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Narratives of Large Scale Engineering
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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The River Dragon Has Come!
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The trans Alaska pipeline
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The Story of the Golden Spike
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Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995 (Volume 4) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai
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Power Along the Hudson: The Storm King Case and the Birth of Environmentalism
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Allan R. Talbot
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Taj Mahal: A Love Affair at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
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The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times
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Lionel Casson
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Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
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Underground
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The spire, William Golding : notes
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Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (Phoenix Book; P828)
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The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000
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Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
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Jill Jonnes
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The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day
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Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
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Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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Pompeii
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Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work
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The Fires of Excellence: Spanish and Portuguese Oriental Architecture
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Miles Danby
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
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The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering
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