Crossing Bridges

Author : Ira Nadel,Donald Macdonald
Publisher : Overcup Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780983491798

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Tilikum Crossing: Bridge of the People by Ira Nadel,Donald Macdonald Pdf

Portland, Oregon's innovative and distinctive landmark, Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People, is the first major bridge in the U.S, carrying trains, busses, streetcars, bicycles, and pedestrians- but no private automobiles. When regional transportation agency TriMet began planning for the first bridge to be constructed across the Willamette River since 1973, the goal was to build a something symbolic, which would represent the progressive nature of the Twenty-First Century. In this book, MacDonald captures the story of an engaging public process that involved neighborhood associations, small businesses, environmentalists, biologists, bicycling enthusiasts, designers, engineers, and Portland City Council. The result &– an entirely unique bridge that increased the transportation capacity of the city while enabling Portlanders to experience their urban home in an entirely new way--car-free. Written in a friendly voice, readers will learn how Portland came to be known as "The City of Bridges" and the home to this new icon in the city's landscape. MacDonald uses 98 of his own drawings to illustrate the history of Portland river crossings. Readers will take away a deeper understanding of how our public structures come to reflect a community.

Author : Eva Cristina Hoffman Jedruch
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1528985605

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Crossing the Bridges by Eva Cristina Hoffman Jedruch Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Russian, whose borders promised to be set in concrete. The Austrian Empire was a multi-ethnic entity of countries that had been absorbed over time. Among these were Polish lands annexed by Austria in the eighteenth century, which became the Austrian province of Galicia, where Zofia Neuhoff was born in 1905 into an upper-middle-class family. Victorian manners reigned supreme, young ladies were coached to gracefully alight from the carriage and 'culture' was a magic word, socially distinguishing people who possessed it from those who did not. That haute bourgeoisie morphed into the central-European intelligentsia. Zofia's childhood was upended by five years of WWI which she spent in the picturesque environs of Innsbruck. By 1918, the three imperishable empires disintegrated and several sovereign states emerged from the ruins. After the Neuhoffs returned to independent Poland, Zofia's life continued on an even keel with a happy marriage and a law degree unusual for a woman in the 1930s. In September 1939, Poland was invaded by both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Overnight, Zofia's existence was shattered. Alone, with an 18-month-old toddler, in the midst of mass arrests and deportations of civilian population, how could she cope with this new harsh reality for which her sheltered life had not prepared her?

Author : Annie Canel,Ruth Oldenziel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135286804

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Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges by Annie Canel,Ruth Oldenziel Pdf

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. Most studies are either policy papers or limited to statistical analyses. Moreover, the scant historical research so far available emphasizes the individual, single and unique character of those women working in engineering, often using anecdotal evidence but ignoring larger issues like the patterns of the labour market and educational institutions. Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges offers answers to the question why women engineers have required special permits to pass through the male guarded gates of engineering and examines how they have managed this. It explores the differences and similarities between women engineers in nine countries from a gender point of view. Through case studies the book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of women engineers.

Author : Barbara Knapp
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781665547376

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Crossing Bridges by Barbara Knapp Pdf

Crossing Bridges Stepping into the Next Chapter Manifest Your Destiny When you place your foot on the bridge of change embrace all the steps ahead as we cross our bridges and take a look on the inside to see a new direction we are headed in, opening up to the light that is within so when we arrive on the other side, our view is so much brighter. Remember we are all just passing through on our journeys back home, so don’t leave any stone unturned as we reach higher in our quest to birth Heaven here on Earth. Your book of life is not complete yet, so embrace your dreams and don’t let go until you arrive at your final destination. Our light becomes stronger once we start to connect with our soul families and inspire each other to cross our bridges and manifest our destinies. I heard it from the grapevine the journey always continues. Looking forward to meeting you on the other side. The future starts Now, your journey of a life time is just waiting to begin, Ready, Set, let’s Manifest our new Destinies.

Author : Jennifer Tuten,Deborah Ann Jensen,Charlene Klassen Endrizzi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475841862

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Crossing Literacy Bridges by Jennifer Tuten,Deborah Ann Jensen,Charlene Klassen Endrizzi Pdf

This book describes five principles to guide teachers in working with families of struggling readers.

Author : Maria E. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1735121029

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Crossing Borders, Building Bridges by Maria E. Martin Pdf

Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: A Journalist's Heart in Latin America is both an inspirational journey about a life well-lived despite obstacles, and a guide to young journalists and social activists trying to create change-in whatever arena. Take this journey with Maria Martin, and you will learn much about Latinos in the United States and Latin Americans in the American continent.From her start as one of the first Latina news directors at the first bilingual public radio station in the U.S., and later as the founder of the national program LATINO USA, Maria Martin has been an innovator and leading creative voice documenting the Latino movement for justice and inclusion. Though many of her efforts were met with resistance in "'traditional newsrooms ' she always gets the story out." Martin documents Latino life in the U.S starting in the 1970's, then travels to Latin America to cover the civil wars in Central America and their aftermath, including the migration story on all sides of the borders through to the present. With her narrative, you'll follow Martin's trajectory as she reports on the everyday lives of those about whom she writes-from survivors of torture to politicians to families separated along the border.

Author : Kalyan Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015064098067

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Eastwords by Kalyan Ray Pdf

This book storms the bastion of Englishness, irreverent, wity and compelling. High drama meets folktale in this story about colonizers, and the colonized set against a background of treachery and menace, grace and redemption.

Author : Pedro Pacheco,Filipe Magalhaes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315687193

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Multi-Span Large Bridges by Pedro Pacheco,Filipe Magalhaes Pdf

Throughout the last decades, the increasing development of the urban metropolis and the need to establish fundamental infrastructure networks, promoted the development of important projects worldwide and several Multi-Span Large Bridges have been erected. Certainly, many more will be erected in the next decades. This international context undoubted

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759512825

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London Bridges by James Patterson Pdf

In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant.Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction. The Wolf has proven he can do it; the only question is, can anyone stop him in time? Surveillance film of the blast reveals the presence of another of Alex Cross' most dangerous enemies, the ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. World leaders have just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm. Joining forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol, Alex fights his way through a torrent of false leads, impersonators, and foreign agents before he gets close to the heart of the crimes. Racing down the hairpin turns of the Riviera in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, Alex Cross confronts the truth of the Wolf's identity, a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive.

Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226826493

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Of Bridges by Thomas Harrison Pdf

Offers a philosophical history of bridges—both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts—and the acts of cultural connection they embody. “Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life’s transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music, illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates bridges in poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of our globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film, philosophy, and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and invisible, both lived and imagined.

Author : Nigel Powers,Dan M. Frangopol,Riadh Al-Mahaidi,Colin Caprani
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351745970

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Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges by Nigel Powers,Dan M. Frangopol,Riadh Al-Mahaidi,Colin Caprani Pdf

Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges contains lectures and papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB card containing the full papers of 393 contributions presented at IABMAS 2018, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 10 Keynote Lectures, and 382 technical papers from 40 countries. The contributions presented at IABMAS 2018 deal with the state of the art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle performance. Major topics include: new design methods, bridge codes, heavy vehicle and load models, bridge management systems, prediction of future traffic models, service life prediction, residual service life, sustainability and life-cycle assessments, maintenance strategies, bridge diagnostics, health monitoring, non-destructive testing, field testing, safety and serviceability, assessment and evaluation, damage identification, deterioration modelling, repair and retrofitting strategies, bridge reliability, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, advanced experimental simulations, and advanced computer simulations, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of more rational decision-making on bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle performance of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The Editors hope that these Proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and engineers from all areas of bridge engineering.

Author : Jeff Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909446181

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From Brycgstow to Bristol in 45 Bridges by Jeff Lucas Pdf

Author : Jerry Bridges
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781631468353

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Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges Pdf

Over 250,000 copies sold Have we become so focused on “major” sins that we’ve grown apathetic about our subtle sins? Renowned author Jerry Bridges takes you into a deep look at the corrosive patterns of behavior that we often accept as normal, in this established and impactful book. Practical, thought-provoking, and relevant at any stage of life, Respectable Sins addresses a dozen clusters of specific “acceptable” sins that we tend to tolerate in ourselves, such as: Jealousy Anger Judgementalism Selfishness Pride Writing from the trenches of his own battles with sin, Bridges offers a message of hope in the transforming grace of God to overcome our “respectable sins.” Now with an added study guide for personal use or group discussion so you can dive deeper into this staple of Jerry Bridges’s classic collection. “Read this book—we need to—and be ready for a gentle surgeon’s sharp knife.” —J. I. Packer, author and speaker

Author : Terry E. Miller,Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462914203

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America's Covered Bridges by Terry E. Miller,Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

As many as 15,000 covered bridges were built in North America over the past 200 years. Fewer than 1,000 remain. In America's Covered Bridges, authors Terry E. Miller and Ronald G. Knapp tell the fascinating story of these bridges, how they were built, the technological breakthroughs required to construct them and above all the dedication and skill of their builders. Each wooden bridge, whether still standing or long gone, has a story to tell about the nature of America at the time—not only about its transportational needs, but the availability of materials and the technological prowess of the people who built it. Illustrated with some 550 historical and contemporary photos, paintings, and technical drawings of nearly 400 different covered bridges, America's Covered Bridges offers five readable chapters on the history, design and fate of America's covered bridges, plus related bridges in Canada. Most of the contemporary photography is by master photographer A. Chester Ong of Hong Kong. 55 photo essays on the most iconic bridges including: Cornish-Windsor Bridge between Vermont and New Hampshire Porter-Parsonsfield Bridge, Maine East Paden and West Paden (Twin Bridges), Pennsylvania Philippi Bridge, West Virginia Hortons Mill Bridge, Alabama Medora Bridge, Indiana Rock Mill Bridge, Ohio Knight's Ferry Bridge, California Perrault Bridge, Quebec, Canada Hartland Bridge, New Brunswick, Canada Over time, wooden bridges eventually gave way to ones made of iron, steel and concrete. An American icon, many covered bridges became obsolete and were replaced—others simply decayed and collapsed. Many more were swept away by natural disasters and fires. America's Covered Bridges is absolutely packed with fascinating stories and information passionately told by two leading experts on this subject. The book will be of tremendous interest to anyone interested in American history, carpentry and technological change.

Author : Steven M. Richman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 9780813535104

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The Bridges of New Jersey by Steven M. Richman Pdf

Richman provides a rare photographic and poetic journey across 60 of New Jersey's bridges, ranging from impressive suspension spans such as the Ben Franklin and George Washington Bridges, to the small wrought iron and stone bridges that are cherished by local citizens.