Construction History

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

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    • The History and Construction of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Defensive Fortification
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • One of Rome's most impressive constructions was built on the northernmost fringe of the empire....

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    • The Construction and History of the Waterway Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dennis E. Morris
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2015
    • Language: English
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    • While not many have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, those who have are aware that the Panama Canal is considered one of them....

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    • How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
    • By: Stefan Al
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Stefan Al reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this boom....

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    • Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
    • By: Simon Thurley
    • Narrated by: Simon Thurley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England....

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    • Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine
    • By: Christine Leuenberger, Izhak Schnell
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine.

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    • A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
    • By: C. J. Alvarez
    • Narrated by: David Angelo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2023
    • Language: English
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    • From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the 21st century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet....

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    • A History of Construction, 1938-1945
    • By: Al M. Rocca
    • Narrated by: Al Rocca
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Shasta Dam is the second largest dam in America, and this book covers the construction during the years 1938-1945....

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    • The History of the Construction, Destruction, and Rebirth of a New York City Landmark
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2017
    • Language: English
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    • The name "World Trade Center", when spoken by an American, tends to conjure up the best and worst about the nation....

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    • The History of the Construction and Abandonment of the Frontier's Most Famous Sites
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Mining Towns in the Wild West: The History of the Construction and Abandonment of the Frontier’s Most Famous Sites profiles some of the most important events and camps that popped up in response to mineral discoveries....

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    • Politics, Murder and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
    • By: Steven Hart
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-2010
    • Language: English
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    • At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads....

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    • The Construction of the World's Most Famous Ship
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: John Gagnepain
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the largest ship in the world, hit an iceberg, starting a chain of events that would ultimately make it history's most famous, and notorious, ship....

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    • a novel
    • By: Jennifer Bardsley
    • Narrated by: Whitney Dykhouse, Alexander Cendese
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From Sweet Bliss author Jennifer Bardsley comes a poignant romance about a small-town crime that throws together ex-high school sweethearts who have never quite gotten over their past....

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    • An American Adventure
    • By: Joseph E. Stevens
    • Narrated by: Kevin Charles Minatrea
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2015
    • Language: English
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    • In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken....

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    • How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
    • By: Joan Flores-Villalobos
    • Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In The Silver Women, Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the Panama Canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction....

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    • Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations
    • By: Pepper Glass
    • Narrated by: John Ford-Dunker
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • How do we draw the lines between "good" and "bad" neighborhoods? How do we know “ghettos”? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems....

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