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Download or read book Rails written by Barry Taylor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogeneous family of birds spread throughout the world. Barry Taylor and Ber van Perlo have described and illustrated 145 species of rails, including two that are newly described, and also ten that are recently extinct and two that are almost certainly extinct. The book, based on up-to-date references and on new observations, is the first to give comprehensive information on field identification (including voice), covering all species and races for which details are known. It is also the first to provide descriptions of the immature and juvenile plumages of many species. The authors provide a detailed summary of current knowledge of all aspects of rail biology and their often complex behaviour, social structure, and family life. They explain how such apparently poorly flying birds can undertake intercontinental migrations and are such widespread and successful colonists of remote oceanic islands. They also discuss the remarkable ease and speed with which species on such islands have evolved into flightless forms in the absence of predators, a fact that has led to the rapid extinction of numerous island taxa following the arrival of man. Rail habitats are fast disappearing, say the authors, and many rails become endangered before enough is known about them to plan effective conservation measures. The book provides information on distribution, status, habitat requirements, and current threats, and it gives conservation priorities for threatened species.
Download or read book Singing Rails written by Wayne Erbsen and published by Native Ground Books & Music. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally! A low cost book packed with songs and lore of the railroads! This companion to our recording, "Singing Rails: 14 Railroadin' Songs", includes the melody and lyrics to 28 classic sing-alongs plus: railroad superstitions, tall tales of train wrecks, robberies, ghosts, hobos, train insults, railroad slang, street-car poetry, vintage drawings and photographs.
Book Synopsis Singing Rails by : Herbert Leighton Pease
Download or read book Singing Rails written by Herbert Leighton Pease and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singing Rails written by Herbert L. Pease and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Download or read book Long Steel Rail written by Norm Cohen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Book Synopsis Death Rode the Rails by : Mark Aldrich
Download or read book Death Rode the Rails written by Mark Aldrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Download or read book Machinists' Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singing for Freedom written by Scott Gac and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divdivIn the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their age and singing out especially for temperance and antislavery reform. This engaging book is the first to tell the full story of the Hutchinsons, how they contributed to the transformation of American culture, and how they originated the marketable American protest song. /DIVdivThrough concerts, writings, sheet music publications, and books of lyrics, the Hutchinson Family Singers established a new space for civic action, a place at the intersection of culture, reform, religion, and politics. The book documents the Hutchinsons’ impact on abolition and other reform projects and offers an original conception of the rising importance of popular culture in antebellum America./DIV/DIV
Book Synopsis Machinists' Monthly Journal. Official Organ of the International Association of Machinists by :
Download or read book Machinists' Monthly Journal. Official Organ of the International Association of Machinists written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Singing Rails by : John Francis Concidine
Download or read book Singing Rails written by John Francis Concidine and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time written by Briton Hadden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Magic Train Ride by : Sally Crabtree
Download or read book Magic Train Ride written by Sally Crabtree and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Carmen's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Singing Rails & Tales by : Rebekah Assembly. Chauvin Lodge, No. 120
Download or read book Singing Rails & Tales written by Rebekah Assembly. Chauvin Lodge, No. 120 and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scribner's Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love Rides the Rails by : Morland Cary
Download or read book Love Rides the Rails written by Morland Cary and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1940-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The villianous Simon Darkway seeks to control the Walker Valley, Pine Bush & Pacific R.R. for his own vile purposes. Assisting him are Dirk Sneath, a viper of a man, and Carlotta Cortez, the sultry siren with a heart of gold. Fortunately
