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Building: The Fight Against Gravity

Author: Mario Salvadori
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Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying excessively and buildings prevented from sinking into the ground.
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