Bøger af John Farndon

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.

CLIMBING TREES AND DIRTY KNEES has over 50 brilliant and safe activities and adventures that take you outdoors, away and unplugged from the TV and other devices. Projects that teach you survival techniques and how to track animals.

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!

HISTORY OF THE WORLD runs from the birth of civilization to modern times. Colourful maps sweep you north, south, east and west to show you what is happening where over time. Major events and epochs, and cultural and scientific advances from all over the world in one whistlestop, bird's-eye global overview of world history!

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.

Stickmen s Guide to Engineering Every structure and machine is designed and held together by engineering. Find out what materials are used, and where factories and homes get their power. View the world s tallest buildings and the fascinating shapes that bridges can be.

Four centuries when the world changes forever. Starting with the early dominance of the Spanish, Ottaman, Ming and Russian empires, climaxing with the rise of the French and English. Leaps in technology, the first signs of the North American dominance and the land grabs for the mineral wealth of Africa.

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).

Investigate Your Brilliant Brain to see how, along with the nerves of the spinal cord, it runs your nervous system. It's like one big computer network with messages whizzing to and fro all the time - whenever you think, see, speak, feel hot or cold, or move - in fact when you sense or do anything at all.

An Egyptian Mummy... Neferu is embarking on the trip of a lifetime - not only down the Nile but right inside a temple to learn the secrets of embalming and the downright yucky job of cleaning out a dead body, before assisting at the entombment of Ramesses and his treasures in a secret burial chamber deep inside a pyramid.

In Extreme Fire and Flood each of these twin disasters occupies half the book. The causes of fires (mostly human) are described, along with diverse effects on people and natural environments. The same pattern is followed for coastal and river flooding, with detailed stories of some of the most devastating disasters that have hit our planet.

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.

Extreme Hurricanes and Tornadoes Another book of two halves! The development and geography of a hurricane/cyclone is explained, with the effects of devastating storm surges on land, why and where these happen, and of raging wind and torrential rain.

Monster Trucks See the world from the cab of a Shockwave - powered by three jet engines, it is the world's fastest truck - the Banks Sidewinder Dodge Dakota, the Dodge Ram SRT10 pick-up and more. They can even race and leap!

Planes Discover the meaning of supersonic aircraft with the NASA Hyper X-43 scramjet, the NAA X-15 rocket plane, the Lockheed SR-71 and more. Learn what it means to break the sound barrier.

Superbikes Test ride the Lotus C-O1, the electric Lightning LS218, the Kawasaki H2R Ninja and more, to reach speeds up to 218 mph. Find out about racers, race tracks and engines.

How was the Universe created? Is the sun a star? Is there life beyond planet Earth? Discover the answers to all your galactic questions in the fascinating new series Exploring the Universe.