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Built to last

Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Macaulay, David
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.
Subjects:	Architecture > Juvenile nonfiction. Castles > Juvenile nonfiction. Cathedrals > Juvenile nonfiction. Mosques > Design and construction > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
Physical Description:	272 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	9780547342405 (lib. bdg.) 0547342403 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	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 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)