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    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on more than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!
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    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on more than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!
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    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on more than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!

    By Glenn Murphy and Mike Phillips

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    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on More Than 30 Terrifying Phenomena

    Beginning with a gripping description of the worst-case scenarios we've all heard on the news, expert explainer Glenn Murphy explains the science behind our terror and delivers a reassuring message that life is only as scary as we make it!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 13, 2014
    ISBN9781466871465
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    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on more than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!
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    Glenn Murphy

    Glenn Murphy wrote his first book, Why is Snot Green?, while working at the Science Museum, London. Since then he has written around twenty popular-science titles aimed at kids and teens, including the bestselling How Loud Can You Burp? and Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story. His books are read by brainy children, parents and teachers worldwide, and have been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Which is kind of awesome. In 2007 he moved to the United States and began writing full-time, which explains why he now says things like 'kind of awesome'. These days he lives in sunny, leafy North Carolina with his wife Heather, his son Sean, and two unfeasibly large felines.

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