Home eBooks Download › along different lines

Along Different Lines

Download Along Different Lines PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Along Different Lines book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page

Along Different Lines

DOWNLOAD
Author : Geoff Body
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2012-11-01

Along Different Lines written by Geoff Body and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Transportation categories.

Running a railway is a complex business. However organised it is, there will always be surprises: often hilarious, frequently unexpected, but sometimes serious. Along Different Lines includes such bizarre 'everyday' events as coping with hurricanes, rogue locomotives and runaway wagons; PR successes and otherwise; the Brighton Belle, Flying Scotsman and Mallard; training-course capers; a wino invasion; trackside antics; the Eurostar backdrop; the birth of a prison; and royal and other special occasions. Expert authors Geoff Body and Bill Parker lovingly compiled this entertaining collection in which railway professionals recall notable incidents from across their careers. This illustrated compilation provides an enjoyable look back at life on the railways.

Along Those Lines

DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Cashwell
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date : 2014-04-09

Along Those Lines written by Peter Cashwell and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-09 with Literary Collections categories.

"Intellectual reveling at its finest."—Booklist "A delightful and curious book about borders, boundaries, fences, and lines."—Slate "A thoughtful and entertaining look at the demarcations in our lives."—Times Dispatch After years of crossing borders in search of new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell's exploration of lines between states, between time zones, and between species led him to consider the lines that divide genders, seasons, musical genres, and just about every other aspect of human life. His conclusion: Most had something in common—they were largely imaginary. Nonetheless, Along Those Lines, a tour of the tangled world of delineation, attempts to address how we distinguish right from wrong, life from death, Democrat from Republican—and how the lines between came to be. Part storyteller, part educator, and part wise guy, Cashwell is unafraid to take readers off the beaten path—into the desert vistas of the Four Corners, the breeding ground of an endangered warbler, or the innards of a grand piano. Something amusing and/or insightful awaits at every stop. And he's not alone. The tricks and treats of the human instinct for drawing lines are revealed in interviews with experts of all sorts. Learn about the use of the panel border from a Hugo Award–winning comics creator. Trace the edge of extinction with the rediscoverer of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Get the truth about the strike zone from an umpire who holds a degree in physics. You'll begin to see even the most familiar lines in a whole new way. "From music to politics to gender splits, the things that divide us also tell us quite a bit about who we are, and how we got there. You couldn't ask for a better guide than Peter Cashwell, whose eloquent musings on the lines we draw—and sometimes erase—is illuminating, fascinating, and impossible to put down."—Caroline Leavitt "If, as Paul Klee told his students at the Bauhaus, a line is a dot that goes for a 'walk,' then Along Those Lines is a beguiling and personal treasury of dots on hikes, treks, and walkabouts. To accept this invitation to meander through the author's territory of boundaries, borders, definitions, demarcations, and delineations is to be rewarded with surprising answers to questions you didn't know you had until now, about everything under the sun, from strike zones, musical genres, and Gerrymandering to birding, gender, and how different religions define the lines between right and wrong. Peter Cashwell's appreciation of the boundaries that create our world is a pure delight." —Katharine Weber "As if by magic, Cashwell gives us the power to see the invisible lines we live by and—perhaps more importantly—the permission to smudge, erase, dissolve, or redraw the lines that don’t serve us well. Along Those Lines is an imaginative and well-researched book full of Cashwell's trademark imagination and humor.* Even the most edgy, rule-bound readers will come away enlightened and liberated. [*His footnotes alone could open Saturday Night Live.]"—Maria Mudd Ruth "Peter Cashwell has written a brilliant, mind-bending saga of delineation as a supreme act of imagination, as a noble and often comic attempt to confine the raggedy universe within a geometer’s desperate dreams of precision."—Will Blythe

Official Gazette Of The United States Patent Office

DOWNLOAD
Author : USA Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

Official Gazette Of The United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.

Annual Report Of The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics

DOWNLOAD
Author : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955

Annual Report Of The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Aeronautics categories.

Acts And Joint Resolutions Amending The Constitution Of The General Assembly Of The State Of Virginia

DOWNLOAD
Author : Virginia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887

Acts And Joint Resolutions Amending The Constitution Of The General Assembly Of The State Of Virginia written by Virginia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Law categories.

Includes separately published extra sessions.

Mechanics Magazine

DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828

Mechanics Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.

Along Lost Lines

DOWNLOAD
Author : Paul Atterbury
language : en
Publisher: David & Charles
Release Date : 2009-11

Along Lost Lines written by Paul Atterbury and has been published by David & Charles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Railroads categories.

Documents the various aspects of British railways, including timetables, stations, tunnels, staff and trains. This work focuses on the 10,000 miles of lines closed in Britain since the 1950s, bringing to life the glorious story of train travel as it used to be.|Rich in romance and nostalgia, this fascinating book documents all the lost and forgotten aspects of British railways, including timetables, stations, tunnels, staff and trains. It focuses on the 10,000 miles of lines closed in Britain since the 1950s, bringing to life the glorious story of train travel as it used to be. Images of the railways' active past and pieces of ephemera capture British rural lines. Like previous books in the series, "Along Lost Lines" takes a very visual approach to the subject matter by highlighting the places and features that best tell the story, through stunning images and fascinating visual detail.