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How to dunk a doughnut : the science of everyday life / Len Fisher.
LIBRA - Blank Collection Q162 .F53 2002 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Len.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Popular works.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)
- Fisher, Len (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- x, 241, [5] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002.
- Contents:
- The art and science of dunking
- How does a scientist boil an egg?
- The Tao of tools
- How to add up your supermarket bill
- How to throw a boomerang
- Catch as catch can
- Bath foam, beer foam and the meaning of life
- A question of taste
- The physics of sex
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Cover design by Jamie Tanner.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-230) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak copy inscribed "Fritz. In memory of the made pursuit and presentation of the elusive Scottish salmon. Len".
- Kislak copy has post-it note "Contained a printout of an article. Removed to Chef Fritz Ephemera Collection Box 3".
- ISBN:
- 0297607561 (cloth)
- 9780297607564
- OCLC:
- 50018069
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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