Are There Rainbows on the Moon?: Over 200 Bizarre, Weird and Wonderful Puzzles with Science

Are There Rainbows on the Moon?: Over 200 Bizarre, Weird and Wonderful Puzzles with Science

by ErwinBrecher (Author)

Synopsis

* Are their rainbows on the moon? How do you walk on fire? How do you get an egg into a bottle? Can you float a battleship in your bath? The answers to these and many more puzzles, queries and curios - all of which have a base in real-world science - are to be found inside the pages of this book.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Published: 13 Sep 2012

ISBN 10: 1780971079
ISBN 13: 9781780971070

Media Reviews

Delightful book of little-known facts and hypotheticals. . . has something for everyone. --PublishersWeekly.com


Brain-melting in all the right ways. San Francisco BookReview
Brain-melting in all the right ways. --San Francisco Book Review

Delightful book of little-known facts and hypotheticals. . . has something for everyone. --PublishersWeekly.com

Author Bio
Mensan Erwin Brecher, PhD, was educated in Vienna, Czechoslovakia and London, where he studied physics, economics and engineering. He entered business after World War Two and became a Name at Lloyds of London in 1974. He has since written many books on non-fiction subjects, most of them puzzle books of high quality and wide variety. He received the Order of Merit in gold from the city of Vienna in recognition of his literary achievements. Mensan Mike Gerrard won the London Evening Standard newspaper's 'Brain of London' competition in 1980. Mike studied physics and education and has taught science in many schools. He received and MSc and went on to write for the Schools Council, an advisory body in the UK, as well as authoring several books.