design and construction

A guide to designing and building robots.

Learn all about the engineers who work with NASCAR, the design behind the GPS system in the cars we drive every day, and the engineers who start with a blueprint and turn it into a design!.

A guide to using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 set to create robots, including a wheeled vehicle with sensors, a race car, a six-legged walking creature, a robotic arm, and a humanoid robot.

The author describes how a perfect acoustic guitar is made as he tells the story of Wayne Henderson, master artist, who has crafted guitars for performer Eric Clapton.

Ved Mehta chronicles his efforts to set down roots and build a home on Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine.

Explains how to build, buy, install, and operate fireplaces and wood stoves.

Beginning readers discover why bus drivers are a very important part of a community. A variety of bus drivers are introduced with their own special job, including a school bus driver and a tour bus driver. Through fun, accessible text and a helpful picture glossary, young readers learn important facts about bus drivers and the vehicles they drive.

An introduction to the Pyramids of Giza, featuring photographs and text that examine their history, location, construction, interior and exterior architecture, and the scientific aspects of the structures, and including an overview of twenty-first-century issues, instructions for a related activity, and a brief quiz.