America's Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam, Paperback -

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

Reducere. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...

Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

Reducere. The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive S...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents first hand, historic and personal accounts of the work that made Sacramento the hub of the transcontinental railroad ...

Reducere. - Clean new design for easy readability and comprehension- Updated text presented in a lively, continuous narrative- New center-spread ``sidebar`` ...

Reducere. To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and ...

Reducere. In mid-1860s, two railroad companies had a huge job in front of them: building the transcontinental railroad. The railroad would run from east to w...

Reducere. In the depths of the Great Depression, the United States undertook a task so monumental it demanded nearly five thousand people to complete. The Ho...

Reducere. Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built t...

DescriptionA groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America o...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction of both buildings during the 19th century *Includes bibliographies for further reading *I...

Reducere. DescriptionThis landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Cen...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It was the custom ...

Reducere. Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1875, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company began taking ste...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the United States took on the building of the Panama Canal in 1904, workers were faced with extremely difficult living conditions. ...

Reducere. In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsth...

Reducere. Imagine leaving everything you've ever known--your friends, family, and home--to travel along roads you've never seen before, getting help from peo...

Reducere. Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparall...

Reducere. This book tells a previously untold story of decades of financial speculation, fraud, and international conspiracy that led to the creation of the ...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Statistics are no substitute for judgment." - Henr...

Reducere. On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was scheduled at Massachusetts General Hospital.... That day in Boston, the operation was the routi...

Reducere. "A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere, " President Lyndon Johnson told a senator in March 1965. "But there ain't no dayli...

Shasta Dam is the second largest dam in America and this book covers the construction during the years, 1938-1945. Using official photographs taken...

Reducere. Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock cr...

Reducere. Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparall...

Reducere. The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Underground Rail...

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Reducere. In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring buildi...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then keep reading...The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor w...

Robert Swain outlines the history of the canal in part one of this book, from its construction through its trading days, to its demise and then reb...

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Reducere. The Singer's Needle offers a bold new approach to the history of twentieth-century Panam , one that illuminates the nature of power and politics in...

An accessible guide to the principles of success by one of the most respected and sought-after motivational speakers of our time. In the tradition ...