Core Collection

Non-Fiction Books for Adults

Salvadori. Why buildings stand up. W.W. Norton, 1980/1990. 0-393-30676-3

Levi. Why buildings fall down. W.W. Norton, 1992 0-393-311-X

Bolt. Earthquakes. 4th edition. W.H. Freeman and Co., 1999 0-7167-3396-X

Dupre. Bridges. 1997 1884822754

Non-Fiction Books for Children

Johmann, Carol A., Reith, Elizabeth J. Bridges! Amazing structures to design, build, and test. Wiliamson, 1999. 1-885593-30-9

Lafferty, Peter. Force and motion. Dorling Kindersley, 1992. 1-879431-85-8

Picture Books

Waber, Barbara. The Mouse that snored. Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 0-295-97518-2

Other formats

WebSites

MRI basics : http://www.confirma.com/mribasics/mribasics.html http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm

Tacoma Narrows Parkway bridge : video clip of its destruction http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/research/nonlinear/tacoma/tacoma.html (scroll down to video clip)

Fun Science Stuff: http://www.exploratorium.edu

Videos

Golden Gate Bridge A & E Home Entertaiment, 1994. 1-56501-466-9

Other Titles

Adult Non-Fiction

Petroski. Engineers of dreams. Knopf, 1995. 0-679-43939-0

Children's Fiction and Poetry

Burleigh, Robert and Johnson, Stephen T. Hoops. Harcourt Brace, 1997. 0-15-201450-0

Reiss, Kathryn. Paper quake, a puzzle. Harcourt Brace, 1998. 0-15-201483-8

Children's Non-Fiction

Cobb, Vicki. Why doesn't the Earth fall up? And other not such dumb questions about motion. Dutton, 1998. 0-525-67253-2

Madgwick, Wendy. Super sound, science starters. Steck-Vaughn, 0-8172-5325-4