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Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on our world. Learn all about how engineering projects have changed the course of history and added to human progress, from those who built the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Industrial Revolution and beyond. Discover the impressive structures of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the first forays into space travel, and the pioneering computer scientists of today.From initial concepts to prototypes and finished designs, Engineers is full to bursting with technical drawings, specially commissioned artworks, blueprints and virtual tours that help bring engineering's greatest structures, inventions and technological breakthroughs to life.

Adam Hart-Davis vividly recreates the story of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the character of the man who built it, and the power of the elements that finally destroyed them both.

Adam Hart-Davis offers a fascinating insight into some of the titans of British history; the nineteenth century engineers who transformed the country and the world through their drive, determination and innovative thinking. These are the men who powered the Industrial Revolution and laid the foundations for the technology of the modern world.

A dictionary of all things lavatorial, from the Abbot of St Albans (allegedly the first Englishman to have a W.C., c. 1115) to the zero-gravity loo (as featured in the film 2001: a Space Odyssey), by way of the dog toilet, the night-soil men who took away the sewage in the streets and the superloo, successor to the pissoir. Meticulously researched and packed with information (as well as plenty of humour), this is a book that everyone should keep by their loo.

‘I have been ill and frightfully bored and the one thing I have wanted is a big album of your absurd beautiful drawings to turn over. You give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world.’ – H. G. Wells to W. Heath Robinson (1914) This book takes a nostalgic look back to the imaginative and often frivolous world of William Heath Robinson, one of the few artists to have given his name to the English language. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression Heath Robinson is used to describe ‘any absurdly ingenious and impracticable device of the kind illustrated by this artist’. Yet his elaborate drawings of contraptions are not the only thing to make this book very Heath Robinson. Full of quirky images from Romans wearing polka dots to balding men seducing mermaids, Very Heath Robinson presents an unconventional history of the world in which technology and its social setting get equal billing.

Ljudi vykovany estestvennym otborom i ottocheny evoljutsiej. Oni idealno prisposobleny dlja mira... kotorogo bolshe ne suschestvuet. No pochemu zhe tak poluchilos? Razjasnit situatsiju Adam Khart - biolog, professor Universiteta Glostershira, populjarizator nauki, soavtor nauchno-populjarnykh filmov BBC. My ne adaptirovany k segodnjashnej zhizni po mnogim prichinam. Blagodarja etoj knige vy ne tolko smozhete ponjat ikh, uznav bolshe ob istorii chelovechestva, genetike, biogeografii, biokhimii, polovom otbore, psikhologii, sotsiologii, no i najdete otvety na voprosy: - javljaetsja li ozhirenie, ot kotorogo stradajut milliony ljudej, rezultatom evoljutsii ili delo v nasledstvennoj leni? - pochemu v vysokotekhnologichnom, bezopasnom i ochen udobnom sovremennom mire my ispytyvaem bolshe stressa, chem nashi pervobytnye predki? - kak povlijajut na chelovechestvo novye tekhnologii? - i pochemu, govorja o sobstvennom buduschem, ljudi sklonny schitat ego chem-to, chto dolzhno proizojti s kem-to drugim? Itak, usazhivajtes poudobnee, vozmite kruzhku chaja, neskolko buterbrodov i prigotovtes. My otpravljaemsja v uvlekatelnoe puteshestvie!Perevodchik: Chernikov Sergej

The String Book opens with a note about an 8,000-year-old piece of string that was found at a Stone Age settlement in England, about which the editor of British Archaeology said, 'I don't think the average person realizes what an important piece of technology string has been over the ages.' The String Book is here to set that right. What the author calls a 'cornucopia of cunning and knowledge' fills this informative and charming collection of history, knot instruction, facts and surprising trivia. The chapters and sections are: * Roping Yarns Knowing the Ropes; Stringing History; String, Rope and Religions; * String Along Day-to-Day String; String Fanatics; * Get Knotted 40 stoppers, reefs, bends, hitches, loops, whippings and shoelacings; * The Art of String Cultured String; Sporty String; * Loopy Science Discoveries and Inventions; Stringy Theories; * Country Ties On Land; At Sea; * Loose Ends String Miscellany; Stringy Websites. Amusing two-colour illustrations highlight the text. Here are examples of the stringiness in The String Book: * The Ancient Egyptians probably used string to help align pyramids north-south and east-west. The Polynesians possibly used rope to move the Easter Island moai statues into place. * To water plants while you're away, trail a piece of wet natural string from a bowl above the plants into the soil. * Farmer Francis A. Johnson spared four hours a day to wind a ball of string until he needed a crane to move it. * The great 15th-century inventor Leonardo da Vinci had many ropey inventions, including a parachute, a ropemaking machine, and rope-operated pulleys. * How to do magic tricks, how to tie a Hojojutsu ball, how to weigh a pig, and how to make a seismograph, a cat's cradle, a friendship bracelet, and a jar sling to carry your bottle of water. This is a fun and surprisingly informative book that is a great gift for any reader.