technology

Explores the many aspects of the science and art of making and using things.

Featuring photographs that illustrate and educate, this visual encyclopedia is packed with images that bring more than one million things to light.

Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.

Provides children with brightly colored illustrations accompanied by labels and simple text depicting the mechanics behind a variety of everyday items such as kites, bicycles, toilets, thermometers, and zippers. With cutaways and step-by-step diagrams, children will learn how straws work, flashlights produce light, and boats float. Includes a picture glossary of words to know.

Thirty-five-year-old Hazel walks out of her marriage to the powerful CEO of Gogol Industries--a monolithic corporation with questionable motives and unlimited resources--after her husband, Byron, demands she wear a microchip in her brain that will link the two permanently in the first ever mind-meld. As a response, Hazel moves in with her oddball father and his lifelike sex doll and tries to carve out a new life for herself away from the secure compound she came from and amongst a community of misfits. But Byron doesn't take her leaving lightly and will do anything it takes to get her back.

Using a sonar-driven app to make a fishing day with Dad more successful, Dot is challenged to rely on her father's old-school expertise when a giant fish swallows up her gadget and swims off with it.

"Tykotech City is a marvelous and peaceful place, filled with technology beyond anyone's wildest dreams. But as power cuts begin to plague the residents, and a sinister force infiltrates the city, the lives of the cityfolk are in terrible danger... It falls to Juniper Mae, a tiny, brave inventor, obsessed with the legends of the Guardian Knights, to overcome her fears and save her city. Can she embody the bravery of the Guardian Knights and invent some cool gadgets to save Tykotech City in time?"--Publisher marketing.

Learn how engineering affects our everyday lives, different types of engineers, what technology is, and much more.

This series explores controversial topics in science and technology by featuring informative essays, both pro and con, on the major theories, ethical questions and commercial applications of science from all disciplines. 3 volumes.

Explore the societal context of as well as the science behind Prehistory and Classical Period.