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is that show pretty true to the story? great book on this guy btw, devil in the white city

From the Machinery Of Life by David S Goodsell. Great book easy for any audience!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Machinery-Life-David-Goodsell/dp/0387982736

A clone of the city makes up the bulk of the setting of The Carlucci Novels by Richard Paul Russo.

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is heavily influenced by KWC, but the city in the book (New Crobuzon) isn't an exact copy of the city like in the other novel, just built similarly.

This is from my favourite book... The machinery of life, by David Goodsell.

Amazon - The Machinery of Life

The pics are actually to scale, and in some cases... every, single atom is represented... this is actually amazing when you consider that Atoms are too small to be imaged, they need to be crystallized and have x-rays bounced off them in order to calculate their positioning. 3D representative images are then drawn in CAD software.

This book is a good introduction to the growth of containerization and aimed at a general audience.

This one goes a bit into the history of bushes in Europe, a fantastic read for everyone.

just like this book!

https://www.amazon.com/Things-Come-Apart-Teardown-Manual/dp/0500516766

Looks like it

Absolutely! One of the pilots wrote a book on this trip. Well worth the read!

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Home-Ed-Dover/dp/061521472X/ref=oosr

The font and illustrative style reminds me of The Way Things Work by David Macaulay, except there are no mammoths.

My favorite book as a kid, by the way.

I was going for an XKCD / Thing Explainer reference. The author explains technical blueprints using only the 10-hundred (1000) most commonly used English words.

Relevant

I believe this illustration is by Reynold Brown who, according to the book Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures, actually invented the full cutaway drawing.

That's the At Home version which is highly abbreviated for home cooking.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982761015/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=14N2Q5DGXA1VKQ9XD196

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http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007

These books were hands down my favorites as a kid (and still are to be honest)
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide

Inside the Worlds of Star Wars, Episodes IV, V, & VI: The Complete Guide to the Incredible Locations @ Amazon

This thread in a World War 2 forum discusses the effectiveness of anti-aircraft fire.

One person quotes a German flak officer as saying approximately 4000 x 88 mm anti-aircraft shells were needed to down one aircraft. Another comment quotes the British general in charge of Anti-Aircraft Command, Sir Frederick Pile, as having a kill ratio of one aircraft per 6000 shells during the Blitz. In both cases these are standard anti-aircraft shells with a timed fuze set by a predictor.

In Most Secret War by Dr Reginald Jones a figure is quoted of 77 proximity-fuzed shells needed to shoot down a V-1 flying bomb. (Also published as The Wizard War in the USA. Jones was head of Scientific Intelligence for the RAF in WW2 and his book about his experiences is fascinating.)

While this is a 2-orders-of-magnitude improvement there are a few things to take into consideration:

• By the time the proximity fuze was available to the Allies they also had effective gun-laying radar and predictors working together.
  
  
• The Germans didn't have effective anti-aircraft radar and used sound detectors at night (or in bad weather,) and optical rangefinders in daylight. These were much less accurate than radar.
  
  
• The Germans didn't develop a workable proximity fuze. (Jones mentions an agent report which says they were trying to do so.) The best they could do was to set up box barrages which the bomber streams would have to fly through, as the whole mass of bombers on a mission was too unwieldy to fly around them without losing formation
  
  
• The V-1s flew at a low altitude in a straight line without taking evasive action. This made them an easy target. Allied low-altitude attack aircraft which were constantly strafing German "targets of opportunity" were a much more difficult target as they could take evasive action.