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Why? Why aren't these avid roller-coaster riders falling right off the track? What do watery ripples have in common with lasers, earthquakes, and sound? How do aerialists and athletes keep their balance? Explore some of the fascinating facts about that most marvelous machine -- the human body -- as it develops from a single cell into the world's most incredible entity. These and other eye-opening insights into the realms of science fill this lavishly illustrated book. Author Curt Suplee explains the natural laws that govern the everyday lives of us all clearly, concisely, accurately -- and with style.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
YA"Living, breathing" science information that encourages readers to explore their everyday existence in new ways, to stretch their minds over wide-ranging topics from the many mysterious forces surrounding them in the wider universe to the marvelous inner structures of the human body. While browsing through cartoons and old movie scenes along with meticulous diagrams, YAs will proceed at a merry pace, encouraged to move through the kaleidoscope of chemistry, physics, and biology. Cross-references keep opening up possibilities to explore the wonders of life in an ever-widening spiral. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Suplee's reader-friendly picture book takes a cleverly lighthearted and unfailingly effective approach to science by explaining such diverse phenomena as gravity, halogens, evolution, cellular structure, and perception in terms of everyday life. The illustrations, drawn from every imaginable source, including old movie stills (a scene featuring Laurel and Hardy helps dramatize inclined planes), sports photography, cartoons, and aerial views as well as original diagrams and drawings, set the tone and dominate every lively page spread. Suplee, science writer and editor for the Washington Post, is also a creative and vivid teacher, organizing complex material topically rather than according to formal scientific categories and mixing technical language with conversational syntax. An introduction to laser technology, for instance, begins with the line: "Getting light waves to cooperate with each other can be harder than herding cats," a disarming approach that leads to easy comprehension and makes this volume both a fine cover-to-cover read and eminently fun to browse in. --Donna Seaman