Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology
DK DK Life Stories Marie Curie
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DK A Dinosaurs Day T. rex Meets His Match
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Hachette Children's Group How Does Wifi Work HighTech Science
Book SynopsisThis series looks at the revolutionary, cutting-edge science that we rely on to run our lives and keep our modern world working.Table of Contents 1: Chapter 1: How WiFi works 2: Chapter 2: Wireless networks 3: Chapter 3: Wireless technology through time 4: Chapter 4: How people use WiFi
£9.99
Hachette Children's Group Source to Resource Water From Raindrop to Tap
Book SynopsisWhat happens when you turn on a tap? Or the washing machine, shower or garden hose? Water flows! Most of us use water all day, every day, without thinking about it. But how does it get to our homes?Water is one of the most amazing resources that we use in abundance and have come to rely on heavily. It is used in all sorts of household chores, leisure activities and in work and industry. From the pitter-patter of raindrops to the whoosh of water from the shower, we follow the journey from the source to the resource. We begin by looking at what water is and where it comes from, and the all-important water cycle. We then look at how water is stored and treated ready to be pumped around the country and into our homes. Finally we consider the environmental impact of our water use and what we can do to use less water in our daily lives. We also look at how people live in places that do not have a reliable water supply and methods that can be used to clean water that is in Table of Contents 1: Essential water 2: The blue planet 3: The water cycle 4: Water and the weather 5: Natural water sources 6: Storing water 7: Electricity from water 8: Water treatment 9: Water for the home 10: Water at work 11: Water use in the home 12: How to save water 13: Drinking water 14: Clean water for everyone
£8.99
Hachette Children's Group How to Design the Worlds Best Skatepark
Book SynopsisTransform a fantasy design into a design for a real-world product in just ten simple steps!Table of Contents 1: Designing the world's best skatepark 2: Dream design 3: Expert bowl 4: Full pipe 5: Beginner bowl 6: Vert ramp 7: Main street 8: Side street 9: Hubbaland 10: Contest republic 11: Snake city 12: Food factory 13: The world's greatest skatepark 14: The world's top skateparks 15: Glossary 16: Index
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Hachette Children's Books Amazing Applications Perfect Programs Get Ahead
Book SynopsisGet Ahead in Computing explores the exhilarating world of information technology. Amazing Applications and Perfect Programs is an essential introduction to the applications that are crucial in today's digital world.
£12.34
Hachette Children's Group Oil From Oil Rig to Petrol Pump Source to
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Hachette Children's Group Solar From Sunshine to Light Bulb Source to
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Hachette Children's Group Water From Raindrop to Tap Source to Resource
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Hachette Children's Group How to Design the Worlds Best Robot
Book SynopsisTransform a fantasy design into a design for a real-world product in just ten simple steps!Table of Contents 1: Designing the best ever robot 2: Design Brief: What is this robot for? 3: Step 1: Sketch a design 4: Step 2: Is this robot the right shape? 5: Step 3: Design the robot's face 6: Step 4: Decide how big the robot should be 7: Step 5: Decide how the robot will move about 8: Step 6: Help the robot see 9: Step 7: Get your robot to pick things up 10: Step 8: Get the robot speaking (and listening) 11: Step 9: Pick your materials 12: Step 10: Customising your robot 13: The world's best robot 14: Other amazing robots 15: Glossary 16: Answers to 'Work it out' questions 17: Index
£8.99
Pan Macmillan Everything You Need To Know About The Human Body
Book SynopsisReaders’ imaginations will be fired on every page with this wonderful single-volume human body book. It is arranged thematically, with chapters on: parts of the body; growing and changing; food and digestion; the brain and senses; and movement. A range of informative and interactive features perfectly enhance and consolidate each reference section.
£9.49
Pan Macmillan Discover It Yourself Inside The Body
Book SynopsisWith projects ranging from testing your reflexes to making a model of your armâs muscles, this hands-on science book will help children get to grips with how their body works and what it is made of.
£6.99
Little, Brown & Company Ellen Takes Flight
Book SynopsisCelebrate the groundbreaking life of astronaut and Johnson Space Center director Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in space, in this latest book in the award-winning Big Words biography series. Young Ellen loved to learn. Encouraged by her mother, she graduated at the top of her high school and college classes, and studied electrical engineering in graduate school. An accomplished engineer by age 30, with three patents to her name, she kept learning and trying new things. When NASA began accepting women and people of color to the astronaut program, Ellen found herself drawn to this exciting and demanding career. On her first mission, she was the only woman aboard the shuttle Discovery and the first Latina to reach outer space. After four space flights, she became the first Latina director of the Johnson Space Center and has received numerous distinctions and awards. This addition to the award-winning Big Words biography series celebrates a STEM
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Workman Publishing The Dog and the Piglet
Book SynopsisGood friends come in all shapes and sizes!Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: a hippo and the goat who is his best friend, an iguana that snuggles with a cat, a dog that takes care of a blind deer, a cat and orangutan who become friends, and a mother dog who cares for a tiny piglet. Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friendship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the l
£8.50
Workman Publishing The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters
Book SynopsisIt’s hands-on science with a capital “E”—for engineering. Beginning with the toppling of the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, to the destructive, laserlike sunbeams bouncing off London’s infamous “Fryscraper” in 2013, here is an illustrated tour of the greatest engineering disasters in history, from the bestselling author of The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science. Each engineering disaster includes a simple, exciting experiment or two using everyday household items to explain the underlying science and put learning into action. Understand the Titanic’s demise by sinking an ice-cube-tray ocean liner in the bathtub. Stomp on a tube of toothpaste to demonstrate what happens to non-Newtonian fluids under pressure—and how a ruptured tank sent a tsunami of molasses through the streets of Boston in 1919. From why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans to tTrade Review“A new collection from an old hand at designing intriguing STEM activities that will entertain as well as enlighten.”—Kirkus Reviews“With ever-advancing technology present in the lives of readers, this text provides the chance for aspiring architects, engineers, and other problem solvers to understand past mistakes before building future wonders.” —School Library Journal
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Running Press,U.S. Georgias Terrific Colorific Experiment
Book SynopsisScience and art come together in this colorful and empowering picture book about a strong minded girl scientist and her artist family.Is it possible for science and art to really mix?Georgia wants to be a scientist, and a great one at that. But in order become a great scientist, she must first create her own, unique experiment. Her mother, father, grandma, and brother all want to help, but they''re artists. How could they possibly help her with science? Everyone knows art and science just don''t go together!As Georgia struggles to create her unique experiment, she eventually learns that sometimes science, too, can be a work of art.
£14.24
Running Press,U.S. Stem Like a Girl
Book Synopsis STEM Like a Girl empowers girls, 8-12, with the knowledge and confidence to become future problem solvers and leaders in the scientific world and beyond. This fully illustrated and photographic book profiles 35 inspiring girls and offers 15 hands-on, STEM-based experiments that they can do at home.While leading a hands-on engineering project in her son's elementary school, researcher and biotech engineer Sarah Foster noticed fewer girls raising their hands or jumping into the activities than the boys. Surprised to see a gender gap at play at such a young age, she decided to do something about it. She founded STEM Like a Girl in 2017 with the goal of introducing young girls to the fun and rewarding fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).In her first book, Sarah captures 35 girls expressing their love of all things STEM, Each girl speaks to her inspirations and role models, her favorite types of experiments, and why failure is almost always a good thing. Along with these profiles are 15 experiments girls can do at home on their own or with adults including extracting DNA from a strawberry, employing Newton's Third Law of Motion to build and fire an air cannon, and enacting acid-base chemistry to create homemade fizzy bath bombs.
£13.29
Running Press,U.S. A Childs Introduction to Space Exploration
Book SynopsisGet ready to blast off into the space! This interactive, fact-filled book by two space experts takes kids aged 8-12 on a journey through the universe with answers to all their questions on space exploration--from what the first rockets looked like and the first animal in space to what space food tastes like and what it’s like to live in zero gravity. We are living in a golden age of astronomy and space exploration, with more discoveries about the universe every day. With so many possibilities now open to us, revered science writers Michael E. Bakich and David J. Eicher will take young readers on a journey to the throughout the universe in this latest edition of A Child’s Introduction series.Perfect for budding explorers aged 8-12, Bakich and Eicher explore the history of space exploration from the very first rocket in China, to the moon landing, to the latest missions to Mars (and beyond). They also include profiles of noteworthy scientists, engineers, and astronauts including Isaac Newton, Neil Armstrong, Mae Carol Jemison; fun sections on space food, UFOs, a timeline of space suits, and how to go to the bathroom in space; and STEM experiments like how to build your own rocket and how to tell time using the sun. Packed with dozens of NASA photos and charming original illustrations, and a pull-out poster, this fascinating book reveals the wonders of space exploration—past, present and future!
£16.14
Crabtree Publishing Co,US Pressing Down The Lever Robotx
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Pulling Up The Pulley Robotx
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Splitting Apart The Wedge Robotx
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Alone in the Arctic Science to the Rescue
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Dry in the Desert Science to the Rescue
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Swept Away by the Storm Science to the Rescue
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Tangled in the Rainforest Science to the Rescue
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Spotlight on South Korea Spotlight on My Country
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Spotlight on France Spotlight on My Country
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Forensics Scene of the Crime Crabtree Chrome The
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Robotics Crabtree Chrome
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Why and Where Are Animals Endangered All about
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US How to Write Science Fiction Text Styles
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US What are Electrical Circuits Understanding
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US What are Insulators and Conductors Understanding
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US What is Electromagnetism Understanding
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Reptiles of All Kinds What Kind of Animal Is It
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Metamorphosis Changing Bodies Natures Changes
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Animal Life Cycles Growing and Changing Natures
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Biography of Vanilla How Did That Get Here
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada The Biography of Wool How Did That Get Here
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Innovations In Entertainment Problem Solved
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Innovations In Safety Problem Solved
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Innovations In Transportation Problem Solved
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Inventing the Telephone Breakthrough Inventions S
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Generating Wind Power Energy Revolution 02
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Biomass
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Is It Big or Small Looking at Nature
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Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada Is It the Same or Different Looking at Nature
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Crabtree Publishing Co,US Inclined Planes in My Makerspace Simple Machines
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