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1) Canals
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This book covers how and why canals are made. Using full-page photographs, simple sentences, and relevant sight words, early readers will learn about canals while practicing their reading skills. This book also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Civilizations have long used canals to move water, ships, cargo, and people from one location to another. The first canals were often trenches dug to bring water to crops. Some were dug to connect rivers or other bodies of water. Over the centuries, the techniques, technology, resources, and science used to construct canals has changed greatly. Today, canals all over the world help keep business booming and people moving. Readers will learn how engineers...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Transportation became critically important as new industries emerged. Find out how canal builders connected major cities by water, which greatly enhanced the country's internal communications and allowed for the transportation of goods over long distances at relatively low cost. Look at the methods of building a canal and several key routes.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
How do you stimulate the economy and create more wealth? In the 18th and 19th centuries, canals and railroads provided the backbone of the Industrial Revolution. Investigate the engineering challenges of creating nationwide transportation systems, and explore the connection between infrastructure and the economy.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the glorious Venetian waterways, take a vaporetto to view Palladio's churches and the resplendent Santa Maria della Salute, which dominates the waterfront. Stop at fabulous palace museums along the Grand Canal, such as the great Galleria Accademia and the Casa Rezzonico, a stunning evocation of 18th-century Venetian life.
7) An Economic History of the World since 1400: Episode 23,Speeding Up: Canals, Steamships, Railroads
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones-each of these 19th-century innovations helped create the globalized, interconnected world that we currently inhabit in the 21st century. Follow the trajectory of the history of modern transportation and communication (with its emphasis on speed) as it relates to the story of economics.
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Offers multiple perspectives on momentous events. This volume introduces and provides a brief overview of the major factors that contributed to the historical building of the Panama Canal, beginning with construction by the United States in 1903.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England, has become one of the rural village of Marsden's main tourist attractions. Now it's also a crime scene. Six students went into the tunnel on a private boat. Two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared at the other end of the tunnel carrying only one of the students, who had been knocked unconscious"--
11) The Panama Canal
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Since the beginning of exploration, people have searched for easier ways to navigate between waterways and oceans to bolster trade. The Panama Canal demonstrates how innovation, advanced engineering, hard work, and great personal cost resulted in one of modern history's most critical trade routes. This book includes information about the explorers and inventors behind the project, the goods and services traded, and the ways the canal is used today"--From...
12) Six sweets under
Author
Series
True Confections mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Former actress Becca Ransom lived her dream in Hollywood for seven years before returning to her hometown of Larch Haven, Vermont. Known as the Venice of North America, Larch Haven has canals instead of roads, gondolas instead of cars, and charming cottages that look like they were plucked from the pages of a fairy tale. It's also where Becca is pursuing her newest passion as a chocolatier at True Confections, the chocolate shop owned by her grandparents,...
Series
Trenton Complex archaeology report volume 11
Publisher
Cultural Resource Group of Louis Berger & Associates
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
18) Jamón, jamón
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Traces the romantic entanglements of the beautiful and pregnant underwear factory worker Silvia; José Luis, the father of her child and heir to the factory fortune; Raul, underwear model, seducer, and would-be-bullfighter; and Conchita, José Luis' doting mother, family matriarch, and Raul's lover.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy businessman learns of his daughter's swift engagement to a missionary, he embarks on a quest to keep her closer to home, but when his efforts go askew, he must reconsider what it means to be a strong father.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mitchie, Shane, Jason, Nate, and their friends return to Camp Rock for another fun-filled summer. They soon learn that Star Camp has also opened on the lake and has lured many Camp Rock instructors and campers away. When hotshot performer Luke Williams issues a challenge to see which camp has the greatest musical talent, everyone prepares for an all-out battle of the bands. The only catch is, the losing camp will close for good!
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