Public Works as a Safety Net
Title | Public Works as a Safety Net PDF eBook |
Author | Kalanidhi Subbarao |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821394614 |
A review of the conceptual underpinnings and operational elements of public works programs around the world., drawing from a rich evidence base and analyzing previously unassimilated data, to fill a gap in knowledge related to public works programs, now so popular.
Public Works
Title | Public Works PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Rubenstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9780268040307 |
Public Works looks at a new dimension of a specifically Irish modernism, arguing for the vital importance of infrastructure, specifically electricity, water, and gas.
History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976
Title | History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976 PDF eBook |
Author | American Public Works Association |
Publisher | Association |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Public Works Inspectors' Manual
Title | Public Works Inspectors' Manual PDF eBook |
Author | Silas B. Birch |
Publisher | BNI Publications |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Public works |
ISBN |
Sewer, Gas & Electric
Title | Sewer, Gas & Electric PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Ruff |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2007-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802198457 |
A satire of a surreal technocratic future by the national-bestselling author of Lovecraft Country: “Dizzyingly readable” (Thomas Pynchon). High above Manhattan, android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity’s power to dream. In the festering sewers below, a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant’s crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why, in this wild romp by the acclaimed author of Fool on the Hill and Lovecraft Country. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan’s assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of them, and many more besides, are about to be caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots . . . “[An] SF roller-coaster satirizing the horrors of our nascent technocracy . . . Told with breezy good humor, this exuberantly silly tale will find an audience among admirers of the day-glo surrealism of Steve Erickson and the tangled conspiracy theories of David Foster Wallace.” —Publishers Weekly “A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower.” —Neal Stephenson
Internal Improvement
Title | Internal Improvement PDF eBook |
Author | John Lauritz Larson |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2002-11-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807875643 |
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for the Year Ending December 31 ... to the City Council of the City of Chicago
Title | Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for the Year Ending December 31 ... to the City Council of the City of Chicago PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Works |
Publisher | |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN |