World Trade Center: Los gigantes que desafiaban el cielo (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Peter Skinner (Author), Mike Wallace (Preface)

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Publication Date: June 20, 2002

With text entirely in Spanish, this book has a wealth of high-impact photography that begins by illustrating the various stages in building the giant towers known as the World Trade Center, and ends with images of its attack and collapse. It not only gives an account of what happened on that terrible day, September 11, 2001, but also paints a portrait of what the World Trade Center stood for, to the people of New York City and the world in general. Sections of the book include Manhattan antes de las torres gemelas (Manhattan before the Twin Towers), Diseno y Arquitectura (Design and Architecture), El Corazon del distrito Financiero (The Heart of the Financial District), El World Trade Center en peliculas y caricaturas (The World Trade Center in movies and cartoons), El esplendor de las torres gemelas (Splendor of the Twin Towers), 11 de Septiembre del 2001 (September 11, 2001).

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Product Details

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (June 20, 2002)
Language: Spanish
ISBN-10: 9685308942
ISBN-13: 978-9685308946
Product Dimensions: 14.9 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,963,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Para describir Nueva York y su vida antes del World Trade Center hay que remontarse a los anos sesenta, la decada anterior a la construccion de las Torres Gemelas. Read the first page

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metros cuadrados, las torres, todas formas

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World Trade Center, Nueva York, Torres Gemelas, Nueva Jersey, Wall Street, Estados Unidos, Empire State, World Trace Center, Battery Park City

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New York by Allan Tannenbaum in Back Matter

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