Books with author Oldrich Ruzicka

Travel to a land before time and learn all about about Earth’s origins, dinosaurs, and evolution! No need to build a time machine to see how Earth began; starting with the Big Bang, this expansive atlas takes a thrilling journey through Earth’s history from the Paleozoic era to the Quaternary era. Along with six large foldout pages and six bound-in booklets, it features full-color illustrations depicting the flora and fauna of each particular time period and a fun introduction to the animal kingdom and scientific terms. Young paleontologists will happily spend hours discovering more about their world.

The new Shape Books series brings the ancient world to three-dimensional life and reveals the most interesting topics from some of the world's most important empires. Each title is a self-boxed 3-D board book that replicates an iconic structure from an ancient civilization. Page-filling color illustrations and concise text take young readers back in time, where they discover how people lived and what their world looked like. Engaging, interactive and informative, Shape Books are sure to be a hit with curious readers. Readers will find the fascinating stories of the most famous Egyptian icons: hieroglyphs, pharaohs, gods, pyramids and other tombs, mummies and the Nile. Cutaway illustrations and concise text describe how archaeological discoveries were made and what they reveal about the civilization that created them.

A fun new format including a time traveler's dial allows kids to explore the Earth's history. This interactive book format invites children to go through different time periods: explore the sea of the Paleozoic era on one spread, and visit herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era on another. The cover mechanism enables them to dial into and learn about a specific period in history through colorful and inviting illustrations and facts. This entertaining reference tool is a great resource and addition to a home library.

The new Shape Books series brings the ancient world to three-dimensional life and reveals the most interesting topics from some of the world's most important empires. Each title is a self-boxed 3-D board book that replicates an iconic structure from an ancient civilization. Page-filling color illustrations and concise text take young readers back in time, where they discover how people lived and what their world looked like. Engaging, interactive and informative, Shape Books are sure to be a hit with curious readers. Readers will find the fascinating stories of the most famous Egyptian icons: hieroglyphs, pharaohs, gods, pyramids and other tombs, mummies and the Nile. Cutaway illustrations and concise text describe how archaeological discoveries were made and what they reveal about the civilization that created them.

Un formidable voyage dans le temps pour découvrir les plus grandes inventions scientifiques et technologiques depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.De la roue à l’avion supersonique, en passant par le tour de potier, l’imprimerie ou encore les lunettes de vue, laissons-nous guider par Albert Einstein et glissons dans le temps pour découvrir les inventions qui ont révolutionné l’histoire de l’humanité. Le lecteur saura certainement reconnaître l’ancêtre de la bicyclette ou de la moto, mais pourra-t-il en faire autant avec le grand-père du téléphone ou la grand-mère de la caméra vidéo numérique? Et grâce à un ingénieux mécanisme sur la couverture, on choisit l’époque que l’on souhaite visiter en déplaçant le curseur, et l’on traverse les siècles d’un geste pour s’y rendre directement. À partir de huit ans.