Jack Challoner
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English
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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...
5) 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.
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255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as technologies that might hold the key to our future survival,...