New Releases by David Macaulay

Réédition. Volume publié en 1981 aux Editions des Deux coqs d''or. Une satire humoristique qui fera sourire même les plus fidèles adeptes de l''archéologie.

This illustrated book gives young readers “a breathtaking and entirely original insight” into the complex systems that exist underneath modern cities (Kirkus, starred review). Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay takes readers on a visual journey through a city''s various support systems—the many tunnels, pipes, walls, and other structures that help sustain the bustling life above. In Underground, Macaulay exposes a typical section of this intricate underground network and explains how it works. Along with his beautiful illustrations, Macaulay presents “a straightforward yet fascinating description of the labyrinth beneath the feet of any city dweller. And what a complex covered world [he] reveals! He invents an intersection of two streets and proceeds to show what we all might find if we dared to descend through that Alice-in-Wonderland manhole" (The New York Times).

Text and illustrations describe the operations of an imaginary but typical textile factory of the nineteenth century.

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.

Une ville bien conçue vaut mieux, pour la sécurité et la paix de l''Empire, que deux camps militaires... César savait qu''une Cité ne doit pas être seulement un centre commercial, politique et religieux, mais aussi et surtout un endroit où les gens ont envie de vivre. Les architectes des centaines de villes romaines fondées entre 300 av. J.-C. et 150 ap. J.-C. ont été guidés par cette idée. Comme eux, David Macaulay s''en est inspiré pour dessiner les plans de Verbonia et faire revivre l''effort des hommes et les techniques qui donnèrent, voici 2000 ans, naissance aux villes nouvelles des bâtisseurs romains.

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson''s incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

Humorous architectural sketches of known monuments and objects.

Après ##Naissance d''une cathédrale##, ##Naissance d''une pyramide##, ##Naissance d''une cité romaine##, David Macaulay poursuit son envolée, conservant la même formule. Un livre facile à lire, bien documenté, à l''illustration soignée. Un volume pour les 12-13 ans, accessible aux 10-11 ans.

Desde un punto de vista didactico e infantil, el autor explica e ilustra las innumerables etapas por las que pasaba la construccion de la morada del cadaver momificado del faraon de la morada del cadaver momificado del faraon yde su espiritu, al que creian eterno.

Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations we come to know the philosophy of life and death in ancient Egypt.

Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.