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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Lindsey Rogers Cook
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728205417
A searing Southern story about confronting the difference between the family you're born into and the family you choose, from the acclaimed author of How to Bury Your Brother Lex fled Memphis years ago, making ends meet with odd jobs teaching English around the world. She only returns when she has no choice, when her godmother presents her with a bargain she can't refuse. Lex has never understood her mother, who died tragically right before Lex's college graduation, but now she's got a chance to read her journals, to try and figure out what sent her mother spiraling all those years ago. The Memphis that Lex inhabits is more bourbon and bbq joint than sweet tea on front porches, and as she pieces together the Memphis her mother knew, seeing the lure of the world through her mother's lush writing, she must confront more of her own past and the people she left behind. Once all is laid bare, Lex must decide for herself: What is the true meaning of family?
Author : Water Environment Federation
Publisher : ASCE Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781572780392
This manual comprises a holistic view of urban runoff quality management. For the beginner, who has little previous exposure to urban runoff quality management, the manual covers the entire subject area from sources and effects of pollutants in urban runoff through the development of management plans and the design of controls. For the municipal stormwater management agency, guidance is given for developing a water quality management plan that takes into account receiving water use objectives, local climatology, regulation, financing and cost, and procedures for comparing various types of controls for suitability and cost effectiveness in a particular area. This guidance will also assist owners of large-scale urban development projects in cost-effectively and aesthetically integrating water quality control to the drainage plan. The manual is also directed to designers who desire a self-contained unit that discusses the design of specific quality controls for urban runoff.
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Publisher : AASHTO
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1560512598
Context-sensitive solutions (CSS) reflect the need to consider highway projects as more than just transportation facilities. Depending on how highway projects are integrated into the community, they can have far-reaching impacts beyond their traffic or transportation function. CSS is a comprehensive process that brings stakeholders together in a positive, proactive environment to develop projects that not only meet transportation needs, but also improve or enhance the community. Achieving a flexible, context-sensitive design solution requires designers to fully understand the reasons behind the processes, design values, and design procedures that are used. This AASHTO Guide shows highway designers how to think flexibly, how to recognize the many choices and options they have, and how to arrive at the best solution for the particular situation or context. It also strives to emphasize that flexible design does not necessarily entail a fundamentally new design process, but that it can be integrated into the existing transportation culture. This publication represents a major step toward institutionalizing CSS into state transportation departments and other agencies charged with transportation project development.
Author : John Kenneth Turner
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
Author : California Department Of Public Works
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781396624018
Excerpt from California Highways and Public Works: January-February 1964 Editors are invited to use information contained herein and to request prints at any black and white photographs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biogeography
ISBN :
This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
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Page : 878 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Public works
ISBN :
Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610918126
The Urban Street Stormwater Guide begins from the principle that street design can support--or degrade--the urban area's overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery in the public realm. Building on the successful NACTO urban street guides, the Urban Street Stormwater Guide provides the best practices for the design of GSI along transportation corridors. The state-of-the-art solutions in this guide will assist urban planners and designers, transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality, and natural environment.
Author : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618216208
A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
