Download or read book Slow Train to Arcadia written by Duncan Gager and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the crowded urban centre while staying connected to its places of work. Commuting helped transform London’s urban landscape, as the compact city of Dickens’s London gave way to the suburban sprawl of the British capital in the early twentieth century. Slow Train to Arcadia is a history of London’s suburban railway network from the 1830s to 1921 and its impact on urban mobility. The book charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway: the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public. While the railway age came quickly to Victorian Britain, commuting took a slower journey to commonplace status. In the 1840s William Gladstone sought to make railway travel accessible to all, but commuting was experienced differently according to class and gender. Slow Train to Arcadia explains why the democratization of commuting proved to be an elusive goal. Today’s workers are living through a fundamental reversal in the relationship between home and the workplace. For many, a daily commute is being consigned to history, a shift that will have long-term social and economic consequences. Slow Train to Arcadia is a timely exploration of the origins of mass commuting, a similarly transformative period for the daily patterns of working life.
Download or read book Slow Train to Guantanamo written by Peter Millar and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the Guantanamo naval base and detention camp.
Download or read book Rambles in Arcadia written by Arthur Grant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisoners Bodies written by Oisín Wall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded – there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next decade and a half, and whose legacy is still visible today. Prisoners’ Bodies is the first book on the history of the prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of prisoners’ organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement. Finally, the book examines the experiences of more than twenty individuals in prison, setting their activism within the context of their lives and their politics. Their stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoners’ publications, and archival material. Prisoners’ Bodies seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons.
Download or read book A Journey into Florida Railroad History written by Gregg M. Turner and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is safe to say that without railroads, Florida wouldn't be what it is today. Railroads connected the state's important cities and towns, conquered the peninsula's vast and seemingly impenetrable interior, ushered in untold numbers of settlers and tourists, and conveyed to market--faster than any previous means of transportation--the myriad products of Florida's mines, forests, factories, farms, and groves. Gregg Turner traces the long, slow development of Florida railroads, from the first tentative lines in the 1830s, through the boom of the 1880s, to the maturity of the railroad system in the 1920s. At the end of that decade nearly 6,000 miles of labyrinthine track covered the state. Turner also examines the decline of the industry, as the automobile rose to prominence in American culture and lines were abandoned or sold for hiking trails and green spaces. Meticulously researched and richly illustrated--including many never-before-published images--A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative history of the subject. Written by one of the nation's foremost authorities on Florida railroads, it explores all the key players and companies, and every significant period of development. This engaging and lively story will be savored and enjoyed by generations to come.
Download or read book Reflections of a Neuropsychologist written by John Bradshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections of a Neuropsychologist: Brushes with Brains follows the life of an influential neuropsychologist's fascinating and varied career. Unique in its autobiographical approach, it features coverage of research into human evolution, archaeology and neurology. Beginning with his earliest memories (and implications for memory processes), John L. Bradshaw reflects on his archaeological expeditions preceding his primary career as a physiological psychologist and a behavioural neuroscientist. His influential research covers such rare neurological disorders as Huntington’s disease, Friedreich ataxia and Williams syndrome, and more common maladies like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, stroke, Fragile X, Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive compulsive and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, schizophrenia, autism and depression. His fascinating personal experiences illustrating scientific discoveries will entertain, enthuse, encourage and inspire, and provide established research scientists and practising clinicians with a unique road map.
Download or read book To Limit Length of Trains in Interstate Commerce written by United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Limit Length of Trains in Interstate Commerce written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train Lengths written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventure Guide to Oklahoma written by Lynne M. Sullivan and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Where to hike, bike, float, fish, ride, climb, plus where to stay & where to dine all over the state.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 2324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunnier Side written by Charles Jackson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumous anthology of stories on life in Arcadia, a small town in New York State, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small burg. In one story, a girl is hounded for having an affair, in another a man discovers to his horror that a bum is a relative. By the author of The Lost Weekend.
Download or read book Arcadia s Ignoble Knight The Sorceress of Ashtown Part I written by Brandon Varnell and published by Kitsune Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arcadia's Knight Academy is the premier school for young men hoping to become a Sorceress’s Knight. Only nobles, people with power and prestige, are allowed within these hallowed grounds—which explains why Caspian Ignis del Sol is hated by everyone. He's not a noble, or of even slightly noble lineage. As payment for being enrolled in the academy, Caspian is sometimes given tasks to perform that take him outside of the academy walls. This time, his job is to deliver a letter to a Sorceress living in Ashtown, but when the train that he’s riding on is attacked by a mysterious band of thugs in cloaks, he’ll find that there is a whole lot more to this quest than he first imagined.
Download or read book The Sunnier Side and Other Stories written by Charles Jackson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend. A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set in the town of Arcadia in upstate New York, the stories in this collection address the unspoken issues—homosexuality, masturbation, alcoholism, to name a few—lurking just beneath the surface of the small-town ideal. The Sunnier Side showcases Jackson at the height of his storytelling powers, reaffirming his reputation as a boundary-pushing, irreverent writer years ahead of his time.
Download or read book Arcadia s Ignoble Knight The Lich King Part I written by Brandon Varnell and published by Kitsune Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caspian and Elincia are sent to investigate rumors of a necromancer raising the dead near Parume, Caspian's hometown and a place that holds many unpleasant memories for him. What started as a simple investigation soon becomes much more when Caspian and Elincia are informed that what's been raising the dead isn't a necromancer but a Lich King, the highest and most powerful class of undead monster in the entire world. Now they have to travel around the area, to see how far the corruption has spread and save anyone who is still alive. With their lives and the lives of everyone in Arcadia at stake, Caspian and Elincia will be forced to push themselves to limit if they wish to avoid a fate worse than death.
Download or read book Ohio Train Disasters written by Jane Ann Turzillo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train wreck near Dresden in 1912. Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hot stories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews who faced death and destruction on Ohio's rails.
