Andrew Solway, Author, Stephen Biesty, Author, Stephen Biesty, Illustrator Scholastic Reference $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-45546-6
Young readers can visit some fascinating spots in a number of visually intriguing titles. Stephen Biesty employs his meticulous drawings in an oversize volume to survey Rome: In Spectacular Cross-Section, with text by Andrew Solway. Biesty's artwork,
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Richard Platt, Author, Roger Platt, Author, Stephen Biesty, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56458-467-0
A knight or a baron may dwell in the 14th-century castle lovingly recreated here, but Platt and Biesty's (Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War) latest book is, quite simply, fit for a king. In the style of the previous Cross-Sections titles,...
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Richard Platt, Author, Stephen Biesty, Author, Stephen Biesty, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-679-81411-5
For once ``incredible'' isn't an overstatement. This dazzling book offers spread after spread of cutaway illustrations that reveal the hidden architecture of 18 celebrated structures, from a Gothic cathedral to a coal mine to the space shuttle....
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Richard Platt, Author, Stephen Biesty, Author, Stephen Biesty, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7894-1024-5
Biesty (Incredible Cross-Sections) is far too modest--""incredible"" hardly does his books justice. In this, his most ambitious work to date, readers will once again find themselves riveted as he dissects a dozen diverse places and things, from a...
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Stephen Biesty, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7894-0199-1
The artist who brought new meaning to the term ``cross-section'' adds another dimension to a popular work in Stephen Biesty's Incredible Pop-Up Cross-Sections. Inventive paper engineering enhances Biesty's typically intricate dissections, here...
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Stephen Biesty, Author, Stephen Biesty, Illustrator, Richard Platt, With DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56458-321-5
Even the most confirmed landlubbers may find themselves chanting ``Yo-ho-ho!'' by the time they've reached the last of Biesty's 10 uncannily well-executed spreads, each of which shows a cross-section of a 100-gun man-of-war modeled after Admiral...
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