How Stuff Works - Couverture rigide

Brain, Marshall

 
9780764565182: How Stuff Works
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0764565184 ISBN 13 : 9780764565182
Editeur : Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

"A+" Entertainment Weekly 1999 50 Best of the Web Popular Science Magazine Best of the Web 2000 Forbes Magazine "A+" Washington Post Online Pick of the Week Yahoo! Super Site TBS Superstation 1999 Reference Site of the Year LibrarySpot.com Have you ever wondered...How helicopters are able to fly sideways?Why you crave chocolate and caffeine?What stops a car when you step on the break pedal?Where email messages go after you press the Send button?In this definitive, generously illustrated guide, Marshall Brain and the experts at the award-winning Web site HowStuffWorks.com explain the magic behind everyday items and processes. You'll learn what the Internet really is, how airplanes stay up and submarines stay down, what GPS is and why you might need it, and how a whole film can be captured on a tiny DVD.With this eye-opening book, you'll never look at a toaster, cell phone, or tattoo parlor the same way again!Hundreds of full-color illustrations and photos showing step-by-step images of how stuff works.More than 135 informative articles show you how the items you use every day work.All explained in Marshall Brain's trademark down-to-earth voice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marshall Brain (yes, that is his real name!) is the founder and CEO of HowStuffWorks, Inc. A published author with more than a dozen books to his name, including the popular The Teenager's Guide to the Real World, Marshall began HowStuffWorks.com as a hobbya way to learn more about the world and to share that knowledge with online readers. Today, the company has expanded to include magazines, kids clubs, and book. Marshall lives just outside Raleigh, NC, with his wife Leigh, son David, and daughter Irena.

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Éditeur
Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0764565184
ISBN 13 
9780764565182
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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