Journal by Frank Stevens
Author : Frank Stevens
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1975*
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Author : Frank Stevens
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1975*
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Author : Frank Stevens
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
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Author : Clifford Foust
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253010691
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.
Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : B. J. Leggett
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807166189
“If one no longer believes in God (as truth),” Wallace Stevens once wrote, “it is not possible merely to disbelieve; it becomes necessary to believe in something else. . . . I say that one's final belief must be in a fiction.” Stevens addressed the concept of a "supreme fiction" throughout much of his career, but many critics feel that his poems never realized that concept beyond a theoretical possibility. B. J. Leggett argues that Stevens did indeed achieve the supreme fiction in his often overlooked late poems. To share in the poet's vision, though, Leggett finds that readers must understand the ingenious intertext that runs through this culminating body of work. After three volumes of difficult and abstract poetry, Stevens in the last five years of his life reverted to a style that is refreshingly personal and accessible. Leggett gives close examination to The Rock, which is the closing section of Stevens's Collected Poems, and to the uncollected poems published as Opus Posthumous, supplying readers with the motifs, conventions, texts, and fictions—or intertext—on which these works' significance depends. He ultimately shows that there is a kind of master narrative in Stevens's late poems, one that is not always explicitly present but that is based on the supreme fiction. It is here that Stevens gives form to his belief. Leggett traces the development of this fiction and demonstrates how knowledge of its presence dramatically changes the reading of key poems. His discussion of Schopenhauer's influence on Stevens, together with rich analyses of major poems, challenges to conventional interpretations, and speculation on the direction Stevens's poetry might have taken had he lived longer, all make for provocative reading. Late Stevens is a book for anyone who thought they knew this poet.
Author : Frank Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351214209
The carriage of goods by sea starts off with a contract of carriage, an essentially simple and straightforward contract between two parties, the shipper and the carrier. Very often, however, a bill of lading is issued and a third party appears on the scene: the holder of the bill of lading. The holder was not involved in the making of the contract of carriage, but does have rights, and possibly obligations, against the carrier at destination. The question then is how the third-party holder of the bill acquires those rights and obligations. Analysing the different theories that have been proposed to explain the position of the third party holder, this book makes a distinction between contractual theories and non-contractual theories to explain the holder's position. Contractual theories build on the initial contract of carriage and apply contract law mechanisms while non-contractual theories construe the position of the third-party holder independently. Following the analysis and appraisal of the different theories, this book makes the case that the position of the third-party holder of the bill of lading is not obvious or self-evident; and submits that a statutory approach to the position of the holder of the bill of lading has advantages and would be preferable.
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Geography
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Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1914
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Author : Frank Stevens
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Page : 37 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Typescript copy of Frank Stevens' diary (1880-1883) documenting the following: overland journey from Vesta, Johnson County, Nebraska (April 20, 1880) to Grand Ronde Valley, Oregon (July 23, 1880); trip from the Grand Ronde Valley (June 20, 1881) to Portland (July 8, 1881) eventually arriving in Tumwater, Washington (September 27, 1881); and return trek to Grand Ronde Valley in 1882.
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Printing
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