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How Things Work | How Products Are Made. The New Way Things Work. "The Way Things Work is not the only book that has tried to explain modern mysteries, but it's the best. Macaulay's explanations are lucid; they are also fun. He includes visual puns, running jokes, a cast of thousands of tiny participants in on and around the machines, choirs of angels and lots of big woolly mammoths. " Boston Globe "Keep the book a secret from your kids for a while and study up on the explanations of questions you're anticipating. Let Macaulay make you look smarter than you think you are. "The Way Things Work is a superb achievement. "This is a work of mammoth imagination, energy, and humor.

"Combining the tongue-in-cheek observations of a budding prehistoric engineer with acute descriptions of the functioning of mechanical and electrical machines, Macaulay has produced a superb volume.... "A book to be treasured as both a browsing item and as a gold mine of reference information. " The Way Things Work 2.0 intro. HowStuffWorks "Electronics" Amazon.