Jack Challoner
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Leap into the exciting world of STEM, where science, technology, engineering, and math combine in 25 fun and easy-to-do projects. STEM lab will teach you how to make impressive insulating gloves, stunning spaghetti towers, amazing automatons, and many more sensational activities."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The book examines the science behind everyday life -- how we power our homes, grow our food, and build machines that allow us to communicate with others and travel around the world. Featuring a wide range of scientific inventions and discoveries, from advances in modern medicine to groundbreaking ideas for saving the environment, SuperScience uncovers how science plays a part in every area of our lives"--
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"We live among patterns of delicate beauty and exquisite chaos that our eyes can't detect; we are surrounded by invisible particles and shifting fields of matter that permeate all of space. Our very cells are intricate molecular machines, and the story of our origins stretches back through an unimaginable amount of time. How can we see the richness of what lies beyond our sensory perception? Scientists have developed visualization tools that can make...
Author
Description
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.
10) Energy
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Description
Surveys various sources of energy and the ways in which they have been harnessed.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
This book of fun science experiments contains clear step-by-step instructions for each project, from racing wind-up cars to making music with a homemade guitar. These projects take young readers through each experiment, describing the science behind it and highlighting STEM facts.
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chemical elements of the periodic table. In this book, Jack Challoner places the atom at center stage. The Atom investigates the quest to identify the smallest, most fundamental constituents of matter―and how that quest helps us to understand what everything is made of and how it all works. Challoner covers a wide range of topics―including the development...
17) Virtual reality
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
An introduction to virtual reality explains what it is and how it works, along with examples of how it is used in the real world, in a book that includes a make-it-yourself VR viewer.
18) Energy
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Introduces the concept of energy, describing the difference between potential and kinetic energy and detailing such types as heat, sound, light, chemical energy, and electricity.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"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,...
Publisher
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
We take thousands of inventions for granted, using them daily and enjoying their benefits. But how much do we really know about their origins and development? This absorbing new book tells the stories behind the inventions that have changed the world.
