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An introduction to the feeling of disgust that helps children identify what it feels like, understand what to do when they experience disgust, and how to help others who are feeling disgusted.

Filled with science activities, jokes, and fun facts, 101 Ways to Gross Out Your Friends appeals to young scientists with an irreverent sense of humor. 101 Ways to Gross Out Your Friends features tons of gross-themed activities, jokes, and fun facts that not only entertain young readers, but also have a definitive scientific basis. From making slimy snot to gorilla poop, the hands-on activities mixed with funny jokes and how-to steps and descriptions make this title an engaging and delightfully gross way to introduce science to children.

An introduction to foods considered gross because they still resemble the animal it came from, contains bugs, is still moving, or could potentially be painful or deadly to consume.

Presents a collection of strange-looking creatures or those with disgusting habits, including the slime eel, aye-aye, star-nosed mole, vampire bats, flies, brown tree snake, frilled lizard, and more.

Investigates and compares disgusting foods, including tarantulas, cow's blood, and head cheese, and encourages the reader to choose which disgusting foods they would rather eat.

Collects 101 science experiments, jokes, activities, and recipes on gross topics.

Introduces readers to disgusting foods, including tuna fish eyeballs, insects, spiders, and eggs with baby birds in them.

Disgust originated to prevent humans from eating poisonous food, but this simple safety mechanism has since evolved into a uniquely human emotion that dictates how people treat others, shapes cultural norms, and even has implications for mental and physical health. This book illuminates the science behind disgust, tackling such colorful topics as cannibalism, humor, and pornography to address larger questions including why sources of disgust vary among people and societies and how disgust influences individual personalities, daily lives, and values. It turns out that disgust underlies more than we realize, from political ideologies to the lure of horror movies.

An alphabetical collection of articles about disgusting things, from acne, ants, and bacteria to worms, x-periments, and zits.

Contains instructions for making thirty real cakes and desserts that just look disgusting, each with a photograph and grossness rating.