Experiments & Projects

Bored of the same old dinner-party chitchat? Spice up your soirees, impress your guests and show up your brother-in-law with Dangerous Experiments for After Dinner, a book full of hilarious, and sometimes dangerous, after-dinner tricks and challenges...

Designing with living materials: thoughts on the paradigm shift and an overview of the state of research What is "Bioprotopia"? It is a vision of a world with buildings that grow, self-heal and create virtuous cycles where waste from one process feeds...

Illustrator, musician and self-described "comic stripper" Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day, the artist...

Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build...

Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the...

Make: High-Power Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. Starting with an overview of mid- and high-power...

Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments. 'What a magnificent book. It's gorgeous, playful, and draws you in.' ?Adam Savage, cohost of Mythbusters...

The mind behind the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes presents an addictive collection of improbable research all about us - and you Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and outs...

You don't have to be a genius to create these ingenious contraptions, you just need rubber bands, glue, paperclips, and Rubber Band Engineer, of course. Shooting far, flying high, and delivering way more exciting results than expected are the goals of...

The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big...

From pseudoscience to incorrect assumptions and unfounded belief, science hasn't always been right...Contrary to recent debate on the internet, nowadays we are fairly confident that the earth is not flat and that we are in fact inhabitants of a spherical...

Bestselling author Theodore Gray has spent more than a decade dreaming up, executing, photographing, and writing about extreme scientific experiments, which he then published between 2009 and 2014 in his monthly Popular Science column "Gray Matter."...

Are you fed up losing at family board game nights? Do you want to learn how to destroy the competition?Get the inside tips from preposterously overqualified experts on how to win a range of common family games, board games and more. * A mime artist...

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740391Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812966602Author Ken SilversteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint...

From Simon & Schuster, Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s is Herman Kahn's revisiting of the classic work on nuclear war.Herman Kahn's brilliant, original thoughts on nuclear war generated widespread controversy following the 1962 publication of...

If you're taking a basic course in classical physics, or have a healthy curiosity for the way things work in the physical world, the Illustrated Guide to Home Physics Experiments provides an ideal hands-on introduction to physics lab techniques and data...

Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?The book begins with an historical survey of the...

Around the globe, DIYers are building an infrastructure out of low cost sensors, cheap computers, and cloud-based data sharing. One of the most important environmental conditions to monitor is the quality of the atmosphere. Atmospheric Monitoring With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544795Author Sandra C. GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements-nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and...

Learn how monitoring the night sky, mapping trees, photographing dragonflies, and identifying mushrooms can help save the world. Citizen science is the public involvement in the discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve...

'This brief book offers an interesting, fun, and widely accessible first-person tour of CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. The facilities at CERN include the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),...

'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning CopenhagenIn 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544382Author Greg GageFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Can any hobbyist build a satellite? Our DIY guide steps you through designing and building a base picosatellite platform tough enough to withstand launch and survive in orbit. If you have basic maker skills, you can build a space-ready solar-powered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989151184Author Josh BurkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Constructing Modern Knowledge PressPublisher Constructing Modern Knowledge...

If you're a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 2 provides fully illustrated step-by-step instructions for building 30 different spy weapons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278821Author Michio KakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The science behind, "But, why?"Don't get caught off guard by your kids' science questions! You and your family can learn all about the ins and outs of chemistry, biology, physics, the human body, and our planet with Dad's Book of Awesome Science...

Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments. 'What a magnificent book. It's gorgeous, playful, and draws you in.' ?Adam Savage, cohost of Mythbusters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800654Author Rachelle DoorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Roost BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556529535Author John AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella Books

Utilizing easy-to-find and inexpensive materials, this handy resource teaches desktop warriors how to build a multitude of medieval siege weapons for the modern era. Novice combatants will learn to build 35 defense weapons, including a marshmallow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486417387Author Bohren BohrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"This is an engaging and informative book on the modern practice of experimental design. The authors' writing style is entertaining, the consulting dialogs are extremely enjoyable, and the technical material is presented brilliantly but not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462121670Author Jennifer K ClarkFormat PaperbackImprint Plain Sight PublishingPublisher Plain Sight PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 249mm *...

Learn how to safely build projects that burn, poof, "boosh," and flare! This complete reference and hands-on guide to working with propane explains how to create a variety of flame effects projects that can be built with common tools and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741217445Author Glen SingletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hinkler BooksPublisher Hinkler Books