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The poo-niverse, by Paul Mason and Fran Bueno

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The poo-niverse

bibliography

by Paul Mason and Fran Bueno

Take a trip around the poo-niverse, with all the best faecal facts squeezed into one book! The Poo-niverse is your one-stop for excrement information, from poo-eating worm toilets to poisonous poos, from poo particles on toothbrushes to crucial post-poo hand-hygiene tips. Find out about exploding poo in history, where it goes after you flush, which creatures' poos are used to make tea, coffee and cheese, how much of your food is grown using poo - and much, much more. There's a whole world where science meets sanitation: are you brave enough to dive in?

Welcome to the poo-niverse -- Poo creation -- What's in a poo? -- The world's biggest poo -- Not a waste -- What a waste -- Poo snacks -- Weaponised poo -- Things we do with animal poo -- The guano war -- Toilets through time -- Cleaning up -- Hygiene and hand-washing -- Into sewers -- Space poo -- Poo from the past -- Tapeworms: poo parasites -- A bit about farts -- Weird animal poo -- How often is often enough? -- What your poo says about you -- The poo lexicon/finding out more -- Glossary

juvenile

Poo-niverse, everything you wanted to know, and didn't want to know about poo!