Who Built That? Bridges

Fifty stories about the people who built iconic bridges, the people who cross them and the legends that accompany them.Publisher: Welbeck Publishin...

Reducere. Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a s...

Reducere. DescriptionAn abusive drunk of a husband. An invalid mother whose health continues to fail. A son banished from home. Thirty-three-year-old Addie C...

Reducere. "But the country could not accept the bridge and the bridge could not accept the country."This quotation, from the short story "The Bridge on the Z...

Reducere. Who paved the way for the Marines, the Army, and the Air Force in World War II? The United States Naval Construction Battalion, better known as Sea...

Reducere. DescriptionPraise for Building Better Boards "Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, ...

DescriptionIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with ...

ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California's anti-gay ...

Reducere. Ocean City, Maryland's own seaside resort, has become so popular that it is almost too small--five square miles--to hold all its tourists. The last...

Reducere. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a Scottish immigrant to the United States. He arrived as a poor child, but--as the epitome of the "rags to riches" ...

DescriptionUniversities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repo...

Reducere. A one-of-a-kind readable history of the railroads that helped develop the timber and coal resources of Coos County, Oregon from 1850 to 1930.During...