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1) Underground
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Description
Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.
Series
Cities of the Under World volume 1-4
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Surprising discoveries lie just below our feet under the streets of today's greatest cities.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Construction experts and earth-sheltered homebuilders have been interviewed and their expertise is included in this guide to help you learn how you can create your own underground home. Details of construction methods are found throughout the book, including tips and advice for planning, excavation, flooring, walls, framing, waterproofing, roofing, drainage, and insulation. You will also learn how to pour your own footings and floor, how to dry...
6) Fortress
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
After losing their first baby, John and Karen Brennick dare to have another child in a futuristic world that does not allow it. The couple is sentenced to a sadistic prison buried 33 stories beneath the Earth, a place no one has escaped alive.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Every city has its secrets, but who could imagine how many linger below ground, sometimes for thousands of years? Secret passageways, combat tunnels, buried palaces, Mafia escape routes and ammunition depots are just a few of the subterranean surprises you'll discover. These buried secrets are explored using state-of-the-art surveillance equipment to help investigate places oftern known only to archeologists and local residents.
12) Under the ground
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This text takes readers on a journey through the Earth to find out what's under the ground from plant roots and ant colonies to rumbling trains in deep, dark tunnels.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
American Ground is the story - until now untold - of the people who responded to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Within days, William Langewiesche made his way into the innermost recesses of the collapse. By virtue of the integrity and excellence of his previous work, he quickly secured unique, unrestricted, around-the-clock access to the site, the rescue workers and laborers there, and the meetings of city officials,...