Books with title Sports Stars

Have you ever wanted to drive a sports car? This new edition of 'Sports Cars' looks at how the sleekest cars on the road and track are designed, built, and driven. Check out the high-performance BMW Z4 3.OSI Sport, the best-selling Mazda MX-5 Miata, and race Le Mans with the Audi R10. Learn about the design secrets of muscle cars, glamorous classics, and super-streamlined Porsche Cayman S. You can even take a closer look under the hood of the superbly-designed Bugatti Veyron. Buckle up and get ready to go fast! The revised and updated 'Designed for Success' series shows how designers create the very best cars, planes, motorcycles, and other exciting vehicles. It explains the many design challenges that designers and engineers must overcome and the factors they must take into account, such as materials, cost, and new technology.

Extreme sports stars are rarely accused of being boring. When they see a challenge, they attack it head on. And when everything goes as planned, they can perform some pretty amazing tricks. Extreme Sports Stars introduces some of today's most exciting athletes. With colorful tales of each athlete's journey from childhood dreams to amazing performances of today, plus a timeline, glossary, and more, these books are a can't-miss for any action-sports fan. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Full-color photos. From baseball and football to archery and squash, "ancient and modern equipment, rules, and history are highlighted in Sports, an all-star winner for enthusiasts of the two dozen varieties covered through the sophisticated photo essay format. Featuring spectacular close-up photographs, this is an ideal attention grabber for reluctant readers and young teens."--(starred) Booklist.

Sports Stars, Series 1 Contains 80 popular, active athletes in its coverage. Students will find biographical sketches averaging seven pages each on athletes who participate in a wide range of sports, including auto racing, baseball, basketball, figure skating, golf, hockey, tennis, volleyball and more. Also included is a cumulative name and subject index. Entries contain more than 100 photos including action shots of the individuals.