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Over 50 safe tricks - all based on scientific principles. Grade-schoolers using common, everyday items will soon be performing such mystifying feats as making squares and lines disappear, creating a magical doorway out of paper, cutting glass with scissors, inserting a pin in a balloon without popping it, and much more.
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Make an eggshell turn a somersault, spin a coin so that it lands on "heads," teach a bear to climb a string, and perform other acts of scientific wizardry! Martin Gardner, the master of mathematical puzzles, shares more than 80 of his finest magic tricks, teaching children and adults the scientific properties behind water, air, fire, heat, motion, gravity, inertia, friction, electricity, magnetism, sound, and light. Fun and fascinating, the simple...
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DIY Sci volume 12
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You can be a magician... if you know some science.
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60 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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What is a rainbow and what does a rainbow mean to you? We've all seen a rainbow stretching across a stormy sky but have you ever wondered why they appear and what makes them so colorful? Explore how rainbows have fascinated scientists and artists, inspired myths and legends, and united people around the world. and discover the many ways--from flags to fairy tales, songs to sculptures, and paintings to proverbs--that humankind have celebrated these...
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When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.
On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath,...
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