An edition of Rubble (2005)

Rubble

unearthing the history of demolition

1st ed.
Rubble
Jeff Byles, Jeff Byles
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An edition of Rubble (2005)

Rubble

unearthing the history of demolition

1st ed.

Rubble is the first-ever biography of the wrecking trade, a riveting, character-filled narrative of how the black art of demolition grew to become a multibillion-dollar business, an extreme spectator sport, and a touchstone for what we value, what we disdain, who we were, and what we wish to become. In lively, colorful prose, Rubble rides the wrecking ball through key episodes in the world of demolition. Stretching over more than five hundred years of razing and toppling, this story looks back to London's Great Fire of 1666, where self-deputized wreckers artfully blew houses apart with barrels of gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and spotlights the advent of dynamite -- courtesy of demolition's patron saint, Alfred Nobel -- that would later fuel epochal feats of unbuilding such as the implosion of the infamous Pruitt-Igloe housing complex in St. Louis. - Jacket.

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Publisher
Harmony Books
Language
English
Pages
353

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Cover of: Rubble
Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition
November 28, 2006, Three Rivers Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Rubble
Rubble: unearthing the history of demolition
2006, Harmony Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Rubble
Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition
November 22, 2005, Harmony
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Rubble
Rubble: unearthing the history of demolition
2005, Harmony Books
in English - 1st ed.

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TH

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x, 353 p. :
Number of pages
353

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OL22718786M
ISBN 10
140005057X
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306189
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