Marshall Brain's - MORE How STUFF Works!

A totally cool book - Have you ever wondered how a plasma TV works? How about a CD burner? Wonder how exactly light works? Or solar cells? Cloning? Mummies? How do comets work? Or the Hubble Space Telescope? This super cool book contains more than 130 different articles and hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations and full color photos and fun facts and sidebars. In this full-color follow-up to the bestselling How Stuff Works, Marshall Brain travels inside your computer, to the depths of diamond mines, across the African plains, and on board an Apache helicopter to explain the magic behind how stuff works. Chapters include Science, Space, Nature, Heavy Equipment, Internet and Radio, Police Military and Defense, Around the Office, Around the House, Health Help, In Public, and Let's Play. This book is your A-to-Z guide to PDAs, MRIs, LEDs, and dozens of other intriguing topics! With More How Stuff Works, you'll never again look the same way at a car wash, clothes dryer, or electronic scanner. Hardcover, 320 pages.