In gathering the most fascinating questions asked about sports and entertainment into a handy Gem format, pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these and much more in Imponderables®: Fun and Games. Providing you with information you can't find in encyclopedias, dictionaries, or almanacs, Fun and Games is a fun look at the little things that make life so interesting.

Imponderables(R): Fun and Games

Ponder, if you will ... What is the difference between a kit and a caboodle?Why don't people get goose bumps on their faces?Where do houseflies go in the winter?What causes that ringing sound in your ears?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most nagging questions. Part of the Imponderables® series and charmingly illustrated by Kassie Schwan, Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? challenges readers with the knowledge about everyday life that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don't have. And think about it, where else are you going to get to the bottom of why hot dogs come ten to a package while hot dog buns come in eights?

Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? - Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained

Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum?Why do people cry at happy endings?Why do you never see baby pigeons?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® series, Feldman's book arms readers with information about everyday life -- from science, history, and politics to sports, television, and radio -- that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don't have. Where else will you learn what makes women open their mouths when applying mascara?

Imponderables

L'homme d'aujourd'hui, à l'ère du câble, d'internet, des nouveaux réseaux de téléphonie mobile, peut, semble-t-il, communiquer partout dans le monde et avec tout le monde. Mais sait-il vraiment communiquer ? Communiquer, c'est savoir accueillir et répondre le plus justement à la demande d'information. La communication nécessite donc l'écoute qui suppose l'indépendance face à nos émotions, ainsi que face à celles de nos partenaires. Les travaux développés ici nous permettent aujourd'hui de mieux cerner les différences entre entendre et écouter, de comprendre les mécanismes de l'attention et d'utiliser les bonnes stratégies d'écoute et les bonnes postures, sachant que l'on n'écoute pas qu'avec ses oreilles ! Ces connaissances trouveront leur application dans le quotidien : à l'école, au travail, dans la recherche d'un meilleur équilibre, pour votre bien-être et une plus grande richesse de vos relations personnelles.

L'écoute. - Les bonnes stratégies pour mieux écouter et se faire écouter - Occasion

The English language is filled with familiar words that, when one thinks about them, are downright peculiar: cooties, doozies, and heepie-jeebies; finks and funks; mugwumps and muumuus; deep six and cloud nine. There's only one pundit to solve these and other riddles of our spoken tongue: David Feildman, who in his bestselling ImponderablesT book and Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? has established himself as the unchallenged expert on answering and unanswerable. Word ImponderablesT have always been favorites with Feldman's legions of fans, and in Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? he gets to the source of all the mysteries surrounding our curious vocabulary. Why do we mid our Ps and Qs and not our Vs and Ws? Which Toms lent their names to Peeping Tom, Tom Collins, and tommy gun. How does a Weasel go "pop" -- and why for that matter? And who are the Joneses we're supposed to be keeping up with?Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? is a reference book you can't afford to be without. So don't beat around the bush , and don't wait until the eleventh hour to until the jig is up. This is compulsive reading for anyone incurable curious about the idiosyncrasies fo the language.

Who Put The Butter In Butterfly? - ... And other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language

The Cambridge Companion to Public Law

The seventh book in David Feldman's bestselling Imponderables® series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteriesInstead of the aspirin bottle, reach for the most soothingly informative of David Feldman's Imponderables® books, and find answers to the riddles that, whether you realize it or not, have been obsessing you since childhood, such as: What happens to the holes that are punched out of looseleaf paper?  Why doesn't beer come in plastic bottles?  Do snakes sneeze?  And, of course, How does aspirin find a headache? With more than 100 irresistible entries-submitted by his loyal Imponderables® readers-charming illustrations, and more than 100, 000 copies sold in combined editions, How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? is an Imponderables® classic.

How Does Aspirin Find a Headache?

When Do Fish Sleep? is the third book in David Feldman's best-selling ImponderablesT series, packed with answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries, repackaged and featuring a new cumulative index to all ten ImponderablesT books. In his bestselling ImponderablesT series, David Feldman has shown conclusively that there are answers to just about every question that has been baffling the human race in our relentless search for knowledge and self-improvement. Not the "What is life?" sort of questions, but the really hard ones, like "Why does Mickey Mouse have only four fingers?" or "Why don't birds tip over when they sleep on a telephone wire?"Where lesser mortals fear to tread, David Feldman charges on undaunted and brings us When Do Fish Sleep?, the third installment of his witty, intelligent, enlightening ImponderablesT series. Since 1986, the ImponderablesT series has delighted and edified more than 2.1 million readers, as well as the countless visitors to the ImponderablesT website, and dauntless players of Malarky, the hugely popular ImponderablesT board game. With more than 150 irresistible entries-submitted by his loyal readers-charming illustrations by Kassie Schwan, and more than 300, 000 copies sold, When Do Fish Sleep? is one of the author's biggest, funniest, and richest collections of answers to the seemingly unanswerable.

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