Showing posts with label Sourcebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sourcebooks. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Secret Life of LEGO® Bricks: The Story of a Design Icon

The Secret Life of LEGO® Bricks: The Story of a Design Icon 
by Daniel Konstanski 
Language: English 
Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2024. 
326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. 
ISBN: 9781464234415, 1464234418 
Summary: "LEGO® bricks are design icons and marvels of engineering. Virtually unchanged for over fifty years, the brick is still at the very centre of the LEGO ethos: each brick connects to every other brick, allowing the construction of almost anything you can imagine. LEGO minifigures may be the friendly faces of the LEGO world, but bricks in all their different shapes and forms are its very foundation. The Secret Life of LEGO® Bricks explores the brick's rich history in full color and unparalleled detail. Granted unprecedented access by the LEGO Group, Daniel Konstanski has interviewed design masters, element testers and the so-called 'rock stars'--the set designers-- to reveals for the first time how and why new LEGO bricks are made. This is the book the fans have always wanted: a truly behind-the-scenes look at the story of the beloved LEGO brick and the company which makes it, with a wealth of exclusive visual material from the LEGO Idea House and its team of historians in Billund, Denmark."-- Back cover
Reviews: Kirkus Reviews

Saturday, November 15, 2025

The power of protest : a visual history of the moments that changed the world

The power of protest : a visual history of the moments that changed the world 
by Brenda Griffing 
Language: English 
Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2018. 
204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23x27 cm.
ISBN: 9781492660347, 1492660345 
Summary: Times of great change did not occur by man's desire for change, but through protest and persistence. Across the globe, we are in an era of protest and drive. Not since the '60s have we seen political divides and awareness of this magnitude and it is shaping all aspects of our day to day life. While some feel lost in despair and fear, we can look to the past and RISE UP ourselves. Protest changes the world like nothing else has to date.