Book Description
Describes Washington's government institutions, explaining what the inhabitants of each building do on a day-to-day basis, and covers museums, monuments, embassies, and the Washington metro.
Author : E. J. Applewhite
Publisher : Madison Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 1993-06-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1461733383
Describes Washington's government institutions, explaining what the inhabitants of each building do on a day-to-day basis, and covers museums, monuments, embassies, and the Washington metro.
Author : E. J. Applewhite
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : 1568330081
Originally published by Knopf in 1981.
Author : Jenny Masur
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1439666032
Many of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives and freedom seekers - all demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and initiative. Leonard Grimes, a free African American, was arrested for transporting enslaved people to freedom. John Dean, a white lawyer, used the District courts to test the legality of the Fugitive Slave Act. Anna Maria Weems dressed as a boy in order to escape to Canada. Enslaved people engineered escapes, individually and in groups, with and without the assistance of an organized network. Some ended up back in slavery or in jail, but some escaped to freedom. Anthropologist and author Jenny Masur tells their stories.
Author : Bill McKibben
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1250178274
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history -- and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
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Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1897
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Current events
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Finance
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Author : Harriet A. Washington
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0767931238
From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex. Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.