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Smithsonian handbook of interesting insects

Highlights over 100 notable insects from London's Natural History Museum's entomology collection. Each profile offers a magnified color photograph, informative caption, and information on where the species is found and its size.

Aircraft

the definitive visual history
Presents a pictorial history of flight profiling over 800 aircraft, eleven engines, popular manufacturers, notable innovators, and the latest technology. Features full-color photographs throughout, quotes, a glossary of terms, and two photographic prints.

Car

the definitive visual history of the automobile
Traces the history of the automobile, from technological developments and manufacturers to the changing cultural backdrop of various models, and features photographs of the most noted cars of each decade.

Illustrated Black history

honoring the iconic and the unseen
"A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers--famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more, with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer"--.

The travel book

Contains brief, illustrated profiles of all the countries in the world.

Let's go to a fair

Shows some of the many fun things to see and do at the fair.

Eye of the storm

chasing storms with Warren Faidley
Storm chaser Warren Faidley discusses the techniques, dangers, and difficulties of photographing lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

The butterfly alphabet

Close-up photographs reveal the alphabet written on the delicate wings of butterflies and moths, with playful and fanciful verse as a guide to the delights of the natural world.

The coloring book of mindfulness

50 quotes and designs to help you focus, slow down, de-stress
Contains coloring pages featuring nature and quotations intended to help develop mindfulness.

The elements

a visual exploration of every known atom in the universe
Presents a photographic representation of the over 100 elements in the periodic table; and includes facts, figures, and stories of the elements, data on the properties of each, and the year and location in which it was discovered.

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