Describes underground areas including subways, bank vaults, and basement offices as well as the machines used to construct these places, dig tunnels, mine coal, and drill for oil.

Photographs, drawings, and brief text describe the machines and process that are involved in building a road.

Describes the earthmoving machinery and construction equipment at work on a building site while focusing on the special parts of machines which perform specific functions.

Describes various means of transportation including such vehicles as bicycles, cars, ferry boats, space shuttles, and wheelchairs.

Illustrations and simple text describe machines that are used in road and house building, forestry, and mining industries. Climb aboard a backhoe, watch as building is knocked over, and learn how a road is made. Take an up-close look at the wide variety of machines that are used on a building site. Looking at a variety of machines with a wide range of uses, the Machines at Work series explains how vehicles help people on farms, construction sites,...

Describes the jobs that cranes do and the people who operated them.

What's inside an ambulance? Who drives them? Learn the basics with this exciting book. The huge wheels, powerful engines, and loud noises of working machines seem to entrance children for hours. Now young students can pore over color photos as they learn about their favorite machines-inside and out. Each book builds vocabulary as it describes in simple language the basics of a machine: what it looks like, what it's used for, and how it works.