“chauncy hare townshend”

Facts In Mesmerism, With Reasons For A Dispassionate Inquiry Into It With an Appendix, Containing The Report Of The Boston Committee On Animal Magnetism.... More

Have you ever wondered how to • Weight your own head? • Tell if a martini has been shaken, not stirred? • Extract the iron from breakfast cereal? • Make eggs go green? • Measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? This brilliantly wide-ranging collection of do-it-yourself ex... More

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers’ answers to the questions in the ‘Last Word’ column of New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? – the Christmas 20... More

Ireland in the twentieth century has had a very different history from that of most other western European countries. The two most profound shocks of the century, the world wars, met Ireland obliquely while partition and civil war were embittering first-hand experiences whose legacies continue to sh... More