A cavalcade of crappy curiosities and fascinating fecal facts... in quiz form! Think you know your sh*t...? Only one of the following is true poo, the others are fake poos. So is it... A: King George III had an illness that caused his poo to turn purple. B: In 1939 a man called Billy McCullock was sentenced to four years in jail for hurling a turd off the roof of the Empire State building. C : There is a road in the Northumberland town of Berwick-upon-Tweed called Poobum Lane. Ready for more? Well stop stooling for time! Read on and prepare for some close encounters of the turd kind...
This irresistibly disgusting book for children will teach you all you need to know about all kinds of animal dung and human waste--what it's for, how it's made, where it goes, and lots more! Poo comes in all shapes and sizes. Every animal has its own special kind, and some have fascinating uses for it. Wombats use their cube-shaped droppings to mark their territory; potato beetles build a shield of dung for defense; male hippos spray out a fecal shower to attract mates; and rabbits and dung beetles eat their pellets for extra nutrition. We might call it "waste," but in fact, poo is among the most useful stuff on Earth. From building materials and paper to coffee and even water purification, there's a multitude of manure-based matter in our lives. This unique book is jam-packed with scientific explanations and amazing trivia about human and animal deposits. Did you know, for example, that the global population produces more than a million tons of poo every day? Or that the ancient Egyptians used animal excrement in their medicine? That wars have been fought over guano (bat poo)? All these facts and more are presented, either with jaw-dropping CGI illustrations or eye-popping photography. Additional boxes feature infographics that make information easy to understand. With endlessly interesting information and incredible visuals, It Can't Be True! Poo is the perfect way to entertain and amuse your friends, family, and yourself. In fact, you'll never look at poo in the same way again!
The toilet-tastic book that asks young readers to guess if animal facts are true...or POO?! Do wombats have cube-shaped poo? Do you eat spiders in your sleep? Do beetles pretend to be ant bottoms? In this hilariously helpful guide to which facts about the animal kingdom are true or false, you might be surprised to learn what's true ... and what's a big pile of poo! And you will find out a lot about that smelly stuff in this book too, from how it's made to which animals eat their own waste. (Yuck!) But will you be able to guess what's real and what's made up? Find out in this comical collection of weird habits, cool facts and sneaky myths about your favourite animals! This HILARIOUS book is the companion title to Does it Fart?
A cavalcade of crappy curiosities and fascinating fecal facts ... in quiz form! Think you know your sh*t ... ' Only one of the following is true poo, the others are fake poos. So is it ... A: King George III had an illness that caused his poo to turn purple. B: In 1939 a man called Billy McCullock was sentenced to four years in jail for hurling a turd off the roof of the Empire State building. C : There is a road in the Northumberland town of Berwick-upon-Tweed called Poobum Lane. Ready for more' Well stop stooling for time! Read on and prepare for some close encounters of the turd kind ...
The bestselling TRUE or FALSE Quiz Books that'll keep you guessing to the end for fans of National Geographic Kids Weird but True books. This compendium of knowledge contains the first five books in the family-favourite Truth or Poop Series. Here's the challenge - can you sort the fact from the fiction? ★ BOOK ONE - Amazing Animals ★ The closest living relative to the T-Rex is a chicken Some worms can jump Hippos can run faster than humans ★ BOOK TWO - Spectacular Space ★ The colour of the universe is, officially, beige A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus If you fell into a black hole, you would get stretched out like spaghetti ★ BOOK THREE - Gloriously Gross ★ Scientists have made a pill that will make your poo smell like chocolate. Farts exit your body at 7 mph. Ear wax isn't wax. It would be more accurate to call it ear snot. ★ BOOK FOUR - Incredible Insects ★ Honeybees can boogie The loudest animal in the world is a 2 cm long prawn Some tiny spiders wear water droplets as hats ★ BOOK FIVE - Dangerous Dinosaurs ★ The jaw strength of a Tyrannosaurus Rex was over 10 times more powerful than a lion. There is no such thing as a Brontosaurus. In Colorado, USA, there is a small town called Dinosaur. This boxed set contains 250 facts. Some will sound stupid, some will seem obvious, and some may even sound familiar. But you've got to think long and hard to work out which are real and which are complete nonsense. That's right, some are the TRUTH and others are POOP! This is the perfect gift for inquisitive children that will widen their knowledge and keep them entertained and amazed for HOURS!
This book stinks! Hold your nose while you find out absolutely everything you never knew about poo! Did you know that.. A week's worth of elephant poo weighs as much a 25 people? A lifetime of farts would fill 2,000 balloons? The world uses enough loo paper in an hour to wrap around the Earth 14 times? This irresistibly disgusting book for children will teach you all you need to know about all kinds of animal dung and human waste - what it's for, how it's made, where it goes, and lots more! Poo comes in all shapes and sizes. Every animal has its own special sort and some have fascinating uses for it. Wombats use their cube-shaped droppings to mark their territory; potato beetles build a shield of dung for defence; male hippos spray out a faecal shower to attract mates; and rabbits and dung beetles eat their pellets for extra nutrition. We might call it "waste" but in fact, poo is among the most useful stuff on Earth. From building materials and paper to coffee and even water purification, there's a multitude of manure-based matter in our lives. This unique book is jam-packed with scientific explanations and amazing trivia about human and animal deposits. Did you know, for example, that the global population produces more than a million tonnes of poo every day? Or that an average poo contains 10 trillion bacteria? Or that wars have been fought over guano? All these facts and more are presented, either with jaw-dropping CGI illustrations or eye-popping photography. Additional boxes feature infographics that make information easy to understand. With endlessly interesting information and incredible visuals, It Can't Be True! Poo is the perfect way to entertain and amuse your friends, family, and yourself. In fact, you'll never look at poo in the same way again!
Did you know: Elephants poop enough to fill the trunk of a family car ... every day? Fossilized poop is called coprolite and scientists have found coprolites even older than the dinosaurs? Termite colonies use their own poop to help build castles as tall as a house? Award-winning author and photographer Wayne Lynch takes a fun and scientific look at poop in the animal world. Children will be fascinated to find out that some wild animals eat their dung, others use it to send messages or mark their territory, and some even squirt it on themselves to cool off! Filled with amazing facts, animal stories, and colour photographs, The Scoop on Poop will change the way you look at droppings forever. So join Dr. Lynch as he dishes out the scoop on poop, facts on feces, tips on turds, data on dung, and the goods on guano.
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Poop! Ewwww! No, don’t say “Ewwww.” Ask, “Whose poop is that?” This simple, and yes, charming book asks this question about seven examples of animal poop. By investigating visual clues, young readers can learn to identify the animal through its droppings. For instance, find a sample of poop with bits of bone and tufts of hair. Turn the page to learn it came from a fox! Kelsey Oseid’s illustrations are both accurate and beautiful. Backmatter includes further information about the poop and what scientists can learn from an animal’s droppings. From the Hardcover edition.
This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019. The 26 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book from a total of 205 submissions. They deal with topics such as data science and databases; ontologies; social networks; knowledge management; software development; human-computer interaction, and multimedia.
This textbook presents some basic stochastic processes, mainly Markov processes. It begins with a brief introduction to the framework of stochastic processes followed by the thorough discussion on Markov chains, which is the simplest and the most important class of stochastic processes. The book then elaborates the theory of Markov chains in detail including classification of states, the first passage distribution, the concept of periodicity and the limiting behaviour of a Markov chain in terms of associated stationary and long run distributions. The book first illustrates the theory for some typical Markov chains, such as random walk, gambler's ruin problem, Ehrenfest model and Bienayme-Galton-Watson branching process; and then extends the discussion when time parameter is continuous. It presents some important examples of a continuous time Markov chain, which include Poisson process, birth process, death process, birth and death processes and their variations. These processes play a fundamental role in the theory and applications in queuing and inventory models, population growth, epidemiology and engineering systems. The book studies in detail the Poisson process, which is the most frequently applied stochastic process in a variety of fields, with its extension to a renewal process. The book also presents important basic concepts on Brownian motion process, a stochastic process of historic importance. It covers its few extensions and variations, such as Brownian bridge, geometric Brownian motion process, which have applications in finance, stock markets, inventory etc. The book is designed primarily to serve as a textbook for a one semester introductory course in stochastic processes, in a post-graduate program, such as Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science and Finance. It can also be used for relevant courses in other disciplines. Additionally, it provides sufficient background material for studying inference in stochastic processes. The book thus fulfils the need of a concise but clear and student-friendly introduction to various types of stochastic processes.
