Switched on, flushed down, tossed out
Subtitle: investigating the hidden workings of your home
By: by Trudee Romanek ; art by Stephen MacEachern
Contributors: MacEachern, Stephen
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781550379037; 9781550379020
Subjects: Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Domestic engineering; Technique de la Construction; Élimination; Habitations; Déchets; Installations électriques domestiques; Refuse and refuse disposal; Juvenile literature; Dwellings; Electric equipment
Description: With a friendly narrator named Casey, the unseen technology in everyday homes, such as the sewage system, heating unit, and telephone, is presented through diagrams, text, sidebars, and illustrations.
Notes: Includes "Further reading" (p. 46) and index.
Table of contents: title: Water works: Case file #1: Troubled waters; title: Case file #2: Dangerous journey; title: Case file #3: Uphill climb; title: Case file #4: In hot water; title: Case file #5: Outgoing evidence; title: Waste management: Case file #6: Poop processing; title: Case file #7: Curbside drop-off; title: Case file #8: Reassignment; title: Case file #9: Operation organism; title: Powers that be: Case file #10: Super power; title: Case file #11: Zapped!; title: Messengers: Case file #12: Tuning in; title: Case file # 13: Hearing things; title: Heat: Case file #14: Piping hot; title: Case file #15: Playing it cool; title: Case file #16: Inside job; title: Case closed; title: Agents of tomorrow; title: Further reading; title: Index.