How Stuff Works - Hardcover

In Marshall Brain's trademark easy-to-understand language, complemented by beautiful full-color illustrations, you'll discover the basic mechanisms behind everything from toasters to turbochargers, dieting to DVD players, and cell phones to submarines.

Technology and scientific principles are all around you: whether in the chips needed to execute commands on your computer, or in determining how many calories you need to burn in order to lose five pounds. This exciting book explains— in a way you can easily grasp— how technology is a part of everyday life.

"How Stuff Works" contains:

• More than 135 articles written in Marshall Brain's award-winning style
• Hundreds of original color drawings that illuminate the incisive text
• "Cool Facts," "Did You Know?," and "And Another Thing..." sidebars that give you extra, insider information
• Color photographs

1999 50 Best of the Web — "Popular Science Magazine"

Best of the Web 2000 — Forbes Magazine

"A+" — "Washington Post Online"

Pick of the Week — Yahoo!

Super Site — TBS Superstation

1999 Reference Site of the Year — LibrarySpot.com

Have you ever wondered...

• How helicopters are able to fly sideways?
• Why you crave chocolate and caffeine?
• What stops a car when you step on the break pedal?
• Where email messages go after you press the Send button?

With this eye-opening book, you'll never look at a toaster, cell phone, or tattoo parlor the same way again!

• Hundreds of full-color illustrations and photos showing step-by-step images of how stuff works.
• More than 135 informative articles show you how the items you use every day work.
• All explained in Marshall Brain's trademark down-to-earth voice.