Isabel Williams (Is for short) is something of a challenge, even for her best friend Robert. As a new girl at a 1970s comprehensive she seems vulnerable, but she soon starts putting her teachers in their place with her amazing knowledge of science, bridges and the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Robert soon finds himself dodging school to visit antiquated lift shafts and getting lost in the science museum in a bid to keep up with his mercurial fellow pupil, who at times a...

Get your child excited about math with some maze fun. This book combines the study of math with the fun of games. Select a multiplication problem and solve it, then check your answer with the math maze. Explore the maze to arrive at the answer.Easily navigate the links to the math maze and answer. Then return to the practice problems to select another. Twenty problems in all, each with an answer maze. Most appropriate for 3rd and 4th grade students.

Explore the deepest parts of the oceans and the vast space of the solar system in this science study guide. This quick guide provides tidbits of the most important information about the plants in the solar system, select marine life, and desert and forest animals. Perfect for third graders, this is the ultimate guide that ensures easy absorption of broken-down information. Buy a copy today.

How can the puzzling game of puzzles benefit young minds? Well, puzzles boost general knowledge, and improve vocabulary as well as spelling, logic and problem-solving. But the main advantage of introducing this activity early in life is that it helps children learn with game-based learning. What this translates is that fun and learning become one. So don't forget to secure your copy now!

All the good things that you enjoy today are products of the brilliant minds of scientists. These are the people who did a lot of research to discover more about the world, and from there, create technologies that we enjoy today. This book includes the best achievements, laid out in a fun and easy-to-under manner. Grab a copy today!

Young children may not know what life was like before technology. This is your chance to open their eyes to a technology-less living. Imaginative and thought-provoking, this picture book will challenge your child's ability to grasp the post-modern world. The use of a picture book to present this concept is highly applauded because it saves the child from having to rely on imagination alone. Grab a copy today!

Buckle up and jump on board for the funniest, most EXPLOSIVE picture book of the year - you'll want to read it again and again-o!Join two intrepid explorers as they take a train-o, jump on a plane-o, ride a Great Dane-o (down the lane-o) on their way to look at the volcano. Nothing could possibly go wrong - could it?!A hilariously anarchic rhyming story from multi-award-winning author Andy Stanton.Andy has won a string of awards for his Mr Gum

Learn all about the crazy history of technology in this second Fact Attack book featuring over 250 awesomely incredible, weird, and crazy facts!Did you know more people have cell phones than toothbrushes? That Google answers about a billion questions a day? Or that Alexander Graham Bell wanted the standard telephone greeting to be "Ahoy"?Discover these incredible facts and more in the next Fact Attack book, all about inventions and technology. Fact Attack is an exploration of the m...

This book is the second edition of Design to Test. The first edition, written by myself and H. Frank Binnendyk and first published in 1982, has undergone several printings and become a standard in many companies, even in some countries. Both Frank and I are very proud of the success that our customers have had in utilizing the information, all of it still applicable to today's electronic designs. But six years is a long time in any technology field. I therefore felt it was time to write a ...

Vegetation dynamics is an important subject. A knowledge and under standing of it is central to the science of vegetation management-in grassland, range and nature reserve management, and in aspects of wildlife management, forestry and agricultural crop production. It is also a large and diffuse subject. In a small book such as this I had to be highly selective, and could not do equal justice to all aspects. I have had therefore to condense many examples, and more regrettably, many argumen...

Many books already exist on computer-aided design and manufacture most of which are dedicated to describing the complexities of mathematical modelling and its application to industrial problems. In the experience of the present authors, however, if the subject is to be understood within its true, industrial context it must be taught in relation to the design process. Thus, while this book discusses both modelling and industrial applications, it also tries to provide an insight into design ...