The Poo Bomb

Author: Jeff Vogel
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740750458
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Author Jeff Vogel did not go into parenthood with any delusions. He knew that he would love his daughter, and that was terrifying. What if he screwed up? And he knew that life with a baby would be different, that it would be filled with an endless stream of filthy diapers, unexplained wailing, and sleepless nights. Not to mention no sex. The parenting books painted a picture of smart, communicative babies and mindless, limitless joy, but he knew they were lying to him. So he wrote his own book. The Poo Bomb: True Tales of Parental Terror recounts, in a no-punches-pulled style, the first year of life of Cordelia, Jeff's freshly hatched, gooey human girl. The first year of parenthood isn't about joy or fulfillment. It is about menial labor, wiping up human waste, and marking time until the kid is old enough to run and play and thank you for its life. Jeff chronicles the journey through the morass of year one week by week. Rich with irreverent honesty and humor, The Poo Bomb is the reality show of parenting books: It reflects what most parents have sometimes guiltily felt about their not-so-delightful bundles of joy.

It Can't Be True! Poo!

Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0241443687
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
This book stinks! Hold your nose while you find out absolutely everything you never knew about poo! Did you know that.. A week's worth of elephant poo weighs as much a 25 people? A lifetime of farts would fill 2,000 balloons? The world uses enough loo paper in an hour to wrap around the Earth 14 times? This irresistibly disgusting book for children will teach you all you need to know about all kinds of animal dung and human waste - what it's for, how it's made, where it goes, and lots more! Poo comes in all shapes and sizes. Every animal has its own special sort and some have fascinating uses for it. Wombats use their cube-shaped droppings to mark their territory; potato beetles build a shield of dung for defence; male hippos spray out a faecal shower to attract mates; and rabbits and dung beetles eat their pellets for extra nutrition. We might call it "waste" but in fact, poo is among the most useful stuff on Earth. From building materials and paper to coffee and even water purification, there's a multitude of manure-based matter in our lives. This unique book is jam-packed with scientific explanations and amazing trivia about human and animal deposits. Did you know, for example, that the global population produces more than a million tonnes of poo every day? Or that an average poo contains 10 trillion bacteria? Or that wars have been fought over guano? All these facts and more are presented, either with jaw-dropping CGI illustrations or eye-popping photography. Additional boxes feature infographics that make information easy to understand. With endlessly interesting information and incredible visuals, It Can't Be True! Poo is the perfect way to entertain and amuse your friends, family, and yourself. In fact, you'll never look at poo in the same way again!

It Can't Be True! Poo

Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465499180
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
This book stinks! Hold your nose while you find out absolutely everything you never knew about poo! Did you know that.. A week's worth of elephant poo weighs as much a 25 people? A lifetime of farts would fill 2,000 balloons? The world uses enough toilet paper in an hour to wrap around the Earth 14 times? This irresistibly disgusting book for children will teach you all you need to know about all kinds of animal dung and human waste - what it's for, how it's made, where it goes, and lots more! Poo comes in all shapes and sizes. Every animal has its own special sort and some have fascinating uses for it. Wombats use their cube-shaped droppings to mark their territory; potato beetles build a shield of dung for defense; male hippos spray out a fecal shower to attract mates; and rabbits and dung beetles eat their pellets for extra nutrition. We might call it "waste" but in fact, poo is among the most useful stuff on Earth. From building materials and paper to coffee and even water purification, there's a multitude of manure-based matter in our lives. This unique book is jam-packed with scientific explanations and amazing trivia about human and animal deposits. Did you know, for example, that the global population produces more than a million tons of poo every day? Or that an average poo contains 10 trillion bacteria? Or that wars have been fought over guano? All these facts and more are presented, either with jaw-dropping CGI illustrations or eye-popping photography. Additional boxes feature infographics that make information easy to understand. With endlessly interesting information and incredible visuals, It Can't Be True! Poo is the perfect way to entertain and amuse your friends, family, and yourself. In fact, you'll never look at poo in the same way again!"

Icky Poo Book

Author: Klutz Press
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781591742418
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
The Official Icky Poo Book is a collection of 36 only-from-Klutz activities designed around this wonder of weird science. It comes with two irresistible ropes of what scientists like to call an "elastomeric gelatinous compound." Games such as Icky Poo Plop, Frog Tongue Darts, and the ever-exciting Hold It & Scream allow for solo challenges or mob madness.

Where Does Poo Go?

Author: Katie Daynes
Publisher: First Questions and Answers
ISBN: 9781474986434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Flap book revealing everything you wanted to know about poo - and a bit more. Crazy but true, life on Earth can't exist without poo! Starting with human sewage then moving on to animal poo, this surprisingly charming lift-the-flap book explores what happens when we flush, what animal toilets look like, why animals don't need to flush and just how important poo is - for a myriad of fascinating (and sometimes yucky) reasons.

A Little Life

Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Where Does My Poo Go?

Author: Jo Lindley
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0241522943
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
What happens after you flush the toilet? Discover the amazing hidden world of underground pipes and smelly sewers in this fascinating illustrated children's ebook. Everyone has wondered exactly what happens to their poo after it is flushed down the toilet. It disappears as if by magic - but there's a lot more going on than meets the eye! This ebook takes young readers through each stage of the sewage system, from the Sewer Flushers who unclog sewers to keep everything moving, to how dirty water is cleaned at the treatment plant. Furthermore, learn how sludge made from our poo can be recycled in many different ways - even generating electricity that powers your television! Brilliantly illustrated by acclaimed architect and illustrator Jo Lindley, this book is a must-have for kids, families, and educators interested in re-use and recycling. So journey deep underground to discover the life of poo - just don't forget to hold your nose!

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Author: Russell Brand
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501107275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
With this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that will appeal to adults and children alike. Once upon a time, long ago, in a time that seemed, to those present, exactly like now except their teeth weren’t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin. The people of Hamelin were a pompous bunch who loved themselves and their town so much that if it were possible they would have spent all day zipped up in a space suit smelling their own farts. But space suits hadn’t been invented yet so they couldn’t. Then one day without warning a gang of rats bowled into the town and began causing a right rumpus… So begins Russell Brand’s wildly funny and surprisingly wise retelling of the classic tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Whether you’re a kid or a grown-up kid, you’ll be chuckling the whole way through this zany story that bypasses Brand’s more adult humor for the outrageous, the madcap, and the just plain silly. Maybe you’ve heard about the Pied Piper before, with his strange music and those pompous townspeople and pesky rats. Or maybe you haven’t. But one thing is for sure: you’ve never heard it quite like this.

The World of Poo

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385538251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
'Bestselling, fedora-sporting, multi award-winning Knight of the Realm, creator of worlds and one of the most popular British authors on the planet, Terry Pratchett is not so much a writer as a one-man publishing phenomenon who has single-handedly re-shaped the world of fantasy fiction....satirised everything from religion to Hollywood, been adapted for stage and screen and proven beyond all doubt that a wizard's staff does indeed have a knob on the end.' SFX's Outstanding Contribution Award From Snuff: 'Vimes' prompt arrival got a nod of approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam. Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whoever had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam laugh until they were nearly sick. The bit about sailing down the river almost made him smile. But interspersed with the scatology was actually quite interesting stuff about septic tanks and dunnakin divers and gongfermors and how dog muck helped make the very best leather, and other things that you never thought you would need to know, but once heard somehow lodged in your mind...'

It Can't Be True! Human Body!

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780241446645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Astound your friends and family with this impressive collection of mind-boggling facts and visual comparisons about the human body. Did you know you made 3 million new blood cells while you read this sentence? Or that you shed and regrow a whole new layer of skin every 39 days? Or that your DNA could stretch to the Sun and back not once but 16 times? It Can't Be True! Human Body! is full of bite-size, fascinating nuggets of information about the incredible abilities of human bodies. Find out how many bathtubs of saliva you swallow, how many tankers of blood your heart pumps, how many gigagallons of air your lungs exhale. Discover how bone is strong enough to support the weight of a truck and be amazed by the unbelievable number of odours your nose can smell and the seemingly infinite range of colours your eyes can see. Witness the smallest bone, the strongest muscle, the fastest nerve, the deadliest parasite. See how an eye works like a 576 megapixel camera and find out why the human brain beats the world's biggest AI supercomputer. Packed with exciting computer-generated images (CGIs), It Can't Be True! Human Body! explains astounding number facts with jaw-dropping visual comparisons that reveal just how impressive your body really is.