Books in Collins Eyewitness guides series

You can be an eyewitness to the world beneath your feet Earth: we use it for building, industry, energy, sculpture, coins, and even jewellery. Find out all about it, from how our landscapes evolved, to mineral mining and how diamonds and precious stones are cut. Get the picture using the clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download. Then use the giant pull-out wallchart to decorate your room. Great for projects or just for fun, this fact-packed guide and CD shows and tells you everything you need to know about rocks and minerals. "I am a big fan of these...They are brilliantly visual", "There isn't a child that would be able to resist picking that up" - "Reader Reviews".

The Eyewitness series is a collectable visual encyclopedia of reference books. Illustrations throughout - including photography - bring each object vividly to life to give an eyewitness view of the natural world. Comprehensive coverage of each subject provides a collection of knowledge that offers an approach to the wonders and workings of the world around us. This book provides an informative guide to the world's weather. Every type of weather is analysed using photographs, and many questions on meteorology are answered. "Weather" also plots the development of weather-forecasting equipment from the early examples to recent meteorological techniques.