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13 produkter

1. 

   Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape

   Av Jill Jonnes

   Häftad, 2017

   345 kr

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2. 

   Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels

   Av Jill Jonnes

   Häftad, 2008

   356 kr

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3. 

   Eiffel's Tower

   And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count

   Av Jill Jonnes

   Häftad, 2010

   316 kr

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4. 

   Empires of Light

   Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

   Av Jill Jonnes

   Häftad, 2004

   297 kr

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   The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and …

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   South Bronx Rising

   The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

   Av Jill Jonnes

   Häftad, 2002

   743 kr

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   Jill Jonnes's recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in a new final chapter the extraordinary and monumental rebuilding of the borough by the grass-roots groups that was just getting underway in 1984. The …

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   Eiffel's Tower

   The Thrilling Story Behind Paris''s Beloved Monument and the ExtraordinaryWorld''s Fair That Introduced It

   Av Jill Jonnes

   E-bok, 2009

   226 kr

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   The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham -offers an eye- opening look not only at …

7. 

   Conquering Gotham

   Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels

   Av Jill Jonnes

   E-bok, 2007

   180 kr

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   “Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” ( The Wall Street Journal ) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel''s Tower and Urban Forests As bestselling books like Ron Chernow''s Titan and David McCullough''s The Great …

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   Urban Forests

   A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape

   Av Jill Jonnes

   E-bok, 2016

   131 kr

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   “Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” — Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction “Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up …

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   South Bronx Rising

   The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

   Av Jill Jonnes

   Häftad, 2022

   425 kr

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   Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and '80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to …

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    Empires of Light

    Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

    Av Jill Jonnes

    E-bok, 2003

    213 kr

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    In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light , historian Jill Jonnes portrays this …

11. 

    Eiffel's Tower for Young People

    Av Jill Jonnes, Rebecca Stefoff m. fl.

    Inbunden, 2019

    379 kr

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    Eiffel's Tower for Young People is a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting—and competing—on the world stage at the dawn of the modern era. The 1889 World's Fair was a worldwide event showcasing the cutting-edge cultural and technological accomplishments of the world's most powerful …

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    Eiffel's Tower for Young People

    Av Jill Jonnes

    E-bok, 2019

    166 kr

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    The latest in Triangle Square''s For Young People series, this adaptation of Jill Jonnes''s riveting history of the Eiffel Tower and the 1889 World''s Fair in Paris is sure to capture the imagination of young readers. "will transport [readers] back to a time as complex and crazy as our …

13. 

    Eiffel's Tower for Young People

    Av Jill Jonnes, Rebecca Stefoff m. fl.

    Häftad, 2019

    175 kr

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