The Street Sweeper

Author: Elliot Perlman
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 174166618X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577

Book Description
"'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK)How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to become history. Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A few kilometres uptown, Australian historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging out of the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally and perhaps even personally. As these two men try to survive in early twenty-first-century New York, hi

The Mighty Street Sweeper

Author: Patrick Moore
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805077896
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Despite its size, the street sweeper has one mighty job! The street sweeper is a little truck with a very big job. While it is not the largest, fastest, or most powerful truck, a street sweeper does something that no other truck can do: it keeps our streets clean. And a street sweeper is so much fun to watch. Colorful illustrations and an engaging compare-and-contrast text make this picture book a delight for budding truck-lovers.

I Drive a Street Sweeper

Author: Sarah Bridges
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404816089
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14

Book Description
Explains how a street sweeper works.

Barredoras de calles

Author: Terri DeGezelle
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736869072
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Learn about street sweepers, their parts and what they do.

Dusty the Street Sweeper

Author: Charles T. Aguier
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449005446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
Dusty the Street Sweeper is a children's story about a town called Elmsville. The town's streets are very clean. That is because of Dusty the Street Sweeper, and his driver Pete. Pete has a great love for his job and for Dusty, the machine he operates. The town of Elmsville love Dusty and Pete, and are proud of the job they do.

Anthem

Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Ayn Rand Institute Press
ISBN: 0996010130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”

Seven Types of Ambiguity

Author: William Empson
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.

Street Sweepers

Author: Luke Harasymiw
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538245248
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Thanks to the street sweeper, our streets are swept clean. Watching this terrific truck at work is mesmerizing. Depending on the kind of truck, it may have high-power sprayers, brooms, vacuums, or other devices to scour and clean the streets. Readers will love the action photographs in this high-interest volume as well as the many cool facts about this magnificent machine through accessible, low-ATOS text.

Streetsweepers

Author: Duncan Long
Publisher: Paladin Press
ISBN: 9781581604368
Category : Combat arms
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
For home protection or battlefield use, nothing matches the shotgun's ability to lay down massive, deadly fire at close ranges. Read reviews of more than 150 shotguns along with Long's expert advice on choosing a shotgun, combat tactics, ammunition, customizing your gun without running afoul of the Assault Weapons Ban and much more.

Urban Sediment Removal

Author: Robert Brinkmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792374657
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
"Aimed at a broad audience, Urban Sediment Removal: The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping, provides much-needed solutions through a series of case studies dealing with every aspect - storm water quality improvement and sweeper-type testing, to name but two - for this vexing policy issue. Researchers and professionals alike will find this to be an invaluable resource."--Jacket.