Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges and More, Paperback - Asce Pittsburgh Section 100th Anniversar

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Reducere. Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges and More, Hardcover

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Reducere. Pittsburgh: 1758-2008 surveys the city's evolution from strategic fort in the wilderness to bustling industrial workshop to high-tech center for un...

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Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...

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Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): David HamiltonNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 187 x 262 x 37Cover type: H...

Explores the impact of the National Urban League in Pittsburgh.Illustrations: 8 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 table

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DescriptionLatin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identiti...

Reducere. DescriptionMuckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the "Metropolis of Corruption" in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice pe...

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uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social...

In 1919, the steel industry of Pittsburgh was on the brink of war. Years of labor strife broke out into open conflict as steel workers launched the...

National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Ameri...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard BlancoA journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and ...

Reducere. About the AuthorThe author, Bob Regan, a geophysicist affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. Using Geographic Information Systems technology...

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Reducere. Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philoso...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

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From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d rive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape--borders and citizenshi...

In 1871, Jacob and Isaac Kaufmann created a classic Pittsburgh institution. The business grew from a small store on the South Side to a mammoth clo...

Reducere. Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces ...

Reducere. Founded amidst the bloodshed of the French and Indian War, Pittsburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its gritty and sometimes violent past. Many belie...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images...

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