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1) Dig a tunnel
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simply describes a variety of tunnels, how they are built and how they are used.
2) Tunnels
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thousands of years ago, ancient engineers came up with a way to cross obstacles that prevented people getting from one place to another. They built a passageway under the ground called a tunnel. A tunnel sounds simple. After all, it is just a tube built through dirt or stone. But building a tunnel is one of the hardest challenges an engineer can face. This scientific text highlights the origin of the first tunnels, the greatest tunnel builders, the...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
What secrets do the Las Vegas drains keep? What discoveries wait in the dark? What's beneath the neon? There is a darker side of Las Vegas than the one shown in the glitzy travel ads. In miles of underground tunnels live a whole other city populated by the disenfranchised, disconnected, and disturbed.
8) Building big
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The series (five parts) introduces the courageous creators and builders and reveals the deadly disasters and personal triumphs behind these breathtaking structures.
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The legendary Gotthard Pass can be called the heart of Switzerland. It is the link between north and south, and between different languages and cultures. With captivating and humorous images, the author tells the story of how the Gotthard was conquered, from the arduous medieval journey on foot, through, the days of the stagecoach, right up to modern automobiles and high-speed trains. This engineering feat and a piece of Swiss transportation history...
10) Tunnels
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the international antiquity trade"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In The Big Dig, we are taken behind the scenes of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project to discover how traffic in Boston got to be so bad in the first place, and how poor planning led to an elevated highway that divided the city and made traffic worse.
12) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.
Author
Series
Ex. Doc. / 42nd Congress 2nd Session. Senate volume no. 15
Publisher
[U.S. Senate]
Pub. Date
1872
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on a hit podcast series, this book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired. In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months later, working with a group of students, he picked up...
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