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Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History

Author : Douglas J. Puffert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226685098
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History written by Douglas J. Puffert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.

Tracks Through Time

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Tracks Through Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tracks Through Time

Author : Aaron Birchenough
Publisher : Mola (Museum of London Archaeology)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracks Through Time written by Aaron Birchenough and published by Mola (Museum of London Archaeology). This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East London Line Project presented a unique opportunity, as structures were demolished and cleared for London's latest railway, to discover more about some of London's earliest railways. This included previously undiscovered parts of one of the world's first operational passenger railways, the Eastern Counties of 1840. The new construction led to important archaeological discoveries, particularly at the site of Holywell Priory and beneath Bishopsgate Goods Yard in Shoreditch. The sparsely occupied hinterland of Roman London either side of Roman Ermine Street was used for occasional burials. Gradual medieval development came with the foundation of Holywell Priory on one side of Shoreditch High Street, contrasting with the outskirts of the village of Shoreditch lining the other, with open fields to the east. The growth of early post-medieval occupation, notably the earls of Rutland's Tudor mansion on the site of the priory, followed the Dissolution. The spread of the suburbs from the 17th century onwards encouraged large-scale quarrying of brickearth and brickmaking on the expanding periphery of new settlement, east of Shoreditch High Street. By the mid 18th century the character of the area had completely changed and it was covered with suburban housing. In the early 19th century, the railway cut through the area and continued to develop and expand throughout the century.

Tracks in Deep Time

Author : Jerald D. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607814382
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Tracks in Deep Time written by Jerald D. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running Tracks

Author : Rob Deering
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800180454
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Running Tracks written by Rob Deering and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Deering has been listening to music his whole life, but it was only in his mid-thirties that – much to his surprise – he found himself falling in love with the hugely popular, nearly perfect, sometimes preposterous activity of running In this vividly conjured collection, Rob shares stories of when a run, a place and a tune come together in a life-defining moment. His adventures in running have spanned four continents, fifteen marathons and numberless miles of park and pavement, and the carefully chosen music streaming through his headphones has spurred him forward throughout. What makes the perfect running tune? Where can you find the best routes, even in an unfamiliar town? Why do people put themselves through marathons? In Running Tracks, Rob Deering shares his sometimes surprising answers to these questions, and explains how a hobby became an obsession that changed his life forever.

Twin Tracks

Author : James Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128758
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Twin Tracks written by James Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in the modern world. Twin Tracks pinpoints the myriad ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. For instance, in "The Marriage of Figaro to Stealth Fighter," Burke's twin tracks start with the composer of the opera and the French spy from whose play he stole the plot. The tracks then encompass, among other things, freemasonry, the War of Independence, Captain Cook, jellyfish, Jane Austen, and audio tape. Ultimately, the convergence of the two Figaro tracks sets the stage for the development of Gulf War Stealth aircraft. Wonderfully accessible and lucidly written, Twin Tracks offers an amusing and instructive new view of the past and the future.

Wild Tracks!

Author : Jim Arnosky
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402739859
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Wild Tracks! written by Jim Arnosky and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to read the secret language of animal tracks. Find out how to tell how fresh tracks are, which animals made the, how fast they might have been traveling, and more.

Tracks Through Time

Author : Glenn Stanley Lionel Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882572489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Tracks Through Time written by Glenn Stanley Lionel Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire's Tracks

Author : Manu Karuka
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296648
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Empire's Tracks written by Manu Karuka and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.

A Trail of Crab Tracks

Author : Patrice Nganang
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374602999
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book A Trail of Crab Tracks written by Patrice Nganang and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father’s love for his family and his land and of the long-silenced secrets of his former life. For the first time, Nithap flies across the world to visit his son, Tanou, in the United States. After countless staticky phone calls and transatlantic silences, he has agreed to leave Bangwa: the city in western Cameroon where he has always lived, where he became a doctor and, despite himself, a rebel, where he fell in love, and where his children were born. When illness extends his stay, his son finds an opportunity to unravel the history of the mysterious man who raised him, following the trail of crab tracks to discover the truth of his father and his country. At last, Nithap’s throat clears and his voice rises, and he drifts back in time to tell his son the story that is burned into his memory and into the land he left behind. He speaks about the civil war that tore Cameroon apart, about the great men who lived and died, about his soldiers, his martyrs, and his great loves. As the tale unfolds, Tanou listens to his father tell the history of his family and the prayer of the blood-soaked land. From New Jersey to Bamileke country, voices mingle, the borders of time dissolve, and generations merge. In A Trail of Crab Tracks, the third part of a magisterial trilogy by Patrice Nganang, the award-winning author creates an epic of war, inheritance, and desire, and of the relentless, essential struggle for freedom.

Tracks Through Time

Author : Waldron Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Tracks Through Time written by Waldron Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Train Tracks

Author : Michael Savage
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780062210845
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Train Tracks written by Michael Savage and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A marvelous storyteller.” —The New Yorker “A blazing flamethrower of truth.” —Ted Nugent, Washington Times A #1 New York Times bestselling author and superstar radio personality, Michael Savage is admired by millions for his tough talk and no-punches-pulled common sense about the state of our union and its leaders. In Train Tracks, a more personal side of Savage shines through in this marvelous collection of “American Stories for the Holidays.” Like Glen Beck’s blockbuster, The Christmas Sweater, Michael Savage’s poignant, personal stories of home, family, and the holidays will resonate with readers everywhere.

Life through Time and Space

Author : Wallace Arthur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982274
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Life through Time and Space written by Wallace Arthur and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Life through Time and Space brings together the latest discoveries in both biology and astronomy to examine our deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos. A distinctive voice in the growing field of astrobiology, Wallace Arthur combines embryological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe. He guides us on a journey through the myriad events that started with the big bang and led to the universe we inhabit today. Along the way, readers learn about the evolution of life from a primordial soup of organic molecules to complex plants and animals, about Earth’s geological transformation from barren rock to diverse ecosystems, and about human development from embryo to infant to adult. Arthur looks closely at the history of mass extinctions and the prospects for humanity’s future on our precious planet. Do intelligent aliens exist on a distant planet in the Milky Way, sharing the three origins that characterize all life on Earth? In addressing this question, Life through Time and Space tackles the many riddles of our place and fate in the universe that have intrigued human beings since they first gazed in wonder at the nighttime sky.

Dinosaur Tracks

Author : Annette Richter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021146
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Tracks written by Annette Richter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at the field of ichnology is “an excellent compendium and a timely piece on a rapidly expanding and changing area of research” (Quarterly Review of Biology). The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as experimental ichnology, photogrammetry, biplanar X-rays, and a numerical scale for quantifying the quality of track preservation. The high diversity of these up-to-date studies underlines that dinosaur ichnological research is a vibrant field, that important discoveries are continuously made, and that new methods are being developed, applied, and refined. This indispensable volume unequivocally demonstrates that ichnology has an important contribution to make toward a better understanding of dinosaur paleobiology. Tracks and trackways are one of the best sources of evidence to understand and reconstruct the daily life of dinosaurs. They are windows on past lives, dynamic structures produced by living, breathing, moving animals now long extinct, and they are every bit as exciting and captivating as the skeletons of their makers. Includes photos and illustrations

Beyond the Tracks

Author : Michael Reit
Publisher : Michael Reit
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Tracks written by Michael Reit and published by Michael Reit. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin, 1938 It’s no longer safe here. When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps. Handpicked by the cruel new SS regime to police the camp’s Jewish population, Jacob has the opportunity to save his parents and best friend from the dreaded transport lists — but at what cost? Based on true events, Beyond the Tracks is a redemptive story of unconditional loyalty and a will to survive at impossible odds.

Dino Tracks

Author : Rhonda Lucas Donald
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607186195
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Dino Tracks written by Rhonda Lucas Donald and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rhythmic rhyme describes the different types of tracks made by dinosaurs that depict their movement and behavior.

Parallel Tracks

Author : Lynne Kirby
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822318392
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Tracks written by Lynne Kirby and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films - icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed - Kirby examines how trains and rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture.