- Imprint: Profile Books
- Published: 06/10/2011
- Price: £8.99
- Format: Paperback
- Extent: 224p
- Edition Illustration Details: Colour illustrations throughout
- ISBN: 9781846685071
- Subject: Humour and Gift,Popular Science
Why are Orangutans Orange?
Science puzzles in pictures - with fascinating answers
New Scientist
ClassicNew ScientistQ&As - now fully illustrated
Illustrated for the first time, with eighty full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us, here is the next eagerly awaited volume of science questions and answers fromNew Scientistmagazine. From ripples in glass to'holograms'in ice, the natural world's wonders are unravelled by the magazine's knowledgeable readers.Six years on fromDoes Anything Eat Wasps?(2005), theNew Scientistseries still rides high in the bestseller lists, with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more absorbing or more enjoyable. LikeWhy Don't Penguins'Feet Freeze?(2006),Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?(2008) andWhy Can't Elephants Jump?(2010), this latest collection of resourceful, wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling science questions is guaranteed to impress and delight.
About the Author
Over fifty years old,New Scientistis the best selling and fastest growing science magazine in the world.Why are Orangutans Orange?is again compiled and edited by Mick O'Hare, production editor ofNew Scientist, who is frequently interviewed on TV and radio.
