Bøger af John Farndon

The ultimate visual encyclopedia of rocks and minerals, including a detailed directory of 300 specimens.

Project Science

This brilliant book brings together over 30 of the fastest machines ever invented. With fantastic, true-to-life illustrations showcasing speedy supercars, spectacular superbikes, powerful planes and mighty monster trucks, Megafast is packed with incredible record-breaking vehicles. With bite-size facts and a 'dashboard' of statistics revealing each vehicle's maximum speed, engine power and much more, speed-lovers will find themselves entertained for hours.

A brilliant introduction to the human skeleton, muscles, and skin. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! Designed for even the most reluctant readers. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more STEM

A brilliant introduction to the brain, nervous system and senses, for young readers. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! Designed for even the most reluctant readers. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more STEMÂ

 A brilliant introduction to the human digestive systems, for young readers. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! From eating the food to turning it into poop and everything in-between. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more  STEM

A brilliant introduction to the respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems, for young readers. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! Designed for even the most reluctant readers. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more . STEMÂ

The skeleton, muscles and skin are explained through hilarious, colorful illustrations and an engaging question and answer format, designed to appeal to even the most reluctant readers. Packed with plenty of giggle-worthy gross bits, it's a fun and accessible look at an important subject.

"Your body can do all sorts of amazing things, and your brain is in control of it all! Get to know your brain, nerves, senses, and much more, in this fantastic introduction to the human body"--Publisher's description.

"Your body can do all sorts of amazing things, but it needs food to function. Have you ever wondered what happens to the food we eat? Get to know your mouth, stomach, liver, and much more, in this fantastic introduction to the human body"--Publisher's description.

The respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems are explained through . . . colorful illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format"--Amazon.

"Firefly Wildlife Atlas approaches the animal kingdom by means of habitat, covering almost 1000 animals in meticulous full-color illustrations and concise authoritative text. From millipedes to monkeys, this book offers a detailed and thorough guide to a wide array of the world's mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as insects, spiders and other invertebrates."--

Medicine has seen some pretty grisly experimental efforts in the past in order to get where we are today. A tale of crushing failures, lucky guesswork and proper scientific study - mixed together with the just plain funny stuff that went on! It's a recipe for an awesome read. Revolting stories and toe-curling treatments are just cool things to know about.

102 BRILLIANT THINGS TO DO Expand your world, learn new skills, discover hidden talents, get to know nature, help other people, share ideas, feel good and have LOTS of fun with your friends (or on your own) with these 102 stimulating projects to do indoors and out.

Brain Benders is the ultimate test for your brain. It engages all your mental skills- imagination, mathematical, linguistic, lateral thinking and more. Amazing optical illusions, tricks and puzzles devised by one of the world's leading experts, that will get them thinking outside the box.

RECYCLED ART FROM OLD RUBBISH has projects that will inspire kids to become wildly creative. Create animals out of paper rolls and some happy hens from an egg box. Don't throw away cardboard boxes you can make a puppet show and put on a performance!

BRILLIANT BUGS We are completely outnumbered by insects on our planet. There are some pretty impressive records clocked up by the insect world that kids will want to know about. Mighty armies, shock tactics and cunning camouflage, ingenious methods of attack and defence, it's all here.

Sensational Science is packed with fun hands-on experiments with simple projects to do at home or at school. It's not magic but it seems like it! Make a balloon hovercraft or an early photographic device or maybe a toothbrush mini robot.

If Prehistoric Beasts Were Alive Today is an area of natural history not often written about but it is fresh and equally as exciting as the history of the dinosaurs. Preceding and surviving the dinosaurs, Prehistoric Beasts resemble some of the animals we see around today...only mega sized!

The Stickmen's Guide to the Body takes you on a fascinating journey around your entire body to show you how the circulation, nervous and digestive systems, and skeleton and muscles do their brilliant work all day, every day, just for you!

Go on an action-packed interactive journey through your body, bursting with super-cool facts, hands-on activities and flaps to lift. Illustrated step-by-step projects throughout encourage practical learning, and the spectacular central fold-out pages allow readers to really get under the skin of this important and fascinating subject.

Stickmen s Guide to Technology Find out how chocolate-flavoured strawberries could exist thanks to genetic modification, and how nanotechnology works. Discover what happens in a nuclear power station, how extreme weather is predicted, and how we can see into the infinity of space.

lague looks at the most frightening diseases and epidemics in the history of medicine. These include the bubonic plague or Black Death, its effects and how people tried to combat it. The king's evil was a kind of TB (symptoms were black lumps on the neck).

Extreme Earthquakes and Tsunamis These two extreme events are of course related, and are equal partners in this book. We explain the geology of earthquakes, along with the effects of a sequence of shocks; typical rescue operations and the technology used for these; and how earthquakes may be predicted and buildings made to withstand them.