Romero, Libby.
Summary: Explores the world's biggest buildings, from modern skyscrapers to the pyramids.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Children 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Through actual contruction footage and interviews with historians, ABC's Jack Smith tells the story of this true modern marvel-- built on a 60,000-ton steel frame with 6,500 windows, 73 elevators and 8 high-speed escalators.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC News 1999
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EMPSummary: Every year, hundreds of new skyscrapers are built around the globe. As nations vie for prestige and developers look to maximize limited urban space, these shimmering towers are rising higher and higher. In China alone, dozens of buildings reach over 1,000 feet, with a few approaching 2,000 feet. But for all their impressive engineering, are these buildings safe?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HIGDiagrams.
Summary: 2012 debut album from the London-based band, the brainchild of Sam Genders (ex-Tunng, The Accidental). G͠enders' voice is immediately recognizable from his previous incarnations. Here, however, his warm vocal timbre is accompanied by electronic pop (such as in the title track), synth riffs and Funk-laden bass lines (as in `Antelope' and first single `Tall Buildings'). Full-Time Hobby.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 101 DISTRIBUTION 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIACapucilli, Alyssa Satin
Summary: On his first visit to the city, an excited puppy sees tall buildings, hears loud buses, and tries to say hello to everyone he meets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CAPCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CAPBurris, Priscilla
Summary: Little chicken Sabrina Sue sets off on an adventure to the big city where she hopes to see tall buildings, taxi cabs, museums, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BURSummary: In this program, resonance is examined. The value of mathematical models is demonstrated through the physics of applying a time-varying force to a body that fundamentally exhibits simple harmonic motion. Solution techniques for general linear second-order differential equations are featured.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Rajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADADahl, Michael.
Summary: When morning comes, a young boy must prepare for his day, faster than a speeding bullet. Follow along as he leaps tall buildings (jumps out of bed) in a single bound, dons his heroic uniform (his clothes), and faces his greatest weakness (Kryptonite-colored toothpaste), then its up, up, and away to daycare.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2017
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE SUPSummary: Twice a year at Chichen Itza the sun casts a shadow on the Temple of Kulkulkan that resembles a snake descending the pyramid's steps-a curved line that is eerily similar to the descending line of x approaching infinity on the graph of the exponential function for the volume of the pyramid. In this program Mayan architecture is used to study the properties of 3-D figures, including square and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hartford, John.
Contents: Skippin' in the Mississippi dew (2:57) -- The Julia Belle Swain (4:47) -- Natchez whistle (3:00) -- I would not be here (1:51) -- Miss Ferris (6:58) -- Bear Creek hop (1:54) -- Cuckoo's nest (3:14) -- Boogie (2:29) -- Gum tree canoe (4:05) -- Slumberin' on the Cumberland (4:44) -- Gentle on my mind (4:34) -- In tall buildings (3:24) -- Nobody eats at Linebaugh's anymore (6:21) -- On Christmas...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997