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Seattle's Coal Legacy

By: John M. Goodfellow

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In the 1880s, Seattle became a major coal port in the United States. By 1908, Puget Sound was the third-largest coal port, after New York and Baltimore. For Seattle, the major coal mines were in Issaquah, New Castle, Renton, and Black Diamond, with many other smaller mines throughout King County. Until the petroleum revolution, Seattle exported most of its coal to San Francisco. Because of coal, Seattle became a center for skilled engineers, machinists, and miners for the maritime, manufacturing, mining, and railroad industries, differentiating itself from other lumber towns on Puget Sound. Seattle's Coal Legacy is the story of a frontier town going through an industrial revolution in its own time. The skills and knowledge developed during the coal era-engineering, finance, transportation, manufacturing, etc.-made Seattle the major city it is today.

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199

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439668388

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9781439668382

American Railroads

By: John F. Stover

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American Railroads

By: John F. Stover

Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth in recent years as profitable freight carriers. A fascinating account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States, John F. Stover's American Railroads traces their history from the first lines that helped eastern seaports capture western markets to today's newly revitalized industry. Stover describes the growth of the railroads' monopoly, with the consequent need for state and federal regulations; relates the vital part played by the railroads during the Civil War and the two World Wars; and charts the railroads' decline due to the advent of air travel and trucking during the 1950s. In two new chapters, Stover recounts the remarkable recovery of the railroads, along with other pivotal events of the industry's recent history. During the 1960s declining passenger traffic and excessive federal regulation led to the federally-financed creation of Amtrak to revive passenger service and Conrail to provide freight service on bankrupt northeastern railroads. The real savior for the railroads, though, proved to be the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, which brought prosperity to rail freight carriers by substantially deregulating the industry. By 1995, renewed railroad freight traffic had reached nearly twice its former peak in 1944. Bringing both a seasoned eye and new insights to bear on one of the most American of industries, Stover has produced the definitive history of railroads in the United States.

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327

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University of Chicago Press

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0226776603

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9780226776606

High Throughput Screening

The Discovery of Bioactive Substances

By: John P. Devlin

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High Throughput Screening

The Discovery of Bioactive Substances

By: John P. Devlin

Furnishing the latest interdisciplinary information on the most important and frequently the only investigational system available for discovery programs that address the effects of small molecules on newly discovered enzyme and receptor targets emanating from molecular biology, this timely resource facilitates the transition from classical to high

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700

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CRC Press

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1482269805

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9781482269802

Handbook of Olive Oil: Analysis and Properties

By: Ramon Aparicio,John Harwood

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Handbook of Olive Oil: Analysis and Properties

By: Ramon Aparicio,John Harwood

This new olive oil handbook provides a wealth of detail about the analysis and properties of olives and their oil. It covers technological aspects and biochemistry, a description of detailed techniques, and an analysis of olive oil from the standpoint of general methodology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475753713

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9781475753714

Processes of Life

Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

By: John Dupré

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Processes of Life

Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

By: John Dupré

John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and society. He reveals how the advance of genetic science is changing our view of the constituents of life, and shows how an understanding of microbiology will overturn standard assumptions about the living world.

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361

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Oxford University Press

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0199691983

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9780199691982

Mathematics as a Laboratory Tool

Dynamics, Delays and Noise

By: John Milton,Toru Ohira

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Mathematics as a Laboratory Tool

Dynamics, Delays and Noise

By: John Milton,Toru Ohira

The second edition of Mathematics as a Laboratory Tool reflects the growing impact that computational science is having on the career choices made by undergraduate science and engineering students. The focus is on dynamics and the effects of time delays and stochastic perturbations (“noise”) on the regulation provided by feedback control systems. The concepts are illustrated with applications to gene regulatory networks, motor control, neuroscience and population biology. The presentation in the first edition has been extended to include discussions of neuronal excitability and bursting, multistability, microchaos, Bayesian inference, second-order delay differential equations, and the semi-discretization method for the numerical integration of delay differential equations. Every effort has been made to ensure that the material is accessible to those with a background in calculus. The text provides advanced mathematical concepts such as the Laplace and Fourier integral transforms in the form of Tools. Bayesian inference is introduced using a number of detective-type scenarios including the Monty Hall problem.

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650

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Springer Nature

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3030695794

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9783030695798

Book's by John M. Goodfellow

Seattle's Coal Legacy

Seattle's Coal Legacy

American Railroads

American Railroads

High Throughput Screening

High Throughput Screening

Handbook of Olive Oil: Analysis and Properties

Handbook of Olive Oil: Analysis and Properties

Processes of Life

Processes of Life

Mathematics as a Laboratory Tool

Mathematics as a Laboratory Tool

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