Macaulay and Son

Macaulay and Son
Title Macaulay and Son PDF eBook
Author Catherine Hall
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 430
Release 2012-09-14
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0300189184

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Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.

Baaa

Baaa
Title Baaa PDF eBook
Author David Macaulay
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 67
Release 1985-09-30
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 054734676X

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

Castle

Castle
Title Castle PDF eBook
Author David Macaulay
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 94
Release 1977
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780395329207

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"Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales."--Title page verso.

Building Big

Building Big
Title Building Big PDF eBook
Author David Macaulay
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 196
Release 2000
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780395963319

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Companion volume to PBS series which originally aired October 2000.

Motel of the Mysteries

Motel of the Mysteries
Title Motel of the Mysteries PDF eBook
Author David Macaulay
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 97
Release 1979-10-11
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0547770723

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It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

Built to Last

Built to Last
Title Built to Last PDF eBook
Author David Macaulay
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 277
Release 2010-10-25
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 054750568X

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A nomad fashion's a home that’s meant to be built and rebuilt. A family tears down an old house and erects a new one in its place. Even the Eiffel Tower wasn’t meant to be anything more than temporary. As humans, we don’t always build things to endure the test of time. Built to Last brings together the award-winning author and artist David Macaulay’s creative, exacting thinking about buildings and designs that were crafted with a strength of structure and purpose that defy the everyday: Castle, Cathedral, and Mosque. This gorgeous volume includes newly researched information about each building and how it was built. And, for the first time ever, the Caldecott Honor–winning Castle and Cathedral appear in full color—with stunning new drawings that enrich the reader’s understanding of these structures, and capture intriguing new perspectives and details. Just as the buildings themselves were created to last, our interest in the structures themselves, the people who created them, and the purposes for which they were made endures as well. This impeccably researched volume—a necessary addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in architecture—celebrates this spirit of endurance and serves as a reminder that building well and leaving something of consequence behind, whether a building, a design, or an idea, is still of the utmost importance.

Macaulay: the Shaping of the Historian

Macaulay: the Shaping of the Historian
Title Macaulay: the Shaping of the Historian PDF eBook
Author John Leonard Clive
Publisher New York : Knopf
Pages 584
Release 1973
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Determined to be his own man, he had no sooner achieved financial and political security--in a lucrative post on the Governor-General's Council in India--than the relationship with his beloved sisters so necessary to his emotional security was destroyed. Here is the public Macaulay: cocksure and impetuous, a parvenu lacking the specific gravity of a statesman, and yet speaking out not only for freedom as an abstraction, but concretely for the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics and blacks; envisioning a potential beauty and splendor in industrialization; almost singlehandedly writing a penal code for India; becoming embroiled in the crucial controversy over Indian education (what should be taught and in what language); and forever leaving his mark on Anglo-Indian cultural relations--just as India left its mark on him.