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Learn about how a backhoe is operated.

Learn how a tower crane is operated.

What do insects eat? Do insects have bones? Buzz through the chapters of this book to learn all about insects.

Entdecker, Erfinder und Visionäre zum Hören greifbar - die spannende und unterhaltsame Wissensreihe Abenteuer & Wissen. Ohne ihn würde es heute wahrscheinlich keine Elektro-Motoren geben: Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts machte Nikola Tesla durch seine genialen Einfälle den Strom transportfähig und die Elektrizität damit massentauglich. Nebenbei erfand er die kabellose Radioübertragung und setzte alle seine Bemühungen in den Dienst der Menschheit. Doch mit vielen seiner Ideen war er seiner Zeit meilenweit voraus, was ihm das Leben nicht leichter machte.

Shock your imagination with a hands-on introduction to electronic circuits. Step-by-step instructions will jump-start your electronic knowledge. You'll be lighting up your imagination with possibilities.

Alien abductions? Mysterious lights in the sky? Could these events actually be the work of extra terrestrials? Get the facts about the top ten UFO and alien mysteries of all time.

Bridges, towers, castles, and all sorts of iconic and bizarre structures are jam-packed into Totally Amazing Facts About Stuff We've Built.

Dragonflies aren’t like other insects. These creatures are truly dazzling! Listeners will learn about 12 different species of dragonflies, each of which has unusual and unexpected colors and patterns. Information about life cycles, habitats, and body parts is included.

Zombies rise from the dead. Some organisms in nature seem to do so as well. Listeners will learn about the creatures that shouldn’t be alive but are.

Many people think penguins live only in cold, icy places. But the Galapagos penguins live in the blazing heat of the tropics. While this may seem like paradise, the Galapagos penguins are always on the lookout for ways to stay cool and comfortable. Learn more about these adorable animals, including how they got to the tropics, what they eat, other challenges they face in their lives, and what you can do to help.

Curious listeners want to know how things work. Easy-to-understand explanations explain how water gets to and from our homes and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

Everything a young listener needs to know about head lice: what it is, how it happens, what the symptoms are, and how it is treated. The audiobook also presents real-life stories of kids who experience head lice.

Why do aquatic frogs spend the winter buried in mud? Why do garter snakes coil together in dens? Animals hibernate in some unique ways. Discover the amazing ways hibernating animals spend the winter.

Why does a football spiral? How do some athletes jump so high? The answer is science! The Secret Science of Sports helps kids better understand concepts of science, technology, engineering, and math through the sports they love to play and watch. Every sport -- from baseball to basketball, to...

Discover how to train your brain and become the best you can be in this empowering and inclusive guide by the nation's favourite doctor, Dr Ranj. Brains don't look like much, do they? A touch of slime here, some squishy grey stuff there. But in fact, your brain is more powerful than any...

What exactly is an avalanche? Why do tropical cyclones spin in different directions? What is the deadliest heat wave ever to have been recorded? And what are the three different types of lightning? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Andrew Baldwin answers all these questions and more as he talks us through over 100 amazing facts about the world's deadliest natural disasters.

Als der Russe Jurij Gagarin am 12. April 1961 als erster Mensch ins All startete, begann eins der aufregendsten Abenteuer unserer Geschichte. Der spektakuläre Pionierflug, bei dem Gagarin in 108 Minuten die Erde umkreiste, leitete das Zeitalter der bemannten Raumfahrt ein. Er begeisterte und faszinierte die Menschen überall auf der Welt und löste darüber hinaus einen beispiellosen Wettstreit aus.

In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker - both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk, who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, into the blizzard.

Shoot back in time 4.5 billion years to see how planet Earth was formed and then leap into the future to see what happens when stars die. Everything has a beginning and an end, but what happens in between? Meet dolphins jumping in the ocean waves, penguins travelling on the ice and butterflies fluttering in the sky. You'll take a closer look at the life cycles of environments, too. Discover how a river forms and changes over time. Find out how a tree grows and all of the other life cycles it supports within it. See the amazing sculptures the oceans make out of cliffs.  

Biology is all about you, living things and the rest of the natural world. Learn all about your amazing body and more than 1,000 parts that keep it going. Chemistry presents an explosive look at the tiny atoms that build together to create all the brilliant things in the world today. Physics introduces the full force of everything, from electricity and energy to magnetism and machines.