Showing posts with label Eduard Altarriba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eduard Altarriba. Show all posts
Monday, 20 January 2020
"Discovering Energy (Discovering Big Ideas Series)" by Professor Veronica Sanz, Johannes Hirn and Eduard Altarriba (Button Books)
"Discovering Energy" by Professor Veronica Sanz, Johannes Hirn and Eduard Altarriba uses simple - but not dumbed down - language and engaging illustrations to help kids discover all the ways in which energy is generated and used in our daily lives.
Creating and harnessing energy is a fundamental part of enabling life to exist and thrive on earth.
Energy comes in a vast array of different forms - using our muscles and those of other creatures, enabling us to move, lift etc, creating heat and steam through fire, capturing the power of the wind in a ship's sails or to turn the blades of a wind turbine, harnessing the power of moving water to generate electricity in a hydroelectric power station, applying the forces of magnetism to turn an electric motor, using solar panels to transfer the sun's energy into electricity for our homes (Phew! And that's just for starters!)
The book brings these amazing achievements to life in a totally absorbing and engaging way, making science feel more accessible, and perhaps inspiring youngsters to become young scientists themselves.
Sum this book up in a sentence: A fantastic book that delves deep into the subject of how we create, distribute and use energy every day, at school, in our homes and everywhere!
"Discovering Energy" by Professor Veronica Sanz, Johannes Hirn and Eduard Altarriba is out now, published by Button Books (kindly supplied for review).
Monday, 2 September 2019
"Discovering Architecture" by Eduard Altarriba and Berta Bardi I Mila (Button Books)
But with "Discovering Architecture" by Eduard Altarriba and Berta Bardi I Mila, you'll learn how the first human settlers began to move out of their caves and treetop habitats, and began constructing their own first free-standing structures.
But who built the first houses?
What's the difference between an arch and an architrave?
How does a dome stay up?
Who invented concrete? Can you build a house from paper?
This entertaining illustrated guide is a perfect introduction to architecture around the world for kids who love thinking about buildings as much as we do.
From the mud huts of ancient history to today's towering edifices, you can explore iconic buildings and find out more about the people who created them. You'll also discover the development of different building materials, from mud and straw to paper, steel and reinforced concrete.
Sum this book up in a sentence: Fascinating stuff from a hugely talented team with simple but effective descriptions, and gorgeous cutaway illustrations to show the inner workings of buildings and how they stand tall century after century.
Thursday, 9 May 2019
Fresh off their success last year with "My First Book of Quantum Physics by Seddad Kaid-Salah Ferron and Eduard Altarriba (Button Books)", Seddad and Eduard are back with "My First Book of Relativity" published by Button Books.
It's never too early to start exploring big ideas.
"My First Book of Relativity" introduces complex science to children through bright illustrations and amusing text.
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the cornerstones of modern physics but it requires a total rethink of our notions of time and space.
Strange things happen in a relative universe: length and time are not fixed and depend upon your frame of reference. If you move at high speed, time slows down, space contracts and weight increases.
So a period of time for someone on Earth that lasts for hundreds of years may only be a couple of hours for someone travelling in a rocket close to the speed of light.
It's mind-boggling stuff, but the theory of relativity has a real impact on our world today. A car's GPS navigation system, for example, uses information received from orbiting satellites and is designed to account for the fact that time ticks at a different rate on these satellites than it does on the ground.
Without allowing for relativity's effects, after just a day, your whereabouts according to GPS could be up to 8km from your actual location! (Hey, ours seems to do that anyway, or is that just us?)
Sum this book up in a sentence: Brilliantly detailed, yet kid friendly, with loads of awesome cartoonish illustrations to make some pretty mind-bogglingly complicated concepts seem easy, this is another fab slice of science.
"My First Book of Relativity" by Kaid-Salah Ferron Sheddad and Eduard Altarriba is out now, published by Button Books (kindly supplied for review).
Monday, 9 April 2018
My First Book of Quantum Physics by Seddad Kaid-Salah Ferron and Eduard Altarriba (Button Books)
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