New Releases by David MacAulay

Introducing an off-beat maths workbook to help you develop core number skills and more by award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay. This interactive workbook, with mammoths as your guides, is a fun and light-hearted approach to improving maths skills for children aged 8-11. Macaulay's endearing mammoths and elephant shrews will take you on a joyful journey through the basics of numbers, counting, calculating, measuring, shapes, data, puzzles, codes, and more! Each maths idea is explained, then reinforced with practice questions and fun activities. The answers are at the back, so you can check you're getting things right. This fun maths workbook for children offers: - Fun-filled illustrations show MacaulayÕs mammoths exploring mathematical ideas Ð demonstrating key mathematical principles in unusual and amusing ways. - An action-packed alternative to dry, unappealing maths textbooks. - Supporting panels contain diagrams and extra information to aid understanding. - Different chapters which each focus on a different branch of maths. Do you struggle to engage with maths? Or are you a maths whizz who wants to learn more? Developed in conjunction with a maths teacher, the Mammoth Maths Workbook covers key areas of the curriculum for children aged 8-11, including fractions, decimal numbers, percentages, multiplication and division, measurement, geometry, patterns and sequences, ratio, and probability.

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

Award-winning artist David Macaulay introduces readers to his hilarious new creations, Sloth and Sengi, in How Machines Work: Zoo Break! Get your cogs turning with these mega machines! This amazing, award-winning visual guide showcases the science and technology behind the most important machines ever invented. How Machines Work is a unique book full of inspiring illustrations by award-winning artist David Macaulay and packed with interactive elements, including press-out models, pop-ups, and pull-outs. Sloth and his sidekick Sengi are two furry friends on hand to guide you through the book and break down the basics. They’ll give you the lowdown on levers, pulleys, screws, inclined planes, wedges, and wheels on this intrepid adventure. You’ll find out how all different technologies work, from bicycles, cranes, and drills to diggers, hammers, and zips. Along the way, you’ll help Sloth and Sengi plot their daring escape from the zoo using only newfound scientific knowledge to make a machine designed for break outs and break aways. But will they succeed? Grab this essential guide, get your brain in gear, and get set for engineering greatness.

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

Celebrated author-illustrator Macaulay shows newly independent readers how the eye works to capture light and send signals to the brain.

Explains to the reader how a toilet and the sewer system works.

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.

Offers an inside look at how a mosque was built in Turkey in the late 1600s, discussing building materials, construction, and functionality in terms of society.

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.

This multi levelreading programme combines stunning photographs and lively illustration

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.

Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of David Macaulay''s books. Whether chronicling the monumental achievements of past civilizations or satirizing modern architecture, he is concerned above all in how constructions are made and what their effects are on people and their lives.

"In this wonderfully urbane fantasy" the Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator imagines the process of dismantling the Empire State Building ( Publishers Weekly). The acclaimed author of City and Pyramid now applies his inquisitive mind and stunningly detailed artwork to one of New York''s most iconic buildings. When the Empire State Building is purchased by an eccentric prince who wants to move it to the Arabian Desert, the intricate process of unbuilding begins. Along the way, Macaulay takes young readers on a tour of the skyscraper''s history and architecture and explains the many feats of engineering that went into its construction. His straightforward, informative text is illustrated with "perhaps the finest series of visually expansive, black-and-white perspective drawings, incisive renderings of the skyscraper and its celebrated ''views''" ( The Washington Post).