Ian Graham

Brief text and labeled illustrations discuss the characteristics and uses of different types of automobiles, including sport cars, family sedans, racing cars, all-terrain vehicles, and vans.

Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the life of a laborer working on the transcontinental railroad.

"Get ready...as a young man in Civil War America, you are about to become involved in a highly dangerous underwater arms race. You could get into very deep water in the first submarine..."--Cover back.

Describes what it was like to be an astronaut on the "unlucky" 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon.

"Introduces the reader to the science of Bridges and tunnels"--

Explores some of today's most impressive technological innovations and how they are shaping the world.

"In 1965, an impoverished elderly woman was found dead in Nice, France. Her death marked the end of an era; she was the last of the great courtesans. Known as La Belle Otero, she was a volcanic Spanish beauty whose patrons included Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. She accumulated an enormous fortune, but gambled it all away. Scarlet Women tells her story and many more, including:Marie...