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London Bridges

Author : James Patterson

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 18,81 MB

Release : 2004-11-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0759512825

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Alex Cross must face the world's most dangerous agents, criminals, and assassins. The fate of the world rests in his hands. In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. World leaders have just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm. Racing down the hairpin turns of the Riviera in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, he confronts the truth of the Wolf's identity, a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive.



London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761

Author : Dorian Gerhold

Publisher : Oxbow Books

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 23,98 MB

Release : 2021-10-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1789257549

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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.



London Bridges

Author : Jane Stevenson

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 29,21 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780618257737

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A superbly entertaining, high-spirited novel, London Bridges gives a very contemporary spin to the classic English detective thriller. Set in 1990s London, the plot centers on a treasure lost in the Blitz and newly discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer, who is tempted by greed into a series of crimes leading to murder. "The true treasure here is Stevenson's motley chorus of characters" (The New Yorker); the main character is London itself, lovingly depicted in all its rich variousness. With elegant wit, keen social observation, and dazzling intelligence, Stevenson explores the ways that people's lives intertwine in a great city, often with startling results.



The Tower Bridge Cat

Author : Tee Dobinson

Publisher :

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 34,52 MB

Release : 2018-05-18

Category :

ISBN : 9781999602208

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London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761

Author : Dorian Gerhold

Publisher : Oxbow Books

Page : 509 pages

File Size : 22,91 MB

Release : 2021-10-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1789257522

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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.



Living Bridges

Author : David Cadman

Publisher : Prestel Publishing

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 48,72 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Architecture

ISBN :

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In Europe these include Old London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, the Ponte di Rialto, Venice, and the Pont de Notre-Dame in Paris, as well as contemporary projects by Richard Rogers, Alsop and Stormer, SITE, Morphosis, Mario Bellini, Bernard Tschumi and other leading architects.



Tower Bridge

Author : Ken Powell

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 24,21 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780500343494

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Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30 June 1894, this combined suspension and bascule bridge was designed by architect Sir Horace Jones and engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry.This new book, published to mark the 125th anniversary of its opening, will explore the history of the bridge, set it into the context of the River Thames and its crossings, and will, above all, focus on its design and construction. Highly illustrated with old and new images, from material held in the London Metropolitan Archives to specially commissioned photographs, Tower Bridge: History * Engineering * Design is a major new illustrated study of a remarkable piece of architecture and engineering.



London Bridge Is Falling Down

Author : Peter Spier

Publisher : Yearling Books

Page : 48 pages

File Size : 20,35 MB

Release : 1992-09-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780440407102

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Illustrates the singing game about London Bridge's falling down. Includes a history of the bridge and music.



Crossing the River

Author : Brian Cookson

Publisher : Random House

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 37,63 MB

Release : 2015-06-16

Category : History

ISBN : 1780578393

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Some of the most beautiful views of London are those from the many bridges which span the River Thames. Millions of people cross over the Thames every day but most are too concerned with reaching their destination to notice the structures they use, let alone consider their history or the risks taken in building them. Triumphs of architecture and engineering, London's bridges have inspired artists as diverse as Dickens and Monet. From the elegant Richmond Bridge to the Gothic, quintessentially British Tower Bridge, they have formed the backdrop to battles, rebellions, pageantry and mysteries for two millennia. Crossing the River tells these stories, including the assassination of a dissident with a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge; the apparent suicide of 'God's banker', an Italian financier with links to the Vatican, the Masons and the Mafia; and the Marchioness tragedy and its controversial aftermath. Featuring illustrations and photographs old and new, this book will undoubtedly increase the reader's knowledge and appreciation of the bridges and the people who built them, and thereby enhance the pleasure of seeing them, whether at leisure or stuck in a traffic jam.



London Bridge

Author : Nana Malone

Publisher : Sankofa Girl

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 37,77 MB

Release : 2022-01-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Dive into this sexy, forbidden friend to lovers romance. Halfway around the world wasn’t far enough away to keep my best mate’s sister safe from our enemies... or my touch. I will have her. Even though she’s the beauty and I’m the beast. Emma Varma remembers me as the black hearted prince of Eton prep... but the hardened man I’ve become won’t be so easily burned. Her return to London has nothing to do with me and everything to do with retribution. Gone is the wild child I remember and in her place a striking beauty, tempting me with a second chance to break all the rules that I missed the first time... before I was man enough to make her mine. Bridge of Love is book 9 in the London Lords Trilogy a romance brothers best friend, forbidden bully, sexy romance written, by USA Today and Walls Street Journal Bestselling Author, Nana Malone. ********* For fans of: Robyn Carr, Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Catherine Gayle, Avon Gale, Toni Aleo, Kristen Callihan, LJ Shen, Corinne Michaels, Jana Aston, Karina Halle, Meghan March, Jay Crownover, Anna Todd, Geneva Lee, Audrey Carlan, Jill Shalvis, Suzanne Brockmann, Helen Hoang, Christina Lauren, Kristan Higgins, Sally Thorne, Penelope Sky, Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward, Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts, Maisey Yates, Sarah Mayberry, Elle Kennedy, Lauren Blakely, Susan Mallery, Penny Reid, Julia Kent, Kelly Jamieson, Melanie Harlow, Carrie Ann Ryan, Kendall Ryan, Kennedy Ryan, Helen Hardt, Meghan March, Julia Kent, Meli Raine, Sylvia Day, Chelle Bliss, Brenda Rothert, Natasha Madison, Kylie Scott, Helena Hunting, Sloane Kennedy, Penelope Sky, Elle Kennedy, K.A. Linde, Nana Malone, Jami Davenport, Jaci Burton, Penelope Sky, Helen Hardt, E.L. James, Anna Todd, Chelle Bliss, Kendall Ryan, Kennedy Fox, Harlequin romance, Waterhouse Press, Virgin River, Carly Phillips, Piper Rayne, Cora Seton, Sherryl Woods, Marie Force, Sawyer Bennett. Keywords: Brother's Best Friend, best friend's little sister, forbidden romance, beauty and the beast, prep school romance, bully romance, erotic romance, sexy romance, steamy romance, London romance, romantic suspense, London Lords, billionaire romance, speak no evil trilogy, alpha males, alpha romance, bad boy romance, one night stand, friends to lovers, romantic thriller, office romance, forbidden romance romantic suspense, contemporary romance, new adult romance, royal intrigue, coming of age romance, seductive story, thriller, mystery, romantic mystery, hot romance, women's fiction, women's romance, second chance romance, london romance, interracial romance, billionaire romance, college romance, contemporary woman, usa today bestseller, intrigue, special ops romance, jewel heist, secret society romance, free books to read and download, romance novels full free book, thriller, thriller romance, contemporary romance, new adult romance, romantic suspense, coming of age romance, seductive story, thriller, mystery, romantic mystery, hot romance, women's fiction, women's romance, second chance romance, british romance, bwwm romance, military romance, college romance, contemporary woman, usa today bestseller, intrigue, special ops romance, billionaire romance, interracial romance, interracial romantic suspense, alpha male romance, billionaire romance, contemporary romance, young adults romance, bad boy romance, romance short stories, second chance romance, steamy romance, hot romance books, love story, office romance, boss romance, beach reads, new adult, romantic fiction, romance fiction books, bwwm, bwwm romance, bwwm interracial romance books, african american romance, black authors books, interracial romance books, black women books, african american books, billionaire romance books, contemporary romance books, romance stories, fiction books, romance novels steamy, romance novel, books romance, romance, adult romance novels, romance books hot, alpha male romance books, steamy romance books, books romance hot, romance novels to read, love story books.