Melvin Berger

From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departmentsChuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer--each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

Learn about how grasshoppers make their chirp noises.

A basic definition of an atom, its construction, and a few of the ways it works for man.

Explores the mysteries of how life began, discussing the formation of planet earth, the first signs of living matter, the time of dinosaurs, and the development of human beings.

72 pages : 28 cm +

Explains the characteristics of comets.

Defines data processing and describes the functions of computer input and output, processing, storage, and programming.

Questions and answers present information about spiders, arranged in the categories "Amazing Creatures," "Web Spinners," "Spiders that Hunt," and "Living with Spiders."

Written in a question and answer format, this book discusses various endangered species, where they have gone, and why they are endangered.