Autobahn

Author : Richard Vahrenkamp
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Express highways
ISBN : 9783899369403

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The German Autobahn 1920-1945 by Richard Vahrenkamp Pdf

The expressway network in Europe developed into an essential infrastructure of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century and provided means of commuting, as well as accommodated leisure travel and the cargo supply for the mass consumption society. This book discusses, how expressways were developed in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the various forerunner projects and the role of the Hafraba association, which has been significant in the Hessian region, with its actors in Kassel, Frankfurt and Darmstadt. It is shown, how the Autobahn concept developed, from the Italian expressways to the Bonn-Cologne Autobahn and to the design of the Nazi Autobahn project. The Bonn-Cologne Autobahn was the first Autobahn in Germany, opened in 1932 by Konrad Adenauer, later Chancellor of West-Germany. This Autobahn section is here explored for the first time. As part of the Nazi Mega Project various regional legs are explored and for the first time drawn to scholary attention: The leg Frankfurt-Kassel-Göttingen, the leg Frankfurt-Darmstadt-Heidelberg-Karlsruhe and the leg Munich-Salzburg. The goals of the Nazi mega project are evaluated. Further the book shows, how traffic on the Autobahn developed and which experiences were made by driving on the Autobahn. The book discusses various approaches towards a theory on infrastructure.

Author : Clemens Gleich
Publisher : Mojo Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783981625110

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The Traveller's Guide to the German Autobahn by Clemens Gleich Pdf

Let me welcome you to Germany, English-speaking travellers. I know the two reasons you come here for, because I often meet you at the usual places going fast: There is a) the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring which to you is the only thing interesting about the Ring, and there is b) the Autobahn. Let's just leave a) because you already are much more obsessed with the Nürburgring than we are (or is entirely healthy) and proceed straight to the limitless speed potential of b) our motorway network. There is much fun to be had here, but you can also return home frustrated and with enough speeding tickets to keep you warm in winter. So you may want to listen to the following pro tips from a frequent flyer.

Author : Thomas Zeller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452269

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Driving Germany by Thomas Zeller Pdf

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda machinery of the Third Reich turned the autobahn into a hyped-up icon of the dictatorship. One of the claims was that the roads would reconcile nature and technology. Rather than destroying the environment, they would embellish the landscape. Many historians have taken this claim at face value and concluded that the Nazi regime harbored an inbred love of nature. In this book, the author argues that such conclusions are misleading. Based on rich archival research, the book provides the first scholarly account of the landscape of the autobahn.

Author : Mark Rask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Express highways
ISBN : 0966913604

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American Autobahn by Mark Rask Pdf

After 12 years of research, plus thousands of miles driving Germany's Autobahn, Rask, a lifelong automotive and racing enthusiast, exposes half-truths and myths about the speed factor in traffic accidents in America. He analyzes the combination of safety and speed on the Autobahn and offers an exciting new direction for America's interstates that would make speeds of 100 mph or more commonplace on open stretches of rural freeway, with far greater safety than ever imagined at 55 mph. Includes bandw photos of highways and vehicles. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Teacher Created Materials Staff
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433303329

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Guided Practice Book for Targeted Mathematics Intervention by Teacher Created Materials Staff Pdf

Receive the special price of $8.99 per book when 10 or more copies are ordered! The Student Guided Practice book has been created specifically to support each Targeted Mathematics Intervention level to reinforce the skills taught in the lessons.

Author : Blaine Taylor
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935149781

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Hitler's Engineers by Blaine Taylor Pdf

“An intriguing account of two of Nazi Germany’s top architects” and how their work prolonged the war for months—includes hundreds of photos (WWII History). A Selection of the Military Book Club. While Nazi Germany’s temporary ascendancy owed much to military skill, the talent of its engineers not only buoyed the regime but allowed it to survive longer than would normally be expected. This unique work focusing on Fritz Todt and Albert Speer is based on many previously unpublished photographs and artwork from captured Nazi records. Todt was the brilliant builder of the world’s first superhighway system, the Autobahn, and the architect of the German West Wall, the Siegfried Line, that predated the later Atlantic and East Walls. The builder of each of the wartime “Führer Headquarters,” as well as the submarine pens, Todt was killed in a still-mysterious airplane crash that may well have been a Nazi death plot, though he was given a state funeral by Hitler. Todt was succeeded as German Minister of Armaments and War Production by the Führer’s longtime personal architect, Albert Speer, who was described by the Allies after the war as having prolonged the conflict by at least a year. Called a genius by Hitler, Speer designed and built the prewar Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress rally stands and buildings. More importantly, amid the constant rain of Allied bombs and the Soviet advances from the East, Speer managed to keep the German industrial machine running until the spring of 1945, though it was driven ever further underground. He also allocated resources to fortifications and counterattacks, like the V-missile installations, against both West and East, in attempts to stave off defeat. Convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg, Speer served twenty years at Spandau Prison and remained a Nazi apologist who died in London in 1981 on the anniversary of the German invasion of Poland. Together, Todt and Speer were the pillars that propped up the Third Reich through the vicissitudes of battlefield fortune. With over three hundred photographs, this is the first work that examines their role in history’s most terrible war.

Author : Tharun Dolla,Boeing Laishram,Ganesh Devkar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031370151

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Revisiting Public-Private Partnerships by Tharun Dolla,Boeing Laishram,Ganesh Devkar Pdf

This edited volume discusses the resilience of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a comparative lens, the book assesses the degree to which global PPP infrastructure projects have been affected by the pandemic and details short term and long-term measures undertaken by governments and private parties to mitigate disruption to infrastructure delivery. Secondly, it focuses on improving the state-of-art knowledge by suggesting future directions to be taken by governments, practitioners, and researchers in order to create resilience in infrastructure projects when using PPPs as the delivery model. Chapters present diverse case studies of PPP governance across countries, covering topics such as regulatory issues, risk management, financing, contractual governance, arbitration, and stakeholder management. Providing a systematic review, assessment, and research agenda on lessons learned from the pandemic, this volume will appeal to researchers and students of public administration, public economics, construction management, infrastructure management, and public management, as well as practitioners and government professionals.

Author : Despina Stratigakos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210902

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Hitler’s Northern Utopia by Despina Stratigakos Pdf

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian country into a racial utopia. From ideal new cities to a scenic superhighway stretching from Berlin to northern Norway, plans to remake the country into a model “Aryan” society fired the imaginations of Hitler, his architect Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders. In Hitler’s Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos provides the first major history of Nazi efforts to build a Nordic empire—one that they believed would improve their genetic stock and confirm their destiny as a new order of Vikings. Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, Hitler’s Northern Utopia tells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects far beyond the well-known German military defenses built on Norway’s Atlantic coast. These ventures included maternity centers, cultural and recreational facilities for German soldiers, and a plan to create quintessential National Socialist communities out of twenty-three towns damaged in the German invasion, an overhaul Norwegian architects were expected to lead. The most ambitious scheme—a German cultural capital and naval base—remained a closely guarded secret for fear of provoking Norwegian resistance. A gripping account of the rise of a Nazi landscape in occupied Norway, Hitler’s Northern Utopia reveals a haunting vision of what might have been—a world colonized under the swastika.

Author : Rainer Friedrich,Stefan Reis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662070154

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Emissions of Air Pollutants by Rainer Friedrich,Stefan Reis Pdf

This book presents a wealth of new information that enables environmental scientists and authorities to design methods for measuring and modelling emission rates related to specific pollution sources, and thus to generate improved emission inventories and reduction strategies. The text shows how to carry out experiments to verify emission data, including tunnel and open motorway studies, comprehensive city experiments and tracer experiments.

Author : Commerce Clearing House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1630 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : UCAL:B4591701

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Trade Cases by Commerce Clearing House Pdf

Reports the official texts of federal and state court decisions...dealt with the publishers' Trade regulation reports.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Industries
ISBN : OSU:32435061925590

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B.I.O.S. Final Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Haight
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780080955155

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Mathematical Theories of Traffic Flow by Haight Pdf

Mathematical Theories of Traffic Flow

Author : Anne Maxwell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781837642083

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Picture Imperfect by Anne Maxwell Pdf

Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book explains how photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the eugenics movement's success.

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 1556 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781631214400

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Rick Steves Germany 2017 by Rick Steves Pdf

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany. This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic Germany of today. Get the details on cruising the romantic Rhine or summiting the Zugspitze. Have a relaxing soak at a Black Forest mineral spa or take an exhilarating summer bobsled ride in the Bavarian Alps. Flash back to Berlin's turbulent past at Checkpoint Charlie; then celebrate the rebirth of Dresden and its glorious Frauenkirche. Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. He'll help you plan where to go and what to see, depending on the length of your trip. You'll learn which sights are worth your time and money, and how to get around Germany by train, bus, and car. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.

Author : John James Audubon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Birds
ISBN : NYPL:33433011013475

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The Birds of America by John James Audubon Pdf

This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).