Bøker av John Farndon

The ultimate visual encyclopedia of rocks and minerals, including a detailed directory of 300 specimens.

Project Science

This brilliant book brings together over 30 of the fastest machines ever invented. With fantastic, true-to-life illustrations showcasing speedy supercars, spectacular superbikes, powerful planes and mighty monster trucks, Megafast is packed with incredible record-breaking vehicles. With bite-size facts and a 'dashboard' of statistics revealing each vehicle's maximum speed, engine power and much more, speed-lovers will find themselves entertained for hours.

A brilliant introduction to the human skeleton, muscles, and skin. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! Designed for even the most reluctant readers. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more STEM

A brilliant introduction to the brain, nervous system and senses, for young readers. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! Designed for even the most reluctant readers. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more STEMÂ

 A brilliant introduction to the human digestive systems, for young readers. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! From eating the food to turning it into poop and everything in-between. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more  STEM

A brilliant introduction to the respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems, for young readers. Packed with hilarious illustrations, funny and informative facts, and lots of giggle-worthy gross bits! Designed for even the most reluctant readers. Part of a fantastic four book series, introducing the science of the human body, to young readers. Hilarious illustrations and an engaging question-and-answer format with simple bite-size text and plenty of gross details, will keep the pages turning for more . STEMÂ

Medicine has seen some pretty grisly experimental efforts in the past in order to get where we are today. A tale of crushing failures, lucky guesswork and proper scientific study - mixed together with the just plain funny stuff that went on! It's a recipe for an awesome read. Revolting stories and toe-curling treatments are just cool things to know about.

102 BRILLIANT THINGS TO DO Expand your world, learn new skills, discover hidden talents, get to know nature, help other people, share ideas, feel good and have LOTS of fun with your friends (or on your own) with these 102 stimulating projects to do indoors and out.

Brain Benders is the ultimate test for your brain. It engages all your mental skills- imagination, mathematical, linguistic, lateral thinking and more. Amazing optical illusions, tricks and puzzles devised by one of the world's leading experts, that will get them thinking outside the box.

RECYCLED ART FROM OLD RUBBISH has projects that will inspire kids to become wildly creative. Create animals out of paper rolls and some happy hens from an egg box. Don't throw away cardboard boxes you can make a puppet show and put on a performance!

BRILLIANT BUGS We are completely outnumbered by insects on our planet. There are some pretty impressive records clocked up by the insect world that kids will want to know about. Mighty armies, shock tactics and cunning camouflage, ingenious methods of attack and defence, it's all here.

Sensational Science is packed with fun hands-on experiments with simple projects to do at home or at school. It's not magic but it seems like it! Make a balloon hovercraft or an early photographic device or maybe a toothbrush mini robot.

If Prehistoric Beasts Were Alive Today is an area of natural history not often written about but it is fresh and equally as exciting as the history of the dinosaurs. Preceding and surviving the dinosaurs, Prehistoric Beasts resemble some of the animals we see around today...only mega sized!

The Stickmen's Guide to the Body takes you on a fascinating journey around your entire body to show you how the circulation, nervous and digestive systems, and skeleton and muscles do their brilliant work all day, every day, just for you!

Go on an action-packed interactive journey through your body, bursting with super-cool facts, hands-on activities and flaps to lift. Illustrated step-by-step projects throughout encourage practical learning, and the spectacular central fold-out pages allow readers to really get under the skin of this important and fascinating subject.

Stickmen s Guide to Technology Find out how chocolate-flavoured strawberries could exist thanks to genetic modification, and how nanotechnology works. Discover what happens in a nuclear power station, how extreme weather is predicted, and how we can see into the infinity of space.

lague looks at the most frightening diseases and epidemics in the history of medicine. These include the bubonic plague or Black Death, its effects and how people tried to combat it. The king's evil was a kind of TB (symptoms were black lumps on the neck).

Extreme Earthquakes and Tsunamis These two extreme events are of course related, and are equal partners in this book. We explain the geology of earthquakes, along with the effects of a sequence of shocks; typical rescue operations and the technology used for these; and how earthquakes may be predicted and buildings made to withstand them.

Monster Trucks See the world from the cab of a Shockwave - powered by three jet engines, it is the world's fastest truck - the Banks Sidewinder Dodge Dakota, the Dodge Ram SRT10 pick-up and more. They can even race and leap!

Planes Discover the meaning of supersonic aircraft with the NASA Hyper X-43 scramjet, the NAA X-15 rocket plane, the Lockheed SR-71 and more. Learn what it means to break the sound barrier.

Superbikes Test ride the Lotus C-O1, the electric Lightning LS218, the Kawasaki H2R Ninja and more, to reach speeds up to 218 mph. Find out about racers, race tracks and engines.

From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions. How would you poison someone without the police finding out? (Medicine, Cambridge)What makes a strong woman? (Theology, Oxford)Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of IKEA run the country? (Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge)How do you organise a successful revolution? (History, Oxford)Whether you're interested in going to Oxbridge or just want to give your brain a workout, join polymath John Farndon on another exhilarating journey through the twists and turns of thought, and explore just what it means to be genuinely clever - rather than just smart.

Extreme Volcanoes takes a good all round look at volcanoes. Here we explain the geology behind eruptions, why, how and where they happen (including on the seabed), and the different types of devastation they can cause: loss of human life, livestock and harvests, damage to homes, transport, communications, etc.

How was the Universe created? Is the sun a star? Is there life beyond planet Earth? Discover the answers to all your galactic questions in the fascinating new series Exploring the Universe.

Where would humanity be now without fire, vaccinations, farming ... or wine? A great idea is one that has changed the path of human civilisation. But which is the greatest of them all? John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever?, has set out to find the answer. A distinguished panel of experts agreed on a list of 50 ideas, and each chapter of The World's Greatest Idea sees Farndon explore the argument for a different one. The candidates are intriguingly varied: Electricity grids enable us to power our cities, but then sewers allowed those cities to grow. Without the wheel, modern civilisation would be pretty much impossible, but take away Logic and we'd lose the essential structures for rational thought ... But then what would be the point of all of this without the idea of romance? The World's Greatest Idea is an enthralling voyage of discovery through the most powerful intellectual, social, scientific and creative brainwaves humans have ever had. They are ranked in the book determined by a public vote on www.theworldsgreatestidea.com But will you agree with the verdict?

What happens if I drop an ant?What books are bad for you?What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to each, taking the reader through the fascinating histories, philosophies, sciences and arts that underlie each problem. This is a book for everyone who likes to think they're clever, or who thinks they'd like to be clever. And cleverness is not just knowing stuff, it's how laterally, deeply and interestingly you can bend your brain. Guesstimating the population of Croydon, for example, opens a chain of thought from which you can predict the strength of a nuclear bomb ...and that's just the start of it.

With a population of 1 billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world. But while it is one of the world's oldest civilisations, China refuses to conform to expectations. The country's controversial policies, ranging from the one child policy to the repression of opposition groups, have placed it at odds with other world powers, and yet its influence in the world is growing ever stronger. We all need to know more about this fascinating country. John Farndon explores the changing face of modern China and its fundamental contradictions, as a communist state where business is booming, as a nation that continues to support North Korea even as it develops its relationships with the West. Getting to the heart of these and other inconsistencies, Farndon gives a fascinating introduction to the country as it is now and as it will be in the future, revealing how China's changing face will affect us all.