Download or read book Spanning the Narrows written by Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanning the Narrows With illustrations written by NEW YORK, State of. Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanning the Narrows written by Brian Merlis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Narrows written by Ann Petry and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Link Williams is a handsome and brilliant Dartmouth graduate who tends bar due to the lack of better opportunities for an African American man in a staid mid-century Connecticut town. The routine of Link’s life is interrupted when he intervenes to save a woman from a late-night attack. Drinking in a bar together after the incident, “Camilo” discovers that her rescuer is African American and he learns that she is white. Unbeknownst to him, “Camilo” (actually Camilla Treadway Sheffield) is a wealthy married woman who has crossed the town’s racial divide to relieve the tedium of her life. Thus brought together by chance, Link and Camilla draw each other into furtive encounters that violate the rigid and uncompromising social codes of their own town and times. As The Narrows sweeps ahead to its shattering denouement, Petry shines a harsh yet richly truthful light on the deforming harm that race and class wreak on human lives. In a fascinating introduction to this new edition, Keith Clark discusses the prescience with which Petry chronicled the ways tabloid journalism, smug elitism, and mob mentality distort and demonize African American men.
Download or read book Spanning Washington written by Craig E. Holstine and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed first and foremost to be practical, bridges nevertheless are often breathtaking in their construction, combining function and aesthetics. The historic structures that span the Evergreen State's highways are no exception. These technological wonders are extraordinary by any measure, yet their stories have remained largely unknown. Conceived by visionary engineers and built by anonymous workmen, Washington's highway bridges are amazing triumphs of skill, and played a significant role in the state's history. Several, at the time of their completion, attracted worldwide attention and the praise of professional engineers, influencing the course of bridge construction. In their quest to compile the first comprehensive history of the state's highway bridges, the authors poured through the extensive records at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), collecting definitive documentation and photographs from across the state. This magnificent book, including more than 100 illustrations, represents the culmination of years of study by many individuals associated with WSDOT and the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (Olympia).
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Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book Cruising Guide to Western Florida written by Claiborne Young and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the slow-moving Manatee River to the wide-open spans of Tampa Bay to the multitude of islands and inlets between Cape Sable and Naples, Western Florida offers a tranquil alternative to the fast-paced lifestyle of the eastern coast. Cruising Guide to Western Florida leaves nothing unexplored in the waters from Flamingo to the Big Bend. Thoroughly researched and updated firsthand by the author, this comprehensive guide is the most detailed source available on the facilities and waters of the Sunshine State's western shore. It contains current information on "Navigation data "Anchorage locales along the entire shore"Fuel depots and docks"Marinas"Shoreside dining and other attractions"Historic sites As in his previous books, Claiborne Young furnishes dozens of invaluable maps, photographs, and chart references. He includes specific waypoints for anchorages and marinas, as well as ratings for transient docking fees. Intriguing historical profiles and coastal folklore give visitors the flavor of the region. Sections on unsafe areas and shoals help cruisers avoid dangerous waters. ABOUT THE AUTHORClaiborne S. Young's books for Pelican have become the gold standard for cruising guides. A resident of Burlington, North Carolina, Young and his wife spend their time exploring the waterways of southeastern United States and gathering priceless information on each area. Young also edits the on-line cruising newsletter The Salty Southeast Cruiser's Net.
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Download or read book Scaling The Turbulent Waters Pacific Coast Bridges written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Coast bridges symbolize a suspended engineering subjugation of hostile topography and inclement weather. Soaring as monumental arches above formerly impassible water bodies, these structurally tiered marvels have embedded themselves organically as creations of sculpture. This edition is a detailed photographic profile of elegance, ornamentation and detail design of 85 spans crossing the Pacific Ocean, coastal rivers, valleys and waterways within California, Oregon and Washington. The edition features accompanying dimensional information along with interesting and relevant historical anecdotes. The book’s intent is to display perspective detail, alternative views and pictorial examinations of the artistry and utilitarian construction. Despite the majesty of these enduring architectural icons, few bridge designers have achieved the renown as their urban creative peers. Oregon based engineer, Conde McCullough is championed with an essay entitled “Scaling Above the Currents With Elegance” tracing the trajectory of his life and professional career. McCullough is noteworthy for his completion of hundreds of design projects with twelve listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The most traveled of his bridges were completed between the 1919-1936, when he headed the bridge design division of the Oregon Department of Transportation. What set McCullough apart from his contemporaries was his insistence that aesthetics must accompany form and function. His art deco and modernist stylings have established his completed works as classics. Creating during an era when automobile predominance had not yet been established, many of his narrow dimension works have become impractical for contemporary traffic loads. The design elements make the inconvenience tolerable. Following a two-year sabbatical where he worked designing bridges for the Pan American Highway in Central America, McCullough abruptly retired completely from bridge design at the age of 49. The majority of his iconic Oregon projects are located along the Pacific Coast Highway. The bridge crossing Coos Bay, designed by his department, was renamed the Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge following his sudden death from a stroke in 1946 at the age of 58. The architectural development of the Pacific Coast can be credited to an established bridge network, particularly within Northern California, along the Oregon Coastline and Puget Sound. The remaining challenges involve proper maintenance to preserve these steadfast cathedrals of passage.
Download or read book New York City written by George J. Lankevich and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as An American Metropolis, this book is a punchy, definitive history of New York and has been updated to include new material on the Giuliani administration and the events of September 2001.
Download or read book The Building written by David Alexander and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2008-10-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pentagon has been called many things by many people, but to those who work there, directing the defense of the United States, it is simply “the Building.� Monumental in its five-pointed symmetry, the massive five-sided, five-story structure encompasses over six million square feet of floor space and covers twenty-nine acres of formerly swampy ground. There has always been much more to the Pentagon than concrete, limestone and steel. In The Pentagon, veteran defense writer and novelist David Alexander delivers the inside story on the people who have brought the Building to life, from army chief of staff General George Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, charged with creating a force that could defeat Germany and Japan, to the “whiz kids� brought to the Pentagon by Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara. Alexander's look down the corridors of powerunfolds the modern history of the American defense establishment, its personalities and politics, and the evolving role that the Pentagon has played in our national security. From its initial design to its restoration after the attack of 9/11, this book tells the story of the Pentagon as it is inextricably linked to the story of American power and strength.
Download or read book Plans Ports and Politics written by Frank Leighton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of a Canadian consulting engineer follows a lifetime planning new ports and transportation systems at a time of explosive growth in BCs infrastructures during the glory days of Premier W. A. C. Bennett and the Hon. Phil Gaglardi. The book also contains anecdotes from the authors work on four continents and from his early working forays behind the Communist Iron Curtain. The book concludes with a review of the highs and lows of a fascinating career, which rarely contained a dull moment.
Download or read book Greece written by Andrew Bostock and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the evocative ruins of Olympia to the towering Taygetos mountains, from crystal-clear seas and pristine beaches to stone villages steeped in tradition, with clear advice and honest opinions Bradt's "Peloponnese "shows you all.
Download or read book Multi Span Large Bridges written by Pedro Pacheco and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the last decades, the increasing development of the urban metropolis and the need to establish fundamental infrastructure networks, promoted the development of important projects worldwide and several Multi-Span Large Bridges have been erected. Certainly, many more will be erected in the next decades. This international context undoubted
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewis and Clark Expedition Among the Nez Perce Indians: The First Ethnographic Study in the Columbia Plateau - Robert Lee Sappington Loss, Transfer, and Reintroduction in the Use of Wild Plant Foods in the Upper Skagit Valley - Robert J. Theodoratus Abstracts of Papers, 41st Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Religious Transformation Among the Snoqualmie Shakers - Kenneth D. Tollefson Floral Remains from the Pierce Chinese Mining Site, 10-CW-436 - Priscilla Wegars The Art and Iconology of the Dance in the Petroglyphs of the Northern Plains - Thomas H. Lewis
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