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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Childhood has always had a home - and it's often been the playground.From humble sand piles in the late 19th century to high-tech, climate-resilient, inclusive spaces in the 21st, playgrounds tell a story about more than fun. They reveal how societies view children, balance risk and safety, and build community.In Swings & Slides: Playgrounds and the Way They Shaped Childhood Around the World, you'll discover: - Origins & Social Impact - How sand gardens in Boston sparked a nationwide movement.- Design Revolutions - The rise (and near fall) of daring adventure playgrounds.- Safety & Standards - How CPSC and ASTM guidelines transformed play equipment and surfacing.- Inclusion & Accessibility - The push to create playgrounds for all abilities.- Global Perspectives - How culture shapes playground design from Scandinavia to Japan.- Future Trends - Nature play, climate resilience, and the role of technology in tomorrow's playgrounds.Perfect for history lovers, educators, designers, parents, and anyone who's ever swung from a set of monkey bars, this engaging, fully illustrated history blends cultural insight with playful storytelling.Whether you're looking back with nostalgia or forward with inspiration, Swings & Slides will change the way you see a space that has shaped generations.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the first seeds to space farms-discover the amazing story of farming!Have you ever wondered how your food gets from the ground to your plate Growing Food: The History of Farming for Curious Kids - From Seeds to Space Farms is a fun and fascinating journey through time, showing how farming has shaped our world.Kids will explore: - The First Farmers - how planting seeds changed everything.- River Farms & Castles - from Egypt to medieval Europe.- New Foods Crossing Oceans - potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate, and more!- Machines & Tractors - how farms became factories.- Dust Storms & Super Seeds - hard times and big breakthroughs.- Farms Today - GPS tractors, drones, and rooftop gardens.- Future Farms - vertical towers, lab-grown burgers, even potatoes on Mars!Includes 10 hands-on activities & experiments: build a mini vertical farm, create a dust storm in a bowl, bake ancient flatbread, and more!Perfect for readers ages 6-8, this book is written in kid-friendly language with colorful sidebars, fun facts, and inspiring stories. Whether your child loves history, science, or just wants to know where their pizza comes from, Growing Food makes learning fun, exciting, and unforgettable.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tiny Titans: Discover the Particles That Make Up the Universe - A Science Adventure for Curious KidsBy [Author Name]Get ready to shrink down to the tiniest levels of existence-where particles dance, atoms build everything you see, and mysteries of the universe unfold like magic.Tiny Titans is the ultimate kid-friendly guide to the invisible world inside us all. Aimed at curious minds ages 8 to 12, this science adventure blends fascinating facts with imaginative storytelling to introduce readers to the real stars of the universe: electrons, quarks, photons, neutrinos, and more.Follow the journey of discovery as scientists unravel one mind-blowing mystery after another-from the first glimpse of an electron to the search for dark matter. With vibrant explanations, real scientist spotlights, and a sense of cosmic wonder, this book makes subatomic science feel like an epic adventure.Perfect for classrooms, home learning, STEM-loving kids, or any reader who's ever looked up at the stars and wondered what makes everything tick.Inside You'll Explore: - The particles that make up all matter-and how they fit together- Famous scientists and the discoveries that changed everything- Antimatter, cosmic rays, and particles from exploding stars- The tools scientists use to uncover the invisible- What we still don't know-and why it mattersWhether you're a future physicist or just full of questions, Tiny Titans will show you a universe you've never seen before.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From ancient meadows to AI-managed stadiums - the complete history of the world's playing surfaces.Every match, every point, every goal begins with the same thing: the ground beneath our feet. Yet the story of that ground - how it's prepared, perfected, and preserved - has never been told like this.In Flawless Fields & Glorious Grounds: A History & Evolution of Grass & Artificial Playing Surfaces, you'll discover how sports surfaces transformed over centuries: - The Early Days - from rough commons and village greens to the first carefully mown cricket pitches.- The Science of Turf - Piper & Oakley, the USGA Green Section, and the rise of turfgrass research.- Engineering the Ground - drainage, root-zone design, irrigation, and the PAT system revolution.- Synthetic Breakthroughs - from ChemGrass and the Astrodome to FieldTurf and beyond.- Hybrid Marvels - stitching synthetic fibers into living grass for the best of both worlds.- Sustainability & Technology - climate-proof grasses, eco-friendly infills, and intelligent monitoring systems.- Iconic Venues - Wimbledon, Lambeau Field, Wembley, the MCG, and more.You'll meet the inventors, scientists, and groundskeepers who quietly changed the way games are played - and see how mega-events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics became testing grounds for turf innovation.With vivid storytelling, historical depth, and a touch of humor, this book brings to life the artistry, science, and engineering that turn fields into flawless stages for sport.Whether you're a sports historian, a fan of great stadiums, or simply fascinated by the hidden world beneath the game, Flawless Fields & Glorious Grounds will change the way you look at every pitch, court, and field you see.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of us is enormous. The rest of us are rounding errors.The Solar System has been here for four and a half billion years. It was present for all of it - the collapse, the fire, the crashing, the long slow settling. And it understood almost none of it.Then something opened its eyes on the third planet and started asking questions.This is the Solar System's own story, told in its own voice - warm, funny, and endlessly curious about the strange species that finally figured out where it came from and told it.Inside, young readers will find out: - Why Earth has a Moon, and why that was the worst day in its history - and the luckiest- How the giant planets got up and moved, and why Mars ended up small because of it- Where every drop of the ocean came from, and how we can tell- Why Venus and Earth started out identical and ended up nothing alike- How you can measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing a laser off a mirror left there by hand- Where the Solar System actually ends - and why there are three defensible answersThis book tells the truth about what isn't known. When scientists disagree - about the bombardment, about what tipped Uranus over, about whether Venus ever had oceans - it says so plainly, and explains both sides. Young readers come away understanding that science is an argument that gets better over time, not a list of facts to memorize.Twenty chapters. Twenty-two diagrams and illustrations. Plus a glossary, a timeline, a section on how we know every major claim in the book, and a list of things a curious kid can go outside and see tonight without a telescope.Factual. Apolitical. Genuinely funny.Ages 8-11 - Grades 3-6.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The theory of the lens was finished in 1021. Nobody built a telescope for another six hundred years.In Cairo, Ibn al-Haytham established how light travels and how curved glass bends it. In Baghdad, a generation earlier, Ibn Sahl had already set down the law of refraction - six centuries before Snell derived it in Leiden. The mathematics existed. The manuscripts survived, were translated into Latin, and were printed and taught across Europe.And nothing happened, until 1608, when a spectacle-maker in a small Dutch port put two lenses in a tube and could not have told you why it worked.This book is an argument about that gap - and about a material almost nobody thinks of as an instrument.Glass is the only substance available before the nineteenth century that is simultaneously transparent, chemically inert, sealable, heat-tolerant, and dimensionally stable. That combination is why the founding apparatus of quantitative science - the flask, the sealed tube, the barometer, the prism - is all made of the same thing.Through the Glass follows it: - Why a Roman price-fixing edict listing glass by the pound matters more than the Portland Vase- How Venice built a two-century monopoly on knowledge that could not be written down, and why the monopoly that protected it also froze it- Why the spectacle trade - and therefore the telescope - was created by the printing press- How a philosopher in 1835 chose the composition of the stars as his example of the permanently unknowable, and was refuted within a generation by a former glassmaker's apprentice- Why glass is now being asked to hold nuclear waste for longer than writing has existedAnd then it argues against itself. The closing chapters state the case for the prosecution at full strength: that the whole enterprise is Eurocentric by construction, that its central counterfactual cannot be tested, that the great divergence happened far later and for entirely different reasons, and that printing and institutions may do most of the explanatory work. Two of those charges are conceded without an answer. One of them costs the book a claim it was fond of.For readers of Stuff Matters, Salt, and The Great Divergence - and for anyone who has ever wondered how much of what we know was decided by what our ancestors happened to be able to make.…