Jack Challoner

Describes dangerous and destructive weather conditions around the world, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, hail, and drought with photographs, historical background, and legends.

Presents over two dozen simple science activities using food, common household items, water, and the outdoors.

Are you a budding scientist, engineer, or inventor? Tech lab unlocks your inner maker through 18 amazing step-by-step projects, from an automatic night-light to your own remote-control snake!

"Have you ever wondered how an email gets to someone on the other side of the world in just a few seconds or why it's a bad idea to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm? Discover the answers to all these questions and more with this mind-boggling books of facts. Each page...will guide you through the natural world and the technology that surrounds you. Giant, page-filling illustrations take objects apart to show you how they work, explaining both...

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...

Stunning computer-generated images pack the pages of this encyclopedia to reveal and explain spectacular aspects of the scientific world. Bursting with astonishing 3D images, Knowledge Encyclopedia Science! shows core science in stunning detail, from atomic particles and universal forces to life in all its diversity ... Adopting an inventive approach to science that goes beyond the basic school curriculum, Knowledge Encyclopedia Science! interweaves...