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The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.

The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You! (Everything Kids Series)

The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You! (Everything Kids Series)

by Tom Robinson

Science has never been so easy - or so much fun! With The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book, all you need to do is gather a few household items and you can recreate dozens of mind-blowing, kid-tested science experiments. High school science teach Tom Robinson shows you how to expand your scientific horizons - from biology to chemistry to physics to outer space. You'll discover answers to questions... (more)

Pop Bottle Science

by Lynn Brunelle, Paul Meisel

It's pure bottled magic! A complete kit that ingeniously marries science and fun in the breakthrough vein of The Bug Book & Bug Bottle (1.7 million copies in print) and The Bones Book & Skeleton (1.65 million copies in print), Pop Bottle Science presents 79 easy, hands-on experiments that probe the worlds of chemistry, physics, biology, geology, weather, the human body, and even astronomy. The Pop... (more)

Pyramid

by David MacAulay

Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations we come to know the philosophy of life and death in ancient Egypt.

As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps

by Gail Hartman

Maps -- they help you get where you want to go. People use road maps to find their way. These maps show miles of highways that point out the right direction. But what about the crow? What kind of map does he use? Or the eagle, the rabbit, the horse, and the sea gull? What's on their maps?

The Big Book of Brain Games

1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science

by Ivan Moscovich

About the original 1000 PlayThinks ,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago.” Inside The Big Book of Brain Games , you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions—originals as well as must-do classics—it’s... (more)

How to Speak Politely & Why

by Munro Leaf

Updated for the 21st century, How to Speak Politely and Why is a picture book with a point: proper speech and good grammar without nagging. It aims to remove “ain’t” and “uh-huh” and “gimme” and “got” and a score of unfortunate nuances by a simple, sure painless and humorous process. In his signature style of amusing stick figure drawings and captions, Leaf makes clear such things as the difference between can... (more)

The New Way Things Work

by David MacAulay

The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated... (more)

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (Sandpiper)

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (Sandpiper)

by David MacAulay

Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the thirteenth century.

Underground

by David MacAulay

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

by David MacAulay

Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.

Ship

by David MacAulay

In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship's recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a story emerges - of the triumphant birth of the ship Magdalena from Spain, and its tragic voyage to a far-away continent.

Mosque

by David MacAulay

An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Through the fictional story and Macaulay"s distinctive full-color illustrations, readers will learn not only how such monumental structures were built... (more)

Unbuilding (Sandpiper)

by David MacAulay

This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.

Building Big

by David MacAulay

Why this shape and not that? Why steel instead of concrete or stone? Why put it here and not over there? These are the kinds of questions that David Macaulay asks himself when he observes an architectural wonder. These questions take him back to the basic process of design from which all structures begin, from the realization of a need for the structure to the struggles of the engineers and designers to map out... (more)

The World Almanac for Kids 2007 (World Almanac Kids)

The World Almanac for Kids 2007 (World Almanac Kids)

by Editors of World Almanac

A New York Times bestseller, The World Almanac for Kids has become a staple in libraries, classrooms, and homes. Kids love The World Almanac for Kids because it entertains them with colorful pictures, an engaging design, wacky facts, fun information, and puzzles and games. Parents and educators buy The World Almanac for Kids year after year because it allows kids to learn about their world, get ahead in... (more)

Children's Encyclopedia of American History (Smithsonian) (Smithsonian Institution)

Children's Encyclopedia of American History (Smithsonian) (Smithsonian Institution)

by David C. King

With its up to the moment content and engaging style, this major reference book is an essential resource that helps children relate today's news to the events of the past. Focusing on the who, what, when, where, and how, DK's Children's Encyclopedia of American History is published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution to present a completely unique survey of the story of America. Featuring more than... (more)

Manners Can Be Fun

by Munro Leaf

If we want something we say PLEASE We say THANK YOU if you help us or give us something or do things for us. Before we leave the table we ask if we may be excused. And say THANK YOU if we are told we may. Continuing the success of How to Behave and Why-with hundreds of thousands of copies sold, 50,000 in the last year and a half alone!-comes another gem from the trove of Munro Leaf. Considered his second... (more)

How to Behave and Why

by Munro Leaf

"No matter where you are or who you are, there are four main things that you have to do if you want to make good friends and keep them. You have to be HONEST You have to be FAIR You have to be STRONG and you have to be WISE And there is no good in trying to fool yourself. All that isn't so easy." In a time when all the rules for raising children have been redefined dozens of times, here is a book... (more)

Do Penguins Have Knees? An Imponderables Book

Do Penguins Have Knees? An Imponderables Book

by David Feldman, Kassie Schwan

Ponder, if you will What happens to your Social Security number when you die? Why are peanuts listed as an ingredient in plain M&Ms? Why is Barbie's hair made out of nylon, but Ken's hair is plastic? What makes up the ever-mysterious "new-car smell"? Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Do Penguins Have Knees? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most... (more)

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by David MacAulay

by Tom Robinson

by Lynn Brunelle, Paul Meisel

by David MacAulay

by Gail Hartman

1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science

by Ivan Moscovich

by Munro Leaf

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by David MacAulay

by Editors of World Almanac

by David C. King

by Munro Leaf

by Munro Leaf

by David Feldman, Kassie Schwan