How to Really Fool Yourself

Illusions for All Your Senses
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-471-31592-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 262 g

Fans of Vicki Cobb's unique blend of humor, science, and hands-onactivities will have tons of fun with How to Really Fool Yourself.Kids won't be able to believe their eyes--not to mention theirears, noses, hands, and tongues! Packed with all-new illustrationsand a delightful new design, this book features over 70 activitiesto fool all five senses. Each illusion is followed by a fascinating"Why You're Fooled" section that explains the science and historybehind the "magic."
* Illusions of touch, taste, hearing, smell, and sight include: theIncredible Shrinking Sugar Cube, Flavorless Coffee, Movie-StyleSound Effects, Making Circles from Straight Lines, and manymore
* The hardcover edition of How to Really Fool Yourself has sold90,000 copies
* A Main Selection of the Primary Teachers' Book Club

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cobb, Vicki

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Sense of Reality.

Weird Feelings.

Strange Sounds and a Taste for the Mysterious.

Bizarre Shapes and Sizes.

Brightness Mad and Color Crazed.

Phantom Moves.

Mirages and Other Visual Oddities.

Great Misconceptions.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children.