Download or read book The Gamineae A Study of Cereal Bamboo and Grass written by Agnes Arber and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club written by Torrey Botanical Club and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains proceedings.

Download or read book Catalogue of New World Grasses Poaceae written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contributions from the Department of Botany of Columbia University written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Columbia University Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual of the Grasses of the United States Volume Two written by A. S. Hitchcock U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the basic study of American grasses, both indigenous and escapes, cultivated and wild. Over 1400 species. Full descriptions, information. Total in set: over 1100 maps, illustrations. "A definitive work." — American Reference Books Annual.

Download or read book Bulletin written by New York State Museum and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Power Broker written by Robert A. Caro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches—and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear—his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"—a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses—an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time—without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars—he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York—before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Aldermen and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dugout to Peace written by Gary Morgenstein and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Morgenstein has blended baseball and science fiction, and created a complex, nightmarish future that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go until the final pitch. This series is a home run!” —Geekstronomy.com “A classic of modern speculative fiction that also examines today’s real-world socio-political environment. Plus, baseball!!” —Fenway Nation Winter 2099 Finally cleared of treason charges, Puppy Nedick is now the Commissioner of Baseball. Vowing to return the game to its previous national glory, he becomes alarmed when there is little interest in the sport. Troubled by flagging attendance, excessively polite fans, and the poor quality of play, Puppy makes a radical decision: return the dying sport to the game of old. Attendance soars and suddenly gamegoers are rooting for the home team, participating in bobblehead giveaways, waving banners, and vying for autographs of the celebrity players. Baseball is becoming the national pastime again. And those who are in power are watching. The revival of the sport unleashes dormant passions and new fears, creating questions about America’s revised history and challenging the very foundation and the basic laws of the controlling Family. Once again a scapegoat, baseball becomes the rallying point of resistance as ordinary heroes try to bring the world together against the terrifying specter of impending nuclear annihilation, in the explosive conclusion to the Dark Depths trilogy.

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Download or read book 1 Train written by Matthew Curcio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At nineteen, college student Cameron Grayson is caught between the crossroads of money, love, alcohol, and drugs in New York City’s Upper West Side. When his self-made grandfather, Henry Grayson, suddenly dies of unspecified reasons, Cam is shocked to find that some of his grandfather’s personal items have been passed down to him. Cameron’s father, Chris, gives him strict orders to head uptown to the Bronx in the hopes of sorting things out. Cam doesn’t go alone though. He brings his lifelong friends Evan and Jake as partners in crime on this unexpected adventure. Hoping to learn more about the life of his grandfather, Cam starts to learn more about himself as well and finds overwhelming direction to his own future. Not realizing what he’s getting himself into, Cam’s life will forever change due to this one trip uptown on New York City’s 1 Train subway line. He finds himself in deep with his friends but more in trouble with his most recent girlfriend, Victoria. Cam eventually comes to terms with the inevitability of human addiction and infidelity. Cam begins his journey uptown without realizing coming back down will cost him not only his money but everything he ever knew.

Download or read book Urban Ornithology written by P. A. Buckley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Ornithology is the first quantitative historical analysis of any New York City natural area’s birdlife and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan’s Central and Brooklyn’s Prospect Parks have preliminary species lists, not revised since 1967, and the last book examining the birdlife of the entire New York City area is now more than fifty years old. This book updates the avifaunas of those two parks, the Bronx, and other New York City boroughs. It treats the 301 bird species known to have occurred within its study area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx—plus 70 potential additions. Its 123 breeding species are tracked from 1872 and supplemented by quantitative breeding bird censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are discussed in light of an expanding New York City inexorably extinguishing unique habitats.

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Download or read book Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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