Jack Challoner
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"[I]mages, models and illustrations offer a unique view of catastrophic weather conditions allowing readers to see into the eye of a cyclone, witness hailstones the size of tennis balls, and learn how a gentle mountain stream can become a raging surge within a few minutes. Learn the techniques developed through the centuries to forecast weather, see a chicken that was stripped of its feathers by a tornado, and how human activity can cause weather...
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This award-winning science book is bubbling over with entertaining and educational experiments for budding scientists to follow at home or in the classroom.
Build a soap-powered sailboat, recreate the Solar System out of rubber bands, construct your own colorful kaleidoscope, or make mouthwatering monster marshmallows. Explore the whole range of imaginative activities offered.
A foreword by Jack Andraka, a teen award-winning inventor,
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Step outside and discover the science that surrounds you!
This fun, fact-filled book is brimming with exciting outdoor experiments to help budding scientists explore the science in their own surroundings. Using household items, construct a water rocket and
blast it skywards to learn about air pressure, or blow giant, long-lasting bubbles to reveal how
surface tension works. Make a worm farm and observe worms tunneling, then build...
This fun, fact-filled book is brimming with exciting outdoor experiments to help budding scientists explore the science in their own surroundings. Using household items, construct a water rocket and
blast it skywards to learn about air pressure, or blow giant, long-lasting bubbles to reveal how
surface tension works. Make a worm farm and observe worms tunneling, then build...
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"Get immersed in exciting STEM activities that will inspire every budding home scientist, technology fan, young engineer, and mathematician! Witness your very own erupting volcano blow sky high. Build a sturdy sandcastle and reveal the incredible technology of construction materials. Design a wind-up car and discover your inner engineer, and test your knowledge of maths by making a marble run. Great STEM Projects features an enormous collection of...
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As Carl Sagan memorably put it, We're made of star stuff. The Elements: The New Guide to the Building Blocks of Our Universe takes you on a gorgeously illustrated tour of the Periodic Table. Filled with fascinating information about the elements, their main compounds, and their principal uses, this authoritative yet accessible book, written by renowned popular-science writer Jack Challoner, makes hard science easy, interesting, and relevant to our...
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This book is filled with fascinating facts and figures, busted myths and corrected misconceptions, amazing anecdotes and incredible feats of strength and endurance. It is beautifully illustrated with hundreds of colorful artworks, photographs, and diagrams.
• More than 400 nuggets of information-drawn from anatomy, physiology, medicine, history and mythology-are sure to astound, amuse, inform and entertain.
• Find out the answers to those burning...
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"The Atom investigates the quest to identify the smallest, most fundamental constituents of matter—and how that quest helps us to understand what everything is made of and how it all works. Challoner covers a wide range of topics—including the development of scientific thinking about atoms and the basic structure of atoms; how atomic interactions account for the familiar properties of everyday materials; the power of the atomic nucleus; and what...
12) Energy
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Text accompanied by photographic illustrations survey various sources of energy and the ways in which they have been harnessed. Includes one CD of clip art.
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"Have you ever wondered how an email gets to someone on the other side of the world in just a few seconds or why it’s a bad idea to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm?...Each page of this...detailed and ambitious encyclopedia will guide you through the natural world and the technology that surrounds you. Giant, page-filling illustrations take objects apart – or take the roofs and walls off buildings – to show you how they work, explaining...
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"The history of humankind has been driven by scientific discovery. From our distant ancestors learning to use tools and fire for the first time, to the modern breakthroughs that have shaped the world we live in today, science has defined the story of humans for thousands of years. Using beautiful illustrations and clear, easy-to-read text, SI Timelines of Science explains the history of science as it unfolded across the globe, and delves into the...
18) Big history
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"Discover everything you need to know about biology, with the simplest most visual guide to the science of life. How do vaccines work? What is special about stem cells? How did we evolve from bacteria? The science of life can be dauntingly complex, and it can be hard to separate "good" science from "bad", fundamental truths from the much-hyped breakthroughs reported in the media. With clear, easy-to-understand graphics and packed with fascinating...