Space Shuttle (The Inside Story)

Hawkes, Nigel

HarperCollins, Publishers

Structures: The Way Things Are Built

The Fascinating Stories Behind the World's Most Extraordinary Feats of Building "Informative, enlightening, [with] brisk prose and striking color photos and diagrams." —Parade Magazine From the ancient to the modern, from the bizarre to the noble, the world's man-made structures stand as unsurpassed examples of the ingenuity and muscle required to transform a vision into miraculous reality. Structures pays tribute to these awe-inspiring feats of human creation. Here from every continent are the superlative achievements of architecture and engineering: the largest, longest, highest, most massive, and most ambitious structures ever made by human hands. Their origins, design, and construction are recounted in entertaining and informative text and illuminated with a wealth of photographs, working diagrams, cutaway drawings, and etchings that bring the work to life. Structures is both an anatomy and a celebration of the triumphant alliance of human technology and human spirit.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

wiley

In this dazzling book, readers who are intrigued by the way things work will find breathtaking accounts of the way they are built. From the Great Wall of China to the forbidden City, from the Great Wall of China to the Forbidden City, from the Statue of Liberty to Mount Rushmore, Structures reveals the personal stories and the technical genius behind 37 feats of architectural and civil engineering. 500 illustrations and photographs.

Structures: The way things are built

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Macmillan

240 pages of well selected and historically and colorfully illustrated material. Great book and well-made. Cheap due to over-supply and competition. About mint or mint condition.

Vehicles

Transportation

Maxwell Macmillan International

1st Pan 1986 edition paperback vg++ to fine condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Worst accident in the world : Chernobyl, the end of the nuclear dream

Pan Books : W. Heinemann

An analysis of recent events in Eastern Europe, written by an eight-strong team from "The Observer". The book describes the 1989 revolutions in context - a year in which governments fell across Eastern Europe - and offers a forecast for the future of Europe.

Tearing down the curtain: The people's revolution in Eastern Europe

Flint, Julie

Politics & Government

Hodder&Stoughton

The computer revolution (The World of science library)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson

Dutton

Explains, using drawings and diagrams, the new era of space technology that began officially in 1981, with the maiden flight of the space shuttle "Columbia," the world's first reusable spacecraft.

Space Shuttle (Inside Story)

Children's Books

Franklin Watts

Nuclear Power (Inside Story)

Gloucester Press

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