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|title=In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways
|author=Libby Walden
|date=July 2016
|isbn=9781848575059
|website=|videoaznuk=184857505X|amazonukaznus=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>|amazonuscover=<amazonus>184857505X</amazonus>
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Where the book didn't lift me in surprise was the artwork – by proclaiming the difference for every subject, and having a new artist for every double/four-page spread, the results are surprisingly similar. While effort has been done to make every page impactful, only the famous buildings, with their Tintinesque line, stand out – the subdued pastels of the animals have the same feel as the household objects. That's a minor point, however – I think the book doesn't suffer through having a more uniform, coherent look. If the coherence had reached as far as fully paralleling the outsides and insides, I would have rated this book very highly indeed. As it is it's a clever look at the cleverness of both our built and our natural worlds.
I must thank the publishers for my review copy. We're going to shelve it next to [[In Focus: Cities by Libby Walden]].
That book I mentioned above? It's [[Under Earth, Under Water by Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)]].

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