Super Size Cross Sections

Super Size Cross Sections
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Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : 9781786038005
ISBN-13 : 1786038005
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Super Size Cross Sections by : Pascale Hédelin

Get ready for a journey like no other as you explore 15 of the most awesome supersize vehicle cross sections! Blast into space on the Saturn V Rocket Launcher and learn all about how this amazing machine made it to the moon. Delve to the bottom of the ocean on a nuclear-powered submarine and explore the watertight compartments. Relax in style as you rumble across Europe in the luxurious Orient Express. With bite-size captions and cutaway diagrams, each spread features a different and exciting machine, showing and telling its inside story. Discover what life on board these amazing vessels is like: Adventure Galley, a giant sailing ship captained by the famous pirate William Kidd The Orient Express, the luxury train that traveled all the way across Europe to the Orient RMS Titanic, the great passenger line that famously sank on its maiden voyage LZ 129 Hindenburg Zeppelin, the airship that was destroyed in a disastrous fire M4A4 Sherman tank, the American armored fighting vehicle used in WWII Saturn V rocket launcher, which transported satellites, probes, and astronauts into space R.V. Calypso, the world-famous research vessel International Space Station, the giant space laboratory Fishing trawler, an enormous industrial fishing vessel Nuclear-powered attack submarine, a special military vessel Fire engine, with all the necessary equipment to get a fire under control Houseboat, a floating home Airbus A380, the longest, widest, and heaviest airplane ever made Circus convoy, transporting everything from equipment to artists, from elephants to popcorn Tunnel boring machine, used to excavate tunnels Fasten your seat belts and bon voyage!

Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines

Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines
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Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Total Pages : 41
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781786038012
ISBN-13 : 1786038013
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines by : Pascale Hedelin

Get ready for a journey quite unlike any other as you explore 15 of the most awesome supersize cross sections! See inside a submarine, dive below the decks of a tall ship, take a tour inside a tank, explore a zeppelin and step on board a space station. Each spread features a different and exciting machine and gives you the inside story on these fantastic creations. Journey across continents and over centuries to learn all about mechanics of these amazing cross sections. With bite-sized captions and cutaway diagrams, prepare yourself to go beneath the surface with incredible supersize cross sections.

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 075135841X
ISBN-13 : 9780751358414
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body by : Stephen Biesty

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.

Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation Cross-Sections

Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation Cross-Sections
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : 1842224115
ISBN-13 : 9781842224113
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation Cross-Sections by : Graham Bleathman

Inside this definitive companion to Gerry Anderson's televsion series you will find detailed colour illustrations of craft and settings with cutaways to reveal exactly what they contain. It includes Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, and Joe 90. For ages 8 +.

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 50
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780744020731
ISBN-13 : 0744020735
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections by : Stephen Biesty

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.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
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Publisher : American Bar Association
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 1590318730
ISBN-13 : 9781590318737
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Model Rules of Professional Conduct by : American Bar Association. House of Delegates

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle

Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 9780744020755
ISBN-13 : 0744020751
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle by : Richard Platt

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.

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Everything

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Everything
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 0751356166
ISBN-13 : 9780751356168
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Stephen Biesty's Incredible Everything by : Stephen Biesty

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.

Stephen Biesty's More Incredible Cross-sections

Stephen Biesty's More Incredible Cross-sections
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Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780241430835
ISBN-13 : 0241430836
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Stephen Biesty's More Incredible Cross-sections by : Richard Platt

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 Guardian in 2016 voted one of the best illustrated non-fiction books ever, More Incredible Cross-sections is 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.

A Little Life

A Little Life
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 833
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ISBN-10 : 9780804172707
ISBN-13 : 0804172706
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis A Little Life by : Hanya Yanagihara

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.