Author: Willie R. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Sacramento District History (1929-2004)
Author: Willie R. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The Great Quake
Author: Henry FountainPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101904089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in world history—struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people—and on science.
Research and Development in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author: Damon MandersPublisher:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Ragwings Over The Sacramento River
Author: Allen HerrPublisher: Stansbury Publishing
ISBN: 1935807552
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Historical accounts of the first successful flight in California’s capital city and other notable Northern California flights that followed over three decades, the courageous aviators, and development of long forgotten airports from which they flew. Among them is the story of aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott’s 1912 flights and Sac Muni female pilots twenty years later. Included is the first accurate history of early ag-flying in the north state revolutionizing the farmers. This is part of a three-book series on Northern California's aviation history 1909-1939.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Badges of Honor
Author: California Highway PatrolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peace officers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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In The Hands of A Child: Project Pack - Glenn County, California
Author: Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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California Prehistory
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759113742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory and archaeology!
Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project
Author: Tim StroshanePublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.
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