Author : Charles Cousins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1365308340
Mr. Cousins rides the DC Metro like a rebel riding his motorcycle across the last century. In his latest book, Charles Cousins uses his poetry to tell you what it is to be DC - and what it means to be truly Notorious.
Author : Charles Cousins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781543054415
Mr. Cousins rides the DC Metro like a rebel riding his motorcycle across the last century. In his latest book, Charles Cousins uses his poetry to tell you what it is to be DC - and what it means to be truly Notorious.
Author : Zachary M. Schrag
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2014-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1421415771
As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
Author : Mary Quattlebaum
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440413257
In this jaunty, read-aloud journey, readers can follow the route of the train underground, as well as what's going on above ground. Illustrations.
Author : J.L. Ryan
Publisher : J.L. Ryan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Plus-size southern belle Tallulah foregoes college to take care of her sick grandmother and she fears she'll never get out of this situation to pursue a life of her own. With dwindling finances and 90 pounds of excess weight, she's not motivated to do anything except read magazines and pray that she meets her "Prince Charming." She's sick of scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to dating, and if she goes out with one more sleazeball, she's going to give up men forever. When a chance meeting comes her way in the form of sexy billionaire Alexander Carlyle, the heir to the iconoclastic Carlyle dynasty, she doesn't know what hit her. He offers her a "business deal," that will pull her out of her financial hole so that she and her grandmother can live like queens. Could this "business deal" be the golden opportunity of a lifetime for BBW Tallulah, or is Alexander simply dying to get his hands on her delectable curves for a mind-blowing one-night stand? 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Author : Randal O'Toole
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781944424947
American transportation has undergone many technological revolutions: from sailing ships to steam ships; from passenger trains and urban rail transit to airplanes and automobiles. Normally, the government has allowed and even encouraged these revolutions, but for some reason the federal government is spending billions of dollars trying to preserve and build obsolete rail transit and passenger train lines, including high-speed trains that cost more but are less than half as fast as flying. O'Toole asks why passenger trains have been singled out -- and whether this policy makes sense. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Caroline Trefler
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2007-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1400017491
Provides information on accommodations, restaurants, historic sites, recreation, and shopping
Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442441003
An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
Author : Nura Maznavi
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1593764731
This “book that strips off the traditional trappings of Islamic womanhood to expose the special strengths and vulnerabilities that lie beneath” (The Washington Post) affirms the reality of the romantic lives of Muslim women. Romance, dating, sex and—Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-five American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be—from singles’ events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist. These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend. A young girl defies her South Asian parents’ cultural expectations with an interracial relationship. And a Southern woman agrees to consider an arranged marriage, with surprising results. These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable. “A beautiful collection that reminds us all not only of the diversity of the American Muslim community, but the universality of the human condition, especially when it comes to something as magical and complicated as love.” —Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of God: A Human History “Portraits of private lives that expose a group in some cases kept literally veiled, yet that also illustrate that American Muslim women grapple with universal issues.” —The New York Times
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732655032
Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman
