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The New Way Things Work (Hardcover)

by David Macaulay (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (8 Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751356433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751356434
  • Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 22.5 x 3.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 347,498 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review

"Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?" If you, like Nathaniel Hawthorne, are kept up at night wondering about how things work--from electricity to can openers--then you and your favourite kids shouldn't be a moment longer without David Macaulay's The New Way Things Work. The award-winning author-illustrator--a former architect and high school teacher--is perfectly poised to be the Great Explainer of the whirrings and whizzings of the world of machines, a talent that landed the 1988 version of The Way Things Work on the New York Times bestsellers list for 50 weeks. Grouping machines together by the principles that govern their actions rather than by their uses, Macaulay helps us understand in a heavily visual, humorous, unerringly precise way what gadgets such as a toilet, a carburettor and a fire extinguisher have in common.

The New Way Things Work boasts a richly illustrated 80-page section that wrenches us all (including the curious, bumbling woolly mammoth who ambles along with the reader) into the digital age of modems, digital cameras, compact disks, bits, and bytes. Readers can glory in gears in "The Mechanics of Movement," investigate flying in "Harnessing the Elements," demystify the sound of music in "Working with Waves," marvel at magnetism in "Electricity & Automation," and examine e-mail in "The Digital Domain." An illustrated survey of significant inventions closes the book, along with a glossary of technical terms, and an index. What possible link could there be between zips and ploughs, dentist drills and windmills? Parking meters and meat grinders, jumbo jets and jackhammers, remote control and rockets, electric guitars and egg beaters? Macaulay demystifies them all. (Ages 9 to adult)



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Guiding the reader through the complicated world of digital machines, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this book covers the latest technological developments. Each principle is explained with the help of a rather slow-witted, wooly mammoth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It works in my classroom, 10 April 2001
This review is from: The New Way Things Work (CD-ROM)
This is an excellent piece of software. It can be used for whole class demonstration, small group exploration or extended exercises to stretch better pupils. I have also used it to enable pupils who have been absent to catch up.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not just a book for children but also for inquisitive adults, 10 Sep 2001
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This book is a nice gift for someone who likes to know how things work. The illustrations are entertaining and the digital section is also very informative. Probably a good book for parents with children who ask "why?"a lot of the time!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A Digital Book Not a True CD Rom At All, 2 May 2006
By JESS (Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The New Way Things Work (CD-ROM)
This is a trawl of text only diagrams. All fascinating facts and excellent drawings but dead in terms of encouraging further searching and reading. The opening of the disc is great and there are some great (very short!) 'movies' of the woolly mammoths in various scrapes. Yet, once you've watched these the following questions are cold and boring, in our sons' opinions. You type in the answer. A little farty sound if you're wrong and a cheerful ting if right. Not very exciting. If you can't think of the exact wording or spell it exactly you get the farty sound! (actually, that's quite a good bit!) New searches just reveal more pages of illustrations as you expect to see them in a book. There are lots of links to other things of related interest. But, again, another diagram and text only.

Big shame! My sons love the television show behind this. It really is excellent. But, if it's between buying this CD Rom or the book, by the same name, definitely just get the book.
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This looks good but - Can anyone help - will The New Way Things Work CD run on a Windows XP platform?
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