Jesmyn Ward (b. 1977) is arguably one of today's most important authors. Although often compared to William Faulkner, Ward and her writings have done anything but live in that shadow since the 2008 debut of her first novel Where the Line Bleeds. She has produced four novels and a memoir that are equally harrowing and heartening, and she is the ......
The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction
The world's largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering. President Eisenhower's 1956 Interstate Highway Act is often praised as a model of successful bipartisanship. Today, the ......
The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in ......
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save America's Wonderlands
Uncovering the partnership that saved America's natural treasures America's national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling to keep up, author and former park ranger Steve Kemp looks toward one exceptionally effective historical example of conservation philanthropy ......
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save America's Wonderlands
Uncovering the partnership that saved America's natural treasures America's national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling to keep up, author and former park ranger Steve Kemp looks toward one exceptionally effective historical example of conservation philanthropy ......
Explores the value of oral traditions and challenges entrenched beliefs about ethnogenesis in the Great Basin In When the Earth Was New, Alex K. Ruuska explores riveting multigenerational memories of Numic-speaking communities that extend back, potentially, to the late Pleistocene. These diverse oral traditions describe geological, climatic, and ......
Explores the value of oral traditions and challenges entrenched beliefs about ethnogenesis in the Great Basin In When the Earth Was New, Alex K. Ruuska explores riveting multigenerational memories of Numic-speaking communities that extend back, potentially, to the late Pleistocene. These diverse oral traditions describe geological, climatic, and ......
NATIONAL TRAIL - Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside Coast
A guidebook to walking the northwest section of the King Charles III England Coast Path between Gretna and Chester. Covering 590km (367 miles), this straightforward trail along the Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside coast takes around 1 month to hike. The route is described from north to south in 28 stages between 13 and 29km (8-18 ......
This map booklet to the Cumbrian section of the England Coast Path contains detailed mapping for walking the route in either direction. With easy access at many points along the way, the Cumbrian section can be enjoyed as a trek of around 15 days or in shorter sections. Full route shown on 1:25,000 OS maps Map booklet can be used to ......
