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Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
by Grady Hillhouse (Author)
@ Amazon* | Bookshop*

Booktalk: In his book trailer the author introduces the book and show snippets from several chapters.

Snippet:
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Electrical Grid
Chapter 2: Communications
Chapter 3: Roadways
Chapter 4: Bridges and Tunnels
Chapter 5: Railways
Chapter 6: Dams, Levees, and Coastal Structures
Chapter 7: Municipal Water and Wastewater
Chapter 8: Construction Glossary

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

North Pole Village Board Book Set
by Sabrina Makhsimova (Author) and Dinara Mirtalipova (Artist)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Warm up inside Mr. Klaus’s cozy cottage, share cocoa with a friendly polar bear, and take a peek inside the toymakers’ workshop to meet Mr. Klaus’s tiniest secret helpers on their busiest night of the year. This board book set includes three rhyming toddler books–Mr. Klaus’s House, Polar Bear’s Nook, and Toymakers’ Workshop–tucked into a trifold case with magnetic closure.

Snippet:
Each morning Mr. Klaus rocks in his chair,
Sipping cocoa with buddies, Mouse and Polar Bear.