Dorling Kindersley How Everything Works. From Brain Cells to Black Holes

What goes into creating art? How can we learn to "read" paintings? What are the key elements of composition? • If you've ever found yourself seeking the answers to the above questions and more, then this may be the book for you! An art book like no other, How Art Works uses practical graphics to demonstrate the techniques, styles, materials, and concepts that lie behind great art. It shows you how to interpret paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and reveals how art is made, laying out the key techniques and materials in visual detail. It also explains the nuts and bolts of the technical aspects behind art, such as perspective and composition, and shows how to identify major artistic styles and movements • This awe-inspiring art history book features • - Oil and watercolour painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and more • - Explains the technical aspects of visual arts including perspective, light, colour, form, and texture • - A selection of major art movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and more • - Shows how information, messages, and emotion can be conveyed through art • - Highlights key inventions and developments • Providing all you need to know to build on your artistic understanding and appreciation, this is the perfect book for art lovers of all kinds, whether you're an art student, or you're simply a lover of visual art and are looking to discover more about art but aren't sure where to begin

Отправьтесь в впечатляющее и познавательное путешествие по нашей Солнечной системе и за ее пределы с этой яркой книгой по астрономии! Узнайте, насколько велика Вселенная, почему наше понимание неба постоянно меняется, что было до Большого взрыва и многое другое. 3, 2, 1, летим! На страницах этого подробного руководства по астрономии для начинающих вы обнаружите • - Простой текст и пошаговую графику, которые облегчают понимание астрономии • - Забавные факты и острые вопросы, представленные с помощью небольших фактов и в виде вопросов и ответов • - Четкие объяснения, раскрывающие тайну более сложных тем, таких как космические лучи, темная материя и столкновения черных дыр • Необычный справочник о космосе, который познакомит вас с странным и чудесным миром астрономии и исследования космоса

Are men's and women's brains really different? Why are teenagers impulsive and rebellious? And will it soon be possible to link our brains together via the Cloud? • Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of the human brain simple to understand. How the Brain Works begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. Moving on to function, it explains how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication

Use your eyes, ears, and imagination to explore your amazing mind and sharpen your wits • Want to paint like a prodigy, experiment like a scientist, or even invent the next new technology? Put your grey matter to the brain-training test and see how you measure up to some of the greatest thinkers in history. Tackle brain-boggling puzzles, games, and optical illusions and discover what makes your brain work: from why you smile to what is going on inside your head and what side of your brain does what. Learn about neurons, how memory works and how to boost your creativity • This book makes a complex subject fun, accessible and exciting, and is perfect for any child, whether they are intent on becoming a genius or just want to have fun with clever activities at home, on a journey or in school

Delve beneath the surface of Earth with this pictorial atlas and discover the secrets of our planet • How did planet Earth form? What's under the surface, and how can we see it? Why do volcanoes erupt? What do coasts and caves have in common? What's so important about rocks and soil? If you find yourself seeking the answers to these questions and more, then this may be the book for you! • Introducing The Earth Atlas - a lavishly illustrated guide to our planet. From oceans to ice regions to deserts, this book takes you on an exciting trip to discover more about the Earth's features, explaining how they formed and what impact they have on us even today, supporting life and literally shaping the world with every tectonic movement! • Ready for an adventure? Dive straight in to discover • - A strikingly visual guide to the innermost depths of our Earth • - Exquisite hand-drawn illustrations and maps making the information engaging and accessible • - A diverse range of fascinating information using captions and detailed cross sections • From ferocious volcanoes to testing tornadoes, The Earth Atlas is an engaging, fact-packed, and educational book for children aged 9-12, especially those interested in natural science, geology, geography, or ecology

"Как стать инженером" - книга Кэрол Вондерман, которая научит детей основам инженерии. Эта книга поможет создать удивительные проекты с использованием предметов, которые есть в вашем доме: узнайте о материалах, измельчая рулоны туалетной бумаги, о реактивном движении с помощью воздушных шаров и о том, как собрать руку робота из линеек. Забавные вопросы, инженерные эксперименты и интересные факты сделают инженерию актуальной для детей • Книга на английском языке • Shortlisted for the Primary Teacher Update Award 2018 • Learn as you do in this hands-on engineering book for kids with Carol Vorderman • Being an engineer isn't just about wearing a hard hat and looking important while holding a clipboard! It's about looking at the world and trying to figure out how it works

From nose to tail and everything in between - this is your visual guide to understanding your four-legged friend! • When your dog looks at you with those big, expressive puppy-dog eyes, do you ever wonder what's going on in their fur-covered heads? This dog book will help you gain invaluable canine insight through quirky illustrations and infographics • The unique dog encyclopedia explores and explains the world of dogs! It includes • - The dog in pictures - with more than 500 original illustrations • - Encyclopedic in scope - covers dog behaviour, psychology, communication, history and dog breeds, as well as celebrity pups and record-breaking hounds • - Dog infographics that communicate facts and ideas in a fun way • - Witty language that will both inform and entertain readers

Create amazing videos and animations to upload to YouTube and share with your friends! • Dreaming of becoming the next Youtube sensation? Just love creating videos? Need to create a video journal for school? Discover the video-making process from script to screen, with tips and tricks to produce your own exciting projects at home • Video Ideas is your toolkit for making your own videos. Discover the best camera angles, how to edit footage, how to export and upload your video, and how to stay safe online. Will you film your own weather forecast? Make cookery videos? Capture your pet doing silly things? Or talk straight to the camera about your super skills? From choosing your costume to those all-important post-production tweaks, Video Ideas is everything you need to create the best videos ever

DK brings you a beautifully illustrated and engaging ocean encyclopedia to teach young readers all about what lies beneath! • Introducing How Deep is The Ocean? - A captivating kid's fact book set out to answer over 200 burning questions your child may have about the world's oceans, such as • Where do waves come from? How do icebergs float? Do fish sleep? • And many more! • A practical yet enticing guide to our world's waters, your child can dive straight in to discover • -5 neatly structured chapters, covering each key theme in great detail • -A diverse range of topics encompassing all aspects of ocean life • -Detailed diagrams and stunning photography of the world's oceans • -'Quick-quiz' boxes giving readers a chance to reflect and test their knowledge • Steve Setford takes you on an enticing journey to the bottom of the deep blue, to discover everything from tsunamis to shipwrecks; currents to coral reefs; the fiercest of sharks and so much more! • The ideal book for 7-9 year olds, this children's encyclopedia is a must-have volume for budding marine biologists, young oceanographers and those who wish to broaden their horizons on the impact of climate change on our oceans

Ideal for home learning, this simple and inspirational book has everything you need to get to grips with grammar and punctuation, and master essential reading and writing skills • Need help telling your adjectives from your adverbs? Struggling to work out what that poem is really about, or where to begin with your essay? Then this may be the book for you! How to be Good at English uses short, straightforward explanations and clear graphics to shed light on the trickiest of topics, making this language-learning book the perfect guide to understanding and using the English language • Illustrated examples make daunting grammar accessible and fun, and help develop an understanding that can be applied to school studies. Annotated texts complement concise, practical guidance to support students in developing sound analytical and writing skills

The first year of your puppy's life is an important one. This clear guide will help you through the essential training your puppy needs to be happy and healthy! • How to Train a Superpup offers a complete care programme to guide you from the very beginning of your partnership, including helpful advice on choosing the right breed for your family. Clear and simple text tells you everything you need to know about house training, socialisation, feeding, exercising, and vaccinating so that you can raise a healthy, happy puppy. And once you've both mastered the basics there are some fun tricks to teach your pup, too • Leading puppy trainer and behaviourist Gwen Bailey pioneers a uniquely holistic, natural, and positive approach to understanding puppy behaviour with step-by-step photography (including 'puppy-eye' views) to help explain basic obedience training more clearly than ever before

An in-depth look at the many clever and crazy ways that animals protect themselves from predators in the wild! • For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator's menu, and this book explores lots of cunning ways they avoid being eaten! • From camouflage and colour-changing, natural armour, playing dead, great escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting back, the range of survival tactics in the natural world is quite astonishing. How Not To Get Eaten is a brilliant introduction to the ingenious anti-predator strategies in the natural world • You can explore • -Features a wide variety of incredible animal defences from a wide variety of different species • -The science behind each animal defence mechanism is clearly explained through expertly written text and accompanying images • -Combines photography and illustrations • Discover how meerkats post sentries to guard their homes and possums play dead, to how mimic octopuses change their shape and bombardier beetles unleash a chemical weapon attack! This awe-inspiring animal is the only one of it's kind on the market! Whilst a lot of animal books focus on predators, this unique title provides an inspiring and detailed insight into the lives of prey