How Does Aspirin Find a Headache?: An Imponderables Book

by David Feldman

Book Overview

Presents a collection of the imponderables of everyday life, in the face of which encyclopaedias, dictionaries and almanacs are helpless. The book includes questions, letters from readers and frustables. Feldman is the author of Do Penguins Have Knees? and Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060169230
• ISBN13: 9780060169237
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun Read

Fun to just pick up and read. Great for trivia. Boys like me to read them sections of it at bedtime. Great bathroom reader too.

imponderables

great book lots of interesting and some non information, everyone will find something in it they wondered

How Does it Know it's Not my Toe?

Here's another installment of the "Imponderables™" series, which, the jacket explains, find the answers to the conundrums over which, whether you realize it or not, you have been obsessing since your very beginning. Such as:Why did they sacrifice innocent bunny rabbits to determine if human females were pregnant? The Darwinian biology and physiology of a sunburn and subsequent peeling.Also considered are Reader Responses to "Frustables" posed previously:Why do women have to go to the Ladies' Room in a pack instead of singly?What *IS* it with men and the Remote Control?Does anyone really like fruitcake?As with "Do Penquins Have Knees," we are not here tackling "What is the meaning of life?" but the quick questions and answers are entertaining and illuminating. It's fun food for thought and answered my throbbing question: How does aspirin know I took it for a headache and not a stubbed toe? Reviewed by TundraVision

Fun and Interesting!

Have you ever wondered why pigs are roasted with an apple in their mouths? Or perhaps wondered why covered bridges are covered? Maybe you've always wanted to know the answer as to why we wave Polorids in the air after they come out of the camera? If you have, then this is the book for you! Even after so many other books in the Imponderables series, this book is still interesting. However, I recomend flipping through it, reading only the questions that interest you. If you read it cover to cover, it won't be as enjoyable. It also features the popular "Frustables" column, and an all new section with letters from readers. Overall, it's a fun and entertaining read.