Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Museum Book of Scary Things (and ways to avoid them)
(Paperback, Unabridged edition)
Publishing Details
Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Museum Book of Scary Things (and ways to avoid them)
By (Author) Glenn Murphy
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan Children's Books
1st September 2009
3rd July 2009
Unabridged edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction
500
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 16mm
203g
Description
More wonderful weirdness from the author of How Loud Can you Burp and Why is Snot GreenIn Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is OK to be scared and that there are very good reasons why we are able to feel fear. He looks closely at our most common fears, including natural disasters, predators, spiders, disease, needles, dentists, crashes, darkness, speaking in public, heights, ghosts and monsters, to show us how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary.The result is a fun, carefully pitched, popular-science title that mixes great true-life stories with the psychology of fear, the statistical probabilities of things happening and a lot of reassurance.
Author Bio
Before moving to the US in 2007, Glenn Murphy worked at the Science Museum in London, recruiting, training and overseeing the management of the 75-strong team of dynamic, bubbly science communicators who perform shows and interact with the public in the galleries. He now lives in North Carolina with his wife.
