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Titre:
Cathedral

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Combining spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, this program takes you to France's most famous and awe-inspiring cathedrals. You'll travel in time back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a magnificent Gothic cathedral shaped by cultural and religious forces. Take a close look at the vaulted arches, shimmering stained-glass windows and dizzying vaulted ceilings. This award-winning program also tells compelling stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity and intrigue. Narrated by David Macaulay.

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Mosque

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David Macaulay reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late sixteenth- century Turkey. Through the fictional story and Macaulay's distinctive full-colour illustrations, readers will learn not only how such monumental structures were built but also how they functioned in relation to the society they served.

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Pyramid

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How were the ancient Egyptians able to build the Great Pyramid at Giza, fitting together two million blocks of heavy stone with such amazing precision? Who were the leaders that decided to build these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology and religions of these people, through a combination of live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II, and the buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.

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The new way things work

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The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more than eighty new pages detailing the latest innovations. With an entirely new section that guides us through the complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth.

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Roman city

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The ancient Romans built cities in the lands they conquered, linking Western Europe, the Middle East and North Africa into a vast, thriving Empire. By combining documentary footage and animated story sequences, this program examines how these cities helped maintain the Empire and how they shaped people's lives. Host David Macaulay takes you to many ancient sites to explain how various structures were built and how they were used. Through animation, watch the construction of a fictional city in Gaul.

Titre:
Building big

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Building Big focuses on the connections between the planning and design problems and the solutions that are finally reached. Whether a structure is imposing or inspiring, author David MacCaulay shows us that common sense and logic play just as important a part in architecture as imagination and technology do.