Rivers In The Desert

Author : Margaret Leslie Davis
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497613775

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Rivers in the Desert by Margaret Leslie Davis Pdf

The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News). Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This “fascinating history” chronicles Mulholland’s dramatic ascension to wealth and fame—followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed to safeguard the water supply (Newsweek). The disaster, which killed at least five hundred people, caused his repudiation by allies, friends, and a previously adoring community. Epic in scope, Rivers in the Desert chronicles the history of Los Angeles and examines the tragic fate of the man who rescued it. “An arresting biography of William Mulholland, the visionary Los Angeles Water Department engineer . . . [his] personal and public dramas make for gripping reading.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating look at the political maneuvering and engineering marvels that moved the City of Angels into the first rank of American cities.” —Booklist

Author : Elena R. Jordan
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798385002146

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Rivers In The Desert by Elena R. Jordan Pdf

Do you find it difficult to obey God when you don’t understand what He is doing in your life? Elena R. Jordan tells her own story of reluctantly following God’s instructions to relocate to another state. Having to leave her hometown and family behind to start anew seemed unfathomable. Unforseen circumstances landed her in a homeless shelter. A place she never thought she would end up. Instead of having faith and trusting God in the transition, she finds comfort in a forbidden relationship to escape her lonliness and uncertanties. What you will take away from Rivers In The Desert is to stay on the path that God has for you and trust the process that He’s taking you through. Having faith and obeying God is the key to all of God’s blessings.

Author : John Baillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Missions
ISBN : UOM:39015020125855

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Rivers in the Desert, Or, Mission-scenes in Burmah by John Baillie Pdf

Author : John BAILLIE (Rector of Wivenhoe.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Missions
ISBN : BL:A0021512177

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Rivers in the Desert: or, Mission Scenes in Burmah by John BAILLIE (Rector of Wivenhoe.) Pdf

Author : Juliet C. Stromberg,Barbara Tellman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816527520

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Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River by Juliet C. Stromberg,Barbara Tellman Pdf

contributors - biologists, ecologists, geomorphologists, historians, hydrologists, lawyers, and political scientists - weave together threads from their diverse perspectives to reveal the processes that shape the past, present, and future of the San Pedro's riparian and aquatic ecosystems. They review the biological communities of the San Pedro and the stream hydrology and geomorphology that affects its riparian biota. They then look at conservation and management challenges along three sections of the San Pedro, from its headwaters in Mexico in its confluence with the Gila River, describing legal and policy issues and their interface with science; activities related to mitigation, conservation, and restoration; and a prognosis of the potential for sustaining the basin's riparian system." "Complemented by a foreword written by James Shuttleworth, these chapters demonstrate the complexity of the San Pedro's ecological and hydrological conditions, showing that there are no easy --

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Devotional calendars
ISBN : OCLC:1936858

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Streams in the Desert by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781440672828

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Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner Pdf

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.

Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781611804577

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Rants from the Hill by Michael P. Branch Pdf

“If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”—High Country News Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch, it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’ cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.

Author : Rowland Croucher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Meditation
ISBN : 086760137X

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Rivers in the Desert by Rowland Croucher Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UCLA:L0083319699

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : G. Johannes Botterweck,Helmer Ringgren,Heinz-Josef Fabry
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802823335

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Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament by G. Johannes Botterweck,Helmer Ringgren,Heinz-Josef Fabry Pdf

This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with father, and continuing through the alphabet, the TDOT volumes present in-depth discussions of the key Hebrew and Aramaic words in the Old Testament. Leading scholars of various religious traditions (including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish) and from many parts of the world (Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) have been carefully selected for each article by editors Botterweck, Ringgren, and Fabry and their consultants, George W. Anderson, Henri Cazelles, David Noel Freedman, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Gerhard Wallis. The intention of the writers is to concentrate on meaning, starting from the more general, everyday senses and building to an understanding of theologically significant concepts. To avoid artificially restricting the focus of the articles, TDOT considers under each keyword the larger groups of words that are related linguistically or semantically. The lexical work includes detailed surveys of a word s occurrences, not only in biblical material but also in other ancient Near Eastern writings. Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ethiopic, Ugaritic, and Northwest Semitic sources are surveyed, among others, as well as the Qumran texts and the Septuagint; and in cultures where no cognate word exists, the authors often consider cognate ideas. TDOT s emphasis, though, is on Hebrew terminology and on biblical usage. The contributors employ philology as well as form-critical and traditio-historical methods, with the aim of understanding the religious statements in the Old Testament. Extensive bibliographical information adds to the value of this reference work. This English edition attempts to serve the needs of Old Testament students without the linguistic background of more advanced scholars; it does so, however, without sacrificing the needs of the latter. Ancient scripts (Hebrew, Greek, etc.) are regularly transliterated in a readable way, and meanings of foreign words are given in many cases where the meanings might be obvious to advanced scholars. Where the Hebrew text versification differs from that of English Bibles, the English verse appears in parentheses. Such features will help all earnest students of the Bible to avail themselves of the manifold theological insights contained in this monumental work.

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780374722388

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Desert Oracle by Ken Layne Pdf

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3W9E

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The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Exequiel Ezcurra
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789280727227

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Global Deserts Outlook by Exequiel Ezcurra Pdf

Namibia Business Intelligence Report - Practical Information, Opportunities, Contacts

Author : Matthew Dickerson
Publisher : Wings Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781609404864

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Trout in the Desert by Matthew Dickerson Pdf

Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from tiny mountain streams in the southern Rockies of New Mexico to the mighty Colorado River at the head of the Grand Canyon, to the Hill Country of Texas, exploring these various waters that manage to hold cold-loving trout in the midst of the hot desert landscapes of the American southwest. This lovingly described journey brings us through Dickerson's own life of discovery and his love of fly fishing, trout, and the rivers where trout live. Though neither an historical nor a scientific text, the writing is informed by both. The book is illustrated by original prints from Texas artist Barbara Whitehead.