The Sizesaurus
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Author(s)Stephen Strauss
PublisherAvon Books (P)
ISBN / ASIN0380728494
ISBN-139780380728497
Sales Rank4,622,880
CategoryPaperback
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Utilizing essays, ephemera, thousands of definitions and examples, charts, scales, and illustrations, this informative and entertaining guide sizes up the world and reveals it in new and astonishing ways. From measuring the world in Big Maws to gauging government waste via a "porkometric" system, this is engaging popular science. Web site promo.