Eyewitness Explorers: 09 Rocks & Minerals
Published on 12. August 1993
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-0-7513-6012-7 (ISBN)
Description
This pocket-sized book is designed to provide children with informative, practical projects such as making a bird feeder, a rainbow, an ant farm or a mini-desert garden. This book on rocks and minerals includes explanations of what rocks are and how to use them for building.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 6 mm
Width: 3 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7513-6012-7 (9780751360127)
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Steve Parker
DK Explorers Rocks & Minerals
Book
02/1997
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
€26.18
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Person
Steve Parker is a writer, editor, and consultant specializing in general science and life sciences. He graduated with BSc Honours First Class and is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Steve has written more than 250 books, including The Human Body, Eyewitness Medicine, Eyewitness Human Body and Medicine. He has been shortlisted for prizes ranging from BBC Blue Peter Book of the Year to Times Educational Supplement Information Book of the Year and the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and won the 2014 BMA Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science, and as of 2018 is a two-time winner of the School Library Information Book award.
Content
What are minerals?; how rocks form; where to find rocks and minerals; collecting; moving rocks; volcanoes; floating stones; coal; diamonds; chalk; fossils; erosion; caves; gems; metals; building rocks.