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The Chunnel
Marcia Amidon Lusted
Library Binding - $65.95
When the Chunnel--the underwater tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel and connects England and France--was finally opened in 1994, it was the culmination of hundreds of years of attempts to link the two countries. The story of the Chunnel's c ...
The Taj Mahal
Rachel Lynette
Library Binding - $53.95
Many consider the Taj Mahal in India to be the most beautiful structure in the world. Built as a tomb for the beloved wife of a rich emperor, the Taj Mahal remains an amazing feat of architecture as well as an important monument.
Building Big
David Macaulay
Paperback - $21.95
Now available in paperback--Macaulay's companion book to the 2000 PBS series that encourages readers to look at their world in a new way. Full color.
City : A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
David Macaulay
Hardcover - $29.95
Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of David Macaulay's books. Whether chronicling the monumental achievements of past civilizations or satirizing modern architecture, he is concerned above all ...
Pyramid
David Macaulay
Hardcover - $30.95
Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations we come to know the philosophy of life and death in ancient Egypt.
Pyramid
David Macaulay
Paperback - $17.95
"David Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed. . . . His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in opulence and design".--Time.
Unbuilding
David Macaulay
Hardcover - $30.95
Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of David Macaulay's books. Whether chronicling the monumental achievements of past civilizations or satirizing modern architecture, he is concerned above all ...
Underground
David Macaulay
Hardcover - $30.95
David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satis ...
Empire State Building
Elizabeth Mann
Hardcover - $32.95
The illustrated true story of the world's most famous skyscraper. In 1929 the race was on to construct the tallest building in the world. Less than two years later, the race was won and the age of skyscrapers had its exclamation point. In Empire Stat ...