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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1848
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Engineering News-record
Author: The History of Large Federal Dams
Author: David P. BillingtonPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160728235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Summary of Floods in the United States, January 1992 Through September 1993
Author: Charles A. PerryPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Federal Water Project Recreation Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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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.
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.
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author: Worrall Reed CarterPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Caves of Missouri
Author: J. Harlen BretzPublisher:
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Category : Caves
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Comprehensive Management and Use Plan
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Category : Oregon National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: