Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Silent Road
Author: Pole
Publisher: C.W. Daniel Company, Limited
ISBN: 9780854354436
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All aspects of the mind--clairvoyance, precognition, dreams, memory and imagination--are seen as aspects of a purposeful whole.
Publisher: C.W. Daniel Company, Limited
ISBN: 9780854354436
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All aspects of the mind--clairvoyance, precognition, dreams, memory and imagination--are seen as aspects of a purposeful whole.
Right of Way
Author: Angie Schmitt
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642830836
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642830836
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Silent Road to Rescue
Author: Denise J. Williamson
Publisher: Journeyforth
ISBN: 9781591668527
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Describes how former Olympic star Eric Liddell helped a young Chinese boy discover courage and the love of God during a Japanese invasion of his town.
Publisher: Journeyforth
ISBN: 9781591668527
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Describes how former Olympic star Eric Liddell helped a young Chinese boy discover courage and the love of God during a Japanese invasion of his town.
Killer on the Road
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 038080896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 038080896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.
A History of Wisconsin Highway Development, 1945-1985
Author: George Bechtel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Silent Assassin
Author: Lori Andrews
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312946487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake investigates a brutal murder that may have long-buried connections to the Vietnam War, in this explosive follow-up to "Sequence."
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312946487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake investigates a brutal murder that may have long-buried connections to the Vietnam War, in this explosive follow-up to "Sequence."
The Silent God
Author: M.C.A. Korpel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203907
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Like the biblical Job, many people suffer under the silence of God. This book shows that it is enlightening to retrace the origins of the concept of divine speech and silence in the ancient Near East and Greece.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203907
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Like the biblical Job, many people suffer under the silence of God. This book shows that it is enlightening to retrace the origins of the concept of divine speech and silence in the ancient Near East and Greece.
City of Rocks National Reserve, Comprehensive Management Plan, Development Concept Plan
Detour to Death
Author: Helen Nielsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440542481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Danny Ross, kid hitch-hiker trapped by circumstantial evidence . . . Now he was a fugitive, alone and friendless . . . His one ally lay on the seat of the stolen car, the gun he’s ripped from the sheriff’s holster when he escaped. The sight of it brought sweat to his forehead, made him want to toss it out the window. But he could not . . . Now it was all he had, and he was going to need it . . .
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440542481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Danny Ross, kid hitch-hiker trapped by circumstantial evidence . . . Now he was a fugitive, alone and friendless . . . His one ally lay on the seat of the stolen car, the gun he’s ripped from the sheriff’s holster when he escaped. The sight of it brought sweat to his forehead, made him want to toss it out the window. But he could not . . . Now it was all he had, and he was going to need it . . .
America's England
Author: Christopher Hanlon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199937583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book examines the maneuvers through which U.S. partisans encoded the turmoil of antebellum America in terms of English affiliation. Demonstrating that English genealogies, geographies, and economics encoded the sectional crisis for southern and northern Americans, it locates sectionalism in a broader Atlantic context of cultural imagination and literary production.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199937583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book examines the maneuvers through which U.S. partisans encoded the turmoil of antebellum America in terms of English affiliation. Demonstrating that English genealogies, geographies, and economics encoded the sectional crisis for southern and northern Americans, it locates sectionalism in a broader Atlantic context of cultural imagination and literary production.