Author: McGraw-Hill Book Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1909-1949
Author: McGraw-Hill Book Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Pages : 72
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Dictionary Catalog
Author: Columbia University. Libraries. Library of the School of Library Service
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Chicago's North Michigan Avenue
Author: John W. Stamper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226770857
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226770857
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.
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Author: William Allen White Memorial Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Production of Well Known Pressures of Pure and Mixed Gases in the High-vacuum Range
Author: G. Schneppe
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Category : Mass spectrometry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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A gas inlet system is described which uses the pressure-based dynamic expansion method to produce well-known pressures over the range from 1/(10 to the 4th) to less than 1/(10 to the 8th) Torr. The average absolute accuracy is about 2%, and the reproducibility better than 1%. Adjustments of the test pressure are performed within a few seconds. The gas is introduced into the test volume through a porous glass filter. Its small conductance causes a strong pressure reduction, so that the reference pressure can be measured by a compensated capacity manometer, which in turn is calibrated against an Hg-U-manometer. This technique is suitable also for measurements of active and corrosive gases. In addition, the apparatus described consists of two independent gas inlet systems which allow them to produce gas mixtures as quickly and accurately as a pure gas pressure. It is useful for mass spectrometer calibration.
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Category : Mass spectrometry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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A gas inlet system is described which uses the pressure-based dynamic expansion method to produce well-known pressures over the range from 1/(10 to the 4th) to less than 1/(10 to the 8th) Torr. The average absolute accuracy is about 2%, and the reproducibility better than 1%. Adjustments of the test pressure are performed within a few seconds. The gas is introduced into the test volume through a porous glass filter. Its small conductance causes a strong pressure reduction, so that the reference pressure can be measured by a compensated capacity manometer, which in turn is calibrated against an Hg-U-manometer. This technique is suitable also for measurements of active and corrosive gases. In addition, the apparatus described consists of two independent gas inlet systems which allow them to produce gas mixtures as quickly and accurately as a pure gas pressure. It is useful for mass spectrometer calibration.
Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous
Author: Dick B.
Publisher: Good Book Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781885803979
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
One-of-a-kind bibliography, research, and history resource containing explicit information about author Dick B.'s 16 years of research: (1) Collecting over 25,000 books and materials on the roots of A.A. (2) Using them in the publication of his 26 titles, more than 120 articles, and over 30 audio talks. (3) Describing where he went for the history, where it is located, who was interviewed, and what it contains. (4) It lists titles Dick used in his writing; all of the background titles involved in A.A.'s use of the Bible, Quiet Time, Oxford Group life-changing program, Anne Smith's Journal, Rev. Sam Shoemaker's teachings, religious literature AAs read, the United Christian Endeavor Movement, Carl Jung, William James, William D. Silkworth, Richard Peabody, Emmet Fox and many other New Thought influences. (5) It lists all the books in A.A. founder Dr. Bob's library and collections--a list found nowhere else. (6) It contains manuscripts from archives and libraries and personal collections all over the U.S. and England. (7) There is a huge collection of temperance books and literature described. (8) Topical books by A.A., about A.A., about alcoholism, about "spirituality," about the Bible, religion, and clergy. (9) Included are records of Dick's notes and interviews. (10 Almost this entire collection of materials has been donated to and can now be found and studied at Griffith Library, which is part of The Wilson House (birthplace of Bill W.) in East Dorset, Vermont. Taken together, this reference volume and the actual materials in the Griffith Library, constitute the largest and most complete record of early A.A. historical materials in the world today, other than the Library of Congress items.
Publisher: Good Book Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781885803979
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
One-of-a-kind bibliography, research, and history resource containing explicit information about author Dick B.'s 16 years of research: (1) Collecting over 25,000 books and materials on the roots of A.A. (2) Using them in the publication of his 26 titles, more than 120 articles, and over 30 audio talks. (3) Describing where he went for the history, where it is located, who was interviewed, and what it contains. (4) It lists titles Dick used in his writing; all of the background titles involved in A.A.'s use of the Bible, Quiet Time, Oxford Group life-changing program, Anne Smith's Journal, Rev. Sam Shoemaker's teachings, religious literature AAs read, the United Christian Endeavor Movement, Carl Jung, William James, William D. Silkworth, Richard Peabody, Emmet Fox and many other New Thought influences. (5) It lists all the books in A.A. founder Dr. Bob's library and collections--a list found nowhere else. (6) It contains manuscripts from archives and libraries and personal collections all over the U.S. and England. (7) There is a huge collection of temperance books and literature described. (8) Topical books by A.A., about A.A., about alcoholism, about "spirituality," about the Bible, religion, and clergy. (9) Included are records of Dick's notes and interviews. (10 Almost this entire collection of materials has been donated to and can now be found and studied at Griffith Library, which is part of The Wilson House (birthplace of Bill W.) in East Dorset, Vermont. Taken together, this reference volume and the actual materials in the Griffith Library, constitute the largest and most complete record of early A.A. historical materials in the world today, other than the Library of Congress items.