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Author | : E.L. Doctorow |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307762998 |
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“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.” –The Washington Post Book World One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancer’s fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorow’s skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words of The New York Times, “a dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.” “Startling and spellbinding . . . The waters that lave the narrative all run to the great confluence, where the deepest issues of life and death are borne along on the swift, sure vessel of [Doctorow’s] poetic imagination.” –The New York Times Book Review “Hypnotic . . . a dazzling romp, an extraordinary read, given strength and grace by the telling, by the poetic voice and controlled cynical lyricism of its streetwise and world-weary narrator.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “A gem of a novel, intimate as chamber music . . . a thriller guaranteed to leave readers with residual chills and shudders.” –Boston Sunday Herald “Enthralling . . . a story of debauchery and redemption that is spellbinding from first page to last.” –Chicago Sun-Times “An immense, extraordinary achievement.” –San Francisco Chronicle
Author | : Stanley Greenberg |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2003-03 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1568983883 |
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A collection of photographs which profile the aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks of New York's water system.
Author | : Joanna Cole |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0590403605 |
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A collection of children's books on the subject of summer activities.
Author | : Kevin Bone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the story of the program of exploration and construction to achieve such purity. The story is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels.
Author | : Barbara Sallick |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Bathrooms |
ISBN | : 9780609604212 |
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The perfect bathroom is a stylish, inviting space that is both functional and appealing. It is a place of tranquillity, refreshment, and renewal -- a refuge from the busy world. "Waterworks: Inventing Bath Style offers all the inspiration and practical advice needed to create this perfect bathroom, no matter what the budget or space. Drawing upon more than twenty years of experience in bath design, author Barbara Sallick explores the essential requirements of every bathroom -- its fixtures, fittings, and surfaces -- and provides hands-on advice in selecting tile; placing fixtures; introducing lighting; choosing faucets; finding storage space; working with ceramic, stone, glass, metal, and mosaic; adding accessories; and creating a beautiful space that meets your needs. Stunning color photographs showcase a number of exquisite bathrooms that range in style from romantic to streamlined, utilitarian to indulgent. "Waterworks: Inventing Bath Style explains and celebrates the simple luxuries of a well-designed bathroom, from the floor on up. Filled with tips for working successfully with designers, architects, and suppliers, this invaluable guide ensures that a new or renovated bathroom adds comfort, style, and value to any home.
Author | : Jeanne C. James |
Publisher | : Kaplan Press (NC) |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780880760843 |
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Author | : Pauline E. Chiarelli |
Publisher | : Khera Publications, Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Urinary incontinence |
ISBN | : 9780964071902 |
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A comprehensive, clear and easy-to-understand book that gives practical advise and proven exercises to cure urinary incontinence.
Author | : Roberta J. Magnusson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-12-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 080186626X |
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Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies -- how they worked, what uses the water served -- and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity. Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a thoughtful and instructive study. Archeological, historical, and literary evidence vividly depicts those who designed, constructed, and used medieval water systems and demonstrates a shift from a public-administrative to a private-innovative framework -- one that argues for the importance of local initiatives. "The following chapters attempt to chart a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of technological and social determinism. While writing them, I have tried to strike a balance between the technical and human aspects of medieval hydraulic systems, and to remember that beneath the welter of documents and diffusion patterns, configurations and components, ordinances and expenditures, lie the perceptions, the choices, and often the plain hard work of individual men and women." -- from the Preface
Author | : Carl Smith |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022602251X |
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A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Author | : Syed R. Qasim |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Water treatment plants |
ISBN | : |
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This book offers the most in-depth, step-by-step coverage available of contemporary water treatment plant planning, design and operations. Readers can walk step by step through water treatment plant planning and design, including predesign reports, problem definition, site selection and more.