The Illustrated Encyclopedia

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Withmore than 380 fascinating topics over 600 pages, this must-have children's encyclopedia is perfect for curious young minds aged 9 and over.

Ideal for projects, or just for fun, this fact-filled kids' book of general knowledge features bite-size chunks on the Arctic and Aztecs, X-rays and zoos, plus everything in between. From glaciers, insects, and myths to scientists, space missions and world wars, this comprehensive encyclopedia is brimming with topics to wow young readers.

DK's Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia brings history, nature, geography, and science to life with a clear, child-friendly style and more than 3,000 illustrations, photos, cut-aways, and maps. It has been fully updated to include all the latest political, social, and cultural events as well as scientific breakthroughs.

With 3 million copies sold since its first edition, Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia covers everything a kid needs to know.

Ancient Rome became the center of a mighty empire as Roman armies conquered all the lands around the Mediterranean Sea and well beyond. At its height, the empire stretched from Britain to the Middle East and into Africa. Following the armies came Roman settlers, spreading their culture, art and technology, and their form of government.

This encyclopedia designed for young readers describes the ancient Romans and their world. More than 220 informative entries detail everyday life in Roman cities and countrysides, as well as subjects such as farming, trade, leisure and games, religion, language, technology, and war. Readers will encounter emperors and slaves, writers and soldiers, dictators and gladiators.

Mike Corbishley is former head of education at English Heritage and the author of Secret Cities, The Vikings, and Growing Up in Ancient Rome. An archaeologist, he has excavated Roman villas and burial sites in Britain for more than twenty years.

An illustrated STEM encyclopedia covering the top 100 words that kids need to know.

Do you know all about Atoms? Or what Bioluminescence is? Discover these terms and more in this illustrated STEM encyclopedia. Organized in alphabetical order and each concept beautifully illustrated with humor and charm, these 100 essential words will fascinate scientifically minded young readers, from those ABCs all the way down to X-rays, the terrifying Yangchuanosaurus and even the true definition of Zero!

There is a contents list at the front and a full index at the back, plenty of extra words and definitions . . . plus mind-boggling facts, too. This is the book for STEM fans! Collated and written by bestselling STEM author, Jenny Jacoby, and illustrated by award-winning illustrator, Vicky Barker.

STEM stands for "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math." These core subjects are imperative in a child's education to help them understand the world and thrive in it!

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft was a weekly partwork magazine by Aerospace Publishing (an imprint of Orbis Publishing) which was published in the United Kingdom (and sold in other countries too) during the early 1980s.[1] The magazine was intended to eventually make up a multi-volume encyclopedia dedicated to aviation. First issued in 1981, the partwork comprised 216 issues, each of twenty pages (plus the covers), making up eighteen volumes (4280 pages).[1] The first two issues were sold together for the price of one, subsequent issues were sold on their own.

Empty binders for each volume (of twelve issues) were also sold. These binders were dark blue in colour and contained the imprint of a Panavia Tornado on the front. They held the issues using a metal strip that was threaded through the staples of each issue to hold them in place. Each issue consisted of four separate sections.

The final two parts (215 and 216), issued in 1985, comprised the index for the encyclopedia. A table of contents was also included with these final issues that was intended to be inserted into the start of volume 1.[2]

The first few pages of each issue (usually four or five) were mostly dedicated to the history of aviation and also covered commercial aviation and current (as in the early 1980s) air power ("Air Power Today").

The "History of Aviation" began in issue 1 with a seven part series on the airpower of the Vietnam War.[3] Most of the "History of Aviation" was taken up with warfare especially World War II starting with the Blitzkrieg in issue eight and ending with defeat of Japan in issue 156. The coverage of World War 2 also included surveys of different combat roles and aircraft types.

World War I was also covered in the History of Aviation as was the Korean War, Spanish Civil War, post-World War II colonial conflicts and the Arab-Israeli Wars. In later issues the Cold War was covered in depth.

The history of "Commercial Aviation" was also covered in a multi-part series starting with the earliest commercial air flights and ending with general aviation and microlights near the very end of the Encyclopedia's run.

The second section of the issue was "The World's Greatest Aircraft" and was an in depth look at a major aircraft type, including a history and description of the aircraft, a cutaway drawing, a list of variants and a three-way view in colour on the centre pages. The North American Mustang was featured in issue one, with the North American XB-70 the final aircraft featured in issue 214.

The third section of the magazine was the "A-Z of Aircraft" which had the aim of listing and describing every aircraft ever built (at the time of publication) in alphabetical order. The A-Z began in great depth with every aircraft given its own entry however, in later issues the A-Z stopped featuring more obscure aircraft types and collected the aircraft of smaller and less well known aircraft manufacturers into a single entry.

This can be illustrated by the first and last entries in the A-Z. The first aircraft to be featured was the AAMSA A9B-M Quail (on page 14) but the last (on page 3120) was in a collected entry on Zmaj aircraft. However, based on the Zmaj entry then the last aircraft in the A-Z was the Zmaj Nebojsa.

The final section (although it was part of the cover which was to be removed when the issue was placed in a binder) was a feature on either an air force or airline. The back cover either featured an advert for the binders or a full page photo of an aircraft. Sometimes the airforce/airline feature was omitted in favour of an order form for binders or back issues or even sometimes an advert.

The two pages on top seem doable with standard LaTeX methods. The two pages below: no. Carefully cutting where text runs around such pictures is a task for a more graphically orientated software. I'd say InDesign and such. So if you want to create a graphically advanced encyclopedia, LaTeX might not be the way to go.

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