new urban giants : the ultimate skyscrapers / by Spirito, Gianpaola, author 496164, Terranova, Antonino, 1942-, author editor 656235

“…They are rising in drovers all over the world, symbols of power whose superhuman expression lies in their gargantuan scale alone. The record of the world's tallest building, which had shifted from west to east by the end of teh last millenium, is now competed for between Dubai and Taipei. …”

Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake? by Bollinger, L., Tapponnier, Paul, Sapkota, S. N., Klinger, Y.

“…If so, the whole megathrust system in Nepal broke in a sequence of earthquakes that lasted less than three centuries, with ruptures that propagated up to the surface from east to west. Today’s situation in the Himalayan seismic sequence might be close to that of the fourteenth century.…”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…⁸ Thus, our catalogue generally includes in full all the information given before the first chapter and after the final chapter title.</p> <p>There are frequently two types of colophon to be found after the chapters and postscript(s). …”