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Skyscrapers! : Super Structures to Design & Build
Carol A. Johmann
Paperback - $21.95
From design through construction and afterward, readers experience the roles of architect, engineer, soil expert, and city planner, as well as have a hand in designing and building a skyscraper to withstand earthquakes and hurricane winds, and much m ...
Everyday Structures from A to Z
Bobbie Kalman
Paperback - $14.95
Children are invited to explore the wide variety of objects, shapes and patterns in the world around them. Full-color images take readers on a comprehensive look at form versus function, how structures are made and describes the different categories ...
Bridges
Elaine Landau
Paperback - $12.95
Completely redesigned for today's young investigative reader, True Books are an indispensable addition to any collection. Each book guides readers through the facts that nurture their need to know.
Skyscrapers
Elaine Landau
Paperback - $13.95
Completely redesigned for today's young investigative reader, True Books are an indispensable addition to any collection. Each book guides readers through the facts that nurture their need to know.
The Berlin Wall
Debbie Levy
Library Binding - $41.95
In 1961, the German city of Berlin became ground zero in the struggle between the Communist and democratic worlds when Communist East Germany began building a wall to divide the city in half. The 100-mile Berlin Wall created an awful, if awesome, sca ...
The World Trade Center
Debbie Levy
Library Binding - $53.95
The World Trade Center was built to draw attention to New York City and to stand as a symbol of that city's place in the global community. It became one of the most recognized structures in the world--a symbol not only of New York, but also of Americ ...
Monumental Verses
J. Patrick Lewis
Library Binding - $51.95
J. Patrick Lewis's poems include odes to such great monuments as Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Hagia Sophia, the Great Wall of China, Mount Rushmore, and the Guggenheim Museum. Each poem and monument will have one spread, wi ...
Taj Mahal
Lucent Books
Hardcover - $65.95
Built by the seventeenth-century Mogul emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal combines Persian and Indian architectural styles. It took two decades and twenty thousand men to create the white marble monument of ...
A Nuclear Power Plant
Marcia Amidon Lusted
Library Binding - $65.95
Nuclear power provides approximately 20 percent of the electricity used in the United States. The construction of a nuclear power plant is a highly regulated, complicated, yet interesting process spanning many years from start to finish.