WavesHave you ever wondered why a prism turns ordinary sunlight into a rainbow? Isaac Newton knew why. How can a magnet be used to generate electricity? Michael Faraday could have told you. Can you explain how a toaster toasts bread? In this book, author Paul Fleisher answers these and many more questions as he looks at the laws that describe how waves behave. Through simple experiments, detailed illustrations and concepts that are easy to understand,

Horton discovers something that at first seems impossible: a tiny speck of dust contains an entire miniature world-- Who-ville--complete with houses and grocery stores and even a mayor

But its intensity and resonance of feeling

"-- The Nation

was one half of the Grimm Brothers

If a species that normally does

In 2002 she founded LüSa Organics

as trees in the shadows are blocked from light

and tiny Jack chased by a giant large enough to take up nearly an entire spread

★ "An exceptionally crafted visual biography of a pioneering entomologist and naturalist who lived a life devoted to discovery

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