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3) Airplanes
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Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
An imaginative look at airplanes through such questions as "What if airplanes didn't have air?" and "What if airplanes could go into space?"
4) Space
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
An imaginative look at space with such questions as "What if the sun went out?" and "What if there were Martians?"
5) Giraffes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Explores the world of mammals by answering such questions as "What if giraffes had short necks?" "What if a bat couldn't hear?" and "What if whales could breathe underwater?"
6) Sharks
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Series
Language
English
Description
Examines the world of fishes--from terrifying sharks to graceful seahorses--using a series of questions such as "What if a lungfish crawled out of the water?" and "What if a coral didn't build reefs?"
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Language
English
Description
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining. This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining. This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
There is no surer way to feel the danger or the good fortune of our collective past than to contemplate those moments when the world's future hung in the balance. Our brightest historians speculate on some of these intriguing crossroads and the ways in which our lives might have been changed for the better -- or the worse. These unabridged essays range across the full span of history. Geoffrey Parker describes ramifications that might have included...
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