Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know About 50 Famous Phobias

Latta, Sara

ISBN 10: 1936976498 / ISBN 13: 9781936976492

Editore: Zest Books ?, 2014

Codice articolo 1936976498-3-36938013

Riassunto:

Everyone knows what it is to be afraid. But phobias take the normal (and even helpful!) human emotion of fear to a much more visceral, even primal, place. For some people, it’s a spider that does it. For others it’s a clown, or a trans-Atlantic flight, or even just a puddle of water. It’s the thing that stops us in our tracks, sets our hearts racing, and stands our hairs on end. Scared Stiff takes readers on a journey through these experiences—using biology, psychology, and history (not to mention pop culture) to explain where our phobias came from, how they affect us, and how we might eventually overcome them.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Sara Latta is the author of seventeen books for children and young adults on topics that include dark matter, the secret life of microbes, DNA, bones, and forensic science. She also has a masters degree in immunology. She does have a bit of a phobia about heights, as she discovered when faced with having to climb down from a pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Sara Latta is the author of seventeen books for children and young adults on topics that include dark matter, the secret life of microbes, DNA, bones, and forensic science. She also has a masters degree in immunology. She does have a bit of a phobia about heights, as she discovered when faced with having to climb down from a pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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Titolo: Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know ...
Casa editrice: Zest Books ?
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: paperback
Illustratore: Gallas, G. E.
Condizione: Good