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4) Roadwork
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Candlewick Press
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English
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There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this picture book, with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun, follows them every step of the way, from clearing a pathway to rolling the tar to sweeping up at the end.
6) The highway
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When teenagers Danielle and Gracie Sullivan take a clandestine car trip to visit their friend in Montana, little do they know it's the last time anyone will ever hear from them again. The girls and their car simply vanish. Cody Hoyt, who's just lost his job and has fallen off the wagon after a long stretch of sobriety, is in no condition to investigate. But his son Justin, who the girls were going to visit, and his former partner, Cassie Dewell, convince...
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2019.
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English
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A spare, powerful, timeless parable of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. "Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, the RS-90, and tasked with building...
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"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...
11) Home
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
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A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
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English
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Explore Ontario's historic roads, each with unexpected side trips and a fascinating story. In his relentless quest for the unusual in a world of the mundane, modern-day explorer Ron Brown has traveled nearly every backroad in Ontario. This guidebook features 22 trips, each illustrated with photographs and accompanied by an easy-to-follow map. These trips range in length from afternoon outings to weekend excursions. And all lead to fascinating out-of-the-way...
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"Roads connect people but often isolate natural areas and populations. Animals attempting to cross roads face great risk and can endanger motorists. This book explains these problems and describes the emerging field of road ecology which is providing solutions and approaches that benefit global biodiversity and people" --
16) Building roads
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English
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Roads allow people and goods to travel across land quickly and safely. Discover the engineering behind roads.
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A dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century's worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save...
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"White and red sandstones, green shales, and pink granites are hard to appreciate in black and white. Two-color maps cannot do justice to the many patterns in the bedrock geology. A state with places like the Painted Wall, the Florissant Fossil Beds, and the Maroon Bells deserves a color edition. That is why Mountain Press teamed up with authors Felicie Williams and Halka Chronic to produce a color edition of Roadside Geology of Colorado. The updated...
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"Kids will learn about the history of roads with Engineer It! Road Projects. They will discover how roads are built. Then, build their own cobblestone road, design a highway, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles."--Publisher's website.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient.' This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis--shows little sign of abating short...
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