pictorial works

"Parrots, hummingbirds, eagles, and more swoop across the pages of this colorful bird book, which combines . . . illustrations and photos to help young enthusiasts learn all about the . . . world of birds. From frozen icescapes to sweltering deserts, from prehistoric ancestors to amazing adaptations, they'll discover the surprising homes and habits of our feathered friends. They'll also find out about how we can help protect birds and their natural habitats"--Provided by publisher.

Uses infographics to explore and compare animals by their size, speed, life spans, and more.

". . . This anthology celebrates fifteen years of Sneaker Freaker, featuring the magazine's finest pages together with over 130 pages of expert sneaker content never seen before. As "funny and serious, meaningful and pointless at the same time" as the magazine's own ethos, the book packs in pages of dense insider knowledge, hundreds of photos, as well as Simon Wood's own obsessional observations. The book rollicks through some 100 years of sneaker history, documenting Air Max, Air Force, All Stars, Dapper Dan, Michael Jordan, Reebok Pump, and Nike Skateboarding, alongside more obscure treasures like Troop, SPX, and Vision Street Wear"--Adapted from publisher description.

A collection of three-hundred jokes, riddles, and tongue twisters for kids from National Geographic, illustrated with photographs and including interesting facts about nature.

"A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations from Pretor-Pinney's extraordinary collection that combines cloud images with a short piece of cloud science, an inspiring sky quotation, or a detail of the sky depicted in a classic painting. They are clouds to inspire a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation each day. The book helps explain almost every kind of cloud type in easy laymen terms"--Provided by publisher.

"From searingly hot deserts to lands of fire and ice, this book is a vivid journey through the natural wonders of the seven continents"--Amazon.

"[Takes readers on an] adventure to Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Japan, the United Kingdom, and many more countries around the world to learn about thirty-eight amazing capital cities"--Provided by publisher.

"This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level. Organized by division, it offers a comprehensive survey of Western Allied armored fighting vehicles by campaign, including the fall of Poland, the defense of the Low Countries and France, desert warfare in North Africa, the push through Italy, the Normandy landings, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final defeat of Germany. All the major and many minor tanks are featured, with variations of the M4 Sherman, Churchill, and Matilda, as well as the mat-laying, engineering, and mine-clearing versions"--Amazon.

"For over 40 years NATO and Warsaw Pact aircraft faced each other across the Iron Curtain or fought in proxy wars around the world. Arranged chronologically by theater, this book gives a complete organizational breakdown of the units of both sides, including the units and aircraft used in the proxy wars fought in Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, and elsewhere, as well as the frontline in Germany"--Amazon.

A resource on fossils and the stories they tell of the history of life on Earth.