Chris Woodford

Everything you ever wanted to know about the surprising science behind how things in your home work.

The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home

Atoms Under the Floorboards

Steve Parker

Discusses key concepts in biology, physics, chemistry, and other scientific fields, and includes fast fact boxes, images and diagrams, and information about key scientists and their work.

A Visual Encyclopedia

Science

You use all kinds of incredible technology every day. But how does it really work? Flip to the facts and discover: what makes your mobile work? what's inside an iPod? how trainers put a spring into your step what the future holds for a bionic body With incredible detail and eye-popping photographs, this is the amazing lowdown on today's technology and tomorrow's gadgets.

How Cool Stuff Works

Presents an introduction to gravity, describing the history of scientific research which preceded its discovery, the laws of gravitation proposed by Isaac Newton, and the impact of Einstein's theory of relativity on Newton's theories.

Investigating the Force, Mass, and Attraction of Physical Bodies

Gravity

Explains the concept of temperature and how it is measured. Discusses how temperature readings can be adjusted and documented using math and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Temperature

Explains what distance is and how it can be measured.

Distance

An accessible and hard-hitting look at the facts behind air pollution in everyday life.

Why Air Pollution Matters - and How It Affects You

Breathless

The quest to understand how electricity works has led to some of the most important discoveries and inventions of all time. Scientists have figured out how to harness the power of electricity on a very large scale in massive power plants and on a very tiny scale in computer circuits. This book includes geniuses, like Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison. Our modern ideas have been assembled over a long period as scientists built upon the work of their predecessors. This book reveals what we have learned in the past, what we have discovered in the present, and what remains to be explored in the future. Supplemental content includes an activity spread, a substantial and highly detailed timeline, and a list of key people with mini-biographies.

Investigating the Presence and Flow of Electric Charge

Electricity

Using the modern home as a springboard, Atoms under the Floorboards introduces the reader to the fascinating and surprising scientific explanations behind a variety of common (and often entertainingly mundane) household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and shiny shoes. Packed with facts and fun, each chapter focuses on a feature in each of the areas and slowly unpicks the science behind it. * Is it better to build skyscrapers like wobbly jellies or stacks of biscuits? *Can you burn your house down with an electric drill? *How many atoms would you have to split to power a lightbulb? *How can a raincoat be waterproof and breathable at the same time? Atoms under the Floorboards answers all these questions, and hundreds more. You'll never look at your home the same way again ...

An accessible and hard-hitting look at the facts behind air pollution in everyday life Take a deep breath. You’ll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it’s the very breath of life. But in Delhi, the toxic smog is as bad for you as smoking 50 cigarettes a day. Even a few days in Paris, London or Rome is equivalent to two or three cigarettes. Air pollution is implicated in six of the top ten causes of death worldwide, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and dementia. Breathless gives us clear facts about air pollution in our everyday lives, showing how it affects our bodies, how much of it occurs in unexpected places (indoors, inside your car), and how you can minimise the risks. Rooted in the latest science, including real-time air-quality experiments in city streets and ordinary homes, it will allow you to make up your own mind about the risks and trade-offs of modern living – wherever in the world you are.

Why Air Pollution Matters – and How it Affects You

Jon Woodcock

Bluetooth, HDTV, SEMs, PSP and Wii: your world is full of cool gadgets and clever technology. Want to know how it all works? Open up the cool lenticular cover to reveal what�s inside your games console, how spies use GSM for covert operations, the world�s fastest robot, virtual online worlds and more. It�s a microscopic, X-rayed, cross-sectioned and close-up look at loads of amazing stuff!

How Really Cool Stuff Works

The Gadget Book

* Everything you need to know about groundbreaking inventions is broken down into 50 bite-sized chunks * Explore the best inventions from the aeroplane to the iPhone and discover the pioneering inventors whose ideas changed the world * Invention is brought to life through facts, diagrams, infographics and photos Every aspect of modern life has been shaped by the ideas of ingenious inventors, many of them tinkering away in small workshops or even their garden sheds. Packed with facts and figures, discover the masterminds behind some of the world's most incredible inventions. In the ancient world, philosopher Archimedes designed new machines for farming. During the Renaissance, artist Leonardo da Vinci sketched his ideas for wondrous flying machines. Scientist James Watt provided ideas that would power the Industrial Revolution, while American inventor Thomas Edison patented more than 1000 inventions that would shape modern life, including the movie camera and the electric light bulb. Today’s inventors still explore ideas for new and clever technology, producing miniature machines that we can only see under a microscope. Step inside the world of invention and see where it might take us next...

50 Things You Should Know About: Inventions

Two hundred entries offer profiles of key figures; essays on such topics as cookies, content filtering, and digital libraries; and a chronology beginning with the prehistory of the Internet from 1843-1956 and concluding with the 2004 presidential campaign.

Chris Woodford

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