The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project; employing over 14;000 people at peak; and costing over $11 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial; political and techncial difficulties; and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project; based on the coverage in Construction News and with commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Soulaf AbasThank you!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. CuriousBy Wayne DynesThis is curious book. The main part has some value as a discussion of paintings that have proven difficult to interpret iconographically; including such famous specimens as Botticellis Primavera; Giorgiones Tempesta; and Leonardos Last Supper. This would be useful; except that the author holds that such investigations are needlessly complicated. Yet the complexity arises because the problems are knotty; and cannot be waved away with the excuse that earlier generations thought the works less problematic.He does not mention that some Victorian artists deliberately created paintings called Problem Pictures in which viewers were invited to give their own subjective interpretations. Instead; he starts with the bizarre theories of a Scandinavian scholar; who finds all sorts of "hidden" images in impressionist paintings. These projective absurdities are clearly examples of the Rorschach principle; now discredited as a diagnostic tool. Even though Elkins concedes that the supposed findings of the Scandinavian scholar are extreme and improbable; he somehow wishes to use them as paradigmatic of art history as currently practiced. In his presentation of "hidden images" Elkins seems unaware of the research on pareidolia; research which would answer many of his questions.