Pocket Science: Explosive Science: The Science of Forces

The books look at science from an exploration of wonder point of view - covering key curriculum areas but through a high interest approach covering strange phenomenon, unusual and entertaining facts, looking at how science can be an essential survival tool. These titles are highly collectible and transportable companions for science-spotters everywhere.

Tom Jackson has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. His specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at zoos. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing has also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, Amazon rainforest, coral reefs of Indonesia and Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.