Why Things Are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life

Achenbach, Joel; Joel Achenbach (Author); DAve Barry (Foreword by)

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ISBN 10: 0345362241 ISBN 13: 9780345362247

Published by Ballantine Books/Ballantine Books, Inc./A Divison of Random House, Inc., New York, 1991

Language: English

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Title

Why Things Are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life

Publisher

Ballantine Books/Ballantine Books, Inc./A Divison of Random House, Inc., New York

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0345362241

ISBN 13

9780345362247

Binding

Trade Paperback

Illustrator

Mary Lynn Blasutta (Illustrations); James R. Harris (Cover Design); Anthony Lowe (Cover Photo); Michaelis/Carpelis Design Assoc. Inc. (Interior Design)

Edition

1st Edition, July 1991, 1st Pr.

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Very Good

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"Not only does Joel Achenbach ask some great questions, but he actually answers them--and with a rigor that puts him somewhere between Socrates and Miss Manners. Plus he's funnier than either of them.:
Judy Jones and William Wilson
Authors of AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION
From the dawn of time to yesterday's headlines, from baseball to the atom bomb,fromant farms to Peperidge Farm, syndicated columnist Joel Achenbach answers the perennial question, WHY?
Why do foreign languages sound so fast?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why don't people talk in elevators?
And much more.

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ly does Joel Achenbach ask some great questions, but he actually answers them--and with a rigor that puts him somewhere between Socrates and Miss Manners. Plus he's funnier than either of them.:
Judy Jones and William Wilson
Authors of AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION
From the dawn of time to yesterday's headlines, from baseball to the atom bomb,fromant farms to Peperidge Farm, syndicated columnist Joel Achenbach answers the perennial question, WHY?
Why do foreign languages sound so fast?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why don't people talk in elevators?
And much more.

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