James Gordon

Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down, second edition (in Russian)

Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down, second edition (in Russian)
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Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down, second edition (in Russian)

In this book James Gordon brilliantly manages to simply explain technically complex things: what structures (natural and artificial) are, how they are arranged, how they work, what keeps them together and what tears them apart, what physical laws are behind that and who discovered these laws.

Informally and wittily but without excessive simplification, the author explains how the powerful forces that prevent buildings from collapsing, allow cable bridges to sustain the weight of eight lanes of traffic and dams to hold back thousands of tons of water work. And conversely: why such phenomena as stress, shear, torsion, fracture and compression can lead to catastrophes where wings fall off planes and people break their legs.

Thanks to the casual presentation, the encyclopedic volume of facts, causes and consequences is perceived as a captivating conversation that flows quickly and leaves readers with a pleasant feeling that they had already known all of that (or at the very least, had a suspicion), and finally the knowledge was skillfully laid out in front of them.

The book is addressed to anyone interested in the physical fundamentals and structure of the surrounding material world.

Hardcover

480 pages

Dimensions: 144 × 216 mm (5,7″ × 8,5″)

Press run: 3000

ISBN 978-5-98062-117-9

Weight: 750 g

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