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The Way Things Work: Newly Revised Edition: The Newly Revised Edition-From Levers to Lasers, Windmills to Wi-Fi, a Visual Guide to the World of Machines. (Spiral Bound)

The Way Things Work: Newly Revised Edition: The Newly Revised Edition-From Levers to Lasers, Windmills to Wi-Fi, a Visual Guide to the World of Machines. (Spiral Bound)

Brief Description: Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Biographical Note: David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose...

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Clarion Books

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Spiral Bound

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Brief Description:
Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines.

Biographical Note:
David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies and has been translated into many languages. Macaulay has garnered awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor. Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish his books. David Macaulay lives in Vermont.

Review Quotes:
"A book to be treasured as both a browsing item and as a gold mine of reference information." School Library Journal, Starred


Publisher Marketing:

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



Review Citations:

  • Kirkus Reviews 12/30/0001 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016 pg. 127 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
  • School Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 52 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Shelf Awareness 10/04/2016 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2016 pg. 114 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Children's Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Middle/Jr. High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Nonfiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Senior High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780544824386, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Macaulay, David

David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given "to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations." Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.




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