For the curious child who simply must know “HOW?”! From the authors of the ingenious The Book of Why comes a book full of great answers to tough questions: How do rainbows form? How can I tell my parents I get scared when they yell at me? How can we help the poor? How do broken bones heal? How can I convince my mother that video games won’t make me stupid? These and 80 other questions are thoughtfully answered in this well-researched book.

The Book of How

Children's Books

LAFFON, Martine

Azam, Jacques

De Chabaneix, Hortense

Literature & Fiction

Abrams Books for Young Readers

A tour of home design considers how a range of cultures created houses that reflected their ideals, values, and landscapes, in a volume of vernacular and ethnographic domestic architecture that features a forest treehouse, a Thai boathouse, a Siberian hut, and more. 15,000 first printing.

A Home in the World: Houses and Cultures

Arts & Photography

Laffon, Caroline

Architecture

Harry N. Abrams

Why do we cry? Why is the sky blue? Why must children obey their parents? Find out the answers to these and many more questions in this clever road-trip book, in the tradition of the bestseller The Way Things Work. In this fact-filled book, difficult questions are broken down and explained in persuasive, fun language that kids will relate to. Great for summer reading and back-seat entertainment, this book tackles the perennial puzzling questions and even provides a few important lessons in the process. Why does fire burn? What is infinity? Can wishes come true? These and 80 other burning questions are thoughtfully answered in this well-researched book.

The Book of Why

Education & Reference

Readers looking for a spooky time after trick-or-treating or during the next sleepover will be chilled by Do You Believe in Ghosts?, which introduces ideas and activities surrounding the spirit world in a fun, nonthreatening way. Haunting text and ghoulish illustrations teach about séances, Ouija boards, palm readings, astrology, and the beyond.” Every reader will be a believer.

Do You Believe in Ghosts?: Fortune-tellers, Séances, Mediums, and More! (Sunscreen)

An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer. More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps reveal their makers' worldview as well as the myths, beliefs and legends of their times. By patiently creating maps, globes, charts and atlases, humans have sought to understand the universe and our place in it. Mapping the World explores many rare and fascinating mapping artifacts, beginning with the first crude drawings and progressing to the stunning satellite views of today. Many of these examples will be unfamiliar even to serious cartographers and collectors. Thirty essays answer the questions map-makers have asked and reveal the roles their maps played in finding those answers. Color reproductions of beautiful maps and charts include: <ul>
<li>A Chinese map dated to 1229 that shows the city's bridges, pagodas and gardens</li> <li>A French 15th-century interpretation of the four corners of the Earth</li> <li>A painted silk map of the universe dating from the 1830s</li> <li>A modern "inverse" world map from Australia's perspective</li> <li>The cosmos as imagined in 1750.</li>
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With 87 maps in all, Mapping the World will fascinate general readers, map collectors, geographers, cartographers and historians.

Mapping the World: Stories of Geography

History

World

Firefly Books

Dix années de guerre ont permis à Ulysse, roi d'Ithaque, de prouver sa vaillance et sa ruse. Le guerrier n'aspire plus qu'à retrouver enfin Pénélope, sa femme, et Télémaque, son fils. Mais les dieux et le destin en ont décidé autrement. Pourchassé par la colère de Poséidon, soutenu par Athéna, le héros va errer encore dix ans sur les mers au gré d'épreuves répétées...

Ulysse et l'Odyssée - Texte intégral (Livre de Poche Jeunesse) (French Edition)

Homère

POCHE JEUNESSE

Grâce à une iconographie riche et variée qui débute avec des représentations des mondes premiers et nous mène aux cartes satellites d’aujourd’hui, le lecteur découvre comment les représentations de la Terre se sont construites au cours de l’Histoire, comment elles ont évolué, se sont stabilisées et quels en furent les enjeux. Étudier les cartes géographiques, c’est retracer une sorte de fresque de l’aventure humaine, réfléchir à la place accordée à chaque peuple dans le monde et s’interroger sur la validité et la légitimité de nos propres représentations. Toutes les mythologies ont tenté de répondre à l’énigme des origines de la Terre, de sa forme et de sa matière. Puis les scientifiques, les géographes, les explorateurs, les commerçants et même les peintres ont voulu donner leur propre vision du monde à travers des globes, des mappemondes et des atlas en fonction des connaissances réelles ou imaginaires qu’ils pouvaient en avoir. L’observation des cartes géographiques qui nous est offerte ici nous montre à quel point cette représentation fut toujours partielle et particulière.

Dessiner le monde

History & Criticism

SEUIL

Poséidon le terrible (French Edition)

Contemporary

FLAM JEUNESSE

Depuis quand la Terre tourne-t-elle autour du soleil? Facile! Depuis que quatre gros géants la poussent à travers le ciel, de l'hiver au printemps...

Elle tourne comme ça

FOURMIS ROUGES

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