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…

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…

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. …

The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

Having made his name in the late 1980s as a member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered the transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators and consumers about what we have thrown away in the process: Are our devices leaving us lost in our own headspace even as they pinpoint o…

Ensiklopedia Junior: Mobil

Buku ini merupakan seri Ensiklopedia Junior mengenai mobil. Dalam buku ini dijelaskan tentang sejarah pertama kali dibuatnya mobil dan jenis-jenis mobil terkenal di dunia. Penjelasan dalam buku ini singkat dan jelas dibantu dengan ilustrasi gambar dan foto mengenai berbagai jenis mobil.

The Usborne Book of How Things Work (Simple Science)

Designed to answer many of the "How does it work?" questions faced by parents every day.

Futureworld: Tomorrow's Technology Today

Where will we be in 2025? This fascinating book reveals the technology that's in prototype today, and will be commonplace tomorrow. Whether it's flying cars, space tourism, nanobots or airships, every page reveals an exciting and totally real vision of a future that is almost within our grasp.