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Go on a journey of discovery in My First Book of Everything. From the solar system to the tiny mantis shrimp, everything in our universe is amazing! This beautiful non-fiction gift book introduces over 100 big concepts, words or ideas from the world (and universe!) around us and gives a bitesize explanation for each one that will spark preschoolers' imagination and inspire wonder and curiosity.Featuring content on the universe, the Earth, the human body, inventions, history and time and much mor...

The fourth book in a series about scientific wonder. Dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For little researchers ages 6 years and up. The early nineteenth century. Mary Anning is only twelve years old when she discovers her first dinosaur skeleton while looking for fossils to sell. It isn’t just any skeleton; it’s the first almost complete Ichthyosaurus ever found. Over the next few years, more dinosaurs follow. Although Mary doesn’t get admitted to a university, her research would later form...

¿De qué está hecho el universo? ¿Cómo se forma el arco iris? ¿Qué es el vacío? ¿Existe la antimateria? ¿La materia radioactiva es siempre dañina para la naturaleza?   Más allá del átomo responde a todas estas preguntas y explica las teorías más interesantes del descubrimiento del átomo, la creación del universo y el origen de la luz. Podrás conocer, además, lo que se está haciendo hoy en materia de investigación nuclear y aprender sobre el maravilloso mundo de la física y sus aportaciones...

A magical journey of scientific discovery begins here! Four friends, the Museum Kids, are off on an incredible adventure to discover the creatures of the past at the Natural History Museum. A magical lift takes them to meet the Earth's first life-forms, the dinosaurs in their habitat, the woolly mammoth in the ice age and much more. Fun, interactive and with lots of facts to discover, this book is perfect for all curious kids.Magical Museums is a series of picture books that follows the adventur...

Scientific breakthroughs are often the result of years of painstaking research, but a sudden, profound insight can sometimes provide the right solution. Follow the development of discoveries and inventions, learn how modern technology is built upon the foundations of early thought, and how science has evolved through the centuries. Over 230 vivid illustrations and photographs bring the great scientists and their work to life, making this an accessible and exciting illustrated reference book that...

For fans of the "Who Was" series, this lively, accessible, and full-color chapter book biography shows how a self-taught scientist was the first to observe the microbial life in and around us. By building his own microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek advanced humanity's understanding of our oft-invisible world around us. Microbes are everywhere: in the soil and oceans, in snow, and inside our bodies. But in Antony van Leeuwenhoek's time, people believed that what they saw with their own eyes was a...

Learn the surprising truth about just how important poo really is: it keeps our bodies healthy, and can also be used to power our cars, heat our homes and help grow our crops. You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without Poo! is part of a brand-new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn’t Want to Be series.

ENJOY THE SPECTACULAR story of sport from the ancient Olympics in 776 BC to London 2012 on a laminated 10-foot timeline wallchart. More than 100 different sporting moments are featured in over 1,000 pictures and captions to tell a unique history of sport on a spectrum including fighting, racing, and ball games. This giant edition is specially designed to be unfolded and stuck up on a wall and will make a spectacular display for any sports hall, pavilion, changing room, library, bedroom, classroo...

Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford is a riveting profile of the man whose invention revolutionized American life: the industrial visionary who changed the automobile from rich man’s toy into affordable necessity. Don Mitchell weaves archival images from the Benson Ford Research Centre with quotes from Ford’s writings, speeches, and interviews to create a lively, comprehensive profile of this intriguing individual.Fiercely independent, and a man of complex contradictions, Henry Ford...