David Macaulay Libri

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"Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales."--Title page verso.

Book HardcoverPublication 10/7/2008 336Reading Age 10 and Up

This richly illustrated book shows the intricate step-by-step process of an imaginary cathedral's growth.

Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines including a lawn sprinkler, pneumatic drill, electric guitar, and a smoke detector.

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

In the year 4022, an amateur archeologist makes an important discovery in the long buried country of Usa that has many humorous parallels to Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb.

This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.

Encyklopedie techniky pro děti a mládež seznamuje s principy nejrůznějších strojů a nejznámějších technických vynálezů.

S autorom knihy Davidom Macaulayom a jeho zvedavými mamutmi sa vydaj na dobrodružnú výpravu, počas ktorej prenikneš do tajov fyziky, biológie, chémie, geografie i astronómie.Dozvieš sa napríklad, že voda je jedinou látkou na Zemi, ktorá sa vyskytuje vo všetkých troch skupenstvách. Pochopíš, prečo majú dve čisté formy uhlíka - mäkký grafit a tvrdý diamant - také odlišné vlastnosti. Mamuty ti tiež vysvetlia, ako sa meria hustota látok alebo prečo aj ťažké predmety plávajú. Okrem toho sa všeličo dozvieš o atómoch a molekulách, energii, teple, zvuku, svetle či magnetizme. S mamutmi sa prejdeš po ľudskom tele i našej planéte a svoje putovanie ukončíš poznávaním Slnečnej sústavy a galaxie Mliečna dráha... To všetko ťa čaká v tejto trochu nezvyčajnej príručke pre nádejných vedcov!