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The Portland Bridge Book
by Sharon Wood Wortman and Ed Wortman  Publisher Comments The Portland Bridge Book, now in its third edition, is a richly detailed history of the bridges spanning the Willamette and Columbia Rivers in Portland, Oregon. This edition is totally new, with over 175 photographs and illustrations. The book makes...
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Bridges of the Oregon Coast (Images of America)
by Ray Bottenberg Publisher Comments In the 1920s and 1930s, Oregon's legendary bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough designed a first-rate collection of aesthetic bridges on the Oregon Coast Highway to enhance an already dramatic and beautiful landscape. The six largest of these, at Gold...
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Bridges of Portland (Images of America)
by Ray Bottenberg Publisher Comments In the 1920s and 1930s, Oregon's legendary bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough designed a first-rate collection of aesthetic bridges on the Oregon Coast Highway to enhance an already dramatic and beautiful landscape. The six largest of these, at Gold...
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Covered Bridges of the Northeast Rev Edition
by Richard Sande Allen Publisher Comments A richly detailed account of bridge builders, the tools they used, and their finished masterpieces, this profusely illustrated work describes foot bridges, latticework and double-decked structures, drawbridges, and more. Filled with information on bridge...
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What is a Bridge?: The Making of Calatrava's Bridge in Seville
by Spiro N Pollalis Publisher Comments Cultural icon, daring engineering spectacle, and highly controversial structure, the Alamillo Bridge stands almost 150 meters tall, with an inclined pylon whose own weight balances that of the deck and traffic. Built for the 1992 Universal Exposition in...
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Hudson River Bridges (Images of America)
by Kathryn W Burke Publisher Comments The Hudson River Valley, an invaluable connection between New England and the rest of the colonies during the American Revolution, continues to be a major crossroads today. The Hudson River bridges were architectural marvels of their time. The Bear...
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Master Builders: Bridges
by Gretchen G. Bank Publisher Comments Bridges have been fascinating casual viewers and experts alike for thousands of years. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Bridges brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re...
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Great Bridges: From Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century
by Wilbur J Watson Publisher Comments This splendid pictorial history by an expert on the subject contains outstanding examples of bridge engineering and design. Watson's study ranges far and wide -- from stone viaducts in Roman Iberia and H'an dynasty masonry arches, to the pontoon spans of...
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Dream Bridges / Traumbrucken
by Wolfdietrich Ziesel Publisher Comments Alle Brücken sind Träume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Brückenprojekte und Brückenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der führenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis...
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Design and Construction of Steel Bridges
by Utpal K. Ghosh Publisher Comments The advantage of steel for long span bridges has been well established for some time. Its advantages for short and medium span bridges are also being seriously considered now particularly from the standpoint of economy, durability, and ease in...
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The Bridges of New York
by Sharon Reier Publisher Comments Stirring text-and-picture tribute to over 75 New York City bridges--among them the Brooklyn Bridge, Throgs Neck, Verrazano Narrows, Whitestone, George Washington, and other splendid structures.<BR>...
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Rails Across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge
by Robert W Jackson Book News Annotation This is a paperbound reprint of a 2001 work. Completed in 1874, the structure now known as the Eads Bridge crossed the Mississippi River at St. Louis. In this monograph, urban planner and historian Jackson tells the story of this monumental...
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30 Bridges
by Matthew Wells Publisher Comments This captivating reference analyzes 30 bridges around the world that show cutting-edge architectural and engineering trends. Each bridge is displayed in color while accompanying text and drawings demonstrate construction techniques....
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Advances in Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management and Lifecycle Performance (Book + CD-ROM)
by Paulo J S Cruz Synopsis With contributions from leading experts, this book addresses all major aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, and management and delineates the state of the art in bridge maintenance and safety. It offers advice for decision making in bridge maintenance,...
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Plate Buckling in Bridges and Other Structures
by Bjorn Akesson Publisher Comments A well-illustrated and comprehensive account of various aspects of local buckling in bridges, this book covers the theory and background of buckling. It presents simple design calculations that address this intriguing phenomenon and describes attempts to...
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Bridges (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
by Richard Louis Cleary Publisher Comments An account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved. <BR>Bridges are such ubiquitous features of the built environment that we cross most of them barely acknowledging...
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Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Petroski reveals the science and engineering (not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic) behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the...
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Design of Highway Bridges 2ND Edition
by Richard M Barker Publisher Comments Design of Highway Bridges, Second Edition is the complete update of the only text covering the application of design fundamentals and up-to-date design specifications to real-world highway bridge design. This major new edition of the premier reference on...
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Historic Bridges: Evaluation, Preservation, and Management
by Hojjat Adeli Publisher Comments Explore Historic Bridge Design through the Perspective of Modern Engineering Historic Bridges: Evaluation, Preservation, and Management provides both an admiring and a technical account of bridge engineering through an exploration of several remarkable...
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Bridge Management
by Bojidar Yanev Publisher Comments Written with civil and transportation engineers in mind, Bridge Management is a practical guide to bridge management in the real world. Managing bridges involves much more than simple maintenance and requires an understanding of the particular...
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