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How everything works, contributors, Jack Challoner, Clive Gifford, Wendy Horobin, Tom Jackson

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How everything works

contributors, Jack Challoner, Clive Gifford, Wendy Horobin, Tom Jackson

Have you ever wondered how an email gets to someone on the other side of the world in just a few seconds or why it's a bad idea to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm? Each page of this detailed and ambitious encyclopedia will guide you through the natural world and the technology that surrounds you. Giant, page-filling illustrations take objects apart or take the roofs and walls off buildings, to show you how they work, explaining both basic principles (such as photosynthesis) as well as broader concepts (like how all the living things in a rainforest interact). Chapters range from the human body to cities and industry, to planet Earth, taking in sleep patterns, cooking, sewage systems, wind farms, fungi spores, and plate tectonics along the way

You -- Home -- City and industry -- Living world -- Our planet -- Space

juvenile

How everything works, from brain cells to black holes