"When an airport needs an expansion, the Construction Site crew is on the job! With help from fun new vehicles from the airport, they'll build new roads and runways, prep planes for their trips, and clean up after a surprise snowstorm. The airport is a busy place--Belt Loader, Tractor, Snowplow, and many other vehicles pull the planes, pump the fuel, move the luggage, maintain the runways, and much more. Working together, the team will get all the...

Learn how the physics of the arch solves the problem of the tensile weakness of stone. Then see how standard bricks and concrete greatly simplify and reduce the cost of monumental building. These technologies were the key to Rome's construction revolution.

Construction managers oversee the building of houses, shopping centers, and office buildings. They need to be able to manage many tasks at once and deal daily with many different kinds of workers on construction jobsites. If this sounds like the career for you, this book lays out the skills you will need to learn to become a construction manager.

Enter the world of "CONSTRUCTION SITE," a special place beyond the fence where, through the antics and adventures of trucks and construction machines, children are exposed to important messages about the nature of learning, thinking, and behaving. Children learn along with Diggs and his friends as they explore strategies and behaviors for learning and doing their best. Together, they discover that we can all think smarter and learn better.

Black and white baby bookThis black and white baby book by Jeanetta Cornabe is a unique baby book, which was specially developed to arouse your baby's interest and calm him down. In this way you can optimally support the development of your baby. The pictures are large, with sharp outlines and borders and images from the construction and handicraft sector. Your baby will love the illustrations as they can see them better than their usual surroundings....

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Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an

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She's been going ranch-to-ranch looking for work. He's just finished most of the construction at Shiloh Ridge. Bishop hires Montana anyway, because she's the beautiful blonde he's attracted to, and she's worked with the best woodworker in the state for years. Can they navigate the construction around the ranch and inside their own lives to find their happily-ever-after for the holidays? Bishop Glover is the youngest brother, and he usually keeps his...

Turn to the third major technique for building a house: platform-framed construction, which is a flexible arrangement of lightweight modular floor platforms, wall panels, and roof trusses. This efficient approach has been widely used in the U.S. for over a century..

How were giant stone blocks lifted using only muscle power? Examine the technology of classical-era cranes, breaking down their components to understand how they provided significant mechanical advantage. Close with a theory on the construction technique used to stack the massive marble drums of Trajan's Column in Rome.

Andi Carlson always plays by the rules. Rule one: family first. Rule two: stay away from the unscrupulous Ball family. She followed rule one until her father betrayed her. Now she's juggling her remodeling business while going to college, chasing her dream of becoming an architect. But her dream may die when her school requires her to become a full-time student. Andi can't afford the time or the tuition. She'll have to drop out, unless she breaks...