How Everything Works - James Gulliver Hancock (ilustrátor)

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The latest title in the popular 'How Things Work' series will make the ordinary seem extraordinary. Featuring the beautifully detailed illustrations of James Gulliver Hancock, How Everything Works will take a close-up look at the world around us to examine well-known, everyday environments and reveal how all the various objects and machines found there operate. Full-page gatefolds showcase large, dense scenes while smaller flaps can be opened to uncover the secrets of the latest gizmos and gadgets. Explore a home, a building site, a factory, a shopping mall, an office, and a busy street; find out how a car, a computer, a conveyor belt, and mobile phone work, and much more! Contents includes: A History of Things: watch as a street changes through timeDown on the Farm: from tractors to combine harvesters and wind turbinesAt the Construction Site: mix cement, dig underground, and then look upward to cranes and skyscrapersStaying in Touch: connect through mobile phones, wireless tech and satellite communicationsGetting Around - local: hit the road with cars, buses, bicycles, motorbikes and even electric vehiclesGetting Around - long distance: jump aboard trains, planes and boatsIn the Home: the inner workings of washing machines, lightbulbs and electricityAt the Office: computers, photocopiers, air conEntertainment: from rollercoasters to video gamesShopping: scan barcodes and watch CCTVAt the Factory: from assembly lines to automation, robots and fork-lift trucksAt the hospital: uncover modern medicine