The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works

Yes, its a good book. My son carries it in his back pack to read while he is in the car.

very interesting book.

Gift for my sister who loves science and Harry Potter. She loves it.

This is a great book! Enjoyable!

This book was not quite what I thought it was going to be. It ended up subverting a lot of my expectations. There was a chapter that started off talking about the flying broomsticks - maybe it's rockets, maybe it's anti-gravity? Nope! Here's a bunch of stuff about psychotropic mushrooms that create the sensation of flying. Still worth the read even if it wasn't what I expected.

This book is great because it allows the reader to learn about a variety of different ideas all the while going back to the roots that are harry Potter.

This was a Christmas gift and they loved it!

I read still yet about the book but I will bring to travel when I read for my time as myslef find out more story about it of what is

A fascinating book about all kinds of science and history, with Harry Potter as a fairly loose thread holding it all together. Better suited to children 11/12+ (in my opinion) as younger ones will just find it too difficult. It's not a book for a Harry Potter fanatic who wants to read about Harry Potter, but a book for someone who wants to learn some really REALLY interesting bits of science and history. Much more challenging than most pop science books, and therefore a much better book. Very enjoyable indeed.

Nice book

Si te gusta Harry Potter te gustará.

awesome

livre anglophone broché souple moyen format ancien (2002) consacré à un commentaire scientifique de Harry Potter; l'auteur, journaliste scientifique britannique, analyse nombre d'éléments inventés par la très imaginative JK Rowling: balai motorisé, créatures fantastiques et montre, à la lumière de connaissances scientifiques exactes faisant appel à la physique, la chimie, la paléontologie, que certains faits pourraient être plausibles; 15 chapitres au style clair mais sans illustrations: partie I: n°1: balais voyages dans le temps et désartibulation (21p) n°2: comment jouer au quidditch sans quitter le sol (15p) n°3: choixpeau, cape d'invisibilité et autres vêtements enchantés (12p) n°4: mathématiques du mal (15p) n°5: chouettes,escargots et scroutts (20p) n°6: magizoologie (27p) n°7: bonbons de Bertie Crochue (13p) partie II n°8: étoiles, poulets mystiques et pigeons superstitieux (19p) n°9: le plus grand des sorciers (27p) n°10:dragons et monstres (21p) n°11:le maître des potions (22p) n°12:origines de la sorcellerie (26p) n°13:la pierre philosophale (20p) n°14:croyances, superstitions et magie (17p) n°15:magie de la science (10p) bibliographie et index cet ouvrage bien écrit et facile à lire passionnera les amoureux de la série ainsi que tous ceux qui s'intéressent au fantastique; un excellent moyen d'attirer les jeunes vers la science de manière ludique