The Columbia Unveiled
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The Columbia Unveiled
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Author : Madison Johnson Lorraine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
The Columbia Unveiled written by Madison Johnson Lorraine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Columbia River categories.
The Columbia Unveiled
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Author : Madison Johnson Lorraine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
The Columbia Unveiled written by Madison Johnson Lorraine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Columbia River categories.
The Columbia
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Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
language : en
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Release Date : 2016-06-15
The Columbia written by Stewart H. Holbrook and has been published by Epicenter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with History categories.
The Columbia commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and a source of irrigation. Here is the story of its explorers who came by boat and by foot: the bickering and battles between Hudson's Bay Company and Astor's fur trappers, the settlers that turned politicians to keep the Oregon Territory in the U.S. and to make two states out of it, the coming of steamboats, the potent force of the railways, and later the highways. The Columbia follows the story of the canals, locks, and dams which flooded old landmarks to give new pioneers farm lands and electricity, and the story of the settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
Unveiled
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Author : Deborah Kanafani
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-01-08
Unveiled written by Deborah Kanafani and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in graduate school: through a series of chance encounters, young Deborah was introduced to Marwan Kanafani, a dashing former soccer star turned high-ranking Palestinian diplomat who was working at the United Nations. A political dynamo with movie-star charm, Marwan swept Deborah off her feet and into a marriage that kept her in the company of diplomats, dignitaries, world leaders, international glamour and intrigue. Although exciting, this lifestyle also isolated Deborah increasingly from her independent, American way of living, creating a rift that would end their marriage. Marwan's profile was on the rise, and with it came a number of crucial connections for Deborah: while his involvement with the PLO intensified, eventually resulting in his appointment as senior advisor and spokesperson for Yasir Arafat, she formed friendships with such women as Suha Arafat, Queen Dina of Jordan, and other women married to Arab leaders. After her divorce, when these women agreed to tell their stories of struggle and survival for a book, Deborah traveled to the Middle East to record them, planning to join her children, who were on the West Bank visiting their father. To her shock and horror, he refused to return the children to her. Deborah stayed in the Middle East for several years to be near her children, finding strength in the women whose lives she documented and whose incredible stories are told in this book. She was eventually able to arrange the return of her children when they were evacuated to another country during a Palestinian uprising. The story of her journey, intertwined with those of the wives of the Arab leaders, takes the reader into an otherwise inaccessible and cloistered world populated by larger-than-life characters living out all-too-human dramas. Culture, politics, and family collide in this gripping front-row perspective of the Middle East conflict and of the courageous women working behind the scenes for peace and challenging the patriarchal traditions of their homeland.
The Battle For Gotham
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Author : Roberta Brandes Gratz
language : en
Publisher: Nation Books
Release Date : 2010-03-30
The Battle For Gotham written by Roberta Brandes Gratz and has been published by Nation Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with History categories.
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's “master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses's urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizen's Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.
Rufus Woods The Columbia River And The Building Of Modern Washington
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Author : Robert E. Ficken
language : en
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-24
Rufus Woods The Columbia River And The Building Of Modern Washington written by Robert E. Ficken and has been published by Washington State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-24 with History categories.
Rufus Woods, editor and publisher of the Wenatchee Daily World for more than forty years, has been called the “High Priest of the Columbia River.” From his editorial platform, Woods tirelessly promoted Wenatchee and north central Washington and advocated for Columbia River development. He pegged his brightest hopes on a huge dam to be built in the isolated Grand Coulee region. A founding member of the “Dam University,” Woods--through the World--helped to keep the drive for the structure alive. From 1918 through Grand Coulee’s completion in 1941, he was the leading promoter of the largest dam-building project in American history. Utilizing his newspaper and his extensive political contacts at state and national levels, Woods helped convince President Franklin Roosevelt, Congress, and the Bureau of Reclamation that the grandiose scheme was attainable. Where others despaired, he never faltered. Speaking before the 1942 Grand Coulee High School graduating class, Woods proudly boasted of the accomplishment that he helped see to reality. “So here it stands, a monument to the idea and the power of an idea; a monument to an organization; a monument to cooperation. You, class of 1942, could you come back here in a thousand years hence, you would hear the sojourners talking as they behold this ‘slab of concrete,’ and you would hear them say, ‘Here in 1942, indeed, there once lived a great people.’” Woods got his dam, but not the Wenatchee boom he desired. Possible only because of federal financing, those in control imposed a vast maze of power lines emanating from the dam’s huge hydroelectric plant. Cities like Portland and Seattle benefited from its power much more than Wenatchee. Even so, Woods’s beloved adopted home grew tremendously during his lifetime, and much of that economic development can be attributed to his single-minded efforts.
Northwest Passages
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Author : William F. Willingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Northwest Passages written by William F. Willingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
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Oversight Hearing On The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Oversight Hearing On The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
Pacific Salmon Their Ecosystems
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Author : Deanna J. Stouder
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1997
Pacific Salmon Their Ecosystems written by Deanna J. Stouder and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
This text examines the ecology of the Pacific salmon
Native River
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Author : William D. Layman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Native River written by William D. Layman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Columbia River categories.
In images and narratives, Native River recreates the untamed Mid-Columbia--the river as it once was, before the building of seven major dams. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, maps, and photographs, many never before published, this finely crafted book focuses on the 350-mile reach of the middle Columbia River from Priest Rapids in south-central Washington to the U.S. Canadian border. William Layman affords each segment of this waterway with its own rich visual documentation, forming a backdrop to many absorbing river stories. -- Amazon.