Macaulay, David

Explains how toilets and sewage systems function and take readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of sewers and water treatment plants. Explains the importance of these locations and how they contribute to everyday life.

Provides an introduction to a medieval castle, showing how people lived inside and how castles defenses worked to protect them from their enemies.

Introduces young readers to the nature and structure of the eye and the process through which the eye and the brain work together to create vision.

Contains detailed illustrations and explanations of how castles, mosques, and cathedrals were built.

By crossing a road, a chicken sets off a series of wild events, in which the Anderson twins blow up their bathroom and the brave young Hooper lad is rolled up and delivered inside an Oriental rug.

Pen-and-ink drawings of nineteenth century New England mills demonstrate their changes in architecture, power production and mechanization.

The inhabitants of Mammoth Island explore how magnets work and the many ways in which they can be used.

Visual clues provide answers to the mysterious interrelationship of a series of brief stories.

Presents the complete text of Macaulay's 1973 book "Cathedral" in which he chronicled the planning and construction of a Gothic cathedral in an imaginary town in thirteenth-century France; and traces the evolution of Macaulay's creative process in building the original book.

After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as man, and eventually they too disappear.