Between Two Towers

Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312368784
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers written by Mordicai Gerstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

Author : Vincent Joseph Scully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885254078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Towers written by Vincent Joseph Scully and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication combines the work of the students and faculty of the school of architecture at the University of Miami with a text by the school's distinguished visiting professor, Vincent Scully. Between Two Towers features a horizontal, sketchbook-like format, capturing the detail, complexity, and scale of the original drawings.

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395082553
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of the King written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865476519
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Reach the Clouds written by Philippe Petit and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.

Author : Jim Dwyer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805080322
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 102 Minutes written by Jim Dwyer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Searing, poignant, and utterly compelling—102 Minutesdoes for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece,A Night to Remember."—Rick Atkinson, author ofIn the Company of SoldiersandAn Army at Dawn At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with rescuers and survivors, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts,New York Timesreporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn tell the story of September 11 from the inside looking out, weaving together the stories of ordinary men and women into an epic account of struggle, determination, and grace. Hailed immediately upon its hardcover publication as the definitive account of that terrible morning,102 Minutesnow contains a new Afterword that incorporates powerful firsthand material, including tapes and documents, that Dwyer and Flynn recently obtained after more than three years of litigation with the city of New York. Eight weeks on theNew York Timesbestseller list and translated into a dozen languages,102 Minutesis a gripping narrative that is also investigative reporting of the first rank—"in a class by itself," according toReader's Digest. Dwyer and Flynn reveal the decisions, both good and bad, that proved to be the difference between life and death on a day that changed America forever.

Author : Juliana Horatia Ewing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daddy Darwin's Dovecot written by Juliana Horatia Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplementary reading book used in Saskatchewan schools. Young Jack March, a poor orphan from the workhouse, wants nothing more than to be a choirboy and have a home at Daddy Darwin's dovecot where he will tend the pigeons.

Author : Jim O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451532775
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Were the Twin Towers? written by Jim O'Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers—also known as the World Trade Center—and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers—from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.

Author : Angus K. Gillespie
Publisher : Thorndike Press
ISBN 13 : 9780783897851
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twin Towers written by Angus K. Gillespie and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique history that covers the complete life of the Twin Towers: the sky-high hopes during their planning and construction, the years during which they stood at the pinnacle of the Manhattan skyline, their symbolic meaning to the city, the nation, and the world-and, in a new chapter written for this edition, their heartbreaking demise on September 11, 2001. The New York Times bestseller-now with photographs and a new updated chapter.

Author : Justin Beal
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262367181
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sandfuture written by Justin Beal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.

Author : Eric Rohmann
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1466812311
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Friend Rabbit written by Eric Rohmann and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbit saves the day in a most ingeneous way. When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind. From Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive prints. My Friend Rabbit is the winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal.