Biking is cheap, it’s healthy, and it can provide easy access into an incredible array of life experiences. In this wide-ranging and quick-hitting guide, author Rob Coppolillo explains how bikes work, why bikes matter (especially today, when gas is expensive and interest in green living is high), and how readers – whatever their level of experience – can indulge their tastes for mountain trails, competitive racing, city exploration, and just basic transportation from point A to point B.
This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture. An entertaining and informative guide to the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects - from Batman to motor bikes, and pop stars to internet pornography
How Things Work Cars,Bikes, Trains, and Other Land Machines
Grade 3-5-- The subjects of wheeled vehicles and floating machines are treated in omnibus fashion in these two useful but densely packed titles. A one-page illustrated timeline of "famous firsts" and an introduction are followed by spreads depicting such topics as "Drum and Disc Brakes" or "Hydrofoils." Sidebars focus on particular aspects, such as (in Boats ) knots, water jets, ballast; and (in Cars ) friction, combustion, or compression. Several boxes present things to do, such as making a water-jet boat from a balloon and a large plastic bottle.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Momentum
When Bill Nye explains scientific concepts, youngsters are likey to remember the illustrations and comparisons he utilizes. They may even remember his bad jokes, but Nye has made it clear that he will do almost anything if it means that kids will become more interested in science. The former standup comic talks about elephants on bikes compared to mice on bikes in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Momentum, and then discusses the momentum of pool balls.