Horrible Science is getting a make-over! Readers will discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel. With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.
Explores the functions of the nervous system, focusing on the funny, fascinating, and horrible aspects. Examples include: what a fresh brain really smells like, why chopping your brain in half needn't be fatal, and whether girls or boys are smarter. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary
Science with twice the squishy bits! Want to know which scientist gave electric shocks to his eyeballs? Which chilling chemical can preserve your pets? What happens when you touch an electric eel? 'Killer Energy' will leave you jumping for more! Find out how stodgy dinners power your body and why steaming manure can warm you up. 'Shocking Electricity' will blow your fuse! Discover why magnets help birds fly and get to grips with the electric wobbling toilet seat. With fantastic fact files and quirky quizzes, teacher tests and crazy cartoons, this terrible twosome is sizzling with info! Science has never been so horrible!
The Horrible Science series is not for the squeamish, featuring as it does some of the less pleasant aspects of science. This grisly book focuses on illness and diseases.
This is the first "Horrible Science" book to tackle the issues of global warming, and climate What are the sickening secrets of gruesome greenhouse gases? Which is the deadliest toxic waste? Will the Earth make it to the year 2100?
Half BEE. Half BOY. Melvin Meadly is . . . BEE BOY! When a strange sickness bug strikes at school, Mel has his suspicions - could this have something to do with the new kid, Berty Crump? More questions arise when Mel and his bees discover a factory in the woods with giant flowers, chemical spraying drones, beekeepers in metal suits, and worse of all . . . ZOMBEEZ! The highly entertaining story of an unlikely superhero, full of fantastic facts, and illustrated in black and yellow!
Explores the world of sound, focusing on the funny, fascinating and horrible aspects. Suggested level: primary
Are you buzzing to discover how an electric eel can give you a nasty shock?; why electricity keeps your heart beating?; or which scientist gave electric shocks to his eyeballs? Using fact files and quizzes, teacher tests and cartoons, discover the shocking facts about electricity.
Reissue with 16 pages of extra material, including an index.
This reference book is filled with weird and wonderful facts about survival and extinction. Go back millions of years to find out about insects as big as birds and fish with teeth, why you could be related to a chimp, and which incredible creatures are still being discovered.
