Structures. Why are they standing and why they fall apart

In this book, James Gordon brilliantly manages to simply tell about the technically complex: what are the designs (natural and artificial), how they are arranged, how they work, what keeps them from destruction, and what tears up to parts, what physical laws are the reason and who these laws are these laws Opened.
informally and witty, but without excessive simplification, the author explains how powerful forces act that helps not to fall apart, cable and lobe do not fall under the weight of eight -lane automobile traffic, and restrained thousands of tons of water. And vice versa: why, due to such phenomena as tension, twisting, shift and compression, disasters still occur, wings of aircraft fall off and the legs of people break.
Thanks to the relaxed presentation, the encyclopedic volume of facts, causes and consequences is perceived as a fascinating conversation that flies unnoticed and leaves the reader a pleasant feeling that he already knew about all this (or, in any case, was guessed), and finally these are these Knowledge before him skillfully laid out on the shelves.
The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in the physical foundations and structure of the surrounding material world