New Releases by David Macaulay

An offbeat e-guide to math from award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay. David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of numbers, geometry, measurement, and much more in this unconventional and highly original guide to math.From computer games to bridges, shopping malls to game shows, math is all around you if you look closely enough. In Mammoth Math, not only will you learn the essential principles of math, you'll enjoy learning about them. From start to finish, let the mammoths be your guide as they seek to understand the math! These intrepid demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain, as they wrestle with adding or subtracting large numbers, measuring angles, reading 24-hour time, creating a pie chart, solving equations, and much more.Following on from Mammoth Science is best-selling illustrator David Macaulay, whose How Machines Work won the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2016. Renowned for his ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius, Macaulay captures the oddball humor of his subject matter, making Mammoth Math the perfect introduction to math for the young and the young-at-heart.

David Macaulay's troupe of curious mammoths lead you through the basics of numbers, calculation, geometry, measurement, and much more in this unconventional and highly original guide to maths.From computer games to bridges, shopping malls to game shows, maths is all around you if you look closely enough. In Mammoth Maths, not only will you learn the essential principles of maths, you'll enjoy learning about them. From start to finish, the mammoths are your guide as they seek to understand the maths! These intrepid demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain, as they wrestle with adding or subtracting large numbers, measuring angles, creating a pie chart, solving equations, and much more.Observing and recording the mammoths' behaviour is best-selling illustrator David Macaulay. Renowned for his ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius, Macaulay captures the oddball humour of his subject matter, making Mammoth Maths the perfect introduction to maths.

As seen on CBS News Sunday Morning. Explainer-in-Chief David Macaulay updates his worldwide bestseller to capture the latest developments in the technology that most impacts our lives. What possible link could there be between parking meters and meat grinders, jumbo jets and jackhammers, remote control and rockets, electric guitars and egg beaters? Macaulay explains them all! Famously packed with information on the inner workings of everything from windmills to Wi-Fi, this extraordinary and humorous book both guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines and shows how the developments of the past are building blocks of the world of tomorrow. This sweepingly revised edition embraces recent technological developments, from touchscreens to 3D printers. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained, with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth. An illustrated survey of significant inventions closes the book, along with a glossary of technical terms and an index. A New York Times Bestseller

Explains to the reader how the human eye works.

The castle was built to keep the people inside safe. It keeps other people safely outside! Are you friend or foe?

Ich beobachte den Bau der grosse Moscheeanlage: Anno 1595, zur Blütezeit des Osmanischen Reichs, stiftet in Istanbul ein reicher Admiral eine Moscheeanlage. Dazu sollen auch Koranschule, Bad, Armenküche und ein Grab gehören. Schritt für Schritt lässt sich nachvollziehen, wie der Baumeister nach dem Vorbild des berühmten Sinan vorgeht. Viele handwerkliche Arbeiten werden gezeigt und erklärt. Isometrien, Schnitte und perspektivische Zeichnungen geben Einblick in die architektonischen Grundformen und die konstruktiven Dimensionen des riesigen Baus. Und natürlich lassen sich viele Aspekte über die Praxis des Islams und über die orientalische Gesellschaft und ihre Lebensformen herauslesen. Das Buch ist ein interessanter Beitrag zur interkulturellen Diskussion und zur Architekturgeschichte. Ein Glossar erläutert die vielen Begriffe aus dem Arabischen. Ab 10 Jahren, ausgezeichnet, Ruedi W. Schweizer.

Reveals the inner workings of the human body and all of its systems and mechanisms.

L'an 2470 avant notre ère. En Egypte, le nouveau pharaon n'en est qu'au tout début de son règne, mais déjà, en digne fils du Nil, il songe à sa mort et à son éternel voyage dans l'au-delà qu'il s'agit de préparer sans tarder. Il appelle son ami, l'architecte Mahnoud Hotep : " Construis-moi un tombeau, une belle pyramide. Par respect pour mon ancêtre Khéphren, tu la feras moins haute de six coudées. Mais... tu t'arrangeras pour la construire sur un site un peu plus haut que le plateau de Gizeh... de douze coudées." Et l'immense chantier est ouvert. Les grands prêtres règlent l'orientation du bâtiment. Une armée de dizaines de milliers de malheureux charrie d'énormes blocs de calcaire. Trente ans plus tard, la dernière pierre de l'édifice est posée. Le pharaon peut mourir. Son corps va reposer en paix sous une montagne parfaite de plus de deux millions de blocs de pierre polie.

Teams from MIT and Friendly Planet took over 40,000 photographs on four expeditions across the country. Local students joined these ambitious trips and helped with the photography. Approximately 100 images were chosen and loosely follow these journeys. Portraits of people are life-size (or bigger). Panoramas convey some of the staggering sweep of the mountains and the awesome ancient architecture. "Bhutan" begins with an atlas of the country, created by renowned artist and author David Macaulay expressly for this book.

Albert and his trusty mare, June, set off early on market day to sell their melons in town, thus beginning a mysterious chain of events in a thought-provoking journey that exposes ordinary life as an intricate sequence of action and reaction.

Vom Hebel zum Laser, von der Windmühle zur Website: Der preisgekrönte Buchklassiker in aktualisierter und erweiterter Neuauflage! Die digitale Welt der Computer, Telekommunikation und Internet wird hier in bewährter Weise so erklärt, dass es wirklich alle verstehen. Ein Buch für Technik-Begabte und -Unbegabte von 10-100 Jahren (Quelle: Das Buch für Dich 1999/2000).

Describes wooden ships or caravels of the fifteenth century and follows archaeologists as they uncover a lost caravel in the Caribbean Sea.

Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

Un archéologue de l'an 4022 découvre et interprète des vestiges de la civilisation américaine du 20e siècle. Ses affirmations sont déroutantes et jettent quelque peu le discrédit sur cette science. Une satire humoristique qui fera sourire même les plus fidèles adeptes de l'archéologie.