Science with the squishy bits left in! What stops your eyeballs from falling out? Why can dead bodies make ghostly glowing lights? How can a laser beam sizzle human flesh? Get the awful answers in "Frightening Light".
Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.
The author brings to life the drama, the people and the science behind this iconic event. Bursting with anecdotes, illustrations of everything from tidal waves to pepper plants and with a wonderful cast of characters.
Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous i…
Here at last is a detailed guide to keeping amphibians, extending to 100 pages and illustrated with striking colour photography throughout.
100 Facts Planet Earth book for kids is bursting with awesome images, great activities and exactly 100 mind-blowing facts for kids aged 7+. Children will learn everything they need to know about our wonderful planet. Kids learn more easily with bite-sized information. Photographs and artworks aid children who learn through visual prompts. Activities allow children to put what they have learned …
Why? Plant Adalah komik pendidikan yang menjelaskan tentang Tumbuhan (Plant) dikemas dalam bentuk Komik untuk memudahkan anak-anak mempelajari. Misalnya, bagian-bagian dari tanaman dan fungsinya, manfaat tanaman bagi kehidupan kita, mengapa ada pembagian jenis tanaman untuk daerah tertentu.
This lesson uses WebImage, a Web-based customized version of ImageJ, to investigate the relationship between the circumference and diameter of a circle. Images of circular objects are provided, and, by measuring diameter and circumference, students are able to obtain an approximate value of Pi. They also explore the history behind Pi and how to find its value.
Learn how to make fake boogers, grow your own stalactite and even create invisible ink plus many, many more projects!
From the mighty blue whale to the tiniest of frogs, the extraordinary animal kingdom is investigated through 300 facts, photos and cartoons. Read about cheetah's super speed, find out which bird is scarcely bigger than a bee, and discover what makes a gecko's feet so sticky.
Kita pasti pernah melihat ikan berenang perlahan di dalam air. Tapi, pernahkah kita merasa ingin tahu apa nama ikan-ikan itu, serta apa ciri khas masing-masing ikan sehingga bisa bertahan hidup? Di antara berbagai jenis ikan, banyak spesies ikan yang memperlihatkan cara hidup yang sangat unik. Misalnya ikan discus yang berenang dan menempelkan anak-anaknya di tubuhnya, ikan Korean rose bitt…
A humor parody satire book about Earth
In the arthropoda phylum insects are one of the most successful species, and spiders are one of the largest groups. This book provides a fascinating overview of insects and spiders.
The Reader's Digest Children's Atlas of the Universe will revolutionize the way kids learn about the stars. Combining spectacular color art (including maps of the planets) and hundreds of photographic images from space missions and telescopes, the atlas tells the story of the universe as it has never been told before. Every page is a storehouse of riveting, up-to-the minute information. In…
Presents discoveries in the different fields of Ice Age Research. This book reveals how the epoch was discovered, the profound climatic fluctuations it generated as ice sheets waxed and waned, and the myriad ways in which humans and animals coped with the changing world they lived in.
This is the ultimate photographic guide to over 150 types of rocks, with many tips on sourcing rocks in the field and identifying collected specimens, and including expert analysis of the key rock-forming environments of the world. Features more than 375 beautifully shot photographs and concise artworks.