New Releases by Nick Arnold

The Horrible Science Annual 2015 is crammed full of suffering scientists, amazing activities, explosive experiments and slimy games. Learn all the mind-blowing facts about bloody biology, frightful physics, chaotic chemistry from the award-winning series. It''s the annual with the squishy bits left in!

Killer Energy is full of the most crazy, gory and horrible facts about energy! Find out all the gruesome details of why space loos spray out frozen pee and which chilling chemical can preserve pets! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Frightful Flight is stuffed with hair-raising heights and mind-blowing facts about flying! Learn how to see the earth''s shadow, build a flying saucer, and how, after centuries of fearsome flight flops, people have finally taken to the skies. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Get ready for a deadly dose of excitement with Painful Poison. It''s bubbling with killer substances and will have all kinds of evil effects on you. Discover how you can turn your brother into a zombie slave and why you are breathing poison right now! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Discover a range of fearsome and fantastic features you didn''t even know you had in the Body Owner''s Handbook. Learn how your auto-repair function works and where your top-of-the-range sensory equipment is in the guide that no body can do without. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Go time-travelling with Terrible Time and discover all the terrifying time facts you''ve been waiting ages to find out. See what happens if you go too close to a black hole and how flies tell the time! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Bulging Brains is full of the most squishing, gooey and stinky facts about the human brain! It looks like a huge grey bogey or something you''d step in by mistake - but your incredible brain holds all your knowledge, dreams and feelings. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

Fatal Forces is packed with the most amazing things about physics. Readers can find out how gravity can make them lose their heads, how they can get walloped by a lamppost, what can make fillings explode and how to reach terminal velocity. Eeek! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

HORRIBLE SCIENCE: SPACE, STARS AND SLIMY ALIENS is bursting a space-hopping book of stunning science. Zoom to the stars with Oddblob the alien, and take part in a spacewalk that''s out of this world and learn what the moon smells like. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

Shocking Electricity is packed with sizzling zap-fillied facts to electrify every reader. Children can find out about the scientist who gave electric shocks to his eyeballs, that lightning can strike you with heat five times hotter than the sun and much more! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Evil Inventions is full of the most gruesome gadgets and murderous machines ever created. Discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel! Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of Horrible Science fans.

Packed with loud, noisy, wet and soggy experiments that are guaranteed to give kids an appetite for science. Found out who invented pong-free underpants, which strange scientists ate tadpoles and discover a revolting recipe for green slime. With crazy cartoons, queasy quizzes and a terrible term at Rotten Road School - it''s oozing with info!

HORRIBLE SCIENCE: BLOOD, BONES AND BODY BITS is a bone-chilling book of bodies to make kids squeal! Find out what happens when a boil bursts. See what lives in your eyelashes. Gulp at the workings of your disgusting digestion. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

NASTY NATURE is packed with the deadliest, most disgusting and nastiest things that nature has to offer. Only read on if you''re ready to find out: how vampire bats slurp blood, how to dodge a man-eating tiger and which Japanese fish dish can kill you. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

Forget fiendish formulas and take a look at bubbling mixtures, poisonous potions, bangs and blasts. Discover what substances lurk in your dinner, the sickening stench of the world''s worst stink bomb and which awful acids will eat you alive. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

Disgusting Digestion is full of the stinkiest, smelliest and most revolting facts about the human digestive system. Readers can find out which people used to eat their dead relatives, how food can painfully poison you and the sickening science of spew. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

Deadly Diseases coughs up all the disgusting details of the squelchiest sicknesses that mankind has suffered through. From the cruel common cold to shocking smallpox, see what happens when your body is attacked by germs! Find out which brave nurse drank diarrhoea, which scientist used eyeballs as food for bacteria, why deadly cholera makes your skin turn blue and how munching maggots can cure flesh diseases! With sickening sick notes, dreadful disease facts, and lots of vicious viruses to make you vomit, it''ll leave you gagging for more!

Kids'' passion for cars has always run fast and furious, and this interactive book and kit gives enthusiastic gearheads the opportunity to build the essential parts of a car easily and independently. Colorful and energetic, How Cars Work details the principles for ten basic car mechanisms and includes examples of their everyday use, helpful timelines detailing each part''s history, and straightforward instructions on how to build each mechanism. All of the materials needed to build each mechanism are contained within the kit, including machine pieces, nuts and bolts, and a detachable peg board—all color-coded for easy identification. The projects include: wheels, gear box, steering, exhaust valves, timing belt, pistons, suspension, accelerator pedal, and brakes. This follow-up to How Machines Work is hands-on and engaging, certain to inspire the DIY spirit in every child!

Find out all about teeth in this photographic information book - from baby teeth and adult teeth to using them and cleaning them. * Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. * Text type: A simple non-fiction book * Children can re-cap the stages of the book on pages 14-15. * Curriculum links: Science: Ourselves

Every child in school learns about simple and common machines such as inclined planes and pulleys, but rarely do they have the opportunity to build the machines themselves. In this colorful, interactive book and kit, the principles for 12 basic machines are described, supplemented by descriptions of everyday usefulness, timelines detailing their history, and instructions to build each machine solely with materials included in the kit. Everything that a budding inventor needs to build each of the machines is provided, including 25 machine pieces, 10 plastic nuts and bolts, and a detachable peg board—all color-coded for easy identification. Using the simple and direct instructions, kids can build each machine in minutes! The projects include: incline planes, levers, wheels and axles, gears (spur, compound, rack and pinion, and planetary), cams, cranks, pulleys, ratchets, and springs. Hands-on, interactive, and engaging, this kit will bring out the DIY and inventor spirit in every child.

From amazing Aristotle, to dithering Darwin, to incredible Isaac,and courageous Curie - they''re all in Suffering Scientists! The Horrible Science guide to the most influential scientists in history. Readers will discover brilliant breakthroughs, explosive experiments - and some feeble failures. They will find out what made Albert Einstein forget where he lived, which female scientist was chopped up into tiny pieces and why Galileo did a torturous strtch on the rack. With fantastic fact files, curious quizzes and Tony De Saulles'' crazy cartoon illustrations - science has never been so horrible!

Another informative, irreverent title in the Horrible Science series is just whatyoung, budding scientists need! Readers will get a jolt from this volume, whichexplores the world of electricity.Contained inside these covers are details about electric eels and how they can giveyou a shock, how electricity can keep your heart beating, and which scientist gaveelectric shocks to his own eyeballs! In addition to the facts, this book also includesquizzes, illustrations and an index for convenient browsing.

Readers will be fascinated to find out which scary surgeon stole a giant''s dead body and what Egyptians did with tortoise brains. With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.

Science with the squishy bits left in! The Fearsome Fight for Flight will send you sky-high! Are you in a flap to discover: * who put a parachute on a puppy? * why scientists fire dead birds from cannon? * what happened to the world''s first flying sheep? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go plane crazy. Laugh at some seriously silly flying stunts, find out which scientist was blown up in a balloon, and learn how to build a world-beating plane. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons The Fearsome Fight for Flight is a real high-flier! Science has never been so horrible!

Science with the squishy bits left in! Take a walk on the wild side with Angry Animals Dare you discover: * who made false teeth for an elephant? * where you can find dragons with bad breath? * which scientist ate a poisonous snake for dinner? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go on the hunt for the cruellest creature of them all. Get to grips with gruesome grizzly bears, wolf down some facts about, er, wolves and snap up some savage shark stories. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, Angry Animals is a book to sink your teeth into! Science has never been so horrible!

This updated edition of the UK''s best-selling Blood, Bones and Body Bits gives morethan a glimpse of the nasty side of science, by examining the facts of things thatkid''s really WANT to know, such as: where food goes after its eaten (ewww!) what happens when a boil bursts (EWWW!) why dead people need a haircut (what?) which animals live on our eyelashes (WHAT?) The ewww factor is high, but the fun factor is highest as this book explainseverything about the body--inside and out!

How much does your brain weigh? What makes your bodys cells explode? Why does your tummy rumble? This work contains shuffle-puzzles which help you discover the body facts hidden underneath!

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