Product Description: This hands-on volume gives young adults practical guidance to turn their dream of being in a band into a reality. Specific steps from what songs to play to touring are clearly described. Aspiring musicians learn every aspect of the process: where to look for band members, advertising, working as a unit, keeping costs down, playing gigs, recording demos, making a press kit, building an online presence, creating a Web site, getting on the radio, obtaining a manager, selling CDs, getting signed by a record company, and publishing music...read more

Product Description: Perfect for capturing a young general reader's or an older reluctant reader's interest, these hi-lo titles feature gripping, minimal, fact-based text, dramatic and impactful pictures, and an edgy design to reveal the fastest, tallest, smallest, oldest or quirkiest!

Product Description: Perfect for capturing a young general reader's or an older reluctant reader's interest, these titles feature gripping, minimal, fact-based text, dramatic and impactful pictures, and an edgy design to reveal the fastest, tallest, smallest, oldest or quirkiest!

Product Description: Perfect for capturing a young general reader's or an older reluctant reader's interest, these titles feature gripping, minimal, fact-based text, dramatic and impactful pictures, and an edgy design to reveal the fastest, tallest, smallest, oldest or quirkiest!

Product Description: This is one in a series of books that shows the intricate internal workings beneath the skin of some of the world's most amazing machines.

Product Description: Young explorers get to take a peek at some of the worlds tallest, smallest, busiest, and most magnificent buildings. From Grand Central Station to the ancient pyramids at Giza, readers will tour the world and come away in awe of the many amazing buildings that people have constructed...read more

Product Description: The worlds biggest, fastest, and most powerful cars are the heroes of this volume. Facts about what makes each vehicle king in a particular category as well as a list of some of the runners up, will fascinate lovers of cars, lovers of facts, and lovers of reading alike.

Product Description: When people put on disguises, it might involve wigs, false moustaches and sunglasses. Not in the animal world! Get up close and personal with awesome animal disguises in the exciting new book, 3-D Close Up: Animal Camouflage. Filled with amazing close-up photographs, dramatic artwork and engaging, insightful text, this book also includes four spectacular 3-D pop-up cross sections starring amazing animals in and out of disguise! Learn why some animals need to hide (so they don't get eaten!) and how they do it (zebras have stripes to blend in with the tall grasses of the African plains)...read more

Product Description: Take an in-depth look at BMW motorcycles and learn how the bike was developed, what it is used for, as well as stats and specifications. Includes top-end, full-color photography, tech talk, table of contents, glossary and index.

Product Description: Red-Hot Bikes brings you motorbike facts from the fast lane. Each book is packed with the latest motorbike photography of some of the most important models available today. Check out and compare the model specifications, swot-up using the full throttle facts, and stun your friends with tech talk...read more

Product Description: Why did people want to discover the source of the Nile? Who was the first to find it, how did they get there, and when? What did some of the earliest explorers in Africa encounter on their quests? Take a journey back in time and discover the facts about a great mystery waiting to be solved: the source of the Nile...read more

Introduces the physical characteristics and habitats of crustaceans, from lobsters and shrimps to sow bugs and barnacles.

Introduces the reader to an incredible group of animals, from the common garden snail to the giant squid.

Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and types of echinoderms, including starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers.

Introduces the habitat, behavior, physical characteristics, and life cycle of common and unusual amphibians, including the blue poison-dart frog and the Pacific giant salamander.

Discusses the physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats of spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, and ticks.

Introduces readers to this cold-blooded group of animals, from the enourmous Galapagos giant tortoise to the legless glass lizard. Also examines the strangest of creatures, such as the tunnel-dwelling worm lizard and the more familiar saltwater crocodiles, loggerhead turtles, and cobras.Introduces the habitat, behavior, physical characteristics, and life cycle of common and unusual reptiles.

Presents short paragraphs about animals that live in the water, such as sharks, whales, turtles, and eels, with fold-out pages that show life-size illustrations of some of the animals.

Looks at how modern transportation affects the environment and discusses alternate means of transportation and fuel that reduce pollution and congestion.

Reviews the development of medicine and medical technology from the dawn of civilization to the present, including instruments, diagnostic tools, medicines, and alternative care.

Outlines the development of what we eat and wear today, from primitive hunting and gathering to genetically engineered foods, and from animal skins to spandex.