High-Tech Inventions

From a new generation of cell phones that send pictures and short movies, to plasma TV screens, supercomputers and the worlwide web, technological progress has led to more exciting inventions in this title.

Where Does the Garbage Go?: Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science

Follow that garbage truck! ...to the landfill to see how trash keeps piling up...to the incinerator to see how trash can be turned into energy ... to the recycling center to see how a soda bottle can be turned into a flowerpot. Filled with graphs, charts, and diagrams, Where Does the Garbage Go? explains how we deal with the problem of too much trash and provides ideas for easy ways to be a …

Stickmen's Guide to Technology

See how sci-fi becomes reality with this breathtaking tour of the coolest inventions and discoveries - from nuclear fission and animal cloning to growing new body parts. Just for starters... *Your fridge could be linked to the Internet *A nanomachine could repair brain cells *Robots can be pets and space explorers *A surgeoun could operate-from another country! ..and there's lots more. Th…

Stickmen's Guide to Science and Technology

Take a trip around our world and discover what is science. What makes things move to how your brain works. See how sci-fi becomes reality with a breathtaking tour of technology. Discover amazing engineering feats of giant machines and why we use numbers and measuring skills without even realizing it. Check out... and there's lots more. Bite-size nuggets of text and super-clear diagrams make …

Technology: A Byte-Sized World! (Basher Science)

From the bestselling illustrator whose friendly take on science has revolutionized our understanding of everything from the periodic table to the universe, comes a fresh take on technology as only Basher can do it. Discover the secrets behind the devices we take for granted, and learn about the amazing inventions that have transformed our lives. From the Movers and Shakers who power our physica…

Get Into Art: People: Discover great art - and create your own!

A gorgeous children's activity series that explores a wide range of artists' work while encouraging children to develop their own skills and techniques, Get into Art! is perfect for active young artists of all abilities. Art projects are varied, intriguing and clearly explained and will act as a springboard for plenty of artistic experiments. Readers can combine their practical activity and cre…

Engineering: The Riveting World of Buildings and Machines

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Understanding Media: (Routledge Classics)

When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insig…

Critical Terms for Media Studies

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics. …

Beginning Drawing Atelier: An Instructional Sketchbook

Atelier education is centered on the belief that working in a studio, not sitting in the lecture hall, is the best place to learn about art. Every artist needs to learn basic drawing skills. In this elegant and inspiring workbook, master contemporary artist and best selling author Juliette Aristides breaks down the drawing process into small, manageable lessons; presents them progressively; …