Best Selling Books by Jan Adkins

Provides comprehensive coverage of all the latest requirements for the new 2011 curriculum. � Supported with exciting and imaginative online learning resources. � Addresses fully each of the four parts of the curriculum, with a wealth of creative activities and extensive modelling exercises for students. � Gives clear links to TOK and supports the IB Learner Profile throughout. � Enables exam-style assessment opportunities. � Supports each of the assessments and provides guidance on the Extended Essay. � Suitable for use with SL and HL courses.

Bound set of Getting Started in Boats, from WoodenBoat magazine, issues 1-20. Each issue is 8 pages, with topics like Building the Lumberyard Skiff, to Building the Peace Canoe, Flat bottomed skiffs, strip planking, small boat shapes, annual painting, wood selection, home boatshops, reading boat plans, and more.

Drawings and text instruct in building sandcastles like the real stone and mortar ones of long ago. Includes descriptions of castle life and explains the roles of such people as the master of hounds, scribe, and page.

Bertha Benz and her sons drive across Germany in the world''s first automobile.

An amusing and informative book that describes in detail what pirates wore, how they lived on board ships, how they became pirates, plus all the things that were on a ship, how the ships were sailed and where they went, and weapons and battles, Seadogs, and buccaneers. Includes a glossary. Full-color illustrations. ¿The kind of richly detailed work that an aspiring pirate might consult to separate myth from fact before deciding to go into the swordly seafaring trades.¿

While researching a story on Star Wars, "National Geographic" photographer Charlie Salt stumbles upon a secret that the Pentagon will kill to conceal, and soon he is racing against the clock to get the story published

Discusses the many uses of string, rope, line, and knots, from rigging sails and clotheslines to tying packages and sewing buttons.

Line drawings complement an introduction to the ancient skills involved in the creation of pleasing wines

Illustrations and comments make up a primer of signs, marks, logograms, badges, pictographs, flags, insignia, signals, devices, and banners.

A lobsterman out in his boat in a heavy fog is approached by sailors, on varying sizes of boats and ships, seeking guidance into port.