Product Description: New York Times BestsellerThe History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies recounts the history of a sport that dates back 2,000 years, focusing on milestone flies from the first feathered hook to contemporary patterns using cutting-edge materials...read more

Product Description: An illustrated field guide to the technology that keeps our cities and towns working. The Spotter's Guide to Urban Engineering is a useful identification tool to the mysteries of how our cities are built and work. Each spread identifies an example of urban engineering and describes what it is, how it works and why it is there...read more

Product Description: Featuring full-color photographs, this DK Reader takes youngsters into the exciting world of dogsled racing, revealing what it takes to be the leader of the pack.

The progression and evolution of measurement has run parallel to the development of civilisation. This book presents the means that humankind has employed to impose order on the world and talks about the origins of the units of measurement, who discovered them and the ways in which they have developed and changed over time.

Product Description: 2006, British edition, Parragon, Bath, U.K. Flex covers, 256 pages.