If ... : a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers
- Responsibility
- written by David J. Smith ; illustrated by Steve Adams.
- Publication
- Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, [2014]
- Copyright notice
- ©2014
- Physical description
- 40 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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| Call number | Status |
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| Q163 .S567 2014 |
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Smith, David J. (David Julian), 1944- author.
- Contributor
- Adams, Steve, 1967- illustrator.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 40).
- Contents
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- If ...
- Our galaxy
- The planets
- History of Earth
- Life on Earth
- Events of the last 3000 years
- Inventions through time
- Inventions of the last 1000 years
- The continents
- Water
- Species of living things
- Money
- Energy
- Life expectancy
- Population
- Food
- Your life
- A note for parents and teachers.
- Summary
- Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- Copyright date
- 2014
- Title Variation
- Mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers
- If
- ISBN
- 9781894786348 (bound)
- 1894786343 (bound)
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