Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building, Paperback

The Empire State Building is a famous skyscraper. It was once the tallest building in the world In Building the Empire State Building, young reader...

Discusses the history, design, and construction of New York City's Empire State Building. From start to finish, Mann tracks the wonders of architec...

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In this fascinating history, Jeffrey Rothfeder tells how, from a simple idea--the outgrowth of a handful of peppers planted on an isolated island o...

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The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Christian Wolma...

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Skyscrapers are more than just tall buildings. Put on your hard hat and go behind the scenes to investigate the world's most amazing skyscrapers. E...

You can probably recognize some of the world's most famous landmarks. Go behind the scenes to investigate how and why these famous landmarks were b...

Most of us go over bridges without giving them a second thought. But some bridges are engineering wonders and are extraordinary to behold. Extraord...

Many buildings are just four walls and a roof. But some buildings are engineering wonders and are extraordinary to behold. Extraordinary Buildings ...

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The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.Illustrations: 1x8pp colour plates, 1x8pp b/w plate...

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Reducere. Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State--from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Sout...

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Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

The idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the eighteenth century on the backs of enslaved wo...

Reducere. Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of pa...

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The idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the eighteenth century on the backs of enslaved wo...

Publisher: Weatherglass BooksAuthor(s): Luke MeddingsNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 131 x 196 x 24Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue--the longes...

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