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Product Description: This playful book offers the most fun path to designing your own skyscraper. Twenty-five of the most famous skyscrapers have been scaled to the same size and cut into three pieces; these can be recombined to make 15,625 new buildings of your own creation...read more

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9781568982298 | Spiral-bound edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This playful book offers the most fun path to designing your own skyscraper.

Describes ten of the most unique and interesting skyscrapers in the United States including the Empire State Building, the Prudential Center, and the John Hancock Center

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9781567111934 | Blackbirch Pr Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes ten of the most unique and interesting skyscrapers in the United States including the Empire State Building, the Prudential Center, and the John Hancock Center

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Explains how skyscrapers are designed and constructed, looks at some of the most famous skyscrapers around the world, and discusses elevators, fire protection, and landscaping
By Gina Ingoglia and Tom Lapadula (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780448191867 | Grosset & Dunlap, January 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Discusses the construction of a skyscraper and depicts some famous ones.

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Product Description: They tower over city streets. They hold stores and restaurants. Big buildings are found in cities around the world. Learn about big buildings and their special features.

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9781429639941 | Pebble Plus, January 1, 2010, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: They tower over city streets.

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Explains in simple text and photographs how big buildings are created.

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9780613302913 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $13.40 | About this edition: Explains in simple text and photographs how big buildings are created.

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Product Description: In big cities, people work and live in skyscrapers. Have you ever wondered how these towers are built? How high can they go? Follow along to see how a skyscraper goes up and what goes on inside!About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher...read more

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9781480710474 | 2 edition (Shell Education, February 1, 2014), cover price $23.96 | About this edition: In big cities, people work and live in skyscrapers.

Paperback:

9781433336201 | 2 edition (Shell Education, November 1, 2011), cover price $6.99

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Product Description: Simple text and photographs present the construction of a skyscraper, including information on the workers and equipment needed.

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9781429612333 | Pebble Plus, January 1, 2008, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Simple text and photographs present the construction of a skyscraper, including information on the workers and equipment needed.

Product Description: Skyscrapers stretch high into a citys skyline, providing places to work and live for millions of people. Discover the engineering behind skyscrapers.

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9781502606068 | Cavendish Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $10.58 | About this edition: Describes the history, design, and construction of skyscrapers, and includes information on the tallest buildings in the world and the skyscrapers of the future.

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9781502606075 | Cavendish Square, August 29, 2015, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Skyscrapers stretch high into a citys skyline, providing places to work and live for millions of people.

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Presents a history of the historic building, including how it was designed, the preparations that had to be made for its construction, the actual construction, and the legend and lore that have developed around it.

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9781590185469 | Lucent Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $34.10 | About this edition: Presents a history of the historic building, including how it was designed, the preparations that had to be made for its construction, the actual construction, and the legend and lore that have developed around it.

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Product Description: A fundamental introduction to New Yorks Empire State Building, including the history of the skyscrapers construction, the details of its design, and tips for visiting the site in person.

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9781583417034 | Creative Co, January 1, 2009, cover price $24.25 | About this edition: A fundamental introduction to New Yorks Empire State Building, including the history of the skyscrapers construction, the details of its design, and tips for visiting the site in person.

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Product Description: Lewis W. Hine's famous black and white photographs document the construction of the Empire State Building, the world's tallest building at the time. Hine pays tribute to the human spirit by dramatically contrasting the workers with the mammoth scale of the structure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

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9783791324913 | Prestel Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Lewis W.

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9781567111163 | Blackbirch Pr Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $26.20 | About this edition: Describes the history of the Empire State Building, emphasizing basic architecture and mechanical procedures of construction

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Chronicles the building of the world-famous skyscraper, describes its occupants, and explores its popularity in films.

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9780817249199 | Heinemann/Raintree, June 1, 1998, cover price $29.93 | About this edition: Chronicles the building of the world-famous skyscraper, describes its occupants, and explores its popularity in films.

Miscellaneous:

9781617140808 | Buddy Books, January 1, 2010, cover price $24.21

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9781599289359 | Buddy Books, January 1, 2008, cover price $25.65

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Product Description: People come from all over the world to see the Empire State Building. You can see all of New York City from the top of this tall skyscraper! Just how many floors does the Empire State Building have? And how long did it take workers to create this amazing structure? Read this book to find out...read more

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9780761350095 | Lerner Pub Group, September 1, 2009, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: People come from all over the world to see the Empire State Building.

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9780822594048 | Lerner Pub Group, September 1, 2009, cover price $26.65 | About this edition: People come from all over the world to see the Empire State Building.

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9781594203039 | Penguin Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780143124085 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 5, 2013), cover price $22.00

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Product Description: This title discusses how skyscrapers are built, including engineering, design and construction.

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9781602794856 | Cherry Lake Pub, July 15, 2009, cover price $27.07 | About this edition: This title discusses how skyscrapers are built, including engineering, design and construction.

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Examines the history, design, construction, and uses of skyscrapers and describes some notable examples
By Etienne Delessert (illustrator)

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9781568461663 | Creative Co, August 23, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines the history, design, construction, and uses of skyscrapers and describes some notable examples

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Presents the factors involved in constructing a high rise building, using examples from around the world, including the eighty-eight story Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur and concluding with future plans to build even taller buildings.

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9780823967162 | 1 edition (Powerkids Pr, August 1, 2004), cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Presents the factors involved in constructing a high rise building, using examples from around the world, including the eighty-eight story Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur and concluding with future plans to build even taller buildings.

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In simple words and vibrant pictures, a concept book tells about the insides, outsides, up sides, and down sides of skyscrapers.
By Ryan Ann Hunter and Edward Miller (illustrator)

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9780823413720 | Holiday House, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the history and construction of skyscrapers

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Product Description: In 1916, New York City enacted zoning laws that mandated the building of “set-back” structures so that light and air would be more freely admitted into the streets below. This concept was first proposed by Louis Sullivan in his 1891 article, “The High-Building Question” (inspired by William Le Baron Jenney’s recently completed Manhattan Building in Chicago...read more

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9780910413114, titled "Metropolis of Tomorrow" | Reissue edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, May 1, 1998), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: From the 1920s through the 1950s, Hugh Ferriss was America's most ?

Paperback:

9780486437279 | Dover Pubns, February 11, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 1916, New York City enacted zoning laws that mandated the building of “set-back” structures so that light and air would be more freely admitted into the streets below.
9780910413244 | Reprint edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: From the 1920s through the 1950s, Hugh Ferriss was America's most ?

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Product Description: Jam-packed with hundreds of specially commissioned photographs accompanied by a lively, authoritative text, New Urban Giants tells the story of the design and building of thirty-one remarkable structures around the world, including corporate headquarters, residential towers, and state-of-the-art hotels...read more

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9788854403321 | White Star, September 16, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Jam-packed with hundreds of specially commissioned photographs accompanied by a lively, authoritative text, New Urban Giants tells the story of the design and building of thirty-one remarkable structures around the world, including corporate headquarters, residential towers, and state-of-the-art hotels.
9788863120035 | White Star, September 9, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Jam-packed with hundreds of specially commissioned photographs accompanied by a lively, authoritative text, New Urban Giants tells the story of the design and building of thirty-one remarkable structures around the world, including corporate headquarters, residential towers, and state-of-the-art hotels.

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Presents information on the tallest buildings in the world, including their size and how they were built. (view table of contents)

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9780823959891 | Powerkids Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Presents information on the tallest buildings in the world, including their size and how they were built.

Describes the history, construction, and significance of the tower.

Miscellaneous:

9781617140761 | Buddy Books, January 1, 2010, cover price $24.21

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9781591975083 | Buddy Books, January 11, 2005, cover price $25.65 | About this edition: Describes the history, construction, and significance of the tower.

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Using simple text and illustrations, describes the architecture, construction, and interior of a skyscraper.

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9780761422761 | Benchmark Books, August 31, 2006, cover price $22.79 | About this edition: 'Describes the architecture, construction, and interior of a skyscraper'--Provided by publisher.

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