Author: John Oliver Hand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450935
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
German Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries
Author: John Oliver Hand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450935
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450935
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Car Safety Wars
Author: Michael R. Lemov
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
No Accident
Author: Neil Arason
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554589657
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554589657
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.
The Cross-staff
Author: W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789060119075
Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : nl
Pages : 127
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789060119075
Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : nl
Pages : 127
Book Description
Taking the Stars
Author: Peter Ifland
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This text focuses on the history of the development of hand-held celestial navigation instruments, offering descriptions of the tools used. It also includes a glossary of technical terms.
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This text focuses on the history of the development of hand-held celestial navigation instruments, offering descriptions of the tools used. It also includes a glossary of technical terms.
Author List
Author: Philip Lee Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
German Painting, XIV-XVI Centuries
Author: Alfred Stange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.
Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection
Author: Colin T. Eisler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
"This is the concluding volume of the catalogue of paintings in the Kress Collection and deals with some 320 works of the German, Early Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch seventeenth-century, Spanish and French schools. . .Short biographical details on each artist are followed by extensive critical catalogue entries on his works, discussing technique, condition, subject-matter, chronology and other problems. There is also a précis of previous literature on each painting, and the author's views and findings are given at the end." /
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
"This is the concluding volume of the catalogue of paintings in the Kress Collection and deals with some 320 works of the German, Early Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch seventeenth-century, Spanish and French schools. . .Short biographical details on each artist are followed by extensive critical catalogue entries on his works, discussing technique, condition, subject-matter, chronology and other problems. There is also a précis of previous literature on each painting, and the author's views and findings are given at the end." /
The Mariner's Astrolabe. A Survey of 48 Surviving Examples
Author: Alan Stimson
Publisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Seamans Secrets (1633)
Author: John Davis
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : pt
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : pt
Pages : 150
Book Description