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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 600
EAN: 9780756614652
ISBN: 0756614651
Label: DK CHILDREN
Manufacturer: DK CHILDREN
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 17, 2005
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 65810
Studio: DK CHILDREN
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Product Description: From microchips and iPods to robots in the human bloodstream, Cool Stuff and How It Works takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through the world of modern technology. Tech-savvy kids will love learning all about today's most innovative inventions-where they came from, how they do what they do, and where they might take us in the future.a
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This was bought as a Christmas gift for my 9-year-old son and it has been a big hit. The book is big and colorful and has great photo layouts of the "insides" of all kinds of neat devices. The photos and captions explain how the devices work. If you have a child who is always asking "How do they do that?" or "How does that work?" then this book is a great choice.
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Kids are surrounded by technology these days, but unfortunately fewer and fewer of them appear to know how their gadgets or the world around them works.
This book is a good introduction, even if it is a bit lightweight.
There's a mix of ordinary things like electric shavers and guitars, the somewhat exotic like fiber optics and things mostly on the drawing board like fuel-cell cars. In all, more than 90 objects, processes and technologies are described.
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I bought this book for my 11 year old son. He absolutey loves it. It has a great cover. The ipod is sweet and it's a hollagram like I always say you can never have 1 too many of those hollagrams. And every thing else is a joke but who am I kidding hollagrams are sweet. This is a must have hollagram lover! baby yay i know i'm wako but still ya gotta love the hollagram baby!
Your's truly,
Ottomiss woodford
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I bought this book for my high school students to read in their free time. It is one of their favorite books.
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Through the use of cutaways and exploded views pictures reveal the internal workings of objects and explain various layers and how elements are assembled. This provides fascinating explanations of objects that may otherwise remain a mystery. No need to take apart your MP3 player, you can see inside the player on page 71. There is an explanation of how MP3 compression works along with a 3-D graph.
There are six main chapters:
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