This title helps you to be an eyewitness to the life of a knight. Did you know caltrops - nasty spiked objects - were scattered over the ground before battle to injure animals or men who trod on them? Take a look at a knight's life, from young squires learning the trade to weaponry, armour and battl...
Why was the invention of the wheel so important? Who invented the flushing toilet? This guide will get your brain buzzing with the full range of different human inventions that have helped to shape the world we live in today, from the earliest primitive tools to advanced plastic fibres.
This bestselling Top 10 annual is back, with over 700 updated lists and brand-new feature spreads revealing exactly who or what is the best, worst, richest, deadliest, or simply biggest of almost everything in more detail than ever before.
A vital resource for pilots, instructors, and students, from the most trusted source of aeronautic information.The Federal Aviation Administration¡¯s Airplane Flying Handbook provides pilots, student pi-lots, aviation instructors, and aviation specialists with information on every topic needed to qu...
This fully updated edition includes the latest developments in the growing field of optoelectronics. New topics covered here include a brief history of the invention of semiconductor lasers, the Lorentz dipole model and metal plasmas, matrix optics, surface plasma waveguides, and optical ring resona...
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[¿Ü¼] Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-billion-year History of the Human Body(Paperback)
Help your child learn about climate change with this fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website. From what's being done to stop pollution harming life on earth, to why rising sea levels mean maps will need to be redrawn: let your child discover all about our fr...
Help your child learn about forensic science with this fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website. From how faces can be reconstructed to analysing DNA: let your child discover the remarkable ways in which forensic detectives can solve even the most baffling of...
Be an eyewitness to creepy crawlies around the world Bees, beetles, bugs, butterflies and more – love them or hate them insects are everywhere. Discover the different varieties, body-structure, life-cycles and behaviour – from why bees make honey to which insects have ears on their knees...
Shiver me timbers: be an eyewitness to pirates Ahoy there! Sink into this exciting introduction to the world of sea-thieves - their origins, adventures and blood-thirsty battles. Everything you ever wanted to know from why European kings and queens encouraged piracy to what pirates ate at sea. Get t...
Be an eyewitness to the world beneath your feet Earth: we use it for building, industry, energy, sculpture, coins, and even jewellery. Find out all about it, from how our landscapes evolved, to mineral mining and how diamonds and precious stones are cut. Get the picture using the clip-art CD with ov...
Eyewitness Guides are best-selling, high-quality visual information books. This title is a valuable resource to students whether they want to discover the world of astronauts, meteors, our solar system or distant galaxies.
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tro...
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will...