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"Combining science, history, and DIY pyrotechnics, this book for the workbench warrior explains humankind's most useful and paradoxical tool: fire. William Gurstelle, author of the bestselling Backyard Ballistics, presents 25 projects with instructions, diagrams, photos, and links to video demonstrations that enable people of all ages to explore and safely play with fire. From Franklin's stove to Diesel's engine, explosive and fascinating tales are...
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Let's investigate with Nate volume 2
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Bill Nye the Science Guy meets The Magic School Bus!
This is the second book in a new STEM-based picture book series from the Emmy Award-winning host of PBS's Design Squad and Design Squad Nation, Nate Ball. With a lively cast of characters and vibrant illustrations by Wes Hargis, it's an adventure in learning!
Ever look up at the sky and wonder how many planets there are? Or want to know how many Earths could fit within the Sun? Take a ride...
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In this revised and expanded edition, William Gurstelle shows ordinary folks how to build a dozen fun and impressively powerful launchers with inexpensive household and hardware store materials. This new edition includes three new projects along with diagrams, photographs, and fascinating science information. With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting and describes each machine's historical origins as well as the...
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Este libro tiene como objetivo la divulgación científica de forma comprensible para cualquier persona, independientemente de su formación previa. Está especialmente pensado para niños y jóvenes de edades comprendidas entre los 10 y 16 años y recoge un amplio espectro de temas de interés, como son la Tierra, el cuerpo humano, la biología, la física y química, la tecnología o las matemáticas.
Javier Fernández Panadero es licenciado en...
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Más allá de opiniones y teorías, el experimento es el que nos da la clave sobre qué es cierto y qué no. Una vez más, con su estilo riguroso y divertido, Javier Fernández Panadero te propone con este libro un desafío: TÚ serás el que llegue al resultado.
¿Cuánto peso aguanta un pelo? ¿Cambia mi altura durante el día? ¿Cómo sacar ventaja en un examen tipo test?
Mide, calcula, estima, comprueba y decide. Esta es la varita mágica con...
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En este volumen se recogen 202 preguntas y respuestas sobre distintas disciplinas científicas (química, física, tecnología, biología, etc.). Todo fácil pero exacto. Los libros de Javier Fernández Panadero tienen como objetivo la divulgación científica de forma comprensible para cualquier persona, independientemente de su formación previa.
Está especialmente pensado para niños y jóvenes de edades comprendidas entre los 10 y 16 años....
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¿Qué pasaría si tuviéramos que explicarle a un extraterrestre las cosas que hacemos cada día? ¿Cómo explicarle que unos tiremos comida y otros se mueran de hambre? ¿Qué les pongamos pijamas a los peluches? ¡¿Cómo explicarle lo que es una morcilla?! Exploraremos juntos un buen puñado de paradojas de nuestra vida cotidiana. Algunas tendrán una explicación razonable, otras tendrán que ver con el funcionamiento de nuestra mente, otras...
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Do you have a project-assignment fron your physics teacher and do not know where to begin? Or, you have to participate in a Science Fair, and you wish to surprise everyone with a revolutionary chemistry model? Or, you simply wish to experiment with new concepts of physics, electronics, biology and chemistry? This revised book and the free CD contains 71+10 new projects on Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Electronics. The purpose of the book and CD...
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La Ciencia va más allá de lo que se hace en los laboratorios. La Ciencia trata de cómo funciona tu cuerpo y el mundo que te rodea. Y en este libro te proponemos convertir tu mundo en un laboratorio en el que podrás hacer más de setenta experimentos sencillos, divertidos, que podrás disfrutar en compañía y te permitirán entender mejor la mágica Ciencia que aparece en cada rincón del Universo. Para que puedas experimentar en tu propio "laboratorio",...
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The Magical Word of Science focused on children mainly between 9-15 years old, who like to do simple experiments and experience the wonders of Science. The book contains 100 experiments that can be easily done at home, which enables children to better undertstand the phenomena of physics, chemistry and biology. The experiments can be easily done by using simple things found in the home. The tasks in the book can be divided into three categories based...
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Perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, this handy guide to household electronics gives the weekend workbench enthusiast a multitude of ideas on how to salvage valuable parts from old electronics and turn them into useful gadgets once more. This handbook is loaded with information and helpful tips for disassembling old and broken electronics. Each of the more than 50 deconstruction projects includes a treasures cache of the components to be found, a required...
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A witty celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous scientific experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.
Many scientists have followed the advice of the great Victorian doctor Jack Haldane to "never experiment on an animal if a man will do" and "never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do yourself." He and his father inhaled poisonous gasses to test the efficacy of the prototype gas mask they had invented. When...
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A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club. Want to add more excitement to your life? This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects will show you how. Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you and details the art of living dangerously. Risk takers are more successful, more interesting individuals who lead more fulfilling lives. Unlike watching an action movie or playing a video game, real-life experience...
15) The water cycle
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Let's investigate with Nate volume 1
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The PBS television host and his team of young scientists investigate how the water cycle works by shrinking themselves down to the size of a raindrop to explore such elements as ice, steam, estuaries, snowflakes, and puddles.
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After decades of analyzing his dreams, a professor of psychology finds that some of them anticipate future events. Not only does he dream the exact day of the year on which one of his books is accepted for publication, but he learns how to use these dreams to create better outcomes in his life. Working with a medium for his research as well as in the classroom, he finds that the medium often gets correct information, to which she does not have any...
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This classic in the philosophy of science describes and analyzes the profound change from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity's less central place in the universe. It offers a fascinating analysis of the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Gilbert, Boyle, and Newton.
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A unique approach to the history of science using do-it-yourself experiments along with brief historical profiles to demonstrate how the ancient alchemists stumbled upon the science of chemistry.
Be the alchemist! Explore the legend of alchemy with the science of chemistry. Enjoy over twenty hands-on demonstrations of alchemical reactions.
In this exploration of the ancient art of alchemy, three veteran chemists show that the alchemists' quest involved...
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This book illustrates a variety of nuclear experiments one can perform using a Geiger Counter. The experiments teach the fundamentals of nuclear science and particle physics. Beginning with an introduction to ionizing radiation and Geiger counters. The book explains the different types of radiation Geiger counters can detect and measure. The book explains the functions and reading available from the Geiger counter. How to read CPS and CPM measurements...