Why buildings fall down : how structures fail / Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori ; illustrations by Kevin Woest.

The first structural failure
Miracle on thirty-fourth street
Will the Pantheon stand up forever
For lack of redundancy
Big bangs
The day the earth shook
Galloping Gertie
When metals tire
Thruways to eternity
The weaknesses of mother earth
Valley of tears
The house of cards
Structural dermatology
Old-age death
The worst structural disaster in the United States
The politics of destruction
The structure of the law
Conclusion: can we prevent future failures?