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Category : Telegraphers
Languages : en
Pages : 1740
Book Description
Hell on Wheels
Author: Dick KreckPublisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 1555919529
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.
Essays of E. B. White
Author: E. B. WhitePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062348752
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." — Washington Post The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few that seemed to have the odor of durability clinging to them." These essays are incomparable; this is a volume to treasure and savor at one's leisure.
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Eric PartridgePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134963653
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.
The Hardhat Riot
Author: David Paul KuhnPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190064714
Category : Anti-war demonstrations
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
"In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was underway- Democrats were at war with themselves. In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story of when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed. It was unthinkable one generation before: FDR's "forgotten man" siding with the party of Big Business and, ultimately, paving the way for presidencies from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. This is the story of the schism that tore liberalism apart. In this riveting story- rooted in meticulous research, including thousands of pages of never-before-seen records- we go back to a harrowing day that explains the politics of today. We experience an emerging class conflict between two newly polarized Americas,m and how it all boiled over on one brutal day, when the Democratic Part's future was bludgeoned by its past."--
Author: Stephen E. AmbroseProblems For Metagrobologists: A Collection Of Puzzles With Real Mathematical, Logical Or Scientific Content
Author: David SingmasterPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814663662
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
'The collection contains many delightful and enjoyable problems that are either original or taken from old books, which are no longer easily accessible. I especially like the detailed solutions, which make it clear that the author has carefully re-examined all the old problems and often discovered that the previously published solutions were incomplete. Some problems are best solved with the help of a computer, and can serve as original exercises in computer programming. The book provides an enjoyable read, and should not be missing in the library of any metagrobologist.'zbMATHDefinition of metagrobolize: puzzle, mystify; puzzle out. Hence, metagrobology is the study of puzzles and metagrobologist an expert in such study. David Singmaster is possibly the world's best known metagrobologist. He gained prominence in the 1980s with a booklet on how to solve the Rubik's Cube.This book is a collection of over 200 problems that David Singmaster has composed since 1987. Some of the math problems have appeared in his various puzzle columns for BBC Radio and TV, Canadian Broadcasting, Focus (the UK popular science magazine), Games and Puzzles, the Los Angeles Times, Micromath, the Puzzle a Day memo pad and the Weekend Telegraph. While some of these are already classics, many of the puzzles have not been published elsewhere previously.Puzzle enthusiasts of all ages will find here arithmetic problems, properties of digits; monetary problems; alpha-metics; Diophantine problems; magic figures; sequence problems; logical problems; geometric problems; physics problems; combinatorial problems; geographic problems; calendar problems; clock problems; dissection problems and verbal problems.Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a metagrobologist? Check out Alex Bellos's Monday Puzzle on The Guardian as he features two sequence puzzles from the book.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommerceMohican
Author: Richard HaddockPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462030637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Pulitzer winning investigative reporter Brandon Stewart has been uncovering corruption, scandal and greed in the nations capital his entire career. Yet when the widow of former president Preston Hodges commissions Stewart to write her husbands biography, Stewart finds himself investigating the biggest cover-up of his career. Wading through a host of conspiracy theories that claim Hodges was killed in a coup detat, Stewart begins interviewing members of Hodges previous inner circle and is soon led down a trail of clues that leads to MOHICAN, an ultra-secret CIA project that was the center piece of Hodges dramatic world peace agenda, a project that disappeared when Hodges died. With an FBI bodyguard assigned to protect him, Stewart discovers that hes being shadowed by the CIA as he puts the pieces of the MOHICAN puzzle together. But when someone tries to kill him to suppress what he has learned, Stewart launches a counter-attack, bringing his adversaries to the negotiating table and uncovering one of the largest intelligence scams in history. Filled with political intrigue, espionage, romance and the wisdom of self discovery, MOHICAN demonstrates the lengths some government officials will go to in protecting their covert interests and the power one man can wield in bringing those officials into the spotlight of justice.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure