miscellanea

This book describes the range of sizes found in small animals, such as bee hummingbirds, dwarf geckos, and Kitti's hog-nosed bats, and large animals, such as whale sharks, saltwater crocodiles, and African elephants.

This book describes records of weather extremes, including hailstones, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning strikes, and hot and cold temperatures.

Provides up-to-date answers to the most frequently asked questions about AIDS, curing common delusions about the disease, discussing safe sex, explaining HIV testing, and giving advice on coping with finding out your partner has the disease.

Massive stone monuments that date back more than four thousand years stand alongside the Nile near modern-day Cairo, Egypt. The pyramids on the Giza Plateau are some of the oldest and largest man-made structures on Earth, and they have mystified humanity for millennia.

Introduces end of the world scenarios, including self-destruction through nuclear war or continued environmental exploitation, humanity wiped out by a pandemic, or an asteroid or comet strike destroying Earth.

God's Debris, best-selling author and creator of Dilbert Scott Adams fashioned a thought-provoking exploration of life's great mysteries (everything from quantum physics and God to psychic phenomena and dating) that quickly captured the attention and imaginations of readers everywhere. The intriguing story of a deliveryman who meets the world's smartest person and learns the secret of reality is threaded with a variety of hypnosis techniques that Adams, a certified hypnotist, used to induce a feeling of euphoric enlightenment in readers to mirror the main character's feelings as he discovers the true nature of the universe. As Adams designed it, the book will "make your brain spin around inside your skull." The book provides one of the most compelling visions of reality ever experienced on the printed page. Along the way, readers will enjoy the Thought Experiment: Trying to discover what's wrong with the sage's explanation of reality. This is a book, as Adams says, to be shared and savored with smart friends. FICTION, but shelved in the metaphysics section.