Best Selling Books by Stephen Biesty

This children''s book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings. Whether it''s a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-section slice or exploded view reveals what''s going on inside. See the people swarming inside the Empire State Building, the workers busy backstage at the opera house, and where the crew sleeps on a jumbo jet. Included also are two impressive foldouts showing an ocean liner and a steam train. There are lots of fun facts to be discovered, and curious details are highlighted and explained. Did you know one of the funnels of the Queen Mary liner was fake and used for storing deckchairs? And in almost every scene, there''s the challenge to find a man on the toilet! With more than a million copies sold, Stephen Biesty''s award-winning illustrated book is as fascinating today as it was when first published in 1992. Incredible Cross-Sections is the ultimate way to see how things work.

An intimate guide to the inside of a castle and the lives of its residents, this Stephen Biesty classic, Cross-Sections Castle, details the workings of a medieval fortress. With intricately detailed cross-sections, readers can explore layer upon layer of castle life including the people, their possessions, and how they lived, as well as how they defended themselves from enemy attacks and settled down for an evening of entertainment. Each time readers turn the page, they''ll discover new details, making this the ultimate "insider''s guide" to the structure of a castle and the lives of its inhabitants.

Cross-sectional pop-up illustrations preset an iside view of three different vehicles: a fire engine, a rescue helicopter, and a space shuttle.

Stephen Biesty''s astonishingly detailed cross-sections reveal the splendours of Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. Uncover the glories of art, architecture and the minutiae of every day life. The illustrations are beautifully constructed and teeming with enough detail to keep readers pouring over the pages for hours.

''The ancient city of Rome is the perfect subject for Stephen Biesty''s illustrations - beautifully constructed, technologically advanced, and teeming with life. Titus''s Roman Holiday takes in the Temple, the Forum and the Baths, the Colosseum and chariot racing at the Circus Maximus, allillustrated in stunning, painstaking detail. There are cross-sections, cut-aways and explosions, authoritative annotations, lists and explanations. Biesty captures the epic scale of the city - the capacity crowd at the Colosseum, for example - and there is some wonderful attention to detail in thearchitecture and the engineering. But he also succeeds in capturing the humanity of the city and has a great eye for the quirky minutiae of daily life A well-researched reference work with a sizeable glossary and index, Rome is a witty and brilliantly illustrated book, pitched at the 9-12 year old,but destined to bring the ancient city to life for a wide range of readers.''[From a review in The School Librarian]

This is a portrait of ten real castles in history. Stephen Biesty''s illustrations combined with Meredith Hooper''s text bring the castles to life by introducting their knights and kitchenmaids, sultans and samurai, soldiers and spies.

A series of postcards introduces young readers to cross-sectional illustrations of such famous building as the Parthenon, the Colosseum, Hagia Sophia, Notre Dame, and the Empire State Building, all of which provide cryptic clues about a Lost City of Gold.

In 436 B.C., young Neleus travels with his father from their home in Miletus to Athens, Delphi and, finally, Olympia, where they watch the Olympic games.

Explore every deck, cabin, nook and cranny, hear the sounds of ship and sea in this interactive multimedia tour of an 18th-century man-of-war. The artists illustrations bring to life a lost world of battles, hardship and heroism at sea.

Uses the perspective of tiny people traveling through a man''s body to present its various systems and organs and how they work.

Cross-sectional illustrations present an inside view of such structures as a medieval castle, factory, and subway station.

Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.

In this fascinating book, artist Stephen Biesty has created marvelously detailed color illustrations that show: what is inside a human body; what goes on at an Antarctic research base; how an airport works; the amazing natural world of the Grand Canyon; what is underneath a city street; how a future space station might look; how feature films are made; what is inside a windmill; how a steam tractor works; a fire inside a multi-story building; a windmill; the city of Venice in the 17th century; and the Tower Bridge in London.

Text and cross-section illustrations present inside views of a variety of man-made buildings and vehicles as well as cross-sections of the human body and the Grand Canyon.