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Why Communities Need Engineers: Helping Humans Live Together

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Availability:In StockContributor:Helen Liang, Arden TaylorSeries:Orca TimelineAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:5/19/2026Pages:96
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Orca Book PublishersISBN-13:9781459840539ISBN-10:1459840534UPC:9781459840539Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Building & Construction, Science & Nature, TechnologyBook Topic:History of ScienceSize:11.00 x 9.08 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SCSF4G3G0Q

Community is essential for humans. But living together comes with challenges--challenges often solved by engineers!

Access to clean drinking water? Engineers did that. Managing garbage? Engineers too. Safe and comfortable places to live with electricity and running water? You got it, engineers. Engineers are also behind the communication and transportation networks that keep our communities operating smoothly. Oh, and advances in healthcare? You can thank engineers for those too.

Engineers have been shaping our world by designing and building amazing structures and machines for thousands of years. From ancient civilizations to modern metropolises, engineering inventions have been essential to human survival and prosperity. In Why Communities Need Engineers, young readers will discover how engineers have shaped life as we know it and how they make safer, greener and more livable communities.

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Orca Book PublishersISBN-13:9781459840539ISBN-10:1459840534UPC:9781459840539Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Building & Construction, Science & Nature, TechnologyBook Topic:History of ScienceSize:11.00 x 9.08 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SCSF4G3G0Q

Helen Liang earned her bachelor of applied science in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia and an associate certificate in technical writing with distinction from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She enjoys volunteering in her community and church, hiking, writing and learning.

Arden Taylor is a Toronto-based freelance illustrator. A graduate of Sheridan College with an honors bachelor of illustration, she enjoys digitally creating colorful illustrations of architecture and people and designs for wallpaper and other projects. Her clients include Hazlitt Magazine, California Institute of Technology, and her work has been featured in various magazines, newspapers, advertising campaigns and websites. She is the illustrator of Walls and The True Story of Vanilla.


Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

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