Engineers Far from Ordinary

Engineers Far from Ordinary
Author: Damon Manders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781782663447

Includes full color maps and photographs.

The History of Large Federal Dams

The History of Large Federal Dams
Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2005-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780160728235

Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.

The History of Large Federal Dams

The History of Large Federal Dams
Author: David Billington
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781483966137

This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the story. The history also addresses some of the negative environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek to resolve.

One of Ours

One of Ours
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

Riparian Area Management

Riparian Area Management
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 1986
Genre: Riparian areas
ISBN:

Defines riparian areas in laymen's terms and provides a brief overview of the value of riparian areas, and how the Bureau of Land management manages them.