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| Author: David/ Ardley MacAulay |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-10: 0395938473
ISBN-13: 9780395938478
Buy.com Sku: 30371254
Publish Date: 10/1/1998
Buy.com Sales Rank: 47493
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 11.5H x 8.75L x 1.25T
Pages:
400
Age Range:
14 to College
| Caldecott Medalist David Macaulay demystifies the digital age and steers readers successfully into the 21st century in this completely updated and expanded edition of his bestselling "The Way Things Work." |
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Caldecott Medalist David Macaulay demystifies the digital age and steers readers successfully into the 21st century, in this completely updated and expanded edition of his bestselling "The Way Things Work". Full color.The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth.Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines |
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Macaulay's enormously popular THE WAY THINGS WORK explains how a variety of mechanical items function through extremely detailed illustrations and helpful text. This updated version includes over 70 pages of new information. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Macaulay's enormously popular THE WAY THINGS WORK explains how a variety of mechanical items function through extremely detailed illustrations and helpful text. This updated version includes over 70 pages of new information. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Author Bio
David Macaulay
English-born David Macaulay and his family moved to the United States when he was 11. Interested in drawing and technology since childhood, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he majored in architecture and eventually became an art instructor. It was during this time that he began to create books. His first published work, CATHEDRAL, appeared in 1973 and was quickly lauded a landmark work in the field of informational books for children. In 1990, David Macaulay won the Caldecott Medal for his book BLACK AND WHITE.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Each object is rendered by Macaulay's painter's brush in precise but never pedantic detail with a wash of muted watercolors. The text is lucidly set down by science writer Neil Ardley without losing the general reader in too much jargon." - Robert Hotz 12/06/1998
"Each object is rendered by Macaulay's painter's brush in precise but never pedantic detail with a wash of muted watercolors. The text is lucidly set down by science writer Neil Ardley without losing the general reader in too much jargon." - Robert Hotz 12/06/1998
