Hand in Hand
Why anything sticks to anything else. Chemical bonds from the electron outward — salt, water, diamond and DNA all explained by the same idea.
Science for Young Readers · ০৪
Electricity from the atom to the power station, in 141 pages and 54 chapters — with an interactive edition whose figures you can actually pull apart.
Free to read and free to share — in families, in schools, in reading circles.
English interactive edition
English · HTML · 141 pages · 3.2 MB
English edition (PDF, for print)
English · PDF · 141 pages · 3.7 MB
Bangla interactive edition
Bangla · HTML · 141 pages · 3.4 MB
Bangla edition (PDF, for print)
Bangla · PDF · 141 pages · 3.9 MB
This edition runs in your browser — drag the sliders, build the circuits, watch the figures move.
Everyone knows electricity flows through a wire. Almost nobody can say what is actually moving, or why a thicker wire helps, or where the energy in a battery was sitting before it became light. This book answers all of that from the ground up, and it takes 141 pages to do it properly.
It starts inside the atom, with the electron that nobody can see, and ends at a power station with a turbine the size of a house. In between: charge, current, voltage, resistance, Ohm's law, circuits in series and parallel, magnetism, induction, generators, transmission, and finally the wall socket in your own room. Fifty-four short chapters, each about two pages, so no single idea is ever asked to carry more than it can.
The metaphor the title borrows — a river inside the wire — is used carefully and then deliberately broken. Water is a good picture of current right up to the moment it becomes a lie, and the book says exactly where that moment is. That honesty is the point.
This volume is the first in the series to ship twice: as a printed-page PDF, and as a self-contained interactive edition that opens in your browser. In the interactive version, eighteen of the figures are alive. Drag a slider and watch Ohm's law rebalance in front of you. Build a circuit and see where the current goes. Change the field and watch the induced current change with it.
Both editions come from a single source, so the words and the figures are identical — the interactive one simply lets you push on them. It needs no internet connection once loaded and nothing is installed.
Why anything sticks to anything else. Chemical bonds from the electron outward — salt, water, diamond and DNA all explained by the same idea.
Living brain cells, grown in a dish, learning to play a video game — and what that tells us about thinking itself.
Every star you look at is a letter posted years ago. This book is about how big the universe really is — and why small does not mean unimportant.