Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers
Author: Matthew Wells
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005
Genre: Skyscrapers
ISBN: 1856694038

An investigation of thirty skyscrapers from around the world--both recently built and under construction--that explains the structural principles behind their creation

Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers
Author: George H. Douglas
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2004-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780786420308

This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people who worked in, lived in, and visited them. Much of the focus is rightly on the architects who had the vision to design and build America's skyscrapers, but attention is also given to the steelworkers who built them, the financiers who put up the money, and the daredevils who attempt to "conquer" them in some inexplicable pursuit of fame. The impact of the skyscraper on popular culture, particularly film and literature, is also explored.

Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers
Author: Caroline Mierop
Publisher: Editions Norma
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1995
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Examines the history, design, construction, and uses of skyscrapers and describes some notable examples.

Magnitude

Magnitude
Author: Megan Watzke
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0316502901

In the tradition of illustrated science bestsellers, like Thing Explainer andharkening back to the classic film The Powers of Ten, this unique, fully-illustrated, four-color book explores and visualizes the concept of scale in our universe. In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light. Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings and infographics throughout and organized into sections including Size and Amount (Distance, Area, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature), Motion and Rate (Speed, Acceleration, Density, Rotation), and Phenomena and Processes (Energy, Pressure, Sound, Wind, Computation), Magnitude shows us the scale of our world in a clear, visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can easily understand.

Skyscraper

Skyscraper
Author: Benjamin Flowers
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812202600

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Nowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than in New York City. And though this iconographic American building style has roots in Chicago, New York is where it has grown into such a powerful reflection of American commerce and culture. In Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center. He demonstrates how architects and their clients employed a diverse range of modernist styles to engage with and influence broader cultural themes in American society: immigration, the Cold War, and the rise of American global capitalism. Skyscraper explores the various wider meanings associated with this architectural form as well as contemporary reactions to it across the critical spectrum. Employing a broad array of archival sources, such as corporate records, architects' papers, newspaper ads, and political cartoons, Flowers examines the personal, political, cultural, and economic agendas that motivate architects and their clients to build ever higher. He depicts the American saga of commerce, wealth, and power in the twentieth century through their most visible symbol, the skyscraper.

See More Readers: Skyscrapers - Level 2

See More Readers: Skyscrapers - Level 2
Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2005-03-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781587172663

The perfect early reader series brings together the work of an award-winning author, amazing photos and collectible cards, all in an easy-to-read format. Over half of New York author Seymour Simon's 200 books have been named Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association. Here he inspires beginning, growing and even reluctant readers with topics of perennial interest.Ages 5-8

Buildings Bibliography

Buildings Bibliography
Author: United States. General Services Administration. Central Office Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1968
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

StarGuides Plus

StarGuides Plus
Author: Andre Heck
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1152
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0306486024

StarGuides Plus represents the most comprehensive and accurately validated collection of practical data on organizations involved in astronomy, related space sciences and other related fields. This invaluable reference source (and its companion volume, StarBriefs Plus) should be on the reference shelf of every library, organization or individual with any interest in these areas. The coverage includes relevant universities, scientific committees, institutions, associations, societies, agencies, companies, bibliographic services, data centers, museums, dealers, distributors, funding organizations, journals, manufacturers, meteorological services, national norms & standard institutes, parent associations & societies, publishers, software producers & distributors, and so on. Besides astronomy and associated space sciences, related fields such as aeronautics, aeronomy, astronautics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, communications, computer sciences, data processing, education, electronics, engineering, energetics, environment, geodesy, geophysics, information handling, management, mathematics, meteorology, optics, physics, remote sensing, and so on, are also covered where appropriate. After some thirty years in continuous compilation, verification and updating, StarGuides Plus currently gathers together some 6,000 entries from 100 countries. The information is presented in a clear, uncluttered manner for direct and easy use.

Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers
Author: Judith Dupré
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1996-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1884822452

Looks at the history of skyscrapers, describes fifty notable structures from around the world, and looks at the technology necessary to build such tall structures