Skulls by Simon Winchester for iPad
Skulls by Simon Winchester The title features beautiful 360 degree high-resolution rotations of over 300 animal skulls collected by Alan Dudley and photographed by Nick Mann. The story behind this remarkable collection, the zoology of skulls and the place of skulls in art and popular culture are vividly recounted by Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded and The Professor and the Madman (all New York Times Best Sellers).
Simon's text is presented on the iPad screen in two formats. In portrait orientation the text is black-on-white optimized for reading. In landscape it is white-on-black, optimized for display of the beautiful visuals, with every skull spinning at the touch of your finger. New pinch-zooming engineering allows smooth rotation even when objects are greatly magnified. The full text is also available spoken by the author, synchronized to the page.
Skulls by Simon Winchester features advanced interactive features including an intuitive interface for exploring the collection, revolutionary differential scrolling in the chapter pages and 3D-stereoscopic presentation of every skull. There is also a powerful facility allowing up to four skulls to be compared in locked rotation side by side.
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X is for X-Ray iPad and iPhone versions
X is for X-Ray is a magical new interactive iPad book. It offers a remarkable perspective on 26 everyday objects. For many of the objects, swipe horizontally and they rotate at your fingertip. A double-tap offers an amazing stereoscopic option, really bringing the objects to life. For others, pinch to zoom and reveal incredible detail. With all objects, swipe vertically to discover what's really inside!
X is for X-ray is based on the beautiful and astonishing X-ray photography of Hugh Turvey, Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology. The accompanying text by award-winning children’s author Paul Rosenthal reinforces the concept of making the invisible visible and includes rhymes spoken by Dr Who actor Kerry Shale.
This title will delight young children, giving them a unique insight into the inner secrets of familiar everyday objects. It will also appeal to anyone with curiosity about the world, how things work and the power of X-ray technology to reveal the nature of reality.
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March of the Dinosaurs for iPad
Our new March of the Dinosaurs App for iPad is now available on the App Store. This richly interactive storybook recounts the adventures of a group of dinosaurs as they struggle to survive in the prehistoric Arctic. Carefully based on recent scientific discoveries, superbly realistic 3D animations bring the dinosaurs alive in your hands, spinning 360 degrees at the swipe of your finger. This magical book will fire the imagination of any dinosaur fan.
March of the Dinosaurs App is based on the National Geographic Channel film Escape of the Dinosaurs.
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iPad App of the Week: The Waste Land for iPad
This new digital edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years, illuminated by a wealth of interactive features. The title's groundbreaking design carefully respects the typography and integrity of the original poem, yet offers spectacular new ways to explore The Waste Land's significance and influence. The project aims to extend the reach of Eliot's greatest work, bringing a new depth of understanding and sensitivity to poetry in the digital space.
The Waste Land for iPad is published in partnership with Faber and Faber.
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"The app is a virtuoso performance. It took two years to produce and...it shows."
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"All in all, The Waste Land application is an intriguing and enjoyable fresh look at both a classic text and the very act of reading. It promises great things to come in the world of digital publications."
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iPad App of the Week: Gems and Jewels for iPad
Get closer than ever before to the natural world’s most highly coveted and valued gems and jewels that have dazzled humans for millennia. Gems and Jewels is the alluring new app book from the developers of The Elements and Solar System for iPad. Touch Press presents this stunning adaptation from the printed book Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World.
Gems and Jewels for iPad is published in partnership with The University of Chicago Press and experts The Field Museum.
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Solar System for iPad
A breakthrough electronic book about the Solar System, offering hours of interactive exploration and presenting a treasure trove of visual information.
Solar System for iPad is our latest interactive book, published in partnership with Faber and Faber and space imagery experts Planetary Visions. This brand new title will inform and inspire people about our nearby astronomical neighborhood, presenting a wealth of spectacular imagery received from robot spacecraft. This app is also available in German and Japanese.
"This app and 'The Elements' are why people should buy iPads. The sense of wonder and delight cannot be stressed enough."
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"Great graphics and depth of information and organization. Fantastic app - it's what interactive publications should be like for the iPad."
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"What an incredible experience! As an amateur Astronomer I am completely thrilled with the awesome photos and background information. We are using this app in our Astronomy group workshops and tossing those old fashioned star charts that simply put folks to sleep."
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The Elements for the iPad
The best-selling science ebook is now available in French, German, and Japanese.
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- British English
- French
- German
- Japanese
The Elements for iPad is also available in the following languages:
The Elements: A Visual Exploration is the most beautiful, the most interactive, the most magical ebook ever created, and it shipped simultaneously with the release of the Apple iPad. The Elements for iPad preserves the lush look and beautifully composed pages of the best-selling hardcover edition, but adds an astonishing new dimension to the material.
Every one of the more than 500 objects shown in the book goes from being a simple photograph to a fully interactive, rotatable 3D object. This is Harry Potter's edition of the book, filled with magical objects that are delightfully responsive to the reader's touch, spinning freely and fluidly in response to the slightest gesture.
The ebook includes integrated access to the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine, which provides thousands of detailed physical properties and even up-to-the-minute market prices. Wolfram|Alpha gives limitless access to deep and timely information in an entirely new way, unmatched by traditional printed or electronic books.
But The Elements: A Visual Exploration is more than just a technology showcase. Written by award-winning science writer Theodore Gray, and developed from his best-selling hardcover published by Black Dog & Leventhal, it is also simply a good book, beautiful photographed and filled with compelling stories and fascinating insights into the building blocks of our universe.
The Elements for iPhone 4
The top-selling ebook by Theodore Gray takes the iPhone 4 a spin!
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- British English
- French
- German
- Japanese
The Elements for iPhone is also available in the following languages:
Totally reconceived for the iPhone 4 and recoded to take advantage of the new device's spectacular features, including retina display and gyroscope, The Elements brings the periodic table to life — all in the in palm of your hand.
Just like The Elements for the iPad, you start off at a periodic table composed of photographs of real chemical elements that you can explore with your finger. As you move around, the currently active element is shown in the selection area at the top of the page. Tap any element to go to that element's own page.
There you will find an engagingly written account of the element and a wealth of related samples and objects. Each element has multiple objects with controls at the top of the page to browse them.
Unique to the iPhone 4 is that all of these objects rotate on the screen when you physically turn the phone around. The iPhone 4's gyroscope makes the objects appear to remain stationary even as the phone is rotated, giving you a unique and fun way to explore all sides of an object―especially if you're sitting on a swivel chair! Or use your finger to turn any object as quickly or as slowly as you like. Each object responds effortlessly to your touch, and objects can be "thrown" to set them spinning. This is possible because every sample was painstakingly photographed from all sides on a precision turntable.
And just like the iPad version, The Elements for iPhone gives you access to a huge depth of technical information about each element through the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine embedded in this e-book. Touch the Wolfram|Alpha logo and you will be taken to a continuously updated Wolfram|Alpha report on the current element. For example, tap the Wolfram|Alpha entry for gold and find the current market price.
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