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Penguin Books
Book of comparisons: or if a flea were the size of a man, how far could it leap?
This is a unique reference book that combines the fascination of a book of records with the engrossing pleasure of an illustrated book of lists. Its colourful large-format drawings, diagrams and charts compare distances, sizes, areas, volumes, masses, weights, temperatures, times, speeds, and quantities by translating them into a lucid visual form that makes them accessible and easy to grasp.
From angstroms to light-years, from bacteria to blue whales, The Book of Comparisons displays and relates not only the extremes of the human and physical world, but also measures what we encounter in everyday experience- the speed of the wind compared to the speed a car, a bicycle, a person walking.
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