During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. The story begins with Filius Poe, an engineer coping with a grave personal loss. Lew Beck is...
Design and construction
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Author:Murkoff, BruceSummary: - Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:
Brilliant engineer Warren Neale is determined to finish the most ambitious project in American history -- the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. The terrain and climate provide formidable obstacles, but a troublesome group of...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.
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Author:Steggall, SusanSummary:Uses rhyming text to follow different construction vehicles, including bulldozers, diggers, and trucks, as they build a group of houses.
- Author:Reid-Stevens, AmandaSummary:
The Canoe He Called Loo Taas celebrates the true story of a 50-foot, community-carved canoe made from a single cedar tree, which was designed and carved by Amanda Steven's late father, Bill Reid. Loo Taas, pronounced, loo toss, are the...
- Author:Jerome, JohnSummary:
Describes the back-breaking but soul-strengthening task of building a stone wall on a New England farm.
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Hard-as-nails mountain man Smoke Jensen and his band of friends have ventured into the remote regions of the Canadian Rockies to protect railroaders from deadly bandits. Soon, they're headed down a one way track to an all-out shoot...
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Author:Bunting, EveSummary:Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
- Author:Levine, Allan Gerald, Newman, Peter CharlesSummary:
Canadian businessman and philanthropist Izzy Asper wanted to build a museum that would make a difference -- that would help educate visitors about human rights issues, all with the aim of making the world a better, more humane place. He...
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Author:Harper, Charise MericleSummary:Little Green only knows one word: 'Go!' It's the perfect thing to get the construction site moving, but how will they stop?
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Author:Sutton, SallySummary:Big machines and their drivers work together to build a library.
- Author:Finan, ThomasSummary:
Professor Finan examines the castle from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including those of history, archaeology, geography, and landscape studies. The course also covers the morphology of medieval fortifications and castles and...
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Author:Macaulay, DavidSummary:Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
- Author:Langewiesche, WilliamSummary:
American Ground is the story - until now untold - of the people who responded to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Within days, William Langewiesche made his way into the innermost recesses of the collapse...
