Now You Know Extreme Weather
“When it rains, it pours,” especially when it comes to best-selling author Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Extreme Weather. Global warming, killer hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, melting permafrost — weather concerns us all, and now with this tightly packed compenium of questions and answers, everyone can get the lowdown on things like:
- • What makes a perfect storm perfect?
- • Where’s the world’s hottest place?
- • Why was Hurricane Katrina so destructive?
Now You Know Crime Scenes
With hit cop TV dramas like the various CSI and Law and Order shows, Bones and Criminal Minds. everybody seems to think they’re a forensics expert. But what do we really know? Now, with Now You Know Crime Scenes, we can all get the dope on:
- • How long does it really take to analyze a DNA sample?
- • Who started the first forensics laboratory?
- • Who invented criminal profiling?
- • How do you do a walk-through?
Now You Know Christmas
From oversized socks filled with treats to firs in living rooms and strange stories and songs, Christmas makes us all scratch our heads now and then. Now You Know Christmas will help everyone make sense of the holiday season, with answers to questions like:
- • How fast would Santa have to travel in order to deliver toys to all the children in the world in one night?
- • Why are Christmas songs called “carols”?
- • Why did the Wise Men bring gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts?
- • Now You Know Pirates
Now You Know Pirates
Shiver me timbers and avast ye hearties! We think we know pirates, from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, or literature’s Long John Silver and Captain Hook. But what do we really know? The true Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, and lots more, from ancient keelhauling to twenty-first-century buccaneering, are all here in Q & A commodore Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Pirates. Arrrr!
- • What is the origin of the word pirate?
- • Who were the Barbary Corsairs?
- • What did pirates do to St. Patrick?
- • What is the difference between a pirate and a privateer?
- • What is the Oak Island Treasure?
- • How many female pirates have there been?
- • What are “pieces of eight” and “doubloons”?
- • Who were the buccaneers?
- • How old is piracy?
Now You Know Disasters
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and tidal waves, fires, mine cave-ins, bridge collapses, ship sinkings, airplane crashes, explosions, and plagues — natural and human-engineered calamity and catastrophe have many forms and guises. In Now You Know Disasters, Q & A ringmaster Doug Lennox showcases the what, why, when, where, who, and how of everything that’s gone tragically and terribly wrong, past and present.
- • How does a tsunami occur?
- • Why do Canadian engineers wear iron rings?
- • Who was Richter in the Richter scale?
- • What was the worst freshwater ship disaster ever in North America?
- • What is wildfire?
- • Who was Typhoid Mary?
- • How is “ring around the rosie” related to disaster?
- • How did the Halifax Explosion occur?
- • What was the world’s worst airplane crash?
