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Author : James Stevenson
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uptown Local, Downtown Express written by James Stevenson and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1983 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Michelsen Foy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101043
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Zero Decibels written by George Michelsen Foy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have our noise-soaked lives driven us mad? And is absolute silence an impossible goal—or the one thing that can save us? A lively tale of one man’s quest to find the grail of total quiet.--- “ I don’t know at what point noise became intolerable for me,” George Michelsen Foy writes as he recalls standing on a subway platform in Manhattan, hands clamped firmly over his ears, face contorted in pain. But only then does Foy realize how overwhelmed he is by the city’s noise and vow to seek out absolute silence, if such an absence of sound can be discovered. Foy begins his quest by carrying a pocket-sized decibel meter to measure sound levels in the areas he frequents most—the subway, the local café, different rooms of his apartment—as well as the places he visits that inform his search, including the Parisian catacombs, Joseph Pulitzer’s “silent vault,” the snowy expanses of the Berkshires, and a giant nickel mine in Canada, where he travels more than a mile underground to escape all human-made sound. Along the way, Foy experiments with noise-canceling headphones, floatation tanks, and silent meditation before he finally tackles a Minnesota laboratory’s anechoic chamber that the Guinness Book of World Records calls “the quietest place on earth,” and where no one has ever endured even forty-five minutes alone in its pitch-black interior before finding the silence intolerable. Drawing on history, science, journalistic reportage, philosophy, religion, and personal memory, as well as conversations with experts in various fields whom he meets during his odyssey, Foy finds answers to his questions: How does one define silence? Did human beings ever experience silence in their early history? What is the relationship between noise and space? What are the implications of silence and our need for it—physically, mentally, emotionally, politically? Does absolute silence actually exist? If so, do we really want to hear it? And if we do hear it, what does it mean to us? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 30 million Americans suffer from environment-related deafness in today’s digital age of pervasive sound and sensory overload. Roughly the same number suffer from tinnitus, a condition, also environmentally related, that makes silence impossible in even the quietest places. In this respect, Foy’s quest for silence represents more than a simple psychological inquiry; both his queries and his findings help to answer the question “How can we live saner, healthier lives today?” Innovative, perceptive, and delightfully written, Zero Decibels will surely change how we perceive and appreciate the soundscape of our lives.
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Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823222950
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book A Century of Subways written by Brian J. Cudahy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway. On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains of the newly inaugurated Interborough Rapid Transit System. More than a century later, the subway has expanded greatly, weaving its way into the fabric of New York’s unique and diverse urban life. In A Century of Subways, transit historian Brian J. Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to New York’s storied and historic subway system, from its earliest beginnings and many architectural achievements, to the ways it helped shape today’s modern metropolis. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the twentieth century, Cudahy creates a vivid sense of this extraordinary system and the myriad ways the city was transformed once New Yorkers started riding below the ground.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Metropolis written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Gilbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159691789X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Normals written by David Gilbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, David Gilbert tells the story of Billy Schine, a young man who innocently enrolls in a 14-day human drug testing study and finds his normal world turned upside-down. Like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the postmodern age, The Normals is a tour de force from a writer of astonishing intelligence and imagination.
Author : Kenneth Wishnia
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604867051
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book 23 Shades of Black written by Kenneth Wishnia and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 Shades of Black is socially conscious crime fiction. It takes place in New York City in the early 1980s, i.e., the Reagan years, and was written partly in response to the reactionary discourse of the time, when the current thirty-year assault on the rights of working people began in earnest, and the divide between rich and poor deepened with the blessing of the political and corporate elites. But it is not a political tract, it’s a kick-ass novel that was nominated for the Edgar and the Anthony Awards, and made Booklist’s Best First Mysteries of the Year. The heroine, Filomena Buscarsela, is an immigrant who experienced tremendous poverty and injustice in her native Ecuador, and who grew up determined to devote her life to helping others. She tells us that she really should have been a priest, but since that avenue was closed to her, she chose to become a cop instead. The problem is that as one of the first Latinas on the NYPD, she is not just a woman in a man’s world, she is a woman of color in a white man’s world. And it’s hell. Filomena is mistreated and betrayed by her fellow officers, which leads her to pursue a case independently in the hopes of being promoted to detective for the Rape Crisis Unit. Along the way, she is required to enforce unjust drug laws that she disagrees with, and to betray her own community (which ostracizes her as a result) in an undercover operation to round up undocumented immigrants. Several scenes are set in the East Village art and punk rock scene of the time, and the murder case eventually turns into an investigation of corporate environmental crime from a working class perspective that is all-too-rare in the genre. And yet this thing is damn funny, too.
Author : Gordon Linzner
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oni written by Gordon Linzner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNSHEATHED FURY, INESCAPABLE TERROR Imprisoned for thousands of years in the hilt of a ceremonial sword, the oni, a hideous Japanese demon, is accidentally released to wreak the havoc of its pent-up fury on an unsuspecting world. All-powerful, immortal, and possessed of an unquenchable lust for human blood, the demon seems invincible, leaving in its wake an increasing number of horribly mutilated bodies. Only one woman has learned the oni’s history and the key to its destruction. But will she be able to pit her puny human strength against the demon’s murderous powers before she becomes yet another victim?
Author : John Minahan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595133606
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Forests of the Night written by John Minahan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the haunting and exquisitely crafted mystery of Eddie Conroy, a brilliant but homeless middle-aged man living in New York.. Working as a dishwasher after a long military career, Conroy suffers from a multiple-personality disorder that has no known cure, alternating from the defensive posture of a street-smart functional illiterate to the highly visible stature of an animal-rights advocate. When a 500-pound male Bengal tiger escapes from the Central Park Zoo during an animal-rights demonstration, Conroy's close friend is brutally killed by the animal. A logistical nightmare develops for the police, who must take the unprecedented step of closing the park to all pedestrian and vehicular traffic until the tiger is captured or killed. After several days and nights of intense searching by police officers, the hungry and disoriented animal is spooked by gunfire. And virtually all attempts at control and protection are lost. Throughout the upper East Side, a panic ensues, exacerbated by sensation-seeking media coverage. Mr. Minahan draws indelible and thought-provoking parallel lines between the instinctive actions of the tiger and the intuitive insights of Eddie Conroy, linking their lives in a compelling metaphysical alliance that is difficult to forget.
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1607106515
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into New York written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle John loves New York, so he's taking the plunge…into the land of bagels, bluebirds, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Start spreading the news. You’re reading today. You’re going to be a part of it--New York, New Yooooork! In this ode to the greatest place on Earth, Uncle John takes you through Ellis Island and down the Hudson to bring you the tome about New York that could only come from the Bathroom Readers’ Institute. Find out why the Empire State is the Big Apple of the world’s eye as you read about… * Manhattanhenge * The Big Apple on $0 a day * Heroes and horses of the NYPD * Fran Lee: the Pooper Scooper Lady * The extraordinary evolution of the Bronx River * Incredible finds…in the city’s sewers * How New Jersey lost Staten Island * Charlie Dickens disses New York * The alien hunters of Pine Bush * Big Apple bird watching * Upstate utopias And much, much more!
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Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Engineering and Cement World written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Brehm
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299286231
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Help Is on the Way written by John Brehm and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help Is On the Way takes readers from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems are enlivened by the subtle music, penetrating wit, and remarkable emotional honesty that won high praise for John Brehm’s earlier collection, Sea of Faith, and constitute his singularly engaging voice.
Author : New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Public Service Commission for the First District, State of New York, from ... written by New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Municipal Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Municipal Engineers of the City of New York
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Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York written by Municipal Engineers of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 includes the Constitution, by-laws, list of members and annual report.
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Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Transit Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Clifford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674779600
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Routes written by James Clifford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration, colonization, capitalist expansion, immigration, labor mobility, and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters, Clifford's concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes, to recognize divergent histories, to sustain "postcolonial" and "tribal" identities in contexts of domination and globalization. Travel, diaspora, border crossing, self-location, the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them, the history of an entangled modernity, emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations, leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter, the impossible, inescapable tasks of translation.
