Straphanger
Title | Straphanger PDF eBook |
Author | Taras Grescoe |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2012-04-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0805095586 |
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution "I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford insurance, or too decrepit to get behind the wheel of a car. Indeed, a century of auto-centric culture and city planning has left most of the country with public transportation that is underfunded, ill maintained, and ill conceived. But as the demand for petroleum is fast outpacing the world's supply, a revolution in transportation is under way. Grescoe explores the ascendance of the straphangers—the growing number of people who rely on public transportation to go about the business of their daily lives. On a journey that takes him around the world—from New York to Moscow, Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Bogotá, Phoenix, Portland, Vancouver, and Philadelphia—Grescoe profiles public transportation here and abroad, highlighting the people and ideas that may help undo the damage that car-centric planning has done to our cities and create convenient, affordable, and sustainable urban transportation—and better city living—for all.
Equity
Title | Equity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1130 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Acting |
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Dress & Vanity Fair
Title | Dress & Vanity Fair PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1476 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Punch
Title | Punch PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Lemon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Caricatures and cartoons |
ISBN |
Galactic Diplomat
Title | Galactic Diplomat PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Laumer |
Publisher | Gateway |
Total Pages | 134 |
Release | 2016-04-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473215552 |
Retief is an officer of the distinguished Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, a supra-national organization devoted to keeping the peace - or more accurately, to maintaining a state of tension short of armed conflict. Retief is not exactly in the mainstream of current Galactic diplomacy, as expounded by such giants of the C.D.T. as Crodfoller, Hidebinder, Straphanger, and his own immediate superior, Magnan. Deviously sincere, uncompromisingly venal, fearlessly cowardly, these great, dedicated public servants will seem curiously familiar as they strive to keep the peace seven hundred years in the future. But when Retief's on the scene things have a way of coming right in the end... Contents: Ultimatum Saline Solution The Brass God The Castle of Light Wicker Wonderland Native Intelligence The Prince and the Pirate Courier Protest Note
SOG Kontum
Title | SOG Kontum PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Parnar |
Publisher | Casemate |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2022-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1636242359 |
The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States Special Forces unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War. The unit conducted strategic reconnaissance missions in South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; carried out the capture of enemy prisoners, rescued downed pilots, and conducted rescue operations to retrieve allied prisoners of war throughout Southeast Asia; and conducted clandestine agent team activities and psychological operations. This book tells the story of the Teams operating out of FOB2 Kontum, near the tri-border area, in 1968–69. From recon missions over the fence to the heroic, and sometimes fatal efforts undertaken to try and rescue missing SOG members, the events are told through the words of the men themselves, supported by previously unreleased official documents.
International Year Book Number
Title | International Year Book Number PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1072 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Journalism |
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