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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! If your hands can mix and mash, what job might you have? Hands can wiggle, hands can clap. Hands can wrap and flap and tap. But hands can help-so raise yours, please! Can you guess? Whose hands are these? What if your hands reach, wrench, yank, and crank? The hands in this book-and the people attached to them-do all...

From smartphones to satellites, electrical engineers have helped create much of the technology we use today! Leveled text and vibrant images will introduce readers to electrical engineers and the work they do. Readers will also encounter special features that highlight a famous engineer, showcase examples of electrical engineering in real life, and explain how electrical engineers use STEM to help power the world!

A compendium of career profiles provides information on more than four hundred job options, featuring tables, charts, and quotations that reveal typical salaries, working hours, and training requirements.

Give readers an inside look at the dangerous job of SWAT team members. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, a selected bibliography, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research.

Provides brief profiles of unususal occupations and describes the personality types they require, the working conditions they offer, and what sort of work people in each field do.

Simple text and color photographs explore a variety of occupations and the shoes that are worn for the particular jobs.

Explore fourteen diverse workplaces, then turn the page to find out what each grown-up does there. Features more than 100 jobs. Featuring more than one hundred jobs, this book gives children a fascinating insight into what grown-ups do all day. Explore fifteen busy scenes set in diverse work places, then turn the page to find out what each person's job entails. Packed with detailed scenes and information, this is a sure-fire instant classic.

The story aims to show the child as a chef, carrying our various tasks that cooks do on a daily basis, through original artwork.

In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity.

Sniffing armpits. Scuba diving for golf balls. Building Secret passageways. For some lucky people, these strange tasks are all in a day's work. Want to learn about the men and women who destroy old buildings or make movie Sound effects? Discover a range of weird jobs from around the world! Book jacket.