Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Pop up Cross sections written by Stephen Biesty and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This giant pop-up book, combining Stephen Biesty's cross-sections with paper engineering, presents detailed views inside various subjects with illustrations and pop-ups.
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Cross Sections written by Stephen Biesty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings. Whether it's a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-section slice or exploded view reveals what's going on inside. See the people swarming inside the Empire State Building, the workers busy backstage at the opera house, and where the crew sleeps on a jumbo jet. Included also are two impressive foldouts showing an ocean liner and a steam train. There are lots of fun facts to be discovered, and curious details are highlighted and explained. Did you know one of the funnels of the Queen Mary liner was fake and used for storing deckchairs? And in almost every scene, there's the challenge to find a man on the toilet! With more than a million copies sold, Stephen Biesty's award-winning illustrated book is as fascinating today as it was when first published in 1992. Incredible Cross-Sections is the ultimate way to see how things work.
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Body written by Stephen Biesty and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how your body works. Let the explorers show you... What happens when you are sick. Why the brain is the most sophisticated computer in the world. What makes your tummy rumble. What makes you dizzy.
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Everything written by Stephen Biesty and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each illustration in this book traces a craft or manufacturing process from raw materials through to the finished product. The illustrations make many of the processes self-explanatory, and where further explanation is needed, Chester the Tester and Q provide the answers, along with the text.
Download or read book Castle written by Richard Platt and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes medieval castles and what life was like for the knights who lived in them.
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Body Cross Sections written by Richard Platt and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people! Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters busy at work, and explaining what's going on. Every page includes jaw-dropping facts. Did you know that the skin is your largest organ - in an adult it's 2 sq m (22 sq ft). Have you ever thought about how heavy the brain is? Well, it's about 1.4 kg (3 lb) and is crammed with 100 billion nerve cells that help you think and move. And by the time you turn 75, your heart will have pumped blood around your body 4,000 million times! With the challenge of finding two tiny explorers making their way through the body, learning about anatomy has never been so much fun!
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Cross Sections Castle written by Richard Platt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes alive in this incredible children's illustrated book about castles. Slicing through different areas of a medieval fortress, extraordinary views reveal the people busy inside, preparing for battle as an enemy army approaches. Packed with facts, you'll find out what it takes to build a massive 14th-century castle, dress a knight in armor, or prepare a feast fit for a king or queen. From the drawbridge to the dungeon, Cross-Sections Castle swarms with the people who keep the castle going--the workers, craftsmen, and servants. And, as you pore over every page, look out for the villainous spy. Is he in the well... the keep... the moat? No? Keep looking, he's there somewhere! Back in print after 20 years, you can now cheer on jousters, be entertained by a troubadour, and witness the gory details of a traitor's demise. This unique illustrated book for kids is not just the story of a castle; it brings medieval history to life.
Download or read book Coolest Cross sections Ever written by Richard Platt and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-sectional illustrations present an inside view of such structures as a medieval castle, factory, and subway station.
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Explosions written by Richard Platt and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, artist Stephen Biesty has created marvelously detailed color illustrations that show: what is inside a human body; what goes on at an Antarctic research base; how an airport works; the amazing natural world of the Grand Canyon; what is underneath a city street; how a future space station might look; how feature films are made; what is inside a windmill; how a steam tractor works; a fire inside a multi-story building; a windmill; the city of Venice in the 17th century; and the Tower Bridge in London.
Download or read book The Story of Buildings written by Patrick Dillon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself. We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh would last forever to the dramatic, machine-like Pompidou Center designed by two young architects, Patrick Dillon’s stories of remarkable buildings — and the remarkable people who made them — celebrates the ingenuity of human creation. Stephen Biesty’s extraordinarily detailed illustrations take us inside famous buildings throughout history and demonstrate just how these marvelous structures fit together.
Download or read book The Everyday Workings of Machines written by Steve Martin and published by Ivy Kids. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of fascinating information and colorful graphics the pages reveal the science behind how many of today's machines work.
Download or read book The Skeleton Book written by Robert Winston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know human bones are eight times stronger than concrete? Or that both humans and giraffes have seven vertebrae in their necks? You will learn about these amazing human body facts and much more in this fascinating book for children. Packed with amazing 3D computer images highlighted in different colors, The Skeleton Book allows children to explore every bone and joint in the human body in minute detail. Take a look at the spongy inside and tough exterior of the bone structure. Learn about the longest bone in the body and see how bones grow with age. Find out how millions of years of evolution has helped the human body to perform so many tasks with precision. Become a fossil detective and see how archaeologists study and reconstruct ancient skeletons. Explore the future with bionic skeletons and 3D printed bones. With an embossed cover and a pull out five-foot skeleton poster inside the book, The Skeleton Book gives perspective for kids to study a life-size version of the human skeleton.
Download or read book A Street Through Time written by Anne Millard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s Incredible Body Cross sections written by Richard Platt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Does My Poo Go written by Jo Lindley and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens after you flush the toilet? Discover the amazing hidden world of underground pipes and smelly sewers in this fascinating illustrated children's ebook. Everyone has wondered exactly what happens to their poo after it is flushed down the toilet. It disappears as if by magic - but there's a lot more going on than meets the eye! This ebook takes young readers through each stage of the sewage system, from the Sewer Flushers who unclog sewers to keep everything moving, to how dirty water is cleaned at the treatment plant. Furthermore, learn how sludge made from our poo can be recycled in many different ways - even generating electricity that powers your television! Brilliantly illustrated by acclaimed architect and illustrator Jo Lindley, this book is a must-have for kids, families, and educators interested in re-use and recycling. So journey deep underground to discover the life of poo - just don't forget to hold your nose!
Download or read book Stephen Biesty s More Incredible Cross Sections written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book for children shows you how things work. Look inside the human body, explore the magic of Venice, and take a tour around a movie studio - and much more! Part of a unique series that the Guardianin 2016 voted one of the best illustrated non-fiction books ever, More Incredible Cross-sectionsis Stephen Biesty at the top of his game. In this updated edition with a refreshed, contemporary style, he gives readers an exploded view of 12 objects, places, landmarks, and modes of transport. But look closer! In every picture is an alien who has lost his way- can you find him? As you pore over Stephen Biesty's superbly detailed pages, you will also discover loads of awesome facts. Did you know that steam engines were notoriously difficult to stop, leading to frequent accidents? Or that people at an Antarctic research base rely on supplies from an aircraft's parachute drops during winter? From windmills to cities, airports to space stations, More Incredible Cross-sections is for curious minds of any age interested in finding out how our amazing world works.
Download or read book Space written by Moira Butterfield and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every spread in this fascinating book has been exploded to reveal incredibly detailed technical illustrations that take apart all facets of a ship, re-creating them in perfect accuracy and clarity, enabling the reader to explore what makes ships work. Full-color illustrations throughout.
