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Highways to Nowhere diagnoses the condition of city transportation in five representative American cities Flint Michigan Dayton Ohio Indianapolis Indiana Atlanta Georgia and Washington DC and finds cases of hardening of the arteries For the past twenty years city state and federal governments have sought in the building of highways in around and through cities the panacea for many problems Instead their highways have only attracted more cars and more pollution into the city and made it easy for the middle class and thus the cities tax base to escape Mass transit systems have not been given a fair chance to compete and the poor are trapped in their own neighborhoods Highways to Nowhere is must reading for everyone who wants his city to survive It is an eloquent plea to citizens and responsible city officials to take everyones transit needs into account and to save our cities from being strangled by their own highways
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They were young adventurous and idealistic the eight backpackers from Australia Britain and Germany who between 1989 and 1992 set out from Sydney to hitchhike south along the Hume Highway Seven were to die and their bodies concealed in the beautiful eucalyptus forest south of Sydney Chillingly orchestrated the slayings in the Balanglo State Forest shocked the world To snare the highway prowler and bring him to justice would require total dedication and patience Hundreds of police combed the forest for clues and sifted through maintains of information studying forensic evidence and computer records Amongst the thousands of leads one story was for a time overlooked buried in hundreds of reports and tipoffs In January 1990 a young British backpacker hitchhiking along the Hume highway had escaped the grip of an armed assailant and run for his life It was to become a vital clue in the biggest manhunt in Australian history Highway to Nowhere is unputdownable and unforgetta
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Modernist Nowheres Politics and Utopia sold for 55.52 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the AngloAmerican sphere between early literary modernist cultures politics and utopia Foregrounding such writers as Conrad Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to during and immediately after the First World War
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Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the AngloAmerican sphere between early literary modernist cultures politics and utopia Foregrounding such writers as Conrad Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to during and immediately after the First World War
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A digital copy of Highway Politics In Virginia by Bowman Download is immediately available upon purchase
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From animal paths to superhighways transportation has been the backbone of American expansion and growth This examination of the interstate highway system in the United States and the forces that shaped it includes the introduction of the automobile the Good Roads Movement and the Lincoln Highway Association The book offers an analysis of state and federal road funding modern roadbuilding options and the successes and failures of the current highway system
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Examines the events trends personalities and politics in Guyana and in California that enabled Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple to flourish and to enact a bizarre mass death
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Evocative images of buildings and places seen from the American road Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawlwith its predictable landscape of housing developments shopping malls interstate highways and bigbox constructionacclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless franchised American landscape What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this carcentered pavedover universe Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature Others turn inward documenting the devastated inner cities All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time 100 color photographs
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Examines the events trends personalities and politics in Guyana and in California that enabled Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple to flourish and to enact a bizarre mass death
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Twelveyearold Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra Syria Omar doesnt care about politics all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm But when his clever older brother Musa gets mixed up with some young political activists everything changes Before long bombs are falling people are dying and Omar and his family have no choice but to flee their home with only what they can carry Yet no matter how far they run the shadow of war follows them until they have no other choice than to attempt the dangerous journey to escape their homeland altogether But where do you go when you cant go home
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While learning procedures like the markup or cloture the legislative process can seem mechanical and dry What students hunger for and greatly benefit from is seeing lawmaking from the insidethe backroom politics that makes the process so fascinating so real so compelling All Roads Lead to Congress drives students through one piece of legislationthe surface transportation billshowing them the maneuvering and negotiating that go on among members of Congress and their staffers as they haggle over a huge pot of money The bill provides an example of both sides of the domestic legislative coin as members of Congress formulating the bill fight over both policy issues mostly along party lines and money mostly along regional linesWhile working on the Hill Costas Panagopoulos and Joshua Schank were able to follow the path of this legislation from inception to law observing firsthand the twists and turns of its journey While filled with details and dialogue reminiscent of a good novel All Roads is sure to explain the various rules that structure legislation the leadership styles and strategies at play the tensions among levels of government and the impact of the executive Students are not only likely to read this intriguing case study of Hill life cover to cover but they also might seriously consider an internship or future career on the Hill More important they will have absorbed conceptual ideas about Congress effortlessly
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From the awardwinning author of American Canopy a dazzling account of the worlds longest road the PanAmerican Highway and the epic quest to link North and South America a dramatic story of commerce technology politics and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesThe PanAmerican Highway monument to a centurys worth of diplomacy and investment education and engineering scandal and sweat is the longest road in the world passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia The highways history however has long remained a mystery a story scattered among government archives private papers and fading memories In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature the PanAmerican Highwaythe United States other great twentiethcentury hemispheric infrastructure projecthas become an orphan of the past effectively erased from the story of the American Century The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates informs and delights Rutkows narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question Why couldnt the Americas have become a single region that is and not two near irreconcilable halves that are Whether youre fascinated by the history of the Americas or youve dreamed of driving around the globe or you simply love world records and the stories behind them The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative a lost epic of hemispheric scale
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In Copyrights Highway one of the nations leading authorities on intellectual property law offers an engaging readable and intelligent analysis of the effect of copyright on American politics economy and culture From eighteenthcentury copyright law to the celestial jukebox to the future of copyright issues in the digital age Paul Goldstein presents a thorough examination of the challenges facing copyright owners and users In this fully updated second edition the author expands the discussion to cover the latest developments and shifts in copyright law for a new audience of scholars and students This expanded edition introduces readers to present and future debates regarding copyright law and policy including a new chapter on the technological shift in emphasis from producer to consumer and the legal shift from exclusive rights to exceptions and limitations to those rights From Gutenberg to Google Books Copyrights Highway Second Edition offers a concise essential resource for the internet generation
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Although hes best known nationally as a US senator Barry Goldwaters love of politics may have been surpassed by his passion for photography He spent a lifetime carrying around a camera and since 1939 hundreds of his photographs have appeared on the pages of Arizona Highways Many of those photographs appear in this stunning coffee table book along with profiles of the senator
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The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history the federal highway system For decades federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fastgrowing suburbs producing an increasingly nonurban Republican electorate This book examines the highway programs policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex mutuallyreinforcing processes that have shaped Americas growing urbansuburban divide and with it the politics of metropolitan public investment As Americans have become more polarized on urbansuburban lines attitudes towards transportation policy a once quintessentially local and nonpartisan policy area are now themselves driven by partisanship endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans
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History photographs current politics about this famous California road connecting Santa Cruz and San Jose
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The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history the federal highway system For decades federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fastgrowing suburbs producing an increasingly nonurban Republican electorate This book examines the highway programs policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex mutuallyreinforcing processes that have shaped Americas growing urbansuburban divide and with it the politics of metropolitan public investment As Americans have become more polarized on urbansuburban lines attitudes towards transportation policy a once quintessentially local and nonpartisan policy area are now themselves driven by partisanship endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans
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Nowhere is ethnicity as the defining mode of conflict more tragically evident than in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the seemingly endless crisis in the Great Lakes
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What would you do if you were sitting quietly in your living room when two mysterious strangers appeared from out of nowhereand then told you they were ascended masters who had come to reveal some shocking secrets of existence and teach you the miraculous powers of advanced forgiveness Would you call the cops Call a psychiatrist Call out for pizza When two such teachers appeared before Gary Renard in 1992 he chose to listen to them and ask a lot of questions The result is this startling book an extraordinary record of 17 mind bending conversations that took place over nearly a decade reorienting the authors life and giving the world an uncompromising introduction to a spiritual teaching destined to change human history
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