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(0)Jack Challoner
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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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160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
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English
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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 daily lives.
6) Energy
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72 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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English
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Surveys various sources of energy and the ways in which they have been harnessed.
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72 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.
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English
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Describes dangerous and destructive weather conditions around the world, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, hail, and drought with photographs, historical background, and legends.