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Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"45 skyscrapers are examined for their pioneering technology, sustainability, and other characteristics that set them apart. Each building is presented with a large photograph with cross-section drawings plus fact boxes listing location, year of completion, height, stories, primary functions, owner/developer, architect, structural engineer, and construction firm. The buildings examined are distributed over the world's most developed regions of North...
4) Skyscrapers
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Readers will have a blast learning about Skyscrapers. From apartment buildings to the Empire State Building, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon
5) Men at lunch
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men and the photographer that immortalized them remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. Then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A new blue-chip series that reveals the extraordinary feats of engineering hidden in the world's most spectacular manmade structures. Each episode uses cutting-edge CGI to strip down construction layer by layer. Each time a layer is removed, buildings are reduced to their skeletons, revealing game-changing innovation analyzed by world-class industry players.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Created to support NGSS, the Be An Engineer! series explains how different structures are designed by engineers to solve problems. Each title takes readers through the steps of the engineering design process to explain how an everyday structure is designed to overcome physical obstacles to meet peoples' needs. Real-world examples, vibrant photographs, and fact boxes reinforce learning, and readers design and create their own model structures. A link...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Narrative nonfiction with fictional characters who visit various work sites to find out how skyscrapers are built. Full-color illustrations and photographs throughout"--
"Kids are fascinated by how things are constructed, especially big things!This brand-new STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) series will take readers on visits to various work sites so they can see exactly How It's Built! Kids will follow along as a small group...
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