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A single volume, highly visual reference chronicles the history of our changing world, from caves to skyscrapers, offering timeline perspectives on everything from science and technology to art and fashion.
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Grade 5-8?An oversized, encyclopedic, visually oriented survey of human beings and their inventions. After an overview of the origins of life on Earth, Platt and Delf offer information on everyday objects, buildings, and communication and transportation devices. Chronologically arranged, the book offers the spectrum of human achievements, which became increasingly complex and sophisticated over the centuries. Laid out in neat, horizontal rows, the illustrations and captions promise hours of pleasure to lovers of pictorial detail and facts about "things." Weapons, machines, bridges, and ships parade across the pages in small, precisely detailed drawings. While the inventions and discoveries of ancient and Asian cultures are included, this title is overwhelmingly a celebration of the inventors of the Western world; in the biographical index hardly a woman or a non-European appears. This volume does not offer original interpretations or commentary. Its strength is as a compendium of traditional knowledge within limited fields of interest.?Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
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Gr. 3^-7. The title may exaggerate the amount of information found in this book, but the author and artist Brian Delf who brought things together have certainly encompassed a large territory. Opening with an explanation of the Big Bang, they move to double-page spreads about the earth's geography, dinosaurs, and mammals, each including numerous small drawings or diagrams accompanied by three-or four-line factual snippets. Four other broad categories---everyday life, buildings, making and measuring, and transportation--are treated in the same way. The scope creates some problems (no book covering plate tectonics in four sentences will be useful for reports) as well as some startling juxtapositions--a page concerned with clothing pictures a seventeenth-century Japanese warrior, a Puritan, and an Inuit standing side by side. However, the attractive, detailed artwork and informative, fascinating tidbits make this a fine book for browsing. Susan Dove Lempke
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In the Beginning
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 1995
ISBN 10: 0789402068
ISBN 13: 9780789402066
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. Delf, Brian (illustrator). OMNIBUS -- SERIES STARTER SET 3-VOLUMES. This book contains the first volumes of each series: Space Colony Journals, Magi of Rulari and St. Antoni the Forbidden Colony Book 1 - Space Colony Journals. The Will To Survive Is Mankind's Greatest Weapon. They lived through an interplanetary war; now they must survive the aftermath. Welcome to the far future. The Space Colony Journals are an epic tale of a family's struggle to survive on a colony in space. These are the courageous women and dangerous men who carve a home on the Alien World of Vensoog Book 1 - Magi of Rulari Nominated in the Sword & Sorcery Category in the 2019 EFFYs An amnesiac Mercenary falls for a Sorceress whose dark secrets could destroy them both. In flight from their war-torn worlds, two races traveled through separate portals to find refuge on Rulari: the Sekhmet, proud descendants of Felines, and Terrans, whose ancestors were Primates. The Magi of Rulari chronicles the on-going saga of two dissimilar peoples learning to live together on a world where magic works and men and women live or die by the sword. Book 1 - St. Antoni The Forbidden Colony. A combination of shoot-'em-up western and Victorian Steampunk. A fast-paced Sci-Fi novel of adventure and romance on an alien planet.After a sniper cripples their father, Sisters Bethany, Jeanne and Iris struggle to survive and hang on to their ranch and mine.It was forbidden to use the Portal gateway to the world of St. Antoni. Men and women who reached it were desperate to escape earth. Colonists faced an alien world without help from earths advanced technology. With grit and determination, they created a civilization as different from the earth they left behind as Mars is from Venus. Seller Inventory # 00109311488
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Delf, Brian (illustrator). Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0789402068I5N00
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Delf, Brian (illustrator). Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0789402068I5N11
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In the Beginning : The Nearly Complete History of Almost Everything
Published by
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 1995
ISBN 10: 0789402068
ISBN 13: 9780789402066
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Delf, Brian (illustrator). 1st American ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP66124298
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In the Beginning : The Nearly Complete History of Almost Everything
Published by
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 1995
ISBN 10: 0789402068
ISBN 13: 9780789402066
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Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Delf, Brian (illustrator). 1st American ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP66124298
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In the Beginning : The Nearly Complete History of Almost Everything
Published by
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated, 1995
ISBN 10: 0789402068
ISBN 13: 9780789402066
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Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Delf, Brian (illustrator). 1st American ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 5745038-6
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Delf, Brian (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! Seller Inventory # S_481883320