Product Description: What is the oldest building in the world? How big is the largest space station? How tall are the biggest skyscrapers? Find out all about the brilliant buildings that set world records from the tallest and longest to the busiest and the most expensive all in stunningly designed infographics...read more

Product Description: Discover the coolest, strangest, and overall most breathtaking buildings in the world and learn all about their special features through comparisons to familiar objects. From the spectacular heights of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai and the Turning Torso in Sweden to the striking designs of the Guggenheim Museum in Spain and the Community Bookshelf in Kansas City, Missouri, kids will come to appreciate the numbers behind each building's incredible features in terms they can understand...read more

Presents a collection of facts about buildings and transportation from ancient to modern times, presented in 100 illustrated topic panels, each with ten key facts. (view table of contents)

Answers questions about buildings, how they are built, and how they change (view table of contents)

Questions and answers explore such topics as 'What is a building?' 'Who were the first architects?' and 'How does the use of a building affect what it ends up looking like?'

Product Description: Already acknowledged by researchers, instructors, students and librarians as a definitive and comprehensive reference on the structure of the rat brain, this new edition offers completely revised and updated information and is now complemented by two companion CD-ROMs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Uses a question-and-answer format to provide a first look building houses and other buildings from a child's perspective