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Designed first and foremost to be practical, bridges nevertheless are often breathtaking in their construction, combining function and aesthetics. The historic spans of the Evergreen State's highways are no exception. These technological wonders are extraordinary by any measure, yet their stories have remained largely unknown.
Conceived by visionary engineers and built by anonymous skilled workmen, Washington's highway bridges are amazing triumphs of design and play a significant role in the state's history. Several, at the time of their completion, attracted worldwide attention and the praise of professional engineers, influencing the course of bridge construction.
In their quest to compile the first comprehensive history of the state's highway bridges, the authors exhaustively researched the extensive records of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), collecting definitive documentation and photographs from across the state. This magnificent book, including more than 200 illustrations, represents the culmination of years of study by many individuals associated with WSDOT and the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (Olympia).
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Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges Of The Evergreen State.......2006-02-25
An excellent summary of the various types of structures used in Washington bridges down through the years. Specific locations and history given for each major bridge. Not a structural engineering text, but should be read by any northwest civil engineering type.
Surprisingly Fascinating Study of Washington Bridges.......2005-08-14
I've got to say that the first thing that came to mind when I saw this book on Washington's Bridges was the famous 'Galloping Gertie' bridge at Tacoma Narrows that fell down. Then I thought of the floating bridges that the folk at the Department of Transportation seem to like. I would have been disappointed if these bridges hadn't been included in this book. But they were, along with a bunch of other bridges that have failed also. One failed when a herd of sheep crossed it. Another when fireworks set it on fire. Earthquakes and the eruption of Mt. St. Helens caused more to fail. Then there was the one where a forty ton logging truck attempted to cross a bridge designed for a five ton load.
But enough about failed bridges. This is really a book on the hundreds of other bridges around the State of Washington. Some of these are magnificant structures. A lot are surprisingly different, one bridge for instance that was bought war surplus. And I didn't realize that there were still three wooden covered bridges in the state.
This is mostly a picture book, with just enough technical description as to the types of bridges to make it even more interesting. A lot of these bridges would make a good weekend excursion trip to go see. If you're interested in this sort of thing, this is a most interesting book. It's one that I intend to take along on vacations to tell us a bit about where we are going.
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101 Trees Of Indiana.......2007-09-28
A very functional field guide that covers basic tree information in an easy to follow format. The keys, colored pictures and descriptions are great.
Terrific Field Guide.......2007-08-10
This field guide is clear, well written and easy to use. It includes a step by step process to help you identify the type of tree you have in your woods. The pictures are accurate, not some artistic rendition or sample of the PERFECT specimen. You'll enjoy using this guide.
Excellent resource.......2007-01-04
Very useful information in an accessible format. Excellent photos of multiple identification characteristics for each tree.
Excellent identification guide.......2005-09-29
I bought this book to learn the species of the trees in our area of southern Indiana. It does this job well.
There are usually 4-6 excellent color photographs for each entry, showing bark, leaves, stems, seeds, flowers, fruit, and overall shape of the tree. (Not all items are shown for all trees.) The most useful part of the book, however, are the identification keys. Each key uses an either/or question to lead you onward towards ultimate identification.
Example:
19. Leaves compound: Go to question 20
Leaves simple: Got to question 33
The next question leads you to succeeding questions until you finally get to the name of a genus (such as Quercus for the various oaks). Looking up the genus in the index will send you to the page, or pages, for all trees in that genus. The two-page descriptions for each individual species should allow you to identify the tree.
Unless you remember your high school biology you will need to review the introduction, where you will get a refresher course on botany as it pertains to naming and identifying trees, but the time spent will be rewarded.
Although the habitat maps are limited to Indiana, this book can still be an excellent reference for those outside the state.
Highly recommended.
A Great Guide for Trees of Indiana.......2004-06-23
Jackson's book is well written and set forth in a useable format. It has hundreds of color photographs. The book also has multiple illustrations for each tree. I am just a beginner when it comes to tree identification and even I could use the book with few problems. It is well worth the asking price.
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This standard-setting, state-of-the-art field guide to the wildflowers of Indiana (and surrounding states) includes all 1,568 herbaceous species recorded in the state. It contains 640 color photographs, along with helpful explanations and numerous drawings of the characteristics that separate each of the individual species.
This Field Guide replaces every previous guide to Indiana wildflowers. With an emphasis on completeness, strong visual presentation, and simplicity of terminology, this book will be invaluable to anyone, amateur or botanical professional, interested in Indiana's diverse wildflower population.
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A must have for those of us in Indiana who want to save the flora!.......2007-06-14
This book is an excellent source of native information. I combined it with several other books I have, along with additional photos of plants I am particularly interested in which I downloaded from Yahoo images. The only draw back to the book is that I needed more pictures to help identify the plants but as you can see, it was easily fixed!
A much needed field guide to Indiana wildflowers.......2000-12-09
This field guide to Indiana wildflowers should be a valuable reference for both the professional and amateur botanist. The species descriptions given are adequate to distinguish similar species in most cases. The ranges given for several species appear to be inaccurate.
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Wildflowers of Indiana (Wildflowers)
Maryrose Wampler , and
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Native Trees of the Midwest gives detailed descriptions and unique insights into identifying all the trees native to Indiana and most of those in the surrounding states. Descriptive text gives invaluable hints on how to identify species in any season and is supported with color photographs of all-important characteristics. The book encapsulates the authors' combined experience of more than 50 years in teaching students how to identify woody plants.
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A MIDWESTERN MUST ! .......2007-01-08
A WONDERFUL BOOK IF YOUR IN THE MIDWAEST. IT IS PRETTY NEAT TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY YOUR TREES. A TRUELY GREAT GIFT.
Great source for practical tree info........2006-12-11
I bought this book a while back and am entirely pleased with my purchase. I use this book on the job as well as for personal use. The photos are the best I have ever seen in a book like this. They are essential for accurate identification. This is used as a text book, so you know that is very detailed, but it is also very useful to anyone with an interest in trees. I highly recommend it!
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- One of the most beautiful books on native orchids.
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Orchids of Indiana (Wildflowers)
Michael A. Homoya
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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One of the most beautiful books on native orchids........1996-10-25
Excellent full page, color habitat and close-ups
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- An excellent beginner's guide
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Wildflowers of Indiana woodlands
Sylvan T Runkel
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An excellent beginner's guide.......2000-02-25
This book's wonderful clear, color photos make this book an excellent guide for beginners or casual wildflower observers.
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Wildflowers for Indiana highways
Michael N Dana
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Warmonger, womanizer, and autocrat, Louis XIV may also have been history’s most fanatical gardener. At Versailles, twelve miles outside Paris, France’s self-styled “Sun King” created not only Europe’s most lavish palace, but, beginning in 1661, the most extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen. Assisting Louis in this enterprise was the low-born gardener André Le Nôtre, whose character and temperament were as different from those of his sovereign as it is possible to conceive. Where Louis was ruthless and relentlessly driven, Le Nôtre was down to earth, witty and amiable – and also phenomenally talented. While Louis could strike fear into the highest in the land with just a look, Le Nôtre enjoyed the king’s trust and friendship for more than 40 years. In this lavishly illustrated book, Ian Thompson tells more comprehensively than ever before the intertwined stories of an extraordinary garden and an extraordinary friendship.
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LOUIS' EDEN.......2006-11-08
Louis XIV was fortunite in his association with the great Le Notre or I should say he was lucky to have the power of the devine right monarch, so he could steal him from Fouquet and Vieux le Vicomte to work on his Vallala, Versailles. Louis was king incarnate, he was the state, period, the epitome, the very definition of the devine, absolute monarch, and he knew exactly what he wanted and with the genius of Le Notre he created a garden that was and to this day still is the envey of the world. This book does a fine job of capturing Le Notre's gardens at Versailles at their best. The text is enlightening and the images are well conceived. If you have any interest in Versailles or French Formal Gradens, the I highly recommend this book.
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- 3 more volumns?
- Brilliant
- Amongst the best historical fiction
- Historically accurate, wonderful adventure, romance
- Historically accurate & Wonderful Story-Great Book
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Angelique: The Road to Versailles
Anne Golon
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Historical RomanceLarge Print EditionFor Anglique, 17th-century Paris is a city of wild love and vicious hatred. Penniless, alone and sworn to take revenge on those who were responsible for her husbands death, she plunges into the dangerous underworld of the city to the nightmare Court of Miracles, a world of deformity, degradation, violence and lust. Its here that her journey to Versailles and the glittering court of Louis, the Sun King, begins.*Explicit
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3 more volumns?.......2005-11-29
I always wondered if there were more then 9 volumns, did I understand correctly that there are 3 more volumns which were never translated into English???? Also, is the Rd. to Versaille a book which is not in the series of 1-9? At one point someone reviewd it as book 2? Please email me at quetin@gmail.com
Brilliant.......2001-07-27
In the second book of the Angelique series, following the death of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac, Angelique is in the Parsian underworld, at the Court of Miracles. A fascinating glimpse into a sordid world of beggers and thieves, this is a much darker, but maybe even more brilliant book than The Marquise of Angels. Wonderful, fascinating book, more of an on the edge of your seat suspence thriller than the previous book. Alot of great, heartbreaking emotional scenes, and also many happy ones. A fantastic book.
Amongst the best historical fiction.......2001-07-08
The Angelique series written by Anne and Serge Golon will rate amongst your favourite books (if you can get hold of these rare books). I started with paperback versions, but have since started collecting the hardcovers and have recently acquired the last hardcover I needed to complete my collection. The last 3 books in the series have not been translated in to English yet and there are stories of people learning French as a language just to read the last 3 books in this series. It is beautifully written and set in the period of the reign of the Sun King in France. The authors have done their research and I have been fascinated at the accuracy of the authors' description of historical characters in their books. Highly recommended if you like historical fiction or if you enjoy any story with REAL heroism!
Historically accurate, wonderful adventure, romance.......1999-08-13
Anyone who reads about Angelique will keep the book always. I've kept my volunes for years. I wish I had them all in hard back. The book is very hard to put down. I've read it over and over. Great..
Historically accurate & Wonderful Story-Great Book.......1999-08-13
Anyone who reads Angelique will always say it was wonderful. The romance, adventure, history and suspence were one of a kind. I only wish it was available in reprint so we could have the whole set in our library. Please inform us about the book and author.
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- ONLY THE SUN KING COULD AFFORD THIS BOOK
- Excellent overview of the many structures of Louis XIV!
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Palaces of the Sun King: Versailles, Trianon, Marly--The Chateaux of Louis XIV
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ASIN: 084782473X
Release Date: 2002-12-13 |
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This comprehensive volume documents for the first time twenty-one châteaux and pavilions commissioned by Louis XIV, France's great builder-king. These royal buildings, and over forty architectural ornaments enriching their gardens, are illustrated in breathtaking watercolors by authors Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams. Depicted are several of the most influential structures in all of Western architecture, such as the palace of Versailles and the magnificent lost complex at Marly, which contemporaries deemed a veritable "Paradise on Earth." The authors give full attention to unrealized projects and depict completed structures not as they stand today, if indeed they stand at all, but as they were originally designed by the leading architects of the day.
Meticulously prepared over many years, Palaces of the Sun King presents a wealth of historically accurate watercolor illustrations, complemented by a sophisticated narrative, that together offer a fundamental reappraisal of the architecture of the reign of Louis XIV. Modern academics have clarified the function of the political and social construct of the Sun King, but the nature and extent of the parallel architectural revolution which Louis XIV engendered have remained largely unquestioned out of veneration for a national treasure. Time, too, has seen the disappearance or destruction of many of the châteaux and architectural designs commissioned by the king, and in deciding to recreate lost buildings and unexecuted designs, the authors open new realms of discovery for a subject heretofore deemed thoroughly understood. Here, then, the Sun King's masterworks are reconsidered and deconstructed, providing a work of groundbreaking investigation that will both fascinate and inform.
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ONLY THE SUN KING COULD AFFORD THIS BOOK.......2006-10-20
This book is a huge disappointment. When i picked it up at border's i assumed at that price it would be spectacular..it is not..it's an odd book with usual images and hard to follow text. I had wanted to see the book because you rarely hear anything about Marly, the kings favorite palace, if Louis liked you, he would invite you to Marly, it was spectacular and you do get a feel for it in this book, but not enough to pay this staggering price. It's a mediocre book, with a shocking sticker price...just buy the Montclos book on Versailles, now that's a GREAT book and well worth it's price.
Excellent overview of the many structures of Louis XIV!.......2004-08-14
This book covers many structures, commissioned by Louis XIV, that were either built or were designed but not executed. The pictures that the authors did themselves are spetacular! The text is also above average. I however must warn you it is not worth $135.00 which is the book's retail price. The book's length was a huge dissapointment. It is only 208 pages (not 224 as they say in the book description) which includes the table of contents, index, bibliography, etc. The authors did not fill the pages with as many illustrations and text as I would've liked.If I had it to do over again would not pay the retail price for this book. I would buy a used one instead. Overall though, despite its length, the book does provide the reader with an in-depth look at the exquisite architecture of the Sun King.
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Classic Copy.......2007-06-08
If you are remotely interested in the social dealings of France in the seventeenth century, then this a great book to buy. Not only does it cover all of Louis' mistresses, illegitimate children, unloved wife, and building escapades but also his own development as a king. Great for any person interested in societies of past, and how people thought.
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8.4" * 5.5". Blue cloth hardcover.
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Hagar H 05/On Rack (Hagar the Horrible)
Dik Browne
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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Hagar the Horrible on the Rack
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