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Heavy Ground

William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

By: Norris Hundley,Donald C. Jackson

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Heavy Ground

William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

By: Norris Hundley,Donald C. Jackson

Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California’s Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. In this carefully researched work, Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a riveting narrative exploring the history of the ill-fated dam and the person directly responsible for its flawed design—William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water system. Employing copious illustrations and intensive research, Heavy Ground traces the interwoven roles of politics and engineering in explaining how the St. Francis Dam came to be built and the reasons for its collapse. Hundley and Jackson also detail the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, legal claims against the City of Los Angeles, efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on congressional approval of the future Hoover Dam. Underlying it all is a consideration of how the dam—and the disaster—were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland. Ultimately, this thoughtful and nuanced account of the dam’s failure reveals how individual and bureaucratic conceit fed Los Angeles’s desire to control vital water supplies in the booming metropolis of Southern California.

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University of Nevada Press

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1948908891

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9781948908894

The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1816-1820

By: Andrew Jackson

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1816-1820

By: Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson is one of the most critical and controversial figures in American history. A dominant actor on the American scene in the period between the Revolution and Civil War, he stamped his name first on a mass political movement and then an era. At the same time Jackson's ascendancy accelerated the dispossession and death of Native Americans and spurred the expansion of slavery. 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' is a project to collect and publish Jackson's entire extant literary record. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson's most important papers to the public in easily readable form."--

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870497782

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9780870497780

Surfacing Up

Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968

By: Lynette Jackson

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Surfacing Up

Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968

By: Lynette Jackson

Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn from a conversation Lynette A. Jackson had with a psychiatric nurse who used the concept to explain what brought African potential patients into the psychiatric system. Jackson uses Ingutsheni as a reference point for the struggle to "domesticate" Africa and its citizens after conquest. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jackson maintains that the asylum in Southern Rhodesia played a significant role in maintaining the colonial social order. She supports Fanon's claim that colonial psychiatric hospitals were repositories for those of "indocile nature" or for those who failed to fit "the social background of the colonial type." Through reconstruction and reinterpretation of patient narratives, Jackson shows how patients were diagnosed, detained, and deemed recovered. She draws on psychiatric case files to analyze the changing economic, social, and environmental conditions of the colonized, the varying needs of the white settlers, and the shifting boundaries between these two communities. She seeks to extend and enrich our understanding of how a significant institution changed the way citizens and subjects experienced the colonial social order.

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Cornell University Press

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1501725793

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9781501725791

The Papers of Andrew Jackson

By: Andrew Jackson

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By: Andrew Jackson

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748

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572331747

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9781572331747

The House that Jack Built

The Autobiography of a Successful American Dreamer, Businessman, and Entertainer

By: Hal Jackson,James Haskins

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The House that Jack Built

The Autobiography of a Successful American Dreamer, Businessman, and Entertainer

By: Hal Jackson,James Haskins

The House That Jack Built" is a true rags-to-riches American success story. Hal Jackson is founder, owner, and Group Chairman of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, the largest black-owned broadcasting network in the nation. This is about a remarkable man, whose determination and vision would make him one of the most significant figures in American radio and television history.

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236

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Amber Books Publishing

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0972751947

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9780972751940

Just an Ordinary Day

Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

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Just an Ordinary Day

Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

“Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation.”—San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson’s children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection. Here are tales of torment, psychological aberration, and the macabre, as well as those that display her lighter touch with humorous scenes of domestic life. Reflecting the range and complexity of Jackson’s talent, Just an Ordinary Day reaffirms her enduring influence and celebrates her singular voice, rich with magic and resonance. Praise for Shirley Jackson “[Jackson’s] work exerts an enduring spell.”—Joyce Carol Oates “Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written.”—Donna Tartt “An amazing writer . . . If you haven’t read [Jackson] you have missed out on something marvelous.”—Neil Gaiman “Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.”—Dorothy Parker “An author who not only writes beautifully but who knows what there is, in this world, to be scared of.”—Francine Prose “The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.”—A. M. Homes “Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.”—Victor LaValle

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449

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Bantam

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0307573591

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9780307573599

Monster

By: Steve Jackson

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Monster

By: Steve Jackson

An account of serial killer Tom Luther that’s “one of the best books short of the famous Ann Rule works” from the New York Times bestselling author (True Crime Book Reviews). On a snowy winter evening in 1982, twenty-one-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator’s violence had only just begun. After ten years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap. In this gripping new edition of a true crime masterpiece, acclaimed author Steve Jackson recounts the intriguing pursuit and long-awaited conviction of a charismatic, monstrous psychopath, one who remains a suspect in three other crimes—and has never given up hope of escape. Includes sixteen pages of dramatic photos Praise for Steve Jackson “He writes with both muscle and heart.” —Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell “A born storyteller. He makes you sweat . . . and turn the page.” —Ron Franscell, national bestselling author of Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story

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707

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Pinnacle Books

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0786034424

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9780786034420

Catalogue of the Phænogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Worcester County, Massachusetts

By: Joseph Jackson

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Catalogue of the Phænogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Worcester County, Massachusetts

By: Joseph Jackson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385301580

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9783385301580

Women and Work Culture

Britain c.1850–1950

By: Louise A. Jackson

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Women and Work Culture

Britain c.1850–1950

By: Louise A. Jackson

Women's work has proved to be an important and lively subject of debate for historians. An earlier focus on the pay, conditions and occupational opportunities of predominantly blue-collar working-class women has now been joined by an interest in other social groups (white-collar workers, clerical workers and professionals) as well as in the cultural practices of the work place, reflecting in part the recent 'cultural turn' in historical methodology. Although the term 'culture' is debated and contested, this volume reflects this diversity, addressing a variety of interpretations. The individual essays address such issues as how women have created occupational and professional identities, negotiated masculine working practices (cultural, legal and institutional) and created their own 'feminine' environments. They also examine the integration of paid work with domestic responsibilities, the concept of 'career' for women, and the construction and representation of women's work within the wider cultural landscape.' By focusing on the experiences of British women between c.1850 and 1950, the collection vividly demonstrates that the association of 'work' with paid labour is problematic and that the categories of 'work', 'leisure' and 'consumption' must be viewed as overlapping and inter-linked rather than as separate entities. Furthermore, it highlights the ways in which the concept of gender operated as an organising principle in the construction and negotiation of identities and practices in British society.

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381

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Routledge

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1351872087

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9781351872089

The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

By: Andrew Jackson

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

By: Andrew Jackson

This fifth volume of 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' documents Jackson's retirement from the military in 1821 and his emergence as the leading presidential candidate in 1824.

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676

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870498975

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9780870498978

Churches of Bedfordshire

By: John Jackson

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Churches of Bedfordshire

By: John Jackson

A fascinating exploration of Bedfordshire’s historic churches will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398118222

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9781398118225

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Surfacing Up

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The Papers of Andrew Jackson

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The House that Jack Built

The House that Jack Built

Just an Ordinary Day

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Monster

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Catalogue of the Phænogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Worcester County, Massachusetts

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Women and Work Culture

The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

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Churches of Bedfordshire

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