Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Trinity River and Tributaries, Texas
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Trinity River and Tributaries, Texas
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Trinity River and Tributaries, Texas. Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting a Report of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Together with the Report of the District and Division Engineers on the Re-evaluation of the Navigation Features of the Project for the Trinity River, Texas, Pursuant to the Provisions of the River and Harbor Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-298).
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The Dallas Floodway Extension
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)Publisher:
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
Trust in Numbers
Author: Theodore M. PorterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
The Austin Dam
Author: Thomas Ulvan TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
The History of Large Federal Dams
Author: David BillingtonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781483966137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the story. The history also addresses some of the negative environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek to resolve.
History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Author: Joseph Kelly TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
Author: United States. President's Science Advisory Committee. Environmental Pollution PanelPublisher:
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Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Uninhabitable Earth
Author: David Wallace-WellsPublisher: Tim Duggan Books
ISBN: 052557672X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books