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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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4.23 avg rating — 14,838 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.89 avg rating — 25,282 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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4.21 avg rating — 18,446 ratings
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Castle
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4.21 avg rating — 3,887 ratings
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Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
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4.26 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
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3.97 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
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3.97 avg rating — 12,056 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.87 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Pyramid
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4.18 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
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3.78 avg rating — 3,159 ratings
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Colonel of Tamarkan
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4.19 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
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3.80 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Taj Mahal: A Love Affair at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
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3.91 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe
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4.01 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Power Along the Hudson: The Storm King Case and the Birth of Environmentalism
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
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4.26 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
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4.21 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Calum's Road
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3.88 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
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3.94 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Underground
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4.18 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Mill
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4.21 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The spire, William Golding : notes
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3.59 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
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3.94 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
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3.90 avg rating — 575 ratings
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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3.60 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, Madness, at the Fair that Changed America
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3.99 avg rating — 611,283 ratings
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God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
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4.15 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times
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3.89 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
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3.62 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City
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3.34 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Wren's London
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
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3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.41 avg rating — 18,413 ratings
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The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000
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3.51 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply
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4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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3.82 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
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The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon Day by Day
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4.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Pompeii
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3.84 avg rating — 41,001 ratings
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The Fires of Excellence: Spanish and Portuguese Oriental Architecture
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering
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4.03 avg rating — 109 ratings
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No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods
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4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
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3.75 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The Histories
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3.98 avg rating — 47,976 ratings
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City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
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4.14 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 710,848 ratings
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
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3.87 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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The River Dragon Has Come!: Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People: Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Fountains of Paradise
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3.95 avg rating — 28,360 ratings
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
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4.01 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
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4.01 avg rating — 2,076 ratings
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The Trans Alaska Pipeline
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Indistinguishable from Magic
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3.86 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
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3.67 avg rating — 150 ratings
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THE BRIGHTEST ARM OF THE SAVANNAH: The Augusta Canal 1845-2000.
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Story of the Golden Spike
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3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith
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3.76 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
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4.24 avg rating — 191 ratings
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
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3.95 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
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3.43 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It
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3.74 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Railway Stations
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Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
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4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
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3.81 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Building St Cuthbert's Shrine: Durham Cathedral and the Life of Prior Turgot
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Builders: Herman And George R. Brown
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Building of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
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4.25 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Riptide
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3.96 avg rating — 19,369 ratings
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Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
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3.77 avg rating — 60 ratings
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"When All of Rome Was Under Construction": The Building Process in Baroque Rome
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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4.22 avg rating — 8,195 ratings
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The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
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3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Locomotive
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4.12 avg rating — 5,815 ratings
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Building the World: An Encyclopedia of the Great Engineering Projects in History, Volume 1
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
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3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
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4.17 avg rating — 33,486 ratings
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A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings
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3.87 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
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4.08 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
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3.73 avg rating — 435 ratings
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On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life and Tumultuous Times of Sir Christopher Wren
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3.59 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Remainder
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3.66 avg rating — 7,202 ratings
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His Invention So Fertile
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3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made
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3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.30 avg rating — 14,866 ratings
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Crossing the River: The History of London's Thames River Bridges from Richmond to the Tower
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
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3.82 avg rating — 224 ratings
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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
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3.80 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries
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4.24 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Maya Architecture: Temples in the Sky
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Maya Art and Architecture
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3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Tikal
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Ceremonial Centers of the Maya
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Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America
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3.85 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Lost City of the Incas
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3.52 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
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4.07 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization
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3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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