A Timeline of

$319.00 (AUD)

Volumes: 8

Description:

Each book in this new series follows a major technological innovation from its first appearance in human history to its present-day development. The intuitive layout of each book underscores the remarkable history that is surveyed. Running text on the upper third of each page provides a concise narrative, while a continuous timeline on the bottom two-thirds of the page records the highlights and curious facts of the development of the technology. Text and timeline together provide the kind of challenging and multi-format reading experience recommended for students in today's Australian National Curriculum and New Zealand National Curriculum.

Key features:

The series breaks down long and complicated developments into manageable pieces while graphically showing interdependencies and continuity.
Dynamic layout enables the reader to follow the narrative or browse from fact to fact.
Provides a visual presentation of the topic to help reinforce information from textbooks and classroom lectures.
Provides a "Find Out More" section of age-appropriate additional resources.
Such functional features as definitions in context, glossary, and index help to improve comprehension and give readers practice with common research tools of information seeking.

Titles in the series: