How The World Works: Know It All, From How the Sun Shines to How the Pyramids Were Built

by Clive Gifford

Overview

This essential title from award-winning author Clive Gifford provides children with all the information they need to know how the world works!

We are surrounded by amazing things in the natural world, and we live in an age of exciting advances in science, engineering, and technology. But do we really understand how and why things happen the way they do? This book explains all!

• Witness the formation of Earth and the evolution of living things

• See how animals and plants have adapted to live in every corner of the planet

• Learn how ancient people lived and created their technology

• Discover today’s incredible scientific and eco-friendly advances

Covering a range of children's favorite subjects, including space, nature, wildlife, dinosaurs, volcanoes, technology, history, and much more, How the World Works is guaranteed to provide the answers to a world of tricky How? and Why? questions!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780753479810
Publisher:	Kingfisher
Publication date:	11/07/2023
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.45(d)
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of more than fifty books on the subjects of sports and soccer. His previous titles for Kingfisher include The Kingfisher Soccer Encyclopedia, Soccer Skills, Summer Olympics, and Soccer.

Editorial Reviews

Natural curiosity about scientific topics flourishes in an environment where asking questions is encouraged. Discovering answers through experimentation and research fosters additional questions. Throughout this process teachers may be faced with a flurry of scientific questions ranging from life science to technology. How the World Works by Clive Gifford provides a resource to feed this boundless curiosity. . . . With curiosity fully fueled, the reader is encouraged to investigate any of the topics at web sites provided at the end of each chapter or through further texts referenced on each topic. How the World Works provides a broad base of information that will encourage that next question, encouraging the next generation of scientists.” —NSTA Recommends

From the Publisher

2013-10-01
A handsome and rangy selection of the world's great systems and phenomena and their workings. Gifford tackles a broad spectrum of processes, creations and biological systems that have both shaped and inhabited the planet--plus a few items out there in the solar system, such as the workings of the sun and the life and death of stars. But for the most part, the material deals with earthly concerns: how the Earth was formed and reformed; how the dinosaurs (may have) lived and (may have) died; how the sprinter sprints; how wind farms generate electricity; how bridges and tunnels are built, not to forget the pyramids and Roman roads; how one besieged a castle; how the Incans built an empire; how the pirates got rich.Gifford's explanations are usually nicely sharp and concise--"An earthquake is a sudden release of built-up energy from Earth's crust. Most earthquakes are caused by extreme forces and pressures that exist near faults--where two plates grind against each other or collide." He leaves some room for further research at times, though: Fusion "creat[es] the nuclei of helium atoms--and energy." Throughout, the artwork is marvelous, with bell-clear diagrams, wonderfully atmospheric, dioramalike historical drawings, and crisp photography, which often by themselves fill some of the gaps in the text. Though not encyclopedic, the many topics addressed get first-class treatment. (Nonfiction/reference. 8-13)

Kirkus Reviews