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If ... : a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers

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  • Author: Smith, David J.
    Contributor: Adams, Steve
    Date:
    Created
    2014
    Summary:

    Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).

    Contents:
    • If ...
    • Our galaxy
    • The planets
    • History of Earth
    • Life on Earth
    • Events of the last 3000 years
    • Inventions through time
    • Inventions of the last 1000 years
    • The continents
    • Water
    • Species of living things
    • Money
    • Energy
    • Life expectancy
    • Population
    • Food
    • Your life
    • A note for parents and teachers.
    Genre:
    Juvenile nonfiction, History and geography
    Subject(s): Astronomy | Juvenile literature | Natural resources | Nature stories | Population | World history
    Original Publisher: Toronto, ON, Tonawanda, NY, Kids Can Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781894786348, 1894786343