Marshall Brain's MORE How STUFF Works

by Marshall Brain

Have you ever wondered.
* How an ATM verifies your identification and account information and dispenses cash in a matter of seconds?
* What, if anything, is able to escape from a black hole?
* Why workplace surveillance is becoming more common?
* Whether human cloning is possible?


In this full-color follow-up to the bestselling How Stuff Works, Marshall Brain travels inside your computer, to the depths of diamond mines, across the African plains, and on board an Apache helicopter to explain the magic behind how stuff works. Based on the much-lauded Web site HowStuffWorks.com, this book is your A-to-Z guide to PDAs, MRIs, LEDs, and dozens of other intriguing topics! With More How Stuff Works, you'll never again look the same way at a car wash, clothes dryer, or electronic scanner.
* More than 125 captivating articles
* Hundreds of full-color photos and illustrations
* Fun facts and sidebars
* A special chapter on "Police, Military, and Defense"


Praise for

"A+"
-Washington Post Online

" Top 100 Classics."
-PC Magazine

"Best Science & Technology Resource."
-Yahoo! InternetLife

"A-"
-Entertainment Weekly

"Great Site."
-MSNBC

"Super Site."
-TBS Superstation

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Reference, Trivia

320 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 2002

About the author

Marshall David Brain II was an enthusiastic American author, public speaker, futurist, entrepreneur, and professor, who specialized in making complex topics easier to understand for the general public. Brain was the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and the author of the How Stuff Works book series. He hosted the National Geographic channel's Factory Floor with Marshall Brain and Who Knew? With Marshall Brain.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really follows on from the previous edition of "How stuff works" - as you can imagine new questions, new technology, new images come along that beg the question - how do they do that - and this book tries to answer it - like the first volume it does in places look a little dated (there is only a year between the two books although both are over 10 years old) the subject matter is still fascinating.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

nice collection of articles about technology!