Jack Challoner
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English
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"The book examines the science behind everyday life -- how we power our homes, grow our food, and build machines that allow us to communicate with others and travel around the world. Featuring a wide range of scientific inventions and discoveries, from advances in modern medicine to groundbreaking ideas for saving the environment, SuperScience uncovers how science plays a part in every area of our lives"--
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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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Español
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Explores the inner workings of the universe, from the smallest atoms and cells up through appliances and technology, machines, towns, cities, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and black holes. Features detailed diagrams and illustrations, paired with photographs, that take things apart and show how they work on the inside an in interaction with other objects.
17) Wet and dry
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Simple activities introduce water in relation to clouds, rain, rivers, plants, and more.
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What links the Taj Mahal and our skeleton? Calcium. The Eiffel Tower and our blood? Iron. The salt on our fries and the street lamps that guide us home? Sodium. Everything in the known universe is made up of one of the 118 elements of the periodic table, and this book is the definitive illustrated guide. Every element is featured, their vital statistics given, their main compounds and uses explored, and their fascinating histories told.
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Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book gives readers unprecedented insight into the minds and lives of some of the great men and women who have helped shape the modern world. The book transports the reader back in time to share the excitement and inspiration of some of the most important moments in the history of technology.
20) Superciencia
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Español
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Entra en el fascinante mundo de la ciencia con la ayuda de este impresionante libro. Descubre las maravillas de la ciencia, desde las últimas tecnologías para respirar bajo el agua y cultivar alimentos en el espacio hasta los recientes avances en medicina y robótica. Con un estilo ameno y explicaciones claras basadas en los últimos descubrimientos, este entretenido libro examina la ciencia que hay en la vida cotidiana y las tecnologías que...