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The Transportation Research Board, 1920-2020

Author : Sarah Jo Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780309493710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Transportation Research Board, 1920-2020 written by Sarah Jo Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, state highway engineers, federal officials, and experts from academia were among a small group convened by the National Academy of Sciences to confront the problems of the highway. The public was entrusting them with billions of dollars for good roads, and World War I had proved the feasibility of moving freight long distances by truck. But even new highways were crumbling. They turned to research for solutions. The founders of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the generations that followed took on problems such as safety, social equity, and environmental issues. They embraced "total transportation," adapting their highway research model to urban transportation and then applying it to rail, marine, and aviation modes. Today TRB convenes thousands of researchers, practitioners, and administrators every year to advise the government, solve practical problems, foster innovation, and stimulate new research. In The Transportation Research Board, 1920â€"2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited, Sarah Jo Peterson tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the history of transportation and research, she argues that TRB can be best understood as an infrastructureâ€"one that people purposely designed and devotedly maintained. Despite TRB's institutional complexity, its unique mission, the vast collection of acronyms in its orbit, and the significant changes to the organization in its first 100 years, Dr. Peterson provides a view from 30,000 feet, deftly describing the social, political, and economic context in which transportation (and TRB) functioned. At the same time, she attends to details of the key events, individuals, and human motivations that shaped TRB's evolution. The author's skills as a historian, her experience in the transportation field, and her manifest ability to tell a good story have produced a book that transportation professionals of all stripesâ€"and, for that matter, anyone interested in the history of transportation in the United Statesâ€"should find both engaging and informative and an essential addition to their library.

A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940Ð1980

Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271045238
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940Ð1980 written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lancaster's Golden Century, 1821-1921

Author : Harry Martin John Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lancaster's Golden Century, 1821-1921 written by Harry Martin John Klein and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

James Buchanan

Author : Sandra Donovan
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822513995
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book James Buchanan written by Sandra Donovan and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and accomplishments of the fifteenth president of the United States, who worked to improve relations with Great Britain and tried, unsuccessfully, to avoid the Civil War with the Crittenden Compromise.

The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City

Author : Frank Ried Diffenderffer
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342645633
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City written by Frank Ried Diffenderffer and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

One Hundred and Fifty Years of School History in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Author : William Riddle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred and Fifty Years of School History in Lancaster, Pennsylvania written by William Riddle and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glass House

Author : Brian Alexander
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250085810
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Glass House written by Brian Alexander and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com The Wall Street Journal: "A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers." Laura Miller, Slate: "This book hunts bigger game. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers." The New Yorker : "Does a remarkable job." Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: "This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it." In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.

Fodor's 2010 Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400008778
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's 2010 Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes hotels, historic sites, museums, events, shopping areas, and night life in Philadelphia, and looks at the highlights of the surrounding area, including Brandywine Valley, Bucks County, Lancaster County, and Valley Forge

Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution

Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution written by Robert K. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions

Author : Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802846808
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions written by Gerald H. Anderson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.

Worst Person in the World

Author : James Stevenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688143946
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Worst Person in the World written by James Stevenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting of the worst person in the world and the ugliest person in the world has some unexpected results.