How It Happens
The Extraordinary Processes Of Everyday Things
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
322 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780375720826
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The best-selling author of The Wish List and The Order of Things takes readers step by step through the inner workings of everyday things, detailing hundreds of processes that range from popcorn popping, to radio signal transmission, to the decaffeination of coffee. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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