Author: Tom H. Watkins
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805009170
Category : New Deal, 1933-1939.
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal
Righteous Pilgrim
Author: Tom H. Watkins
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805009170
Category : New Deal, 1933-1939.
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805009170
Category : New Deal, 1933-1939.
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal
The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. With notes and a life of the author by J. Ivimey. [With] Divine emblems
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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At the Base of the Giant's Throat
Author: Anthony R. Palumbi
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640125876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
There are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as "major." Nearly all of this infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to 1972, in an era of public investment and political consensus that seems inconceivable today. These incredible structures--sometimes called the American Pyramids--helped the country rebound from the Great Depression, brought water and electricity to enormous reaches, helped win World War II for the Allies, and became the basis for decades of prosperous stability. At the Base of the Giant's Throat dives into the history of dam-building in the United States as natural waterscapes have been replaced with engineered environments and the bone-dry West became America's produce aisle. From the Folsom Powerhouse cranking sixty-hertz alternating current in the 1890s to the iconic Hoover Dam and the gargantuan Grand Coulee Dam, Anthony R. Palumbi lays out how dams and water projects changed the North American continent forever and laid the groundwork for an age of unprecedented prosperity. He also describes how institutional complacency corrupted the ethos of public power and public works--and how the influence of rich landowners undermined the credibility of that ethos. Palumbi shows how our nation's ability to cope with natural disasters has been fatally compromised by underinvestment in decaying infrastructure. He argues that a livable future demands investment on a scale few Americans currently grasp. To win that future we must interrogate the history of our most vital public works: the dams, canals, and levees helping to channel life's most precious molecule. At the Base of the Giant's Throat tells the story of America through its water, sweeping across five hundred years of history, from the swashbuckling exploits of French colonist Samuel de Champlain to the nightmarish urban flooding of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640125876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
There are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States, fifty thousand of them classified as "major." Nearly all of this infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to 1972, in an era of public investment and political consensus that seems inconceivable today. These incredible structures--sometimes called the American Pyramids--helped the country rebound from the Great Depression, brought water and electricity to enormous reaches, helped win World War II for the Allies, and became the basis for decades of prosperous stability. At the Base of the Giant's Throat dives into the history of dam-building in the United States as natural waterscapes have been replaced with engineered environments and the bone-dry West became America's produce aisle. From the Folsom Powerhouse cranking sixty-hertz alternating current in the 1890s to the iconic Hoover Dam and the gargantuan Grand Coulee Dam, Anthony R. Palumbi lays out how dams and water projects changed the North American continent forever and laid the groundwork for an age of unprecedented prosperity. He also describes how institutional complacency corrupted the ethos of public power and public works--and how the influence of rich landowners undermined the credibility of that ethos. Palumbi shows how our nation's ability to cope with natural disasters has been fatally compromised by underinvestment in decaying infrastructure. He argues that a livable future demands investment on a scale few Americans currently grasp. To win that future we must interrogate the history of our most vital public works: the dams, canals, and levees helping to channel life's most precious molecule. At the Base of the Giant's Throat tells the story of America through its water, sweeping across five hundred years of history, from the swashbuckling exploits of French colonist Samuel de Champlain to the nightmarish urban flooding of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy.
The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110110855X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian's perilous journey toward salvation.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110110855X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
It is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian's perilous journey toward salvation.
The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. With explanatory notes by [W.] Mason
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing The Pilgrim's Progress, The Holy War, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Jerusalem Sinner Saved, Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ, The Saints' Privilege and Profit, The Water of Life, and The Barren Fig-tree. With a Life of the Author, by George Cheever ... and an Introductory Essay on The Pilgrim's Progress, by James Montgomery, Esq. Illustrated ... After Designs by T. Stothard
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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The Pilgrim's Progress and Other Works of John Bunyan
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come
Author: John Bunyan
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Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. With 270 engravings
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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