Dk nov 2026 (5 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Get to the good stuff fast with DK's Top 10 pocket guides Perfect for a city break or short stay, Top 10 Paris is your essential Paris travel guide. Top 10 lists showcase the city's highlights, so you can spend less time researching and more time exploring. It's compact and easy to carry, too, and filled with expert tips and clear maps to guide you on the go. Inside this Paris guide book you'll find: - Top 10 lists covering the must-sees and must-dos - from the Musée d'Orsay to nights out at a jazz club - Paris's best areas to explore, including Marais and the Bastille, Île de la Cité and Île St-Louis, and Champs-Élysées - Recommendations for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping - Themed lists including historic buildings, French cuisine, family attractions, and more - Easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a weekend break - Laminated pull-out city map, plus detailed area maps for easy navigation For longer trips and more on Paris's culture, history, and attractions, pair this pocket guide with our classic DK Paris travel guide. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Pit your wits against family and friends and do whatever it takes to be The Official F1® Quiz Book champion.With 24 Grand Prix(TM)-themed quiz rounds, covering all the races across the F1 season, each featuring rookie, challenger, and championship-level questions.The tiered levels for each quiz round mean fans new and old can test their racing knowledge against each other. Choose to go head to head in a single F1 Grand Prix quiz round to top the podium, or compete across all 24 rounds and almost 2,000 questions to secure the title of Ultimate F1 Quiz Champion.Can you answer. How many red lights go out, indicating the start of an F1 Grand Prix What percentage of a race needs to be completed in order to award full points to the top 10 finishers Approximately how much body weight does the average F1 driver lose to sweat during a Grand Prix In advance of street circuit F1 races, which street furniture component do local authorities often need to weld shut.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A celebration of the greatest human achievements through science, culture, technology, and all the fascinating bits in betweenJoin charismatic scientist Anna Ploszajski (expert consultant for DK title What's it Made Of ) as she weaves 100 stories that reveal the essence of human achievement.From organizing ourselves into societies, with justice, education, and governments of many types to creating art and music that can move us to tears, humans never stop experimenting. We have story-telling and humor; we have learned to build rockets and iPhones, bridges and skyscrapers. Amazing Us is a joyous celebration of everything that makes us amazing.This ambitious book transcends traditional encyclopedias to celebrate our obvious achievements as well as the everyday miracles kids may well take for granted.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The long-awaited book from SingleThread, the three-Michelin-starred restaurant, farm, and inn leading a global conversation about seasonality, locality, and sustainability in fine dining.At SingleThread, each meal tells the story of the day. Each menu, and every dish on it, is designed to reflect that specific moment in time and to showcase the ingredients grown on the SingleThread farm. But the approach taken by Kyle and Katina Connaughton (SingleThread's chef and farmer co-founders) does not end with a simple commitment to seasonality and locality. Instead, it involves a nuanced, considered approach that balances this celebration of local ingredients with a holistic view of what constitutes good food systemsincluding the need to support artisans, preserve the expertise developed by generations of specialists, and develop climate-resilient approaches to farming and other forms of food production.SingleThread offers a deep dive into what truly seasonal cooking looks like and into the mindful approach Kyle and Katina take to every aspect of their work, from their warm hospitality to the meticulous design philosophy behind the restaurant and inn. With stunning photography and intricate illustrations, the book offers a tour of the farm and restaurant while also delving into the team's unique agricultural methods, the techniques and recipes used in the SingleThread kitchen, the way the farm and kitchen teams coordinate on a daily basis, their philosophy of hospitality, the importance of their relationships with other producers and artisansand the unique love story that started with two teenagers at a punk show and grew into the partnership that made all of this possible in the first place.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Follow the story of scientific discovery through the images that have made it come to life.Making images by hand has always been part of science. Throughout history, scientists and artists have created images to capture what they see and communicate their ideas. That tradition is alive and well today.In this beautiful book, you will find:- More than 400 drawings, paintings, and other original artworks that span the millennia and human cultures- Insightful text that sets the images in context, profiles the men and women who made them, and explains how they changed science- Contemporary artworks and modern scientific images - including photographs, X-rays, and space telescope images - that explain the science and show features that were hidden from the people who made the original imagesThe Art of Science draws on a wealth of images from all areas of natural history and science, from plants to the human body and Earth science to astronomy and physics. They include images from landmark books such as Leonardo da Vinci's not Elektronisches Buch, Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos, John James Audubon's Birds of America, and Charles Darwin's Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle.Incredible images record historic leaps forward in understanding, such as the first time cells and their nuclei were seen through a microscope or the Moon's craters were seen through a telescope. Modern artworks and photographic images explain our current understanding of the ideas encapsulated in the artworks, showcasing where scientific understanding has moved on, but also, incredibly, where the people who made the original images were exactly right.The book opens with an introduction that traces the history of collaboration between artists and scientists and shows how visual communication has moved forward in step with the invention of instruments such as the microscope. It also reveals the transformative effect of the technology for printing and reproduction, from woodblock to the printing press, engraving, and lithography. A visual history of scientific thought, The Art of Science proves that works of science can also be works of artistry and beauty.…