How Nature Works

What happens when you try to make the root of a seedling grow upwards? How can you find out what an owl had for supper? How Nature Works shows how to find the answers to these and hundreds more intriguing questions about the natural world and explains the significance of these answers in a clear and meaningful way.The home laboratoryObserving the world of nature is one of the most fascinating ways of understanding life on Earth. How Nature Works is a book that not only looks at the nature of the world it also shows how to uncover the amazing secrets of plants and animals using an exciting hands-on approach that will appeal to the whole family.The book explains how to create a "home laboratory" using simple and inexpensive everyday equipment and how to set up experiments and projects in the house or garden that are not only educational but safe and exciting to create great fun too.Learn as you experimentAll the experiments and projects have been planned by experts photographed "live" and are accompanied by step-by-step instructions. Informative and fascinating text links each experiment with the wider world of natural history past discoveries and the other sciences.This is a book for the whole family packed with ideas for exciting activities and full of amazing facts about the wonderful world around us.About the AuthorDavid Burnie studied Zoology and Botany at Bristol University in England. He has written and edited books on natural history conservation and other aspects of popular science including Bird Tree and Plant - three award-winning volumes in the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness series.About the seriesHow Nature Works is the second title in a series specially created for children and adults alike to bring the world of scientific discovery alive and make even the most daunting scientific principles easy to understand. Every book in the series is filled with "hands-on" experiments and projects designed to lead the reader to a clearer understanding of science in an exciting and original way - backed up by a lively clear text and filled with fascinating scientific facts.