Cars


Book Description

Get fun facts for kids at your fingertips with DK Pocket Eyewitness Cars. Dive into the amazing world of cars, from the first automobiles ever made to record-breaking vehicles and supercars. Read about the many different types of cars that exist today, from hatchbacks and saloons to hybrids and vintage cars, and even explore the exhilarating sport of car racing. With amazing encyclopedic stats, engaging photographs and genius gem facts, DK Pocket Eyewitness Cars will help you explore cool cars from every era. Perfect for school projects and homework assignments as well as young car enthusiasts, DK Pocket Eyewitness Cars will tell you everything you need to know about cars in one pocket-sized book.




Car


Book Description

"Discover the story of cars-- from the earliest horseless carriages to the modern supercar"--Cover.




Flying Cars


Book Description

Humans have always wanted to fly. As soon as there were planes and cars, many people saw a combination as the next step for personal transportation, and visionary engineers and inventors did their best to make the flying car (or the roadable plane) a reality. This book is a breezy account of hybrid vehicles and their creators, and of the intense drive that kept bringing inventors back to the drawing board despite repeated failures and the dictates of common sense. Illustrated with archival photos, this entertaining survey takes readers back as far as Icarus and forward into the present day, with a look toward the future. Includes author's note, source notes, bibliography, index.




The Visual Dictionary of Cars


Book Description

This text is part of a series of reference books designed for children aged nine years and upwards. The books contain exploded view photographs and 3500 specific words presented in a labelled form, both of which are designed to help expand the child's knowledge and vocabulary. This book looks at cars, with every part of a car labelled from the inside of a steering wheel to how a carburettor works. Other titles in this series look at The Human Body, Animals and Ships and Sailing.




Mammoth Science


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David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of physics, biology, and chemistry in this unconventional and highly original guide to science. From the interior of an atom to the solar system and beyond, the mammoths seek to understand the science! These intrepid science demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain. They wrestle with magnets to understand their powerful force, make mammoth models of different materials explore what gives them mass, and step into an X-ray machine to reveal the bones beneath their woolly exterior. Observing and recording the mammoth's behavior is bestselling illustrator David Macaulay, whose How Machines Work won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2016. Renowned for his ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius, Macaulay captures the oddball humor of his subject matter, making Macaulay's Mammoth Science the perfect introduction to scientific principles for the young and the young-at-heart.




DK Pocket Eyewitness Space


Book Description

Get fast facts at your fingertips with DK Pocket Eyewitness Space, includes bite-sized chunks of information that will encourage and inform even the most reluctant readers. Explore the Universe; learn about the planets, moons and stars of our Solar System and far beyond. With 160 pages of amazing encyclopedic stats and genius gem facts to provide extra wow, DK Pocket Eyewitness Space will take you on a journey of spacecraft, manned Moon missions and robot space rovers. Plus you can learn all about the telescopes that let us see deep into space, perfect for any budding astronaut or scientist. Now available in ebook (pdf) format.




Cool Cars


Book Description

Packed with more than a hundred completely charismatic classic cars, this book is the ideal gift for anyone driven to admire these majestic machines. Author Quentin Wilson has hand-picked the most astonishing, appealing, and all-round awesome cars ever to hit the highway. Multi-angle photography reveals the true craftsmanship and beauty of these stunning rides, and the text pays tribute to each vehicle and explains why it's destined to be a classic, now and forever. Test drive this essential car guide, and you'll be hooked.




Dogs - Pocket Eyewitness


Book Description

Find out more about one of our favourite animals - the dog - in this mini handbook bursting with breeds and fantastic dog facts. Pocket Eyewitness Dogs is packed with bite-sized chunks of information that make learning about dogs fun. Read the profiles of more than 180 individual dog breeds, from Great Danes to tiny terriers, in this cool canine encyclopedia. Learn more about the main groups of dog breeds, from working dogs to companion dogs, and find out more about dog behaviour, biology, and even the history of how humans have lived alongside - and relied on - these faithful creatures. If you didn't know that dogs have more than 300 million smell-detecting cells, while humans have just 6 million, or that Dalmatians are born spotless, then this is the book for you! Perfect for school projects and homework assignments as well as for dipping into, Pocket Eyewitness Dogs will tell you everything you need to know about dogs in one pocket-sized book.




Big Book of Cars


Book Description

Text and cut-out photographs present the features and performance of various cars, including the Corvette, Volkswagen Beetle, and Cadillac.