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David Macaulay

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David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a vis mere junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973. His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: David McAulay, MacAulay David, David McCaulay, David MacCaulay

Omfatter også: David Macauley (2)

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(eng) Please do not combine with David Macauley (note spelling!).

Image credit: Wikipedia: David Macaulay at the Mazza Museum 2012 Fall Conference where he received the Mazza Medallion.

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Værker af David Macaulay

Castle (1977) — Forfatter — 3,106 eksemplarer
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (1973) — Forfatter — 2,831 eksemplarer
The Way Things Work (1988) 2,779 eksemplarer
Pyramid (1975) — Forfatter — 2,407 eksemplarer
The New Way Things Work (1998) 1,756 eksemplarer
Motel of the Mysteries (1979) 1,112 eksemplarer
Black and White (1990) 1,085 eksemplarer
The Way We Work (2008) 884 eksemplarer
Underground (1976) — Forfatter — 761 eksemplarer
Mosque (2003) 653 eksemplarer
Mill (1983) — Forfatter — 598 eksemplarer
The Way Things Work Now (2016) — Forfatter — 584 eksemplarer
Building Big (2000) — Forfatter — 570 eksemplarer
Ship (1993) 518 eksemplarer
Unbuilding (1980) — Forfatter — 485 eksemplarer
Rome Antics (1997) 361 eksemplarer
Angelo (2002) 291 eksemplarer
Built to Last (2010) 283 eksemplarer
Great Moments in Architecture (1978) 273 eksemplarer
Shortcut (1995) 226 eksemplarer
Castle: How It Works (My Readers) (2012) 183 eksemplarer
Toilet: How It Works (2013) 154 eksemplarer
Building the Book Cathedral (1999) 132 eksemplarer
Baaa (1985) 129 eksemplarer
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road (1987) 128 eksemplarer
Jet Plane: How It Works (My Readers) (2012) 123 eksemplarer
Eye: How It Works (My Readers) (2013) 111 eksemplarer
How Machines Work: Zoo Break! (2015) — Forfatter — 81 eksemplarer
Cathedral [1986 documentary] (1995) — Host — 22 eksemplarer
Roman City [1994 documentary] (1994) — Host — 15 eksemplarer
The Way Things Work Kit (2000) 15 eksemplarer
Castle [1983 documentary] (1983) — Host — 14 eksemplarer
Building Big: Bridges [2000 TV episode] (2000) — Host — 10 eksemplarer
Monster Machines (1998) 9 eksemplarer
Mill Times [2001 documentary] (2006) — Host — 9 eksemplarer
Pyramid [1988 documentary] (1995) — Host — 6 eksemplarer
Building Big: Tunnels [2000 TV episode] (2004) — Host — 5 eksemplarer
Building Big: Domes [2000 TV episode] (2004) — Host — 5 eksemplarer
Building Big: Dams [2000 TV episode] (2000) — Host — 4 eksemplarer
Way Things Work game — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
The way things work. Pulleys (2002) 3 eksemplarer
The Way Things Work Lab Pack, (1994) 3 eksemplarer
The road to Rome (2000) 2 eksemplarer
Pinball Science (1998) 2 eksemplarer
The way things work. Photography (2002) 2 eksemplarer
Building Big: Skyscrapers [2000 TV episode] (2004) — Host — 2 eksemplarer
Cathedral 1 eksemplar
TWTW CALENDAR 92 (1991) 1 eksemplar
Light [movie] 1 eksemplar
Building Big: Domes 1 eksemplar
Life as a tree 1 eksemplar
Slik virker det! (1996) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Illustrator — 759 eksemplarer
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Omslagsfotograf/tegner/... — 337 eksemplarer
Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (2000) — Bidragyder — 332 eksemplarer
The Amazing Brain (1984) — Illustrator — 146 eksemplarer
Help! Let me out! (1982) — Illustrator — 6 eksemplarer
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 8, April 1978 (1978) — Omslagsfotograf/tegner/... — 5 eksemplarer

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This is a clever little book that pokes fun at archaeological interpretations, particularly how quick they are to attribute items they aren't sure of to some sort of religious purpose. There are a lot of parallels to Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt, and the "archaeologist" of this book is in fact named Howard Carson.

In this generously illustrated book that takes place in the future, North America is already destroyed, having been buried beneath junk mail over 2,000 years ago. Howard stumbles upon an old motel room with a couple of bodies in them, and he interprets everything through a very wrong lens. The most base, disgusting, or mundane items become ceremonial and sacred (the bathroom is the inner sanctum, for example). Yet the items Howard finds are not only there to criticize fast, lazy answers in archaeology--they sometimes reflect poorly on modern priorities. For example, the TV was an altar and the remote a way to stay spiritually connected to it. They shine a light in the room to see not glints of gold, but glints of plastic.

Written in 1979, Motel of the Mysteries is fast becoming a relic itself and interestingly will need more and more interpretation itself. While most items it mentions still exist, some are obsolete and references are made to items that are less and less familiar to us (such as corded phones, the concept of banging on the top and sides of a TV to get it to work, and a list of old cars with animal names that are no longer produced). Yet it makes a timeless point and is so short I would have to consider it an essential archaeology book.
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bannedforaday | 26 andre anmeldelser | Oct 22, 2023 |
Macaulay has a unique way of presenting the structures he draws in clear and understandable ways.
 
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mykl-s | 25 andre anmeldelser | Aug 13, 2023 |
A good book for kids. A good book for adults.
 
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mykl-s | 25 andre anmeldelser | Aug 11, 2023 |
Both the pictures and the explanations helped me relive the place and time.
 
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mykl-s | 15 andre anmeldelser | Aug 6, 2023 |

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24,920
Popularitet
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Vurdering
4.1
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399
ISBN
424
Sprog
17
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