Author: Tom Froese
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stickyscapes New York features all of the most iconic sights of "The Big Apple", from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to Central Park and Grand Central Terminal. The city's best-known characters are also included. From skyscraper construction workers to movie stars and presidents, not to mention urban myths, they're all here and ready to be stickered to historical and present-day versions of the city's famous skyline!
Stickyscapes: New York
Author: Tom Froese
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stickyscapes New York features all of the most iconic sights of "The Big Apple", from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to Central Park and Grand Central Terminal. The city's best-known characters are also included. From skyscraper construction workers to movie stars and presidents, not to mention urban myths, they're all here and ready to be stickered to historical and present-day versions of the city's famous skyline!
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stickyscapes New York features all of the most iconic sights of "The Big Apple", from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to Central Park and Grand Central Terminal. The city's best-known characters are also included. From skyscraper construction workers to movie stars and presidents, not to mention urban myths, they're all here and ready to be stickered to historical and present-day versions of the city's famous skyline!
Stickyscapes London
Author:
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699549
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sticker, learn and play! Create your own real and imaginary London with over 100 stickers that will bring this panoramic play scene to life. One side represents actual, present day London, while the other features the fictional and historical city. From the iconic red buses and the Queen to Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, and Charlie Chaplin – learning about the city has never been such fun!
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699549
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sticker, learn and play! Create your own real and imaginary London with over 100 stickers that will bring this panoramic play scene to life. One side represents actual, present day London, while the other features the fictional and historical city. From the iconic red buses and the Queen to Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, and Charlie Chaplin – learning about the city has never been such fun!
Stickyscapes Paris
Author: Magma
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sticker, learn and play! Create your own real and imaginary Paris with over 100 stickers that will bring this panoramic play scene to life. One side represents actual, present day Paris, while the other features the fictional and historical city. From the iconic Louvre pyramid and the Eiffel Tower to the Three Musketeers and Napoleon – learning about the city has never been such fun!
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856699563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sticker, learn and play! Create your own real and imaginary Paris with over 100 stickers that will bring this panoramic play scene to life. One side represents actual, present day Paris, while the other features the fictional and historical city. From the iconic Louvre pyramid and the Eiffel Tower to the Three Musketeers and Napoleon – learning about the city has never been such fun!
Stickyscapes at the Museum
Author:
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780679723
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take a sticky trip to the museum! Stickyscapes at the Museum includes an 8-page sticker booklet, brimming with over 100 stickers; and a huge, double-sided fold-out panoramic scene for you to decorate. One side of the scene shows a busy museum during the daytime, with enormous dinosaur skeletons, priceless vases and bored security guards! The other side shows the museum at night – when everything comes to life! Dinosaurs roam, knights-in-armour ride free, and paintings jump right out of their frames!
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780679723
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take a sticky trip to the museum! Stickyscapes at the Museum includes an 8-page sticker booklet, brimming with over 100 stickers; and a huge, double-sided fold-out panoramic scene for you to decorate. One side of the scene shows a busy museum during the daytime, with enormous dinosaur skeletons, priceless vases and bored security guards! The other side shows the museum at night – when everything comes to life! Dinosaurs roam, knights-in-armour ride free, and paintings jump right out of their frames!
The Improbability Principle
Author: David J. Hand
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711399
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies, or the paranormal. His definition of "miracle" is thoroughly rational. No mystical or supernatural explanation is necessary to understand why someone is lucky enough to win the lottery twice, or is destined to be hit by lightning three times and still survive. All we need, Hand argues, is a firm grounding in a powerful set of laws: the laws of inevitability, of truly large numbers, of selection, of the probability lever, and of near enough. Together, these constitute Hand's groundbreaking Improbability Principle. And together, they explain why we should not be so surprised to bump into a friend in a foreign country, or to come across the same unfamiliar word four times in one day. Hand wrestles with seemingly less explicable questions as well: what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does strike the same place (and the same person) twice. Along the way, he teaches us how to use the Improbability Principle in our own lives—including how to cash in at a casino and how to recognize when a medicine is truly effective. An irresistible adventure into the laws behind "chance" moments and a trusty guide for understanding the world and universe we live in, The Improbability Principle will transform how you think about serendipity and luck, whether it's in the world of business and finance or you're merely sitting in your backyard, tossing a ball into the air and wondering where it will land.
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711399
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies, or the paranormal. His definition of "miracle" is thoroughly rational. No mystical or supernatural explanation is necessary to understand why someone is lucky enough to win the lottery twice, or is destined to be hit by lightning three times and still survive. All we need, Hand argues, is a firm grounding in a powerful set of laws: the laws of inevitability, of truly large numbers, of selection, of the probability lever, and of near enough. Together, these constitute Hand's groundbreaking Improbability Principle. And together, they explain why we should not be so surprised to bump into a friend in a foreign country, or to come across the same unfamiliar word four times in one day. Hand wrestles with seemingly less explicable questions as well: what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does strike the same place (and the same person) twice. Along the way, he teaches us how to use the Improbability Principle in our own lives—including how to cash in at a casino and how to recognize when a medicine is truly effective. An irresistible adventure into the laws behind "chance" moments and a trusty guide for understanding the world and universe we live in, The Improbability Principle will transform how you think about serendipity and luck, whether it's in the world of business and finance or you're merely sitting in your backyard, tossing a ball into the air and wondering where it will land.
Saint Pierre of New York
Author: Laetitia Zink
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809167975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This exquisitely illustrated graphic novel tells how Pierre went from being a house slave to being an independent businessman, a hairdresser to wealthy socialites in New York City--to having a cause for sainthood, for his faith, prayer, and loving service to others. His good works extended from helping orphans and establishing an employment agency to funding the building of St. Patrick's Cathedral. This fascinating telling of Pierre's life story, starting from his birth in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), will engage the interest of children and young people who otherwise might never hear about a leading Black New Yorker in the first half of 1800s. Pierre Toussaint was the first layperson to be buried beneath the main altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral, usually reserved for bishops of the Archdiocese of New York. He was declared "Venerable" by Pope John Paul II in 1996. +
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809167975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This exquisitely illustrated graphic novel tells how Pierre went from being a house slave to being an independent businessman, a hairdresser to wealthy socialites in New York City--to having a cause for sainthood, for his faith, prayer, and loving service to others. His good works extended from helping orphans and establishing an employment agency to funding the building of St. Patrick's Cathedral. This fascinating telling of Pierre's life story, starting from his birth in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), will engage the interest of children and young people who otherwise might never hear about a leading Black New Yorker in the first half of 1800s. Pierre Toussaint was the first layperson to be buried beneath the main altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral, usually reserved for bishops of the Archdiocese of New York. He was declared "Venerable" by Pope John Paul II in 1996. +
Alice-Miranda in New York
Author: Jacqueline Harvey
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742751148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Alice-Miranda attends Mrs. Kimmel's School for Girls, in New York City, while her family prepares to reopen their department store, Highton's on Fifth, as plans for the reopening party go wrong in ways that she finds worth investigation.
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742751148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Alice-Miranda attends Mrs. Kimmel's School for Girls, in New York City, while her family prepares to reopen their department store, Highton's on Fifth, as plans for the reopening party go wrong in ways that she finds worth investigation.
The Great New York Subway Map
Author: Emiliano Ponzi
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9781633450257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Both a love letter to New York City and an introduction to graphic design, this is the story of how the designer Massimo Vignelli tackled the problem of creating a subway map that could be understood by all New Yorkers as well as out-of-towners. Filled with depictions of trains, subway stations, and the New York City skyline, the book follows Vignelli around the city as he tries to understand the system in order to translate it into a map. The book is produced in collaboration with the New York Transit Museum and features a section of historical and archival images and photographs. A groundbreaking work of information design, the subway map designed by Vignelli is an iconic work used by over a billion people every year. The Museum of Modern Art acquired the original 1972 diagram in 2004.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9781633450257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Both a love letter to New York City and an introduction to graphic design, this is the story of how the designer Massimo Vignelli tackled the problem of creating a subway map that could be understood by all New Yorkers as well as out-of-towners. Filled with depictions of trains, subway stations, and the New York City skyline, the book follows Vignelli around the city as he tries to understand the system in order to translate it into a map. The book is produced in collaboration with the New York Transit Museum and features a section of historical and archival images and photographs. A groundbreaking work of information design, the subway map designed by Vignelli is an iconic work used by over a billion people every year. The Museum of Modern Art acquired the original 1972 diagram in 2004.
This Is the World
Author: Miroslav Sasek
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847843963
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist A compilation of abridged versions of M. Sasek’s most popular children’s travel books. From London to Hong Kong, Sydney to San Francisco, readers will delight in this charming journey through the world’s great cities. With deft strokes of his paintbrush and a witty voice to match, master illustrator and storyteller M. Sasek captured the essence of the world’s major capitals and brought them to life for an entire generation of young readers. Now, more than fifty years later, those same readers are passing these stories down to their children and their children’s children, and Sasek’s This is series has officially reached iconic status. Collected here for the first time in one affordable volume are some of Sasek’s most beloved adventures. From Notre Dame in Paris to a trolley car in the hills of San Francisco, with stops for sausages in Munich and a yacht race in Sydney, this book takes children and adults alike on a whirlwind trip to some of the world’s greatest destinations. An inspirational travelogue that introduces readers to the art, architecture, music, food, and traditions of multiple cities and countries, This is the World is the perfect book for international commuters and would-be travelers of all ages. This anthology includes excerpts from: This is New York, This is Paris, This is Greece, This is London, This is Australia, This is Texas, This is Munich, This is Rome, This is Britain, This is Hong Kong, This is Israel, This is San Francisco, This is Edinburgh, This is Venice, This is Washington D.C., and This is Ireland.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847843963
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist A compilation of abridged versions of M. Sasek’s most popular children’s travel books. From London to Hong Kong, Sydney to San Francisco, readers will delight in this charming journey through the world’s great cities. With deft strokes of his paintbrush and a witty voice to match, master illustrator and storyteller M. Sasek captured the essence of the world’s major capitals and brought them to life for an entire generation of young readers. Now, more than fifty years later, those same readers are passing these stories down to their children and their children’s children, and Sasek’s This is series has officially reached iconic status. Collected here for the first time in one affordable volume are some of Sasek’s most beloved adventures. From Notre Dame in Paris to a trolley car in the hills of San Francisco, with stops for sausages in Munich and a yacht race in Sydney, this book takes children and adults alike on a whirlwind trip to some of the world’s greatest destinations. An inspirational travelogue that introduces readers to the art, architecture, music, food, and traditions of multiple cities and countries, This is the World is the perfect book for international commuters and would-be travelers of all ages. This anthology includes excerpts from: This is New York, This is Paris, This is Greece, This is London, This is Australia, This is Texas, This is Munich, This is Rome, This is Britain, This is Hong Kong, This is Israel, This is San Francisco, This is Edinburgh, This is Venice, This is Washington D.C., and This is Ireland.
Stickyscapes Space
Author: Stephen Ellcock
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780678436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Escape Earth's atmosphere and enter Stickyscapes Space! Over 100 removable stickers and a double-sided panoramic space scene let you learn everything about the Milky Way and beyond. One side of the panorama shows real space adventures, so includes our own solar system alongside NASA shuttles and space-walking astronauts. Escape through a wormhole to the other side, which is based on futuristic adventures in deep space!
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780678436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Escape Earth's atmosphere and enter Stickyscapes Space! Over 100 removable stickers and a double-sided panoramic space scene let you learn everything about the Milky Way and beyond. One side of the panorama shows real space adventures, so includes our own solar system alongside NASA shuttles and space-walking astronauts. Escape through a wormhole to the other side, which is based on futuristic adventures in deep space!