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"From ancient chariots and early ships to racing cars, rockets and solar-powered aeroplanes, our world has been changed by the pioneering development of many incredible vehicles. Take a journey through time to discover how these 50 groundbreaking inventions changed the world and how they might even shape our future..."
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256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Español
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Haga que los nįos se aceleren y esťn listos para leer. Cars, Trains, Ships & Planes es una enciclopedia visual de cada veh̕culo para hacer zoom, navegar, elevarse, flotar o volar por tierra, mar y cielo. Exhibiendo m̀s de 1,000 veh̕culos que incluyen autos cl̀sicos, h̕bridos, autos de carrera, veleros, cruceros de lujo, BMX y motos de cross, tanques militares, locomotoras de vapor, trenes de montąa, globos aerost̀ticos, aviones de combate,...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
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Young readers will love to lift the large flaps and meet the fun things that go on each page of this engaging book! Bright, bold, colorful artwork introduces children to a car, a train, a boat, and more vehicles on the road, in a tunnel, and other locations. A simple prompt on each page encourages readers to figure out "Who is in the tunnel?" or "Who is behind the clouds?" while offering a visual clue to the vehicle's identity.--
5) Little Red
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Katie and her truck Little Red help fellow vehicles during a snowstorm.
6) Greenlight
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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The cars stop for Redlight and slow for Yellowlight, so why do they leave Greenlight all alone? When Greenlight decides to stop shining altogether, will she be able to find the power and connection of her own light? This story reminds us all that the world is waiting for us to shine, so when you're ready ... get set ... go!
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The M113 has become as much a recognizable part of the US military machine at war as the Bell UH-1 Iroquois and M16 assault rifle. Earning its stripes in the jungles and highlands of Vietnam, it became the most widely armored vehicle of the campaign. Such was its prowess that the Viet Cong gave it the nickname Green Dragon on account of its ability to go virtually anywhere.
Its groundbreaking aluminum hull gives the M113 a relatively low weight of...
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A great upheaval in tank construction took place in the 1970s, as new combat techniques, helicopters, weaponry and new types of ammunition reduced the value of a conventional combat battalion. Nevertheless, complete new developments are rare and in this book, Alexander Ldeke looks at the most important developments that have taken place since 1970.
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163 pages ; 21 cm
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"A tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears' failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn's crew...
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What defended the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is an essential tool in the fight against terror? Aircraft Carriers. For seventy years, these ships remained a little understood cornerstone of American power. In his latest book, On Wave and Wing, Barrett Tillman sheds light on the history of these floating leviathans and offers a nuanced analysis of the largest man-made vessel in the history of...
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viii, 864 pages ; 21 cm
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On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray metal protrusion she discovers in the ground is part of a mysterious and massive metal object, one that may have been buried there for millennia. Bobbi can't help but become obsessed and try to dig it out ... the consequences of which will affect and transmute...
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1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"An adaptation of the song "The wheels on the bus," written in Spanish and English, which follows two children who see and hear a train, a fire truck, an ambulance, and other vehicles on their way to an amusement park. Includes music for the song."
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Ce livre retrace l'histoire et l'évolution de la marine moderne.
La découverte du Nouveau-Monde, en ouvrant aux navires à voiles un champ forcément interdit aux bâtiments à rames, donna naissance à une marine nouvelle. Les progrès de l'artillerie en assurèrent bientt sur toutes les mers la prééminence. Le corps royal des galères, créé sous Charles VI, conserva néanmoins en France jusqu'en I749 son organisation propre, ses crédits...
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The Soviet Union had already begun building an armored industry as early as the 1920s. Although initially limited to reconstructing and developing Western European armored vehicles, an independent line of powerful and easy-to-produce models had been established by 1939. Even after the Second World War, the USSR expanded its armament force considerably, even planning to cross western Europe in a massive armoured wave in the event of any conflict with...
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While the Allied armies were deadlocked with the Germans in Normandy after D-Day and even as they broke out and began their long advance, another campaign was being fought against the Germans in southern France and it is this campaign, which is often neglected in accounts of the liberation of Europe, that is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Joness latest photographic history. In a sequence of over 150 wartime photographs he tells the story, from the...
17) Sky Raider
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Do you want to know how it feels to be an Ace in a world at war?
Defy gravity with Dr. Duke Thomas, WWI Flying Ace, in his open cockpit biplane as he survives the war torn skies of Europe and Egypt.
In this epic aviation adventure, Duke, an American volunteer fighter pilot, is surprised and amazed by his own supernatural ability to survive momentous aerial battles, German cavalry forces, and ruthless bounty hunters as he follows clues left by...
19) The deep sky
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397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind -- except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
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By the first weeks of 1945, the Eastern Front had been pushed back to the Carpathian mountain passes in the south and Warsaw on the Vistula River in the center, while in the north, the German army was fighting in East Prussia. The Wehrmacht's armored and mobile formations were now employed exclusively as fire brigades, rushed from one crisis to the next as the Red Army pushed inexorably westward. Critical to the German defense were the army's heavy...
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