Support and Resist
Structural Engineers and Design Innovation
Written by Nina Rappaport
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $50.00
As architectural projects have grown larger and more complex, as materials have become more specialized and advanced, as the world's cities have developed in size and density, the collaborative partnership of architects and structural engineers has gained prominence. Many of the major works of the early twenty-first century would have been...
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Parting the Desert
The Creation of the Suez Canal
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00
Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.
The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de...
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