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Author
Publisher
Motorbooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, Mattel introduced the first 16 Hot Wheels cars and revolutionised the world of toy cars. Fifty years and a few billion cars later, Hot Wheels are still number one. These die-cast cars are a hot collectible and a favourite toy for kids of all ages. Hot Wheels recounts the story of the world's fastest toy cars from the initial brainstorm to today's top models and sets. Officially licensed with Mattel, it reveals why the cars are so fast, how...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Arts Books, an imprint of West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Explore your creative side and build exciting LEGO® models with the best-selling Build It! series, a step-by-step instruction guide for all ages. This series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it! Monsters, you'll find a range of creative models from to put together, created using bricks that LEGO® obsessives may already have at home. Each book in this interactive series contains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Arts Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. From an octopus to a stingray, a tigerfish to a hammerhead shark, and much more, you'll find a range of creativity-sparking ideas inside these pages."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Gisele Bündchen's journey began in southern Brazil, growing up with five sisters, playing volleyball, and rescuing the dogs and cats around her hometown. In fact, she wanted to become either a professional volley player or a veterinarian. But at the age of 14, fate suddenly intervened in in the form of a modeling scout, who spotted her in São Paulo. Four years later, Gisele's appearance in Alexander McQueen's memorably rain-soaked London runway...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated digest will detail the lives of the lady-types that the Lumberjanes have taken as their role models, with some additional fun facts from the Lumberjanes themselves. Assigned one of five categories (The Arts; The Sciences; Activism, Politics, and Social Work; Groundbreakers; and Generally Rad), you'll learn about such people as Juliette Gordon Low, bell hooks, Bessie Coleman, Sally Ride, and more!
88) Falling for you
Author
Series
Bradford sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willow Bradford is content taking a break from modeling to run her family's inn. Then she comes face-to-face with NFL quarterback Corbin Stewart, the man who broke her heart-- and wants to win her back. When a decades-old missing-persons case brings them together, they're forced to decide whether they can risk falling for one another all over again. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Business today relies on effectively using data to predict trends and sales. Predictive analytics is the tool that can make it happen, and this book eliminates the tricks and shows you how to use it. You'll learn to prepare and process your data, create goals, build a predictive model, get your organization's stakeholders on board and more.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Are you ready for the most awesome LEGO building adventure yet? Journey through six incredible worlds bursting with hundreds of new LEGO approved fan ideas and building tips! Learn how to make a wild west train, outer space aliens, a realistic-looking mobile phone and much, much more. Create your own amazing models with step by step guides that unloack the secrets of great LEGO building!
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Join Megs and Brickbot on another exciting tour of LEGO building in this second volume of The LEGO Adventure Book. As they track the Destructor and rebuild the models he destroys, you'll follow along and meet some of the world's best builders. Learn to create sleek spaceships, exotic pirate hideaways, fire-breathing dragons, fast cars, and much more. Contains nearly 40 step-by-step breakdowns and 100 example models.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Become a LEGO building expert with stacks of facts, tips, and tricks at your fingertips--no previous building experience required! Get out your bricks and be inspired to build your favorite real and fantasy pets, including cats, dogs, rabbits, fish, unicorns, and much more. Plus learn to build homes and accessories for your brick-built buddies. Each LEGO Pocket Builder book is packed with images of fun-to-make models, building techniques, advice,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An expanded and refreshed "director's cut" of the author's 1999 novel restores his original vision for the work that depicts what happens to a fashion model after a debilitating accident destroys her face and her ability to speak.
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his friends investigate sabotage at the model rocket-building contest they are competing in"--
Author
Series
Digger man volume 4
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Oliver and Annie love to play with the toy trucks at school; Oliver is particularly fond of the bulldozer--he calls himself the bulldozer man.
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