Top Ten Best Inventions - April 2024

Klutz Lego Chain Reactions Science & Building Kit, Age 8

LEGO Chain Reactions is packed full of ideas, instructions, and inspiration for 10 LEGO machines that spin, swing, pivot, roll, lift, and drop. Each machine alone is awesome, but put them together and you get incredible chain reactions. Then, combine the machines in any order you like to create your own chain reactions. Our team of experts worked with educators and 11-year-olds to invent the machines, then wrote a book that teaches the skills (and some of the physics behind the fun) kids need to create their own amazing chain reaction machines.Our book includes 33 special LEGO elements that co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545703301
• UPC: 783324831351
• ASIN: 0545703301
• ISBN: 0545703301
• Brand: Klutz
• Size: 9" Length x 1.06" Width x 10" Height
• Manufacturer: Klutz Press

The Way Things Work Now

A New York Times Bestseller Explainer-in-Chief David Macaulay updates the worldwide bestseller The New Way Things Work to capture the latest developments in the technology that most impacts our lives. Famously packed with information on the inner workings of everything from windmills to Wi-Fi, this extraordinary and humorous book both guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines, and shows how the developments of the past are building the world of tomorrow. This sweepingly revised edition embraces all of the latest developments, from touchscreens to 3D printer. Each scientifi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544824385
• ASIN: 0544824385
• ISBN: 0544824385
• Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing   What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up? In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399563822
• ASIN: 0399563822
• ISBN: 0399563822
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Top 10 Moscow (DK Eyewitness Travel Guide)

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Moscow will lead you straight to the very best this city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of visually engaging Top 10 lists, from the Top 10 museums, churches and cathedrals, and socialist-era architecture to the Top 10 events and festivals, performing arts venues, distinctive Russian drinks, and more. There's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid. The guide is divided by area with restaurant reviews for... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1465410406
• ASIN: 1465410406
• ISBN: 9781465410405
• Manufacturer: DK Eyewitness Travel

How Things Work: Inside Out: Discover Secrets and Science Behind Trick Candles, 3D Printers, Penguin Propulsions, and Everything in Between

This is a book for all the curious kids whose parents won't let them take apart the family's brand new digital camera. The stuff around us has some pretty cool insides that we don't usually get to see. That's why National Geographic Kids is dissecting all kinds of things in How Things Work: Inside Out,! Read along as we dissect, explore, and explain how things do what they do. Complete with exciting diagrams and illustrations, accessible explanations, trivia, and fun features, How Things Work: Inside Out explains cell phones, 3D printers, lava lamps, skyscrapers, and everything in between!

• ASIN: 142632877X
• ASIN: 142632877X
• ISBN: 142632877X
• Brand: National Geographic Books
• Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) 3 (National Geographic Kids)

More fun than a barrel of monkeys and more interesting than reality TV-- this brain candy-filled book is an explosion of information about sensational topics kids love: royalty, gravity, bioluminescence, sloths, wildfires, bubblegum, cars, breakfast, aliens, you name it! It's a fantastic, fact-filled edition with all-new info on hundreds of topics, and the same great design that captures kids' attention and keeps them yearning for more.

• ASIN: 1426324529
• ASIN: 1426324529
• ISBN: 1426324529
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

The New York Times #1 best-selling series. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.   A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.   The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594749310
• ASIN: 1594749310
• ISBN: 1594749310
• Brand: QUIRK
• Manufacturer: Quirk Books

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period. Here is the bittersweet tale of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316076201
• ASIN: 0316076201
• ISBN: 0316076201
• Brand: Malcolm Gladwell
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the prese... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385353421
• ASIN: 0385353421
• ISBN: 0385353421
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Uncle John's Top 10 of Everything 2019

Trivia lovers will rejoice upon discovering the best of everything the world has to offer.You don’t know what you don’t know until you open the pages of Uncle John’s Top 10 of Everything 2019, from pop culture guru Paul Terry. Loaded with more than 300 pages of the biggest, fastest, oldest, and most extreme of all sorts of fascinating stuff, this up-to-date edition is sure to entertain. Be prepared to discover the biggest spiders, the most successful Olympians, the tallest roller coasters, the best-selling video games, and the YouTube channels with the most subscribers. From geography to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 168412574X
• ASIN: 168412574X
• ISBN: 168412574X
• Manufacturer: Portable Press

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONA lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.   Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers?  Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that ha... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MXV2YGI
• ASIN: B01MXV2YGI
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic's Challenges to Christianity

The Problem of God is written by a skeptic who became a Christian and then a pastor, all while exploring answers to the most difficult questions raised against Christianity. Mark grew up in an atheistic home, and after his father's death, began a skeptical search for truth through exploring science, philosophy, and history, asking the big questions of life, and eventually finding answers in Christianity.In a disarming, winsome, and persuasive way, The Problem of God responds to the top ten questions people raise against God, and Christianity, including, among others:The Problem of ScienceThe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0310535220
• UPC: 025986535223
• ASIN: 0310535220
• ISBN: 9780310535225
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Zondervan

The Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur Collection: Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur; Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Stink Spectacular; Billy Sure Kid ... Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Best Test

Join Billy Sure and his best friend, Manny Reyes, on inventing adventures filled with hilarity in the first four books in the Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur series, now available in one zany boxed set!It sure is good to be Billy Sure these days. Along with his best friend and business partner, Manny Reyes, Billy runs Sure Things, Inc., and their first product, the All Ball (a ball that turns into different sports balls with the push of a button), is flying off the shelves. But while being a superstar inventor is super fun, it isn’t always super easy. Every day Billy must navigate school, homewo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1481499572
• ASIN: 1481499572
• ISBN: 1481499572
• Brand: SIMON SPOTLIGHT
• Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight

Mistakes that Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be

• ASIN: B004CFAZIG
• ASIN: B004CFAZIG
• Brand: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Silly Facts for Silly Kids. : Fun trivia book for children age 4-9

SILLY FACTS FOR SILLY KIDS is a children's fact book containing loads of silly facts with illustrations. Silly Willy returns with another book to the popular the Silly Series! In this book you will discover fun facts about dogs, horses, giraffes, dolphins, dinosaurs, in fact, all sorts of animals! There are also fun, crazy, odds facts about history, the universe, UFOs, ancient pyramids, and mysterious unicorns!Kids will be amazed and sharing silly facts with everyone in no time! Ideal for travelling families or those who need some entertainment and trivia on the school holidays! This famil... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0711BFYY2
• ASIN: B0711BFYY2
• Manufacturer: Banana BBQ

10 best of everything national parks: 800 top pick - paperback: 9781426207341

Covers national historical parks, monuments and battlefields, and scenic trails and features lists including the best lodges, hippest hikes, and most stunning star-gazing sites, as well as park-ranger anecdotes and travel

• UPC: 14703430
• Rating: 4.0

The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments : Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine

Lyme Disease is one of the most stubborn, treatment-resistant infections in the world. It is also spreading repidly on all continents with more than 200,000 new cases per year in the United States alone. Recent

• UPC: 6098176

Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10) (Hardcover)

"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut

• UPC: 44516648
• Color: Multicolor
• Rating: 4.61

Top Disney : 100 Top Ten Lists of the Best of Disney, from the Man to the Mouse and Beyond

There is not a person on Earth who hasn’t come into contact with Disney in some way. Whetherseeing a Disney film, hearing a Disney song, recognizing a Disney character or visiting a Disneypark, the company’s

• UPC: 816366822

10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse : Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 10 Days!

Recommends a ten-day cleansing diet for health and weight loss based on drinking green smoothies made from leafy greens and fruit juices and offers recipes for smoothies and advice on maintaining improvements when the ten

• UPC: 38310494
• Rating: 4.82

The Top 10 Things You Must Know About Hiring the Best - eBook

Skills, facts, strategies, techniques…whatever it takes! FT Press’s quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!   Supercharge your workforce with these 10

• UPC: 268373147

The 2012 Best Book On Top Ten MBA Admissions (Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford GSB, Northwestern, & More) - eBook

Our Elite MBA Insiders Share Their Secrets To Getting Into HBS, GSB, Wharton & More!We know exactly how you feel. We've been through the grueling and stressful admissions process. As successful applicants to HBS, GSB,

• UPC: 963450882

The Best Book On Top Ten MBA Admissions - eBook

Everyone's got an opinion on applying to bschool. A Google search returns 400 THOUSAND results for "how to get into hbs". Most of them are free blogs and forums. You've probably come across dozens of

• UPC: 527065429

Dinosaur Drawing Pad for Kids: Best Gifts for Age 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Year Old Boys and Girls - Great Art Gift, Top Boy Toys and Books

Dinosaur Drawing Pad for Kids: Best Gifts for Age 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Year Old Boys and Girls - Great Art Gift, Top Boy Toys and

• UPC: 255369743

Operationalizing Information Security: Putting the Top 10 SIEM Best Practices to Work - eBook

Applying a top 10 best practices approach to leverage security information event management (SIEM), this e-book offers infosec professionals the means to gain more assured value from SIEM. Whether seeking to streamline incident response, automate

• UPC: 917148583