No matter what you're looking for these reference guides will have you covered. These amazing apps are not just your average reference guides. They have interactive elements, 3D visuals and will provide you with any information you want on all different subjects.
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With this beautiful iPad app you can explore the incredible pyramids and tombs of ancient Egypt
With this beautiful iPad app you can explore the incredible pyramids and tombs of ancient Egypt. Fly around the plateau where the pyramids and the Sphinx are located at Giza near Cairo. Enter and wander around the labyrinthine tombs and passageways. Examine stunning wall paintings in incredible detail, rotate royal statues and spin 3D objects. Everything has been painstakingly recreated...
Go on an epic prehistoric journey for survival, fraught with danger – blizzards, volcanic eruptions and deadly predators
Go on an epic prehistoric journey for survival, fraught with danger – blizzards, volcanic eruptions and deadly predators.
Set in the Arctic 70 million years ago, Scar, a young Edmontosaurus, embarks on his first thousand-mile migration. It is a world of extremes: Searing hot summers with 24-hour sunlight are replaced by freezing winters of continuous night.
March of the Dinosaurs is...
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Selected by Apple as Best of 2014, and winner of the 2015 Digital Book Award for Best Nonfiction App.
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart is your guide through Incredible Numbers. Numbers define the patterns of sunflowers; they bring pleasure through music; and they help us answer existential questions like; ‘How many...
‘One of my favorite science-based apps...The Elements in Action is easy to navigate and attractively designed.’
– The New York Times
The periodic table comes to life with 79 video explorations of the weird, wonderful, and sometimes alarming properties of the elements. Filmed by BAFTA award winner Max Whitby in partnership...
Stephen Hough performs one of the most complex pieces of piano music ever written, and helps you uncover its subtle elegance with a multi-perspective performance and the innovative NoteFall visualisation.
“It‘s like a personal guided tour of a great castle, keys to every room, access to every secret.” – Stephen Hough
Features...
Read about Churchill, and try to make decisions like he would.
The app is styled after a graphic novel to depict each of the six tough decisions you will have to make. Each decision is analyzed and deciphered as you're giving the scenario and have to make a choice. The includes over 80 authentic original documents from the Churchill library.
INCLUDED IN BEST OF 2014
“Few iOS apps are as thoughtfully designed as Molecules, and even fewer combine superb visuals with clear writing that encourages exploration.”
– Macworld
“Molecules uses its predecessor as a springboard to further greatness.”
– Stuff
A book about molecules, and a chance to touch, stretch and twist them!
Molecules by Theodore...
Classical music reinvented. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the world-renowned Philharmonia Orchestra, performing extracts from eight works representing three centuries of symphonic music.
Features:
• An orchestra at your command: Experience classical music like never before with fascinating features, including video, synchronized score, simplified score and commentary by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
• Expert explanations: World-class...
Explore all of Leonardo’s human anatomy drawings with Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy.
A most comprehensive app on World War 1 made just for the iPad. Brings action from the Great War right on your iPad screen. World War I Interactive covers one of the biggest conflicts in world history in a very innovative interface. The app gives you a complete interactive experience...
Rated as one of the best iPad Apps by Gizmodo.com (one of the biggest tech blogs).
A very comprehensive App on World War II made specifically for the iPad. Brings World War 2 alive on your iPad screen. World War II Interactive covers the biggest conflict in history with stunning photos,...
If you are looking for detailed information about the real dinosaurs of the Jurassic World movie (the 4th installment of the Jurassic Park movie), you can find it in this wonderful encyclopedia.
Book of dinosaurs with more than 200 entries and hundreds of pictures, perfectly clasified.
With exclusive illustrations from the paleo-artist...
Could be good for special cases
‘Jammed with information about the workings and history of a long list of inventions...bring[s] complex ideas alive in an interactive and modern way.’
– The New York Times
“...a marvellous, marvellous app.”
– The Guardian
Pick up and play with some of the most extraordinary objects in the history of science and technology. This app brings to life priceless objects from the Science Museum in London and tells their stories.
With Journeys of Invention you can study, rotate and even operate some of the most revolutionary scientific inventions of all time. Step inside the Apollo 10 Command Module, examine a flea with Robert Hooke’s 17th-century microscope, explore the Large Hadron Collider, or even encode a secret message with a World War II Enigma Machine and share it with your friends to decipher. The app features original and insightful history specially written by Science Museum curators with a rich collection of historic photographs, rarely seen contemporary artworks, archive film footage and video.
This spectacular collection of museum gems is presented in a spell-binding interactive network of inventions, making it effortless to journey back and forth through time. Learn about the darker side of science on the ‘Dangerous’ journey. Choose ‘Horizons’ for dramatic tales of exploration. For a different take on the history of science and technology, try ‘Atoms and Rays’ or ‘The Secret of Life’.
Created by experts from the Science Museum in partnership with RGB (the wizards behind acclaimed apps The Elements and Solar System), Journeys of Invention is a wonderful guide for anyone with an interest in science, technology and discovery.
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Reviews:
“Writing as someone who has a visual impairment, I have always found myself removed from museum exhibits which are often behind glass and too small/detailed to appreciate from afar. As ever, RGB has used the glass to bring these items closer. Brilliant work!” User review
“...an app for families to share and spend quality time with.” iPad Insight
“Journeys of Invention is a great interactive learning tool that is beautifully designed” Mac Life
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The Science Museum was founded in 1857 as part of the South Kensington Museum, and gained independence in 1909. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions. Find out more at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
A comprehensive interactive timeline of the American Revolution takes you through all the events from 1754 to 1789 from the French and Indian War to the inauguration of George Washington. With over 515+ photographs and articles, this beautifully designed app takes you right through the birth of the United States of America via the Revolutionary War.
Features:
* All major battles, significant events, leaders, etc. See more details below.
* Over 515+ rare images, sketches and paintings from the defining years of American History. Zoom in to see photographs in detail.
* Search the entire app for a particular word.
Additional Multimedia:
* Quotes slideshow
* Picture gallery
* Video summary
Benefits:
* Ideal for students, adults or history enthusiasts.
* An interactive visual treat, better than reading a normal book.
* Easy to navigate and use. Swipe left or right to browse the timeline.
Topics covered include the French and Indian War, the Boston Tea Party, Battles of Lexington and Concord, Continental Congress, Battle of Quebec, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Long Island, Declaration of Independence, Fort Ticonderoga, Oriskany, Saratoga, Cowpens, Chesapeake, Surrender of Cornwallis, Treaty of Paris, Evacuation day, the signing of the Constitution, First Presidential Election, etc.
A very comprehensive app on the Vietnam War just for the iPad. Brings action from the Vietnam War right on your screen. Vietnam War Interactive gives you a complete interactive experience with photos, videos, timelines, articles, etc.
Read about the major battles and events of Vietnam War in detail. Swipe through the detailed interactive timeline from 1858-1976. Watch video clips from the battlefield. See rare photographs.
Benefits:
- Ideal for anyone above age 12: students, adults and history enthusiasts alike.
- Gives you a complete overview of the Vietnam War without overloading you with unnecessary information.
- Very easy to navigate, use, read and understand.
- A complete experience with with pictures, videos and sounds.
- 21 video clips depicting action from the battlefield and elsewhere.
- Over 400+ photographs with an exclusive Photo Features section featuring air power, naval warfare, war protests and the battlefield.
Topics covered:
The App is divided into 6 periods: Events leading to the war, the Diem era (1955-1963), the Johnson years, Escalation of war, Nixon years and America's exit. All the major battles and events are summarized in detail. The important leaders, small events/battles, etc. have been covered.
