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Published by ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2006
ISBN 10: 1851095748ISBN 13: 9781851095742
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0393333019ISBN 13: 9780393333015
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0393333019ISBN 13: 9780393333015
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!.
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0393333019ISBN 13: 9780393333015
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0393333019ISBN 13: 9780393333015
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
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Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
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Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition edition. 168 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Bloomsbury 3PL, 2006
ISBN 10: 1851095748ISBN 13: 9781851095742
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: SGS Trading Inc, Franklin Lakes, NJ, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking.
Published by ASCE Press: American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
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Paperback. First Edition [2006], unstated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Kenneth R. Wright. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; bump at the heel of the backstrip has caused a slight buckle and an even milder bump at the head of the backstrip has caused barely discernible buckle to the text block and wrapper covers. The binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 4to. 168pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs in black & white, with an eight-page section of color photographs. First Edition [2006], unstated. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps. Ken Wright calls Tipon a "water garden." Because it's written by an engineer, you might think this book is loaded up with too much technical detail. Instead, what emerges through good writing and analysis is a fascinating description of Andean/Peruvian topography, history, culture, climate, environment, religion, agriculture, government, engineering, and public works construction spanning 2000 years. Visiting Tipon in March of 2005, I found the draft manuscript of this book to be of tremendous assistance in focusing on Tipon's stunning utility, in addition to its musical beauty. The sight and sound of running water is everywhere. From the book you learn about many features of Tipon and the Andean experience you do not obtain from current travel books, or from the Peruvian guides assigned to you by the tour companies. Visiting this site not far outside Cusco is the perfect compliment to Machu Picchu, whose civil engineering and visitor features are the subject of two other books co-authored by Ken and Ruth Wright with Peruvian anthropologist Alfredo Valencia. Located in a high ravine above the Cusco Valley, Tipon is a paradigm of careful water planning for food supply and ceremonial purposes. Its aesthetic, highly functional design holds an ascending stair-step arrangement of skillfully constructed agricultural terraces for the growing of maize. A comprehensive drainage system underlies the entire site. Points of water-discharge slot through walls of shapely-fitted stone that contain fertile soil the workers brought in for cultivation. These people knew that carefully tended earth was vital to survival, so they created places within the mountain sides built to be earthquake and erosion resistant. Water ritual was also vital to their way of life. In the ceremonial center of Tipon, a perennial spring feeds a magnificent fountain. Four jets of singing water fall gracefully into a splash pool. This water is drinking water pure. The jets are well-designed for easy filling of water jars. After stilling, the water trails down onto the lower agricultural terraces. The upper agricultural terraces receive their watering through a surface diversion from the Rio Pukara 0.84 miles away. Three canals and an aqueduct system take this river water into Tipon for irrigation, supplementing spring water for growing crops. These people early- practiced conjunctive use of ground and surface water. You ascend the agricultural terraces one-by-one along a walking path. At your feet a stone channel runs water. You can see and hear many other conduits conducting water across and through the walls, down wall-faces, along wall footings. Few sites in the world resound like this! Yes, it's a water garden. Above all looms 13,000 foot Tipon Peak on which the Cruzmoqo is prominent. This is a revered shrine, signal station, and security outpost site marked with ancient petroglyphs. You can circumnavigate by foot an entire mountain side, and feel why the Quechua people have always believed these mountains are sentient. When you see and understand Tipon in combination with Machu Picchu through the Wright and Valencia books, you appreciate the grace, beauty, ability, and spirituality of the Andean people of the Cusco region. The Inca perfected Tipon into a royal estate, but people of the area grew crops and lived within this challenging montane stronghold long before that. The Inca learned their lessons about feeding and governing people by means of a well-designed system of land and water works from their predecessors, the Wari and Tiwanaku cultures. An important feature of this book is Gordon McEwan's chapter devoted to the history, culture, and archeology of the Lake Titicaca/Cusco highlands. McEwan, an American archeologist working with Peruvian crews, has devoted twenty-five years of his life to the study of the nearby Pikillacta and Chokepukio sites in the Cusco Valley. Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire is a fine and fun mix of reading for engineers and non-engineers. Anyone who first visits the Andean highlands wants to know more-and-more about this incredible people and their landscape. I saw young Peruvians at the site who are studying to be the region's future tour guides. Without doubt the Wright, Valencia, and McEwan books help educate the country's citizens and strenghten its economy by helping travelers. The many photographs, figures, and charts in this book add to a well-documented and common sense presentation of a highly important land and water legacy of international significance. Introductions to each chapter provide an enticing oversight to what is coming next. Technical material, though ample, is explained in readable narrative that does not intimidate the non-technical person. Combinations of detail and insight across disciplines, founded on good field work performed through a team approach, show themselves valuable on every page. Personal discovery of Machu Picchu by anyone who has ever been there is a lifetime revelation. Discover Tipon as well. It belongs in the lineage of great waterworks of the Americas, along with Machu Picchu's sixteen fountains. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Santa Barbara, 2006
ISBN 10: 1851095748ISBN 13: 9781851095742
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history.The Incas: New Perspectives offers a revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from the earliest stages of its development to its final capitulation to Pizzarro in the mid-16th century.In recent years researchers have employed new tools to get to the heart of the mysterious Inca culture. Drawing on recent work in archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, and other sources, The Incas provides the most up-to-date interpretations of Inca culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life available. Readers will discover how the Incas discovered medicines still in use and kept records using knotted cords; how Inca builders created masterful highways and stone bridges; and how the inhabitants of seemingly unfarmable lands came to give the world potatoes, beans, corn, squashes, tomatoes, avocados, peanuts, and peppers. Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0784408513ISBN 13: 9780784408513
Seller: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom
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Published by ABC-CLIO, 2006
ISBN 10: 1851095748ISBN 13: 9781851095742
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history.Über den Autor.
Published by Bloomsbury 3PL, 2006
ISBN 10: 1851095748ISBN 13: 9781851095742
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history.