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The Way Things Work

David Macaulay

Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.34 | 2453 Users | 117 Reviews

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Title	:	The Way Things Work
Author	:	David Macaulay
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1988
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Science. Reference. Childrens

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A fun and informative presentation of exactly what the title says. The illustrations are well-done, and the touches of humor with the mammoths is engaging and cute. I grabbed this book from one of my friends who was trying to clear out some shelves, and now I intend to pass this on to someone else who might enjoy it. I think it would be of interest to precocious kids of preteen through early teenage years, maybe as young as 6 or 7. I know I would have loved it when I was in early grade school. I like how it was organized starting with the simple machines, and building on the physical principles. It is definitely dated, with inclusions of dot matrix printers, typewriters, floppy discs, and discussion of megabytes of storage, but the vast majority of the machines are still relevant today, and the underlying physical principle are of course important.

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Original Title:	The Way Things Work
ISBN:	0590429892 (ISBN13: 9780590429894)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Royal Society Science Book Prize for Junior Prize (1989), Zilveren Griffel (1990), Zilveren Penseel (1990), Charlotte Award (1990), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Non-Fiction (1989)

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The inner workings af all things. With mammoths. Priceless.

The way this book works: you read it, your brother then takes it from you, you forget how submarines work and cant impress any of your friends with all that submarine knowledge you thought you knew.



Great book!

the mammoths in this book are very funny. this appears to be a engineering textbook,(it probably is,) but IF it is, than it's a heckuva lot better then the stuff they feed us in science textbooks these days... don't read it till your OUT of stuff to read or you'll think this is actually a novel (trust me, on this one, it's not)

This book taught me more about technology than my first five years of school, and that isn't intended as a criticism of the public educational system. I'm betting my dad got tired of the perpetual, "Why?" and "How?"'s, and decided this book would be the best way to simultaneously teach me and maintain his sanity.Where else can a child be taught to understand the simple machines, fission, and how to pick a lock?

I suppose I shouldn't really say that I've "read" this one. I haven't read every page. We mostly hunt through it looking for the pictures that Paul likes. It's one of those books that I appreciate, but don't really enjoy. I don't want to read descriptions of how pulleys or microwave ovens work. But my kid sure does. Plus he likes the mammoth.