Readers' imaginations will be fired on every page with this wonderful single-volume science encyclopedia. The book is arranged thematically into five core topics: Numbers and Shapes; The Way the World Works; The World of Materials; Living Things and Space. A range of informative and interactive features perfectly enhance and consolidate each reference section.

 

This book is part of a book series called Everything You Need To Know .

There are 160 pages in this book. It is a dictionary. A dictionary is a single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a specific subject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). The entries in a dictionary are usually shorter than those contained in an encyclopedia on the same subject, but the word "dictionary" is often used in the titles of works that should more appropriately be called encyclopedias (example: Dictionary of the Middle Ages in 13 volumes). This book was published 2013 by Pan Macmillan .

Dr Mike Goldsmith works at the UK's National Physical Laboratory. He has worked on a variety of science topics, including sound and space. He has written several books for children.