| #4566812 in Books | Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd | 2000-07-01 | Format: Large Print | Original language:English | .0 x.0 x.0l,.0 | File type: PDF | 32 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The book shows you pictures are worth 1000 plus words|By Gelmark|This book gets you to think of the world around you in such as different way. the fold out illustrations very well demonstrate the shear scale of mountains, dept of oceans, size of animals, compared to normal everyday things you would see like a skyscraper, houses and a person. The book shows you pictures are wo|From School Library Journal|Grade 5-8. This eye-catching book makes comparisons based on known quantities rather than numerical measurements. For example, the weight of the blue whale is compared verbally and graphically to the weight of 26 African elephants. D
This reference book turns statistics into pictures. It shows, at a glance, the sizes, shapes, masses, heights and speeds of all kinds of objects and compares them with like and unlike objects. It describes subjects ranging from the workings of the human body to the outer reaches of the universe.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Incredible Comparisons | Dorling Kindersley. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
