Bicycle book

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Traces the history and evolution of the bicycle, the different kinds and how they work. Features Summary Their history, the different kinds and how they work. Author Gail Gibbons Publisher Holiday House Release date 20160215 Pages 30 ISBN 0-8234-1408-6 ISBN 13 978-0-8234-1408-6

  Combine items to save on shipping costs!   Softcover. 192 pages. Very slight wear on the cover and small stain on outside of the pages. The rest of the book is neat and clean.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Cycling is hugely popular nowadays. Since 2003 more than 100 million bikes have been produced each year, more than twice the amount of cars. And in 2011, more than 741,000 people cycled to work, an increase of 90,000 from 2001. The Splendid Book of the Bicycle is a wide-ranging celebration of the bicycle and cycling, incorporating social history, sport and science. It covers the bicycle's invention and subsequent historical development, stories of intrepid early cyclists who travelled the world, the 20th-century popularity of cycle touring, and the depiction of bicycles in films, books and art. It examines the sport of cycling, including histories of the Tour de France and the other great European races, the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana, and goes on to explore velodrome-based cycling and the rise of BMX and mountain biking. It investigates the science behind balance and aerodynamics, and covers the future of bicycles, including innovative flying, floating and electric bikes. It also touches on the technical aspects of bicycles, including an exploded diagram of a typical bike and tips for basic maintenance of your own bike. Beautifully illustrated with vintage and modern images, this book is a perfect gift for both bike obsessives and general readers. Word count: 35,000 words Features Summary A sumptuous, wide-ranging guide to cycling, full of practical information but with a huge sense of fun, packed with evocative images from the history of cycling. Author Daniel Tatarsky Publisher Portico Books Release date 20160811 Pages 192 ISBN 1-910232-56-4 ISBN 13 978-1-910232-56-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Explore the Realms of Color with an Eclectic Collection of Objects A hedgehog, a steaming bowl of ramen, a bicycle, a cassette...Whether you haven't thought of colouring since you were a kid or you never leave home without an arsenal of markers, this menagerie of 50 everyday and offbeat subjects will get your creative juices flowing. It's packed with a variety of objects on fifty quirky themes, basic color theory, and helpful techniques to inspire all artists. Designed to color directly on these pages, all you need is this book and a pack of colored pencils (or crayons, or markers, or pastels, or anything) to unleash the creative in you! Features Summary For Artists - and Wanna Be Artists Beyond a standard "adult colouring" book, 50 THINGS features lessons for the artist on colour theory and coloured pencil techniques... Publisher Apple Press Release date 20150624 Pages 224 ISBN 1-84543-611-3 ISBN 13 978-1-84543-611-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AND NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWhat if you had said yes... ?Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their paths first cross in 1958. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future - together, and apart - as their love story takes on different incarnations and twists and turns to the conclusion in the present day.The Versions of Us is an outstanding debut novel about the choices we make and the different paths that our lives might follow. What if one small decision could change the rest of your life?Laura's Barnett's new book GREATEST HITS is available for pre-order now. Features Summary 'One Day meets Sliding Doors' (Elle). Author Laura Barnett Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release date 20160115 Pages 411 ISBN 1-4746-0089-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4746-0089-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives - a camera, phone, computer, bicycle, car, a dishwasher perhaps - all sport components that fit together with precision and operate with near perfection. We also assume that the more precise a device the better it is. And yet whilst we live lives peppered and larded with precision, we are not, when we come to think about it, entirely sure what precision is, or what it means. How and when did it begin to build the modern world? Simon Winchester seeks to answer these questions through stories of precision's pioneers. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John `Iron-Mad' Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. Thomas Jefferson exported their discoveries to the United States as manufacturing developed in the early twentieth century, with Britain's Henry Royce developing the Rolls Royce and Henry Ford mass producing cars, Hattori's Seiko and Leica lenses, to today's cutting-edge developments from Europe, Asia and North America. As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society? Features Summary SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Author Simon Winchester Publisher William Collins Publishing Release date 20180423 Pages 395 ISBN 0-00-824176-7 ISBN 13 978-0-00-824176-6