How It Works - Annual, Volume 07-16

 


Book Details

Category: How It Works
Number of Pages: 180
Language: English
Publisher: Imagine Publishing Ltd.
Age Range: 7 and Up



About the Book

Everything you want to know about the world we live in.

The How It Works Annual is where your burning questions about how the world ticks finally get answers. Feed your mind, indulge your curiosity, get answers to your strangest questions and uncover the truth behind the greatest misconceptions. We delve deep into the mysteries of our world with in-depth and entertaining articles, accompanied by cutaways, illustrations and incredible images to show you exactly what goes on inside.
 

In this bookazine...
        
Become a top gun
- Discover if you have what it takes to fly a combat jet

Virtual reality
- From training doctors to planning military ops, discover how VR is changing the world

How the world could end
- From super-volcanoes to nuclear winters, the scientific theories in danger of becoming reality

Miracle science
- The breakthroughs that will save your life revealed


Also inside...

- The world’s largest passenger jet
- Inside the Tesla Model S
- How to stop a speeding car
- GHOST ships
- The mechanics of mountain bikes
- Super submarines
- Drone racing
- Inside a wind turbine
- The science of football
- 3D without glasses
- How juicers work
- Harnessing the Sun
- Shrink-wrap seals
- Holiday 2050
- China’s rainbow mountains
- Natural born killers
- Cats vs dogs
- Venus flytrap
- Canada’s Spotted Lake
- Life Cycle of a frog
- The Galapagos Islands
- The physics of dance
- The quietest place on Earth
- Gravity maps
- Tooth whitening
- Your guide to the elements
- Isolating deadly diseases
- The science of fear
- The search for alien life
- Space weather
- Parallel universes
- What makes up the universe?
- Clean and tidy galaxies
- Taking the Solar System’s temperature
- Seeing back in time
- Living on the Moon
- What makes a planet habitable?
- What is a gravitational well?
- Cannibal galaxies
- Interstellar space travel
- The afterlife in Ancient Egypt
- The Palais Garnier opera house
- The world’s tallest statues
- Henry VII by numbers
- Medieval siege mining
- Military acoustic locators
- Beer through the ages
- Five facts about the Berlin Wall
- The Ice Age
- Tudor beauty
- Ancient Greek theatre
- History’s most gruesome inventions