowledge to respond to his readers' most challenging queries--such as Why are tennis balls fuzzy?
Provides answers to why tennis balls are fuzzy, why fingernails grow faster than toenails, and other questions.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780898459876 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, November 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Provides answers to why tennis balls are fuzzy, why fingernails grow faster than toenails, and other questions.
Presents a thorough examination of the origin of words with peculiar and oddball histories and traces the idiosyncrasies of the English language.
Paperback:
9781569563311 | Braille edition (William a Thomas Braille, December 1, 1992), cover price $20.56
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9781559941419, titled "Who Put the Butter in Butterfly ?" | Harperaudio, May 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a thorough examination of the origin of words with peculiar and oddball histories and traces the idiosyncrasies of the English language.
Presents a collection of intriguing imponderables of everyday life for which encyclopedias do not have the answers
Hardcover:
9780060162931 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of intriguing imponderables of everyday life for which encyclopedias do not have the answers
Paperback:
9781569561034 | Braille edition (William a Thomas Braille, December 1, 1992), cover price $34.88
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781559942683, titled "Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?" | Harperaudio, October 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of intriguing 'imponderables' of everyday life for which encyclopedias do not have the answers.
Paperback:
9780060921118 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1991), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of intriguing imponderables of everyday life for which encyclopedias do not have the answers
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781559944830 | Harperaudio, October 1, 1991, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of surprising 'imponderables' answers such eternal questions as 'Why are there holes in saltines?
Hardcover:
9780060162948, titled "Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book" | Harpercollins, November 1, 1991, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of suprising 'imponderables' answers such eternal questions as 'Why are there holes in saltines?
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9780060740917, titled "Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book" | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 2004), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A humorous look at some of life's mysteries wonders how beer was kept cold in the Old West, what that white stuff is on bubble gum, why there are holes in saltines, and other baffling questions.
9780060923273 | Perennial, August 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A humorous look at some of life's mysteries wonders how beer was kept cold in the Old West, what that white stuff is on bubble gum, why addresses on subscription magazines are printed upside down, and others
Hardcover:
9780060169084 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1992, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The sixth collection of answers to ordinary puzzles, such as why orange juice tastes terrible after brushing your teeth
Paperback:
9780060924324 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 1993), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The author of Do Penguins Have Knees?
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9781559946940 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, November 1, 1992), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The author produces yet another collection of 'Imponderables' and 'Frustables'--puzzles and conundrums about animals, household objects, everyday occurrences, and everything else, whose answers are far from obvious.
Hardcover:
9780198765592 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 25, 2002), cover price $235.50 | About this edition: This new edition of the successful and authoritative textbook has been extensively updated.
9780198762324 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 9, 1993, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This is the first full-length study of civil liberties in the United Kingdom aimed at students and written with their interests in mind.
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9780198765035 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 28, 2002), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Provides an account of the English law of civil liberties and human rights.
9780198762294 | Clarendon Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Aimed at students and written with their interests in mind, this full-length study of civil liberties in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive review of the existing systems which promote and protect civil rights in the U.
Hardcover:
9780060169237, titled "How Does Aspirin Find a Headache?: An Imponderables Book" | Harpercollins, November 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Provides the answers to imponderables of everyday life, such as what Barney Rubble does for a living, why glue doesn'g get stuck in the bottle, and why pharmacists work on raised platforms
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9780060740948, titled "How Does Aspirin Find A Headache?: An Imponderables Book" | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 2005), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Do Penguins Have Knees?
9780060925581 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 1994), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Provides the answers to imponderables of everyday life, such as what Barney Rubble does for a living, why glue doesn't get stuck in the bottle, and why pharmacists work on raised platforms
Hardcover:
9780300055016 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This book presents an important new perspective on Jews in England - and English attitudes towards them - during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hardcover:
9780399140846 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Provides well-researched answers to life's little mysteries, sent in by the author's fans, such as why there is no canned broccoli
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9780425154519 | Berkley Pub Group, September 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Provides well-researched answers to life's little mysteries, sent in by the author's fans, such as why there is no canned broccoli
Paperback:
9780965164405 | Charleston Ultrasound Inst, September 1, 1996, cover price $69.00
Hardcover:
9780399141898 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Addresses such questions as why do mattresses have floral graphics, why do ceiling fans get dusty, how do skywriters write words correctly, and how did people wake up before alarm clocks
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9780425159842, titled "How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch: An Imponderables Book" | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1997), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Addresses such questions as why do mattresses have floral graphics, why do ceiling fans get dusty, how do skywriters write words correctly, and how did people wake up before alarm clocks
Paperback:
9780870341281 | Fraser Pub Co, September 1, 1997, cover price $10.95
Hardcover:
9780122526862 | Academic Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Vitamin D covers all aspects of Vitamin D biology, chemistry, and pharmacology as well as the latest research concerning its effects on the human body and developing areas of study.
Hardcover:
9781578660803 | Galahad Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Three entertaining volumes from the popular Imponderables series--Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Hardcover:
9781578660964 | Galahad Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $12.99
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