Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Science & Technology

A fully revised and updated edition of David Macaulay's bestselling classic The Way Things Work. Get to grips with how things work inside hundreds of machines with this extraordinary book that explains the science behind technologies and inventions. In this extensive encyclopedia packed full of s...

Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.

Find out how similar you are to your favourite animal and how. Did you know that most animals (including us) are shaped like tubes? That animals get a lot of the same diseases (and medical treatments) we do? Or that we are distant cousins to every animal on Earth, including jellyfish! We Are All ...

Budding astronaut Luna Scope wants nothing more than to blast off into space and explore the cosmos, but how does she go from a cardboard rocket in her room to running experiments on the International Space Station? Enter Granny, who's about to teach Luna just how to make her dream a reality. Fro...

What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins ... In this visually stunning and brilliantly devised picture book, Idan Ben...

Wearable Robots offer alternatives to amputees, workers, and people suffering from paralysis. Wearable Robots sense and anticipate wearer's movements while engaging a system of hydraulics to power the movements. Correlates with STEM instruction. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for f...

Discover whirling planetary jet streams, hurricanes, monsoons, dust storms, volcanic lightning and other amazing phenomena all through the lens of TV weather presenter and world-famous meteorologist Liam Dutton. This adventure through the atmosphere shows off the splendour of our skies in their m...

In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? In this book, you'll meet the scientists worki...