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Kathy Yates has over 20 years of experience both in front of and behind the camera. She has traveled the world and worked with some of the best in the business. Having had the benefit of such experience, and lived in places like London, Paris, Munich, Sydney, Miami, Chicago and San Francisco, her work offers wealth of diverse and beautiful cityscapes and natural scenery. Color: Multi.

“...the most amazing trip around the world you will ever read about...”When Chris Pountney pedals away from the Eiffel Tower he is doing more than just going for a bike ride. It is the start of an ambitious attempt to become perhaps the first person ever to circumnavigate the planet using only a bicycle and boats. With a list of seven challenges to guide him (but no real map), he heads east towards Asia and Australia. The Sydney Opera House is his goal.The story follows Chris as he tackles snowy mountain passes in Turkey, wades across rivers in Tajikistan, eats strange cheeses in Mongolia, and meets with incredible kindness just about everywhere he goes. He lives a simple life - sleeping in a tent, talking to his bike, consuming a really unbelievable number of biscuits, and all the time stubbornly refusing to have anything whatsoever to do with motor vehicles (or escalators).But can he overcome all of the visa deadlines, the breakdowns, the bad roads, the headwinds, the kamikaze kangaroos, and the surprisingly frequent danger of being distracted by members of the opposite sex, to successfully pedal all of the way to Sydney?“Chris takes you on his journey and makes you believe it is possible for you to undertake an adventure of this magnitude.”“A great adventure story and Chris's writing had me genuinely laughing out loud every few pages.”“I've read many books about cycle touring and this is by far the best one. Well written and funny...”“Chris writes in one of the most witty, lighthearted, smart, & well crafted travel storytelling ways that I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.”“I honestly think that Chris’s book is by some way the best of its type that I have read. His story is intelligently written, has the right amount of humour and captures honestly and vividly a true epic odyssey.”(All quotes are extracted from genuine Amazon reviews.)

In 1483, after their father, King Edward IV's death, the princes Edward and Richard of England were locked up in the Tower of London by their uncle, Richard Duke of Gloucester, who was eager to precede them to the throne.  Soon after their imprisonment, the princes vanished and, to this day, the mystery of their disappearance remains unsolved.  While many believed that their uncle had them killed, the possibility remains that they got away.  In this dramatic adventure written entirely in secret letters, Elaine Clayton imagines what might have happened...perhaps the daughter of a tower guard helped them escape!  With lush oil paintings that dramatically convey the mood of 15th century England, this entertaining and dynamic picture book reveals one of the most intriguing secrets in the history of England's monarchy.  It's spunky heroine and her daring rescue of the endangered princes will have readers cheering and may even spark an interest in history.

The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, Sydney's Harbour Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate--bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges, eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now mainly found in adventure movies), to Roman aqueducts and the timber trestle railway bridges of the American West, to today's modern marvels, such as the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, which has the largest span in the world. Blockley outlines the forces at work on a bridge--tension, compression, and shear--and the basic structural elements that combat these forces--beams, arches, trusses, and suspensions (or BATS). As he does so, he explores some of the great bridges around the world, including such lesser-known masterpieces as the Forth Railway Bridge (featured in Alfred Hitchcock's The Thirty-Nine Steps), and describes some spectacular failures, such as the recent bridge collapse in Minnesota or the famous failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. For instance, Blockley discusses the London's Millennium Bridge--the blade of light across the Thames--which displayed an alarming wobble when opened. He explains that when people walk, they not only exert force directly forward, but also exert a lesser force to the side, and the Millennium Bridge engineers did not consider this tiny lateral movement in their otherwise meticulous design. Amazingly enough, this minor omission caused a wobble severe enough to close the bridge for two years. Bridge building is a magnificent example of the practical use of science. But as Blockley shows in this illuminating book, engineers must go beyond science, blending technical experience and creativity to build the spans that connect us all.

This book presents LEGO sculptures and buildings from around the world, from life-sized dinosaurs to a time machine, to Einstein's head, five metres tall. In it, you can watch some of the world's most incredible buildings being built, step by step: the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and others. They have all been photographed in progress,the modellers interviewed and photographs and key facts from LEGO archives have been used. The book includes the story of the development and growth of the LEGO company, product and philosophy, the inside story of the LEGOLAND parks, the planning and building of the new park at Carlsbad in California and the creative secrets of its builders. Discover how artists and designers have been inspired by LEGO and learn how to make your own LEGO sculptures: a deckchair, Mardi Gras outfits, your own mosaic and a dog thats sits up or lies down for you.

Explore 31 extraordinary monuments from around the world—from ancient treasures like the Colosseum to the modern Sydney Opera House.   A world of wonders awaits children in this book! From the Palace of Versailles in France to the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, from Knossos Palace in Greece to Mount Rushmore in the US, it presents some of history’s greatest monuments, along with their location, size, and fun facts and features. Each one is marvelously illustrated by Giulia Lombardo, and introduced by a famous character connected to its legend—including Antoni Gaudi, designer of the Sagrada Familia church; Gustave Eiffel, who created the Eiffel Tower; Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, whose family lives in Alnwick Castle, where scenes from the Harry Potter movies were filmed; and Tom Jobim, who wrote a song about the statue of Christ on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro.Sites include: Alhambra, in Granada, Spain   *   London’s Big Ben   *   Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate   *   Saint Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow   *   Parthenon, in Athens, Greece    *    Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey    *    The Pyramids of Giza    *   Taj Mahal in Agra, India    *    The Great Wall of China    *   Himeji Castle in Japan   *   Statue of Liberty, in New York City   *   Mexico’s Kukulkan Pyramid    *   Machu Picchu, Peru