Forty-six accurate, authentic renderings of fighters, bombers, transports, etc. Includes "Enola Gay," Japanese Zero, British Spitfire, German Komet jet fighter, many others. Captions include detailed coloring information, military role and affiliation of plane, manufacturer, other data. All illustrations copyright-free. 13 planes in color on covers. Publisher's Note.
Imagine yourself behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT2 Twin-Turbo Coupe! Here are the cars most of us just dream about — sleek, fast, fabulous machines that cost a small fortune! Thirty precisely and accurately rendered illustrations portray the legendary luxury cars that race through our imaginations: Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Coupe, BMW Z8 Convertible, Maserati Spyder 2-door Convertible/Roadster, Rolls-Royce Phantom 4-door Sedan, Jaguar XJ220, Bugatti EB 110S 2-door Coupe, and other automotive marvels. Detailed captions provide specs and other information (including top speed and acceleration time). And they come in any colors you choose to make them!
Forty-four accurately rendered illustrations with captions capture the exciting details of a low-flying U.S. F-117 Stealth fighter, an aircraft carrier-based F-18, a Tornado GR-1, a Russian-built MiG-15, and other historic planes.
This travel coloring book for grown-ups features 47 beautifully detailed cityscapes and scenes from across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Each illustration was created from a real-life photograph taken during the around-the-world, non-stop travel adventures of the book's husband-and-wife creators, Geoff and Katie Matthews. Offering a range of difficulty, from relatively simple illustrations of Paris, Guatemala, and Colombia, to extraordinarily detailed architectural cityscapes of Prague, Quito, La Paz, and others, the crisp black and white line drawings will transport colorists from Taiwan to Lithuania to Argentina with the flip of a page. This adult coloring book is perfect for people who love to travel, people who dream of traveling, and those who love to lose themselves in a world of imagination and creativity while completing colorful cityscapes, detailed line work, and memorable vignettes of extraordinary travel destinations.
This updated career guide for teens draws on the principles of What Color Is Your Parachute? to help high school and college students zero in on their favorite skills and find their perfect major or career. No idea what you want to be? No worries! This fun, rewarding guide draws on the time-tested principles of the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? to help you discover your passions, skills, and potential college majors and dream jobs. Why now? Because when you identify your interests and passions early, you can make informed decisions on what additional schooling (and tuition debt) makes sense for your chosen field. With fresh updates on the specific challenges of today’s job-market, this new edition features activities and advice on information interviewing, social media, internships, and more. Most importantly, it’s packed with big-picture advice that will set you up to land the job that’s perfect for who you are—and who you want to be.
Parents! Team Up with Teens is a powerful resource for parents packed with practical tips to guide them through the rugged terrain of raising adolescents by partnering with them as a team. It is like a handy parenting toolkit to help parents guide their adolescents to resolve the tricky issues of puberty. It is a succinct guide with the most effective parenting strategies for raising modern teenagers. The information shared in various chapters will enable parents to equip themselves to support their teenagers through the tumultuous years. It not only elaborates on the methods of enhancing a teen’s Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence but also guides parents on how to raise their children to be socially well adjusted, morally strong, and develop the ability to cultivate meaningful relationships. It offers solutions to problems related to academics, negative peer pressure, social media, and concerns about teen stress and anxiety. It is full of clues and hints for parents as to how they can weave opportunities for the development of creativity, cooperation, collaboration, facing competition, problem-solving skills, decision making, and goal setting into the fabric of daily routine. It is interspersed with ideas on conscious parenting and nurturing the uniqueness of teenagers. Additionally, the book intends to give the parents an in-depth understanding of how to build happy memories and how to chalk out a roadmap for the future and guide their teens in developing a vision and mission statement for themselves.
With the explosion in YA publishing, it’s harder than ever to separate good books from the rest. Booklistmagazine’s editors’ deep and broad knowledge of the landscape offers indispensable guidance, and here they bring together the very best of the best books for young adults published since the start of the 21st century. Drawing on the careful judgment of expert YA librarians, this book Includes a foreword by best-selling YA lit authority Michael Cart, who demonstrates how we have entered a new golden age of books for young adults Collects reviews which showcase the most stimulating contemporary YA titles Features an essay in each section, grouped by genre, presenting an overview and examining relevant trends Indexes selections by author, title, and genre for handy reference The thoughtful professional review coverage for which ALA’s Booklist is known makes this volume an ideal tool for YA readers’ advisory and collection development.
Team Up with Teens is a powerful resource for parents. It is packed with practical tips to guide them through the rugged terrain of raising adolescents by partnering with them as a team and empower their teens to become their best version. It is like a handy parenting toolkit to help parents guide their adolescents to resolve the tricky issues of puberty. It is a succinct guide with the most effective parenting strategies for raising modern teenagers. The information shared in various chapters will enable parents to equip themselves to support their teenagers through the tumultuous years. It not only elaborates on the methods of enhancing a teen’s Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence but also guides parents on how to raise their children to be socially well adjusted, morally strong, and develop the ability to cultivate meaningful relationships. It offers solutions to problems related to academics, negative peer pressure, social media, and concerns about teen stress and anxiety. It is full of clues and hints for parents as to how they can weave opportunities for the development of creativity, cooperation, collaboration, facing competition, problem-solving skills, decision making, and goal setting into the fabric of daily routine. It is interspersed with ideas on conscious parenting and nurturing the uniqueness of teenagers. Additionally, the book intends to give the parents an in-depth understanding of how to build happy memories and how to chalk out a roadmap for the future and guide their teens in developing a vision and mission statement for themselves.
Make the best paper airplanes around with this easy-to-follow origami book. Enthralled with origami from a young age, world renowned origami and paper crafter Michael LaFosse has used those skills to design and perfect paper airplanes for decades. In Planes for Brains, LaFosse presents 28 original paper origami models that incorporate innovative functional and aesthetic details like faceted flaps, ailerons, canards and spoilers that really work. The sense of proportion and balance, and an ingenious nose and fuselage locking system, define these signature models, which are instant classics. Readers accustomed to folding simple darts and wings will bet thrilled and challenged by the folding maneuvers in these pages. Planes for Brians comes with great value—included are: 28 fun-to-do projects Step-by-step instructions Expert tips on techniques and folds Downloadable video tutorial Great for paper airplane enthusiasts as well as fans of unique origami works and parents with kids. Scissors, tape, glue are not required! Paper airplane models include: Lock Nose Dart Flying Fox Shuttle Dart F-102 Delta Jet Nifty Fifty And many more…
