The Big Book of Catapult and Trebuchet Plans!

Author: Ron L. Toms
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977649730
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
This text is a compilation of step-by-step instructions for how to build nine different types of catapults and trebuchets. Each set of instructions includes dimensional drawings of all wooden parts, lists of required hardware and sources, an abundance of photos, diagrams, and detailed descriptions of the assembly process.

The Art of the Catapult

Author: William Gurstelle
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 9781556525261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
With some scrap wood, rope, hammer, nails, and this book, build seven historic catapults including Ludgar the War Wolf, God's Stone Thrower, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey -- simple yet sophisticated hurling machines that rely on the fundamentals of math and physics using levers, force, torsion, tension, and traction.

Let's Play

Author: Jeff A. Johnson
Publisher: Redleaf Press
ISBN: 160554342X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Let children experience the learning power of play! Let’s Play is a handbook full of child-led, open-ended learning adventures. The 39 fresh, fun, and budget-friendly activities (plus more than 225 play variations) are packed with learning that helps children develop important motor, cognitive, language, and social skills. These activity starters were all tested by a slew of early childhood professionals and approved by the children they work with. Building on the early learning principles presented in the author team’s first book together, Let Them Play: An Early Learning (Un)Curriculum, they also support your transition to a play-based, child-led (un)curriculum. Jeff A. Johnson has more than twenty years of early childhood experience as a former child care center director and current family child care business owner. He is a popular keynote speaker, trainer, and author of six books. Denita Dinger has been a child care provider for more than ten years and is a frequent speaker at early childhood conferences, focusing on the topics of hands-on and play-based learning. This is her second book.

Scuba Diving

Author: Miranda Krestovnikoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756640636
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
An authoritative and encouraging guide, Scuba Diving contains expert advice and step-by-step illustrations on how to perfect key skills, how to buy and maintain equipment, what the different diving options are and where to find classic dive sites around the world. Scuba Diving covers different types of diving from reef and ice to wreck, nocturnal, and fresh water. Equipment is showcaseed in detail, from wetsuits and masks to flippers and buoyancy aids. This eBook also include information about marine life, from tropical fish and manta rays to whales, dolphins and sharks.

Flight and Flying Machines

Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781564582362
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
From birds to outer space, here's a truly galvanizing account of man's dream to soar into the sky.

Boats

Author:
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781564580061
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Describes the functions and inner workings of various kinds of boats, including the rowing boat, cargo boat, and racing yacht.

Uphill Battle

Author: Owen Mulholland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931382120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book, rich in anecdote and history, explores in words and pictures the world of uphill cycling. Recreational cyclists can ride the same roads, compare their own efforts with those of masters like Coppi and Merckx and Armstrong, and come away with an understanding of the heroic feats that made these greats so great. Dozens of photographs add to an engaging look at this amazing sport.

Roman Battle Tactics 109BC–AD313

Author: Ross Cowan
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781846031847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The book clearly explains and illustrates the mechanics of how Roman commanders - at every level - drew up and committed their different types of troops for open-field battles. It includes the alternative formations used to handle different tactical problems and different types of terrain; the possibilities of ordering and controlling different deployments once battle was joined; and how all this was based on the particular strengths of the Roman soldier. Covering the period of "classic" legionary warfare from the late Republic to the late Western Empire, Ross Cowan uses case studies of particular battles to provide a manual on how and why the Romans almost always won, against enemies with basic equality in weapon types - giving practical reasons why the Roman Army was the Western World's outstanding military machine for 400 years.

Girl in the Curl

Author: Andrea Gabbard
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 9781580050487
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Traces the achievements of female surfers and the impact they have had on the sport over the last one hundred years.

Build Your Own City

Author: Joachim Klang
Publisher: Heel Verlag Gmbh
ISBN: 9783868526585
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Provides step-by-step instructions for building a city from Lego bricks.