Kirkwood, Jon

Examines the background and history of car racing and the construction, operation, and maintenance of the vehicles used. A detailed fold-out shows a cross-section of a cr, how it works, and what gives it its speed.

Describes various kinds of firefighting equipment, including fire trucks, fire boats, aerial platforms, and other emergency equipment.

Describes the sun, moon, stars, and solar system; our exploration of space; the equipment and spacecrafts we have used; and the discoveries we have made.

Captioned illustrations provide information about all kinds of vehicles, including cars, fire engines, trains, tanks, airplanes, and submarines.

Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of cockroaches.

Cross-section illustrations invite the reader to peer inside cathedrals, castles and palaces, industrial giants, sky scrapers, and other buildings to see how they were built.

Examines stars and galaxies, exploring the birth and death of stars, the galaxies beyond the Milky Way, and how we observe such phenomena.

Explores the world of astronomy, discussing planets, stars, meteors, comets, galaxies, and more.

Discusses the structure of the solar system, the individual planets, and such related phenomena as asteroids, comets, moons, and more.

Examines the background and history of car racing and the construction, operation, and maintenance of the vehicles used.