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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The eternal light of Egypt	Sarite Sanders	"The monuments of Ancient Egypt have been photographed over and over again, but never as in these wonderfully dark, edgy, atmospheric images. Using infra-red film, they hint at the transience of all …	OL10241791W
Chitra	Jean Marie Lafont	Chiefly maps and plans by French cartographers.	OL1078277W
No holier spot of ground	Kristina Dunn Johnson	The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the…	OL13740823W
Talisman	Graham Hancock	A roller coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world. **Revie…	OL15016011W
Baltimore sculpture	Cindy Kelly	ix, 397 p. : 26 cm	OL15616424W
The submission	Amy Waldman	When Mohammad Khan, an American Muslim, is selected as the designer of a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack on Manhattan, Claire Burwell, a woman widowed by the attack, becomes his fierce…	OL15916950W
Lost technologies of ancient Egypt	Dunn, Christopher	"A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments"--Provided by publisher.	OL16939433W
Saluting Grandpa	Gary Metivier	"Andrew is on a mission! He heard about something called the Honor Flight at school. That's a program that honors World War II veterans with a trip to Washington, D.C. On that tour, they get to see t…	OL17558522W
Historic sites and monuments	David Armentrout	Describes a variety of historic sites and monuments, from the Alabama-Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site to the Wyoming-Devils Tower National Monument.	OL1809877W
Missing of the Somme	Wade Davis,Geoff Dyer	'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of…	OL21128959W
Stonehenge	Cynthia Kennedy Henzel	Introduces Stonehenge, describes how it was constructed, and discusses current and past restoration and preservation plans.	OL23266149W
Gawr-Lakhnawati	A. B. M. Husain	Gaur, ruined city in Malda District, India, on demarcation line between India and Bangladesh.	OL23666723W
Connecticut's Civil War	Sharon B. Smith	This book describes sites in Connecticut related to the Civil War, including the spot where Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin which helped make slavery profitable, the homes of Harriet Beecher Stow…	OL24721113W
American memorials and overseas military cemeteries	American Battle Monuments Commission	There are twenty-four permanent Americana burial grounds, fourteen separate monuments and two tablets on foreign soil.	OL24870640W
Amazing built structures	Nicolas Brasch	Technology is essential to our everyday lives. Without it we would not have houses, clothes or toys, and we would communicate only through speech. Finding out how technology is used to create many th…	OL27309547W
The Message of the Sphinx	Graham Hancock	Presents a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work that unravels the millenial code embodied in the Great Sphinx of Egypt and the three pyramids of Giza. Using sophisticated compute…	OL28217459W
The Washington Monument	Frederic Gilmore	Describes the history of the Washington Monument, how it was built, and what it represents.	OL546381W
Lincoln Memorial	Julie Murray	Discusses the construction, history, and current status of the Washington, D.C., monument to Abraham Lincoln and the freedom, equality, and justice he personified.	OL5725004W
Sealed with blood	Sarah J. Purcell	"Sealed with Blood makes a significant and original contribution to the growing literature on the creation of American nationalism and on the power of historical memory. The understand how military e…	OL5970797W
Landmarks of liberty	Hammond Incorporated.	The histories of twenty-two shrines and monuments throughout the Nation.	OL6697944W