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Product Description: The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been an iconic image of modern times-as much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture...read more

Hardcover:

9780670020607 | Viking Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it Since it opened in May 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been an iconic image of modern times-as much a beacon of technological progress as an enduring symbol of Paris and French culture.

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Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.

Hardcover:

9780670031580 | Viking Pr, April 19, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400134366 | Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2007, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.
9781400154364 | Mp3 edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2007), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.
9781400104369 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 1, 2007), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.

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A riveting chronicle of scientific history recounts the race among three great titans of the Gilded Age--inventor Thomas Alva Edison, creator of the incandescent light bulb; eccentric genius Nikola Tesla; and George Westinghouse, a tough entrepreneur and powerful empire builder--to bring electricity to the world. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375507397 | Random House Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of scientific history recounts the race among inventor Thomas Edison, eccentric genius Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, a tough entrepreneur and powerful empire builder, to bring electricity to the world.

Paperback:

9780375758843 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, October 12, 2004), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A riveting chronicle of scientific history recounts the race among three great titans of the Gilded Age--inventor Thomas Alva Edison, creator of the incandescent light bulb; eccentric genius Nikola Tesla; and George Westinghouse, a tough entrepreneur and powerful empire builder--to bring electricity to the world.

Hardcover:

9780823221981 | 2 edition (Fordham Univ Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $95.00

Paperback:

9780823221998 | 2 edition (Fordham Univ Pr, January 30, 2002), cover price $40.00

Highlights the lives of America's most important achievers including scientists, lawyers, doctors, actors, and politicians, and uses the database created from obituaries from the 'New York Times' to answer questions about society. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780740709401 | Andrews McMeel Pub, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Highlights the lives of America's most important achievers including scientists, lawyers, doctors, actors, and politicians, and uses the database created from obituaries from the 'New York Times' to answer questions about society.

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The history of America's use of drugs from women of the early 1900s who were given opiates for childbirth, to the spread of marijuana and heroin use, to today's use of crack and Xstacy (view table of contents)

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9780684196701 | Scribner, June 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Relates the history of America's use of drugs from women of the early 1900s who were given opiates for childbirth, to the spread of marijuana and heroin through the Black community via the jazz world, to today's use of crack and Xstacy

Paperback:

9780801861659, titled "Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugs" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The history of America's use of drugs from women of the early 1900s who were given opiates for childbirth, to the spread of marijuana and heroin use, to today's use of crack and Xstacy

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Hardcover:

9780316472968, titled "We're Still Here: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of the South Bronx" | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1986, cover price $4.98 | also contains 50 Visions of Mathematics

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