One Good Turn : A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "the best tool of the millennium." An award-winning author who once built a house using only hand tools, Rybczynski has intimate knowledge of the toolbox -- both its contents and its history -- which serves him beautifully on his quest.One Good Turn is a story starring Archimedes, who invented the water screw and introduced the helix, and Leonardo, who sketched a machine for carving wood screws. It is a story of mechanical discovery and genius that takes readers from ancient Greece to car design in the age of American industry. Rybczynski writes an ode to the screw, without which there would be no telescope, no microscope -- in short, no enlightenment science.

Arts & Photography

Witold Rybczynski

Architecture

Scribner, 2000

The acclaimed portrait of England's most famous country house. A lively account of the family who built Longleat and who still live there, set against 450 years of turbulent family history.'With skill and humour, David Burnett has written a most valuable history.''Fascinating ... an astonishing family history.'

Longleat: The story of an English country house

BURNETT, DAVID

Collins

Palaces of India

Baroda, Maharajah Of

Fass, Virginia(Photographs By)

Education of a Gardener

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Page, Russell

Gardening & Landscape Design

Looking Around : A Journey Through Architecture (A Saturday Night Book Ser.)

Rybczynski, Witold

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1992

Collins guide to parish churches of England and Wales including the Isle of Man

Travel

BETJEMAN, John

Europe

A book for the creative gardener which covers the principles of colour, and outlines the design factors that help the gardener exploit colour's potential. A catalogue of 1000 plants groups them by colour, season and how best to employ them. The colour, shape and foilage of each plant is given.

Colour in Your Garden

Penelope Hobhouse

Harpercollins

Four Hundred Years of Fashion

The story of men's and women's fashionable dress through the ages, right up to the 1990's. It has a wide general audience as well as appealing to students and serious scholars.

Four hundred years of fashion

Ginsburg, Madeleine, et al. (Text by), and Strong, Roy C. (Foreword by); Rothste

Graphic Design

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Authors: Natalie (edited By) RothsteinPublisher: Victoria &amp; Albert PubnsKeywords: fashion, years, hundred, fourPages: 176Published: 1984Language: EnglishCategory: Textile &amp; Costume, Design &amp; Decorative Arts, Arts &amp; Photography,ISBN-10: 0002171902 ISBN-13: 9780002171908

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Madeleine Ginsburg

Avril Hart

Valerie D. Mendes

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

William Collins

Shows and describes the history of churches and Monasteries of each English and Welsh diocese, and discusses the architectural highlights of each structure

Collins Guide to Cathedrals, Abbeys and Priories of England and Wales

Reference

Thorold, Henry

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