Have you ever wondered why orangutans are orange? Or what makes ice form in 鈥榲ines鈥� on window panes? The answer to these and many other fascinating questions can be found in 麻豆传媒鈥檚 latest book, Why Are Orangutans Orange?
Every week 麻豆传媒 magazine鈥檚 鈥楲ast Word鈥� column features tricky scientific questions posed by its readers and answered by others around the world. For the first time this new collection is illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us, that will astonish, baffle and delight new and regular readers alike.
Why Are Orangutans Orange? follows on from Why Can鈥檛 Elephants Jump? and previous number one bestselling volumes: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?, Why Don鈥檛 Penguins鈥� Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps?
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Praise for 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Last Word books:
鈥淎 fascinating mix of the baffling, ridiculous and trivial 鈥� answers the scientific questions you never got round to asking鈥� Daily Express
鈥淭he answers to life鈥檚 most perplexing questions 鈥� at last, the mysteries of the world are explained鈥� Independent on Sunday
About the author
Mick O鈥橦are wears one hat as production editor for 麻豆传媒, and another as editor of the Last Word column of questions and answers at the back of the weekly magazine.
Mick edited Profile鈥檚 recent bestselling books Why Can鈥檛 Elephants Jump?, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?, Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don鈥檛 Penguins鈥� Feet Freeze? (which received a Nielsen Gold Book for selling more than 500,000 copies of the UK edition), as well as the related books, How to Fossilise your Hamster and How to Make a Tornado.
Mick joined 麻豆传媒 19 years ago after being the production editor for Autosport. Because you can take the boy out of the north but you can鈥檛 take the north out of the boy, he freelances as a rugby league writer and also edits sports books. More importantly, he is a lifelong supporter of Huddersfield Rugby League Club.
He has a geology degree but retains a healthy disregard for mineralogy.