The Bridge Is Down

Author : Peter Spier
Publisher : Yearling Books
ISBN 13 : 9780440407102
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Bridge Is Falling Down written by Peter Spier and published by Yearling Books. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the singing game about London Bridge's falling down. Includes a history of the bridge and music.

Author : George Mair
Publisher : Scarborough House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge Down written by George Mair and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0593356217
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bryant & May: London Bridge Is Falling Down written by Christopher Fowler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unbeatable fun . . . [Christopher Fowler] takes delight in stuffing his books with esoteric facts.” —The Guardian The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncovers a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady—and when the case leads them to London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. When ninety-one-year-old Amelia Hoffman dies in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs. Hoffman was once a government security expert, though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed. Mrs. Hoffman wasn’t the only one at risk. Bryant is convinced that other forgotten women with hidden talents are also in danger. And, curiously, they all own models of London Bridge. With the help of some of their more certifiable informants, the detectives follow the strangest of clues in an investigation that will lead them through forgotten alleyways to the city’s fabled bridge in search of a desperate killer. But just when the case appears to be solved, they discover that Mrs. Hoffman was smarter than anyone imagined. There’s a bigger game afoot that could have terrible consequences.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593470958
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

Author : David Ballantyne
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961007
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sydney Bridge Upside Down: Text Classics written by David Ballantyne and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything.

Author : John Bateson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951409
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Final Leap written by John Bateson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It’s also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It’s also the only international landmark without a suicide barrier. Weaving drama, tragedy, and politics against the backdrop of a world-famous city, The Final Leap is the first book ever written about Golden Gate Bridge suicides. John Bateson leads us on a fascinating journey that uncovers the reasons for the design decision that led to so many deaths, provides insight into the phenomenon of suicide, and examines arguments for and against a suicide barrier. He tells the stories of those who have died, the few who have survived, and those who have been affected—from loving families to the Coast Guard, from the coroner to suicide prevention advocates.

Author : Dorian Gerhold
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257522
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761 written by Dorian Gerhold and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city’s main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar images of London in the past, but little has previously been known about the houses and the people who lived and worked in them. This book uses plentiful newly-discovered evidence, including detailed descriptions of nearly every house, to tell the story of the bridge and its houses and inhabitants. With the new information it is possible to reconstruct the plan of the bridge and houses in the seventeenth century, to trace the history of each house back through rentals and a survey to 1358, revealing the original layout, to date most of the houses which appear in later views, and to show how the houses and their occupants changed during five and half centuries. The book describes what stopped the houses falling into the river, how the houses were gradually enlarged, what their layout was inside, what goods were sold on the bridge and how these changed over time, the extensive rebuilding in 1477-1548 and 1683-96, and the removal of the houses around 1760. There are many new discoveries - about the structure of the bridge, the width of the roadway, the original layout of the houses, how the houses were supported, the size and internal planning of the houses, the quality of their architecture, and the trades practised on the bridge. The book includes five newly-commissioned reconstruction drawings showing what we now know about the bridge and its houses.

Author : Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780153650895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge is Up! written by Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cumulative story, a traffic jam is created when motorists have to wait for a bridge to come down.

Author : Tim Rolls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781081349691
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stamford Bridge Is Falling Down written by Tim Rolls and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1971 Chelsea won the Cup Winners' Cup in Athens, following their FA Cup triumph twelve months earlier. The club, awash with glamour, was ambitious on and off the field. The squad included stars like Peter Osgood, Alan Hudson, David Webb, Peter Bonetti, Charlie Cooke, John Hollins, Ian Hutchinson, Peter Houseman, Eddie McCreadie, Keith Weller, Ron Harris, John Boyle, John Dempsey, John Phillips, Tommy Baldwin and Paddy Mulligan. Dave Sexton was a highly-respected manager, a forward-thinking coach. Everything looked rosy. Four seasons later they were relegated, Osgood, Hudson and Webb had left and Sexton summarily sacked with the club in a financial morass. Why the decline? What went so badly awry, so quickly?This book utilises extensive research to examine what went wrong on and off the field, the big personalities, the matches, the key cup defeats, the squabbles and rows, the money problems and the big decisions around the planned stadium redevelopment. 'This is a forensic chronicle that will add wonderfully to our understanding of this period of Chelsea history'. Rick Glanvill, official Chelsea historian. 'Tim Rolls' excellent and highly detailed account of that painful yet strangely gripping period in our history when the club went from star-studded holders of a European title to controversy-riven second-tier outfit on the brink of bankruptcy in just four seasons.' Giles Smith - author, journalist and Chelsea website columnist. Tim Rolls first watched Chelsea in September 1967 and has watched them regularly with the same group of friends since 1976 from The Shed, the benches and the West Stand. A home and away season ticket holder, since 1997 Tim has sat in the Matthew Harding Upper Stand. He writes for cfcuk fanzine, proudly holds a Chelsea Pitch Owners share and was for four years Chair of Chelsea Supporters Trust. Retired, he lives in South-West London. This is his second book. His first, 'Diamonds, Dynamos and Devils' on Tommy Docherty's Chelsea, is available from the cfcuk stall on matchdays, or on Amazon.

Author : J.C. Duane
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 1171709242
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organization of the bridge equipage of the United States Army with directions for the construction of military bridges written by J.C. Duane and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: