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Cool Stuff Exploded | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Woodford
Publisher: DK Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 78716
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/Cdr
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 10.2 x 1
ISBN: 0756640288
Dewey Decimal Number: 600
EAN: 9780756640286
ASIN: 0756640288
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
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Product Description
The third installment of our visually stunning and incredibly successful Cool Stuff series will blow your mind. This super cool technology book deconstructs-or literally explodes-everyday objects so readers can see exactly how they work. Beautifully photographed spreads show a piece-by-piece breakdown of cell phones, computers, cars, and more, detailing how each part works and how they all fit together as a whole. This unique look at the items we use every day brings science, technology, and wonder to the fore, giving us all a great appreciation for how our twenty-first-century world works. Set into the cover is a CD-ROM containing animations of the "exploded" views featured in the book.
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 bit disappointing October 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The earlier two books in the series Cool Stuff 2.0 and How Cool Stuff Works were much more informative and had a plethora of cool new techy gadgets>
This book is not in the same genre though from the same stable - there are big exploded parts of objects as diverse as an Airbus aeroplane to a coffee percolator - I was probably expecting stuff on how it works which is missing.
CDROM took time to load and had no music for the animation nor labelling for the parts and had only some of the objects described in the book.
I feel the book would have done better had there been an attempt to show cross-sections - its too early to have Cool stuff 3.0>
 Best of the Series September 19, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an awesome book that shows the individual pieces of each gadget and explains briefly how it works. Very large and crisp pictures like all DK books. With the variety of gadgets and everyday objects, including future tech, this book will appeal to older readers as well as DK's usually young audience. There are many fold out pages that show 4 page spreads of "exploded" stuff.
The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because the CDROM, while it has cool animations of a few gadgets, it doesn't show all the gadgets. Besides watching the stuff "explode" the CDROM isn't interactive, and it doesn't label the parts. It's mostly a gimmick that looks impressive, but isn't very useful. Don't let that stop you from getting this great book, just don't expect much from the CDROM.
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