Author: Kenneth O'Reilly Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496222075 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 343
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"Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--
Author: Warren M. Bell Publisher: ISBN: 9781502494276 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 406
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As communist forces close in on the isolated Marine outpost at Khe Sanh, the 1968 Tet Offensive explodes across Vietnam. Shot down in Hue City while scouting for bases to move the 1st Air Cavalry to break the siege, U.S. Navy Seabee Officer Kevin Corcoran takes shelter with South Vietnamese holdouts. Intense enemy fire drives off rescue helicopters, leaving Kevin and a wounded friend isolated in Vietcong territory. As battle rages around him, Kevin ponders the fate of his Vietnamese lover, Linh, whom he knows is on a Vietcong hit list. To ease his anguish, he reflects on his battalion's efforts to build the bases, roads and air facilities the combat forces need to operate in an undeveloped country.U.S. Marines rush in to retake Hue. Trained for counterinsurgency warfare, the young “grunts” quickly adapt to urban combat and begin to wrest the old imperial capital from the North Vietnamese Army. Will they get to Kevin in time? And what fate awaits Linh at the hands of the vicious enemy? Asphalt and Blood is replete with scenes of fierce combat, Seabee ingenuity and “can do” spirit, and whirlwind wartime romance.
Author: Jesse Sensibar Publisher: Tolsun Books ISBN: 9781948800358 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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Literary Nonfiction. Art. BLOOD IN THE ASPHALT, PRAYERS FROM THE HIGHWAY: NOIR EDITION chronicles a lifetime spent as a tow truck driver on the lonely highways of the American Southwest. Jesse Sensibar explores reinvention and resurrection through his photographs and his linked collection of short stories, mourning and celebrating loss, gratefulness, and forgiveness. A shrine to the Virgin Mary and a crude cross honoring a dog are portrayed with equal brevity in the photographs, while narrations skip through time and recall hitchhikers, old friends, drunks, car accident victims, junkies, and fitness trainers. Winding through Arizona, California, and Mexico, Jesse Sensibar contemplates his need to record roadside shrines, grieve the numerous former lives one person can live, and succumb to the pull of a highway that gives and a highway that takes away. In this disappearing American West, the ghosts and saints of the highway keep watch over the weary travelers compelled to document and remember. "We are so often moving at breakneck speed, and this book is that rare thing: a quiet, commanding voice saying stop. Stop, and notice. You'll never get it right if you try to explain."--Carolyn Guinzio "Sensibar's narratives of highways and the memorials he finds on them are as deeply rooted in narrative as crosses dug into the banks on the side of the road and yet as lyrical as the angels Sensibar hopes touchdown upon the remains of what the highway took away. This book will make you feel like driving the open road makes you feel: melancholy, heartbroken, happy, and free."--Nicole Walker
Author: Paola Viganò Publisher: Park Publishing (WI) ISBN: 9783906027715 Category : Asphalt Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Water and Asphalt, the latest volume in the UFO series, investigates the metropolitan area of Venice with regard to the increasing separation of residential and industrial neighborhoods. It is based on an extensive research project at Venice's Università IUAV on urban density and sprawl. The densely populated metropolitan region around the world-famous 'Sernenissima', crisscrossed by networks of roads and waterways, provides the ideal test case for imagining the concept termed by this study as the Project of Isotropy. The researchers argue that conditions now exist for redevising the isotropic space in Venice with a focus on the water system, roads and public transportation, alternative mobility, forms of diffused welfare, innovative agriculture, and the decentralized production of energy.--Publisher's website.
Author: Roger A. Naylor Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440162794 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 366
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Middle-aged and unemployed Buck Barnum, once a feisty sports writer, lands a job in public relations with a Los Angeles shipyard. The company is about to launch a controversial high-tech ship. But Buck runs up against those who will do what-ever it takes to stop the project. Cast in the role of point man, he charges ahead, but with each step he sinks deeper into the confusing quagmire. He must stretch his ingenuity to new lengths if he is to save the project, his family, and himself.
Author: Mary Ann Stromberg Butler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 156
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An evaluation of the health effects and other relevant data since pub. of the 1977 NIOSH "Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Asphalt Fumes." Includes an assessment of chemistry, health, and exposure data from studies in animals and humans exposed to raw asphalt, paving and roofing asphalt fume condensates, and asphalt-based paints. Will serve as to identify future research to reduce occupational exposures to asphalt. Chapters: no. of workers potentially exposed; physical and chemical properties; exposure; human health effects; experimental studies; research needs; uses and applications; summary of occupational exposure data; and respirators.
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