Search Results - "dams"

International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering

Open Access

Ambiguous spaces NaJa & deOstos / by Jackowski, Nannette

Table of Contents: “…Literary vs. literal architecture : NaJa & deOstos, or, The poetry of infrastructure -- Introduction -- Nuclear breeding -- Pregnant island -- Magical realism -- Dams -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- About the contributors.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Exploring the Brazos River from beginning to end / by Kimmel, Jim, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Water runs downhill -- The Brazos as an ecological system -- The lost river -- Many arms of God -- John Graves's dammed river -- The (almost) free Brazos -- The evolving Brazos -- Appendix: Plant and animal species of the Brazos River.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Westwater Lost and Found by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
Full text available:

Westwater Lost and Found / by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
Full text available:

Westwater Lost and Found / by Milligan, Mike, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…First touched by man : beginnings -- Westwater town : a trip in time -- Gunslingers and bad guys -- Cattle versus sheep -- Rocks, dams, and hideouts : entering the canyon -- The river runners : entering the gorge -- Skull Rapid -- The Memorial.…”
Full text available:

Campaign Finance and Political Polarization : When Purists Prevail / by La Raja, Raymond J., 1965-, Schaffner, Brian F. (Brian Frederick)

Table of Contents: “…-- The ideological wellsprings of campaign money -- Who gets campaign money and why rules matter -- Ideological polarization in state legislatures -- The hydraulics of campaign money -- The future of reform: build canals, not dams.…”
Full text available:

Campaign Finance and Political Polarization : When Purists Prevail / by La Raja, Raymond J., 1965-, Schaffner, Brian F. (Brian Frederick)

Table of Contents: “…-- The ideological wellsprings of campaign money -- Who gets campaign money and why rules matter -- Ideological polarization in state legislatures -- The hydraulics of campaign money -- The future of reform: build canals, not dams.…”
Full text available:

Stations west a novel / by Amend, Allison

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Arrows to the future, 1800-1893 -- The tracks single out, 1893-1894 -- Driving the ties together, 1894-1895 -- Fallen trees make a dam, 1896-1902 -- The machine, spectacular and solid, 1903-1907 -- A track upward to the clouds, 1908-1930 -- Staring into the past, 1935-1937 -- Epilogue.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Public action and government accountability /

Table of Contents: “…Ecological protection -- part seven. Dams -- part eight. Pollution -- part nine. Investigative reports -- part ten. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Where roads will never reach : wilderness and its visionaries in the Northern Rockies / by Swanson, Frederick H. (Frederick Harold), 1952-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Anthropogeomorphology of Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system in India /

Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement

Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
Full text available:

Kayaking alone nine hundred miles from Idaho's mountains to the Pacific Ocean / by Barenti, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Sunbeam -- Where the Marlboro man might settle -- Henry Clay Merritt, on his 158th birthday -- Into the wilderness -- Watching fish in Riggins -- Dragonflies and the plant migration -- Into the breach -- Locking through with smolt -- River of empire -- The swallowing monster and the pictograph island -- Watching fish at Bonneville Dam -- Used up by the wind -- Looking back at Cape Disappointment.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
Full text available:

Black Rock a Zuni cultural landscape and the meaning of place / by Dodge, William A., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: A visit to Black Rock -- Introduction to place-making, identity, and cultural landscapes -- A place of landforms, imagination, and spirituality -- Peopling the place -- Constructing the Zuni Dam -- The Zuni agency boarding school at Black Rock -- Appropriating place : Black Rock, an agency town -- Taking back Black Rock : the Indian new deal and self-determination -- Making sense of Black Rock's cultural landscape.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Piercing the bamboo curtain tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years / by Lumbers, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy's China policy, 1961-63 -- Holes in the dam : French recognition and the Chinese nuclear test, 1963-64 -- In Vietnam's shadow : the reaffirmation of US China policy, 1964-65 -- The irony of Vietnam : the emergence of a two-pronged China policy, 1965-66 - Bridge-building in limbo : the impact of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-67 -- Testing the waters : an aborted policy review and closing moves, 1968-69.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

One day that shook the Communist world the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / by Lendvai, Paul, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…A day that shook the Communist world -- The road to revolution -- A night of cataclysmic decisions -- The legend of the corvinists -- Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy -- Deadlocked -- A turnaround with a question mark -- The general, the colonel, and the adjutant -- The dams are breaking -- The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics -- Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience -- Double dive into darkness -- The puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma -- Operation whirlwind and Kádár phantom government -- The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy -- The second revolution -- The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory -- Worldwide reactions -- The barbarous vendetta of the victors -- 1956-1989: victory in defeat?.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Water finance public responsibilities and private opportunities / by Grigg, Neil S.

Table of Contents: “…Water for people and the environment -- A model of the water business -- Dams and reservoirs for multiple purposes -- The water-supply utility business -- Stormwater and flood control -- Industrial water and the water-energy nexus -- Water for food production -- Instrcam flows : competing for water in the cammons -- Drivers of change in the water industry -- Government and politics in the water business -- Financing the water industry -- Public health as a water-industry driver -- Law and regulation in the water industry -- Water-industry workforce : crisis and opportunity -- Private-sector operations in the water industry -- Constructing water-industry infrastructures -- Services to support the water industry -- Equipment for the water industry -- Commodity water : transfers, exchanges, and water banks -- Bottled water and point-of-use treatment -- Safe water for all : the ultimate water business -- Water investments, careers, and business opportunities.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

GEOTECHNICAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS a practical treatment. by Indraratna, Buddhima

Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement