Along Different Lines

Author : Geoff Body
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752490915
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along Different Lines written by Geoff Body and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running a railway is a complex business. However organised it is, there will always be surprises: often hilarious, frequently unexpected, but sometimes serious. Along Different Lines includes such bizarre 'everyday' events as coping with hurricanes, rogue locomotives and runaway wagons; PR successes and otherwise; the Brighton Belle, Flying Scotsman and Mallard; training-course capers; a wino invasion; trackside antics; the Eurostar backdrop; the birth of a prison; and royal and other special occasions. Expert authors Geoff Body and Bill Parker lovingly compiled this entertaining collection in which railway professionals recall notable incidents from across their careers. This illustrated compilation provides an enjoyable look back at life on the railways.

Author : Peter Cashwell
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589880927
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along Those Lines written by Peter Cashwell and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intellectual reveling at its finest."—Booklist "A delightful and curious book about borders, boundaries, fences, and lines."—Slate "A thoughtful and entertaining look at the demarcations in our lives."—Times Dispatch After years of crossing borders in search of new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell's exploration of lines between states, between time zones, and between species led him to consider the lines that divide genders, seasons, musical genres, and just about every other aspect of human life. His conclusion: Most had something in common—they were largely imaginary. Nonetheless, Along Those Lines, a tour of the tangled world of delineation, attempts to address how we distinguish right from wrong, life from death, Democrat from Republican—and how the lines between came to be. Part storyteller, part educator, and part wise guy, Cashwell is unafraid to take readers off the beaten path—into the desert vistas of the Four Corners, the breeding ground of an endangered warbler, or the innards of a grand piano. Something amusing and/or insightful awaits at every stop. And he's not alone. The tricks and treats of the human instinct for drawing lines are revealed in interviews with experts of all sorts. Learn about the use of the panel border from a Hugo Award–winning comics creator. Trace the edge of extinction with the rediscoverer of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Get the truth about the strike zone from an umpire who holds a degree in physics. You'll begin to see even the most familiar lines in a whole new way. "From music to politics to gender splits, the things that divide us also tell us quite a bit about who we are, and how we got there. You couldn't ask for a better guide than Peter Cashwell, whose eloquent musings on the lines we draw—and sometimes erase—is illuminating, fascinating, and impossible to put down."—Caroline Leavitt "If, as Paul Klee told his students at the Bauhaus, a line is a dot that goes for a 'walk,' then Along Those Lines is a beguiling and personal treasury of dots on hikes, treks, and walkabouts. To accept this invitation to meander through the author's territory of boundaries, borders, definitions, demarcations, and delineations is to be rewarded with surprising answers to questions you didn't know you had until now, about everything under the sun, from strike zones, musical genres, and Gerrymandering to birding, gender, and how different religions define the lines between right and wrong. Peter Cashwell's appreciation of the boundaries that create our world is a pure delight." —Katharine Weber "As if by magic, Cashwell gives us the power to see the invisible lines we live by and—perhaps more importantly—the permission to smudge, erase, dissolve, or redraw the lines that don’t serve us well. Along Those Lines is an imaginative and well-researched book full of Cashwell's trademark imagination and humor.* Even the most edgy, rule-bound readers will come away enlightened and liberated. [*His footnotes alone could open Saturday Night Live.]"—Maria Mudd Ruth "Peter Cashwell has written a brilliant, mind-bending saga of delineation as a supreme act of imagination, as a noble and often comic attempt to confine the raggedy universe within a geometer’s desperate dreams of precision."—Will Blythe

Author : Henry Parker Manning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geometry of Four Dimensions written by Henry Parker Manning and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1909 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Canada. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1458 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific Canadian Mechanics' Magazine and Patent Office Record written by Canada. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Committee's Reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2140 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 2140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Acts and Joint Resolutions, Amending the Constitution, of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes separately published extra sessions.

Author : Isaac Warren
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book An elementary treatise on mechanics written by Isaac Warren and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317231651
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lines written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line. Ingold’s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.