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This book tackles the BIG questions - for kids, but adults too.. Why isn't life fair? What happens when you die? What killed the dinosaurs (it may not be what you think)? Do aliens exist? Are humans more intelligent than animals? I wish someone could have written this book thirty five years ago, so I could have read it then. When I was twelve I wrote to the Professor of Physics at Uni of Queensland asking what was the difference between living and non-living material. He couldn't answer and passed it onto the Professor of Philosophy - both wrote back to me with long lists of possible books on the subject, none of which our school or local library had heard of... And thirty odd years later I still haven't got a satisfactory answer. This book gives answers... but it also inspires kids to think of more questions.... and more answers.... because none of the answers in this book are 'final' ones. Maybe one of the kids reading this book will find a totally different answer in twenty, thirty or fifty years time... |
The Little Book of Big Questions (Allen and Unwin, 1998)