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Half-life of a secret : reckoning with a hidden history / by Strasser, Emily,author.(CARDINAL)866375;

"In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them were author Emily Strasser's grandfather George, a chemist. All employees-from scientists to secretaries, from military personnel to construction workers-were restricted by the tightest security. They were provided only the minimum information necessary to perform their jobs. It wasn't until three years later that the citizens of Oak Ridge, and the rest of the world, learned the true purpose of the local industry. Oak Ridge was one of three secret cities constructed by the Manhattan Project for the express purpose of developing the first atomic bomb, which devastated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History, Emily Strasser exposes the toxic legacy-political, environmental, and personal-that forever polluted her family, a community, the nation, and the world. Sifting through archives and family memories, and traveling to the deserts of Nevada and the living rooms of Hiroshima, she grapples with the far-reaching ramifications of her grandfather's work. She learns that during the three decades he spent building nuclear weapons, George suffered from increasingly debilitating mental illness. Returning to Oak Ridge, Strasser confronts the widespread contamination resulting from nuclear weapons production and the government's disregard for its impact on the environment and public health. With brilliant insight, she reveals the intersections between the culture of secrecy in her family and the institutionalized secrecy within the nuclear industry, which persists, with grave consequences, to this day"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Strasser, George Albert, 1918-1984.; Strasser, Emily; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Atomic bomb; Nuclear weapons industry; Nuclear industry; Chemists;

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Highway design, 2011. by National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287;

Includes bibliographical references.Guidelines for spacing between freeway ramps -- Methodology for checking shortcomings in three dimensional alignment -- Provision of sight distance around concrete barriers and structures on freeways and interchanges -- New insights on evaluations of design consistency for two lane highways -- Evaluation of passing process on two lane rural highways in Spain with new methodology based on video data -- Reduced-conflict intersection -- Analysis of operational interactions between freeway managed lanes and parallel, general purpose lanes -- New three dimensional highway design methodology for sight distance measurement -- Bridge rail and approach railing for low volume roads in Iowa -- Nonblocked midwest guardrail system for wire faced walls of mechanically stabilized earth -- Development of low cost, energy absorbing bridge rail -- Design and testing of two bridge railings for transverse nail-laminated timber deck bridges -- Short-radius guardrail system for NCHRP Report 350 test level 2 conditions -- Effect of barrier type on injury severity in motorcycle-to-barrier collisions in North Carolina, Texas, and New Jersey -- Assessing performance of bioretention boxes in hot and semiarid regions -- Public perception and sustainable management strategies for roadside vegetation -- Context sensitive solutions versus practical solutions -- Old road, new directions -- Hydrographs and estimates of scour depth excess for pier scour prediction -- Estimating joint flow probabilities at stream confluences by using copulas -- Hydrologic uncertainty in prediction of bridge scour -- Removal, by vegetated biofilter, of medium and low concentrations of pollutants from simulated highway runoff -- Strategies to address utility challenges in project development.TRB Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2262 contains 23 papers that explore spacing between freeway ramps, three dimensional alignment, sight distance, design consistency for two lane highways, passing process on two lane rural highways, reduced conflict intersections, operational interactions between freeway managed lanes and parallel, general purpose lanes, and sight distance measurement. This TRR also examines bridge rail and approach railing for low volume roads, nonblocked guardrail system for wire faced walls of mechanically stabilized earth, low cost, energy absorbing bridge rail, two bridge railings for transverse nail laminated timber deck bridges, short radius guardrail system, effect of barrier type on injury severity in motorcycle to barrier collisions, and bioretention boxes in hot and semiarid regions. In addition, this TRR highlights sustainable management strategies for roadside vegetation; context sensitive solutions; hydrographs and estimates of scour depth excess for pier scour prediction; estimating joint flow probabilities at stream confluences; hydrologic uncertainty in prediction of bridge scour; removal, by vegetated biofilter, of medium and low concentrations of pollutants in highway runoff; and utility challenges in project development.

Subjects: Technical reports.; Roads; Highway engineering.;

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Access management : transportation policy considerations for a growing Virginia / by Bowman, Donald L.(CARDINAL)314729; Rushing, C. Colin.(CARDINAL)314728; Virginia.Department of Transportation.(CARDINAL)291718; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;

Includes bibliographical references.Final report;This report analyzes comprehensive highway access management programs and looks at the potential benefits and legal limits to Virginia adopting such a program to replace Virginia's rather limited site specific permitting process. In 1942, Virginia passed legislation defining the right of private homeowners and commercial establishments to make connections to state highways. Va. Code $33.1-197 (private entrances) and $33.1-198 (commercial entrances). The statutes established a permit process for commercial and private entrances to state highways, administered by VDOT in accordance with the Minimum Standards of Entrances to State Highways. However, the Minimum Standards do not establish a comprehensive access management plan for Virginia's highway systems and have been criticized for being too permissive. In 1980, CoIorado became the first state to enact a comprehensive highway access management code, with strict safety and traffic criteria for private accesses to public highways. Since that time, Florida and New Jersey have also adopted comprehensive programs. However, Virginia's access management process continues to be a case-by-case permit review process. This report considers the relative benefits of access management, analyzes the legal obstacles in Virginia for a comprehensive program and discusses options Virginia might consider. The report also includes an analysis of Virginia's legal and regulatory framework within which an access management program would operate and two alternative models for access management regulation to assist policy makers.Sponsored by the Virginia Department of Transportation, under project no.

Subjects: Technical reports.; Express highways; Highway engineering; Roads; Traffic flow;

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Atlantic environments and the American South / by Earle, Thomas Blake,editor.(CARDINAL)855948; Johnson, D. Andrew,editor.(CARDINAL)855947;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / by James C. Giesen and Erin Stewart Mauldin -- Acknowledgments -- Atlantic, environmental, Southern : Toward a confluence / Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson -- Part I. Slavery and Climate. Differentiating hot climates in the Anglo-American colonial experience / Sean Morey Smith -- "The wind can blow through and through" : Ventilation, public health, and the regulation of fresh air on Antebellum Southern plantations / Elaine Lafay -- Part II. Slavery and Landscape. "Miserably scorched" : Drought in the plantation colonies of the British Greater Caribbean / Matthew Mulcahy -- Native women work the ground : Enslavement and civility in the early American Southeast / Hayley Negrin -- Part III. Empire and Infrastructure. Ocean graveyards and ulterior Atlantic worlds : The experience of colonial North Carolina / Bradford J. Wood -- Profitable transgressions : International borders and British Atlantic trade networks in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1763-1783 / Frances Kolb -- Part IV. Empire and Expertise. Spanish and Indigenous influences on Virginian tobacco cultivation / Melissa N. Morris -- Environmental knowledge, expertise, and the development of slavery in Bermuda / Keith Pluymers -- The nature of William Bartram's 'Travels' / Peter C. Messer -- Afterword / by Alejandra Dubcovsky -- Contributors -- Index."There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery, gender, climate, "colonial ecological revolution," manipulation of the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By centering this project on a region, the American South - defined as the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean - the authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of "Atlantic" and "southern" and their intersection with "environments" is a discipline-defining strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural networks."--taken from back cover.

Subjects: Human ecology; Human ecology; Slavery; Slavery;

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Sounds of tohi : Cherokee health and well-being in Southern Appalachia / by Lefler, Lisa J.,author.(CARDINAL)665139; Belt, Thomas N.,author.(CARDINAL)861255; Duncan, Pamela,1961-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)281149; Holland, T. J.,1976-2020,writer of foreword.; Hatley, M. Thomas,1951-writer of afterword.(CARDINAL)196394;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-96) and index.Foreword / Pamela Duncan -- Foreword / T. J. Holland -- Preface / Lisa J. Lefler -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Tohi -- ch. 2. Making a connection between Indigenous women, history, and healing the community: a brief introduction to matrilineality -- ch. 3. When the land is sick, we are sick: metaphysics of Indigenous epistemologies -- ch. 4. The land keeps our history and identity: Cherokee and Appalachian cosmography -- ch. 5. Indigenizing counseling -- ch. 6. We are of this place: integrating traditional science and health -- ch. 7. Decolonizing and indigenizing our minds for better health: Tohi -- Afterword: Listening to the sounds of Tohi / Tom Hatley."This project is the result of almost two decades of work by medical anthropologist Lisa J. Lefler and Cherokee Elder and traditionalist Thomas N. Belt. It is a "dialogue" of their interest and application of traditional indigenous knowledge and the importance of place for two people from cultures and histories that intersect in the mountains of southern Appalachia. They have worked to decolonize thinking about health, well-being, and environmental issues through the language and experiences of people whose identity is inextricably linked to the mountains and landscape of western North Carolina. In this book, they discuss the Cherokee (Kituwah) concept of health, tohi, along with other critical cultural concepts that explain the science of relationships with this world, with the spirit world, and with people. Tohi infers a more pervasive understanding that the relationships in life are all balanced and moving forward in a good way. They discuss the importance of matrilineality, particularly in light of community healing, the epistemologies of Cherokee cosmography, and decolonizing counseling approaches. They hope to offer a different way of approaching the issues that face this country in this time of difficulty and division. They share their urgency to take action against the wholesale exploitation of public lands and shared environment, to work to perpetuate tribal languages, to preserve the science that can make a difference in how people treat one another, and to create more forums that are inclusive of Native and marginalized voices and that promote respect and appreciation of one another and protection of sacred places. Throughout, they rely on the preservation of traditional knowledge, or Native science, via the language to provide insight as to why people should recognize a connection to the land. These notions are supported through insight from thinkers representing a variety of disciplines"--

Subjects: Cherokee Indians; Cherokee Indians; Traditional medicine; Ethnoscience; Indians of North America.;

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Lumen : the art and science of light, 800-1600 / by Collins, Kristen M.,editor.(CARDINAL)785388; Turner, Nancy,1960-editor.(CARDINAL)782857; Phillips, Glenn,1974-contributor.(CARDINAL)800746; Arslan, Taha Yasin,contributor.; Cohen, Adam S.,contributor.(CARDINAL)899612; Falk, Seb,contributor.(CARDINAL)837772; Gaida, Margaret,contributor.; Gertsman, Elina,contributor.(CARDINAL)899613; Hahn, Cynthia J.(Cynthia Jean),contributor.(CARDINAL)899614; James, Liz,contributor.(CARDINAL)883190; Lakey, Christopher R.,contributor.(CARDINAL)899615; Pentcheva, Bissera V.,contributor.(CARDINAL)899616; Starr, G. Gabrielle,1974-contributor.(CARDINAL)899617; Stockstill, Abbey,contributor.(CARDINAL)899618; J. Paul Getty Museum,host institution,issuing body.(CARDINAL)140825; PST ART: Art & Science Collide (Project),associated name.(CARDINAL)899619;

Includes bibliographical references and index.NCMA Collection,"The catalogue examines how medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic artists, theologians, and thinkers studied light and its properties to better perceive and understand the sacred"--

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Light in art; Art, Medieval; Science, Medieval, in art; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Christian art and symbolism;

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Resurrecting Tenochtitlan : imagining the Aztec capital in modern Mexico City / by Cosentino, Delia A.,author.(CARDINAL)899163; Zavala, Adriana,author.(CARDINAL)505467; University of Texas Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332320;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-196) and index."Resurrecting Tenochtitlan considers the ways in which artists, city planners, architects, and intellectuals in Mexico shaped the evolution of Mexico City's civic identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Long forgotten and assumed to have been completely destroyed during the Spanish conquest, layers of the remnants of Tenochtitlan were discovered in the middle of a drainage project augmented under the longtime president Porfirio Díaz. As the cityscape changed in the wake of the ends of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution, the city's layers of history were uncovered to find the remnants of the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, which stirred imaginings of a new and modern Mexican capital and nation that still drew from its ancient history. Tying the modern city to the ancient one was also a way in which intellectuals articulated a mestizo cultural identity. This discovery led to the renewed interest in 16th-century maps by artists, architects, and city planners to understand the ways in which the Aztec capital intersected with the beginnings of Spanish settlement over it. The manuscript examines how artists such as Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera drew from the recent work of archaeologists to render panoramic depictions of both the modern Mexican and the Aztec capital to visualize it for public audiences. And while not strictly chronological in its organization, it looks at how attitudes toward modern Mexico City's ties to Tenochtitlan shaped national identity and shifted over time. The authors' time frame ends with the inauguration of Diego Rivera's long-planned Anahuacalli Museum, which was created with the support of the National Museum of Anthropology to display pre-Columbian artifacts. Its completion, after Rivera's death, was met with the first waves of the youth cultures in Mexico whose disinterest in and suspicion toward state-sponsored national projects signaled the beginning of the collapse of these ideas"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Archaeology; Aztecs; National characteristics, Mexican, in art;

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Older pedestrian characteristics for use in highway design. by Knoblauch, Richard L.(CARDINAL)311186; Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.(CARDINAL)286897;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122).Introduction -- An analysis of the older pedestrian's task and related motor, sensory, perceptual, cognitive and behavioral factors -- Problem identification activities -- Field studies of pedestrian walking speed, pedestrian startup time, and pedestrian stride length -- Development of recommended changes to highway design and operational practices -- Appendix A: A description of the pedestrian's task -- References.The objective of this project was to develop traffic planning and engineering guidelines for the design of pedestrian facilities that are sensitive to the needs of older pedestrians. A detailed task analysis and literature review were conducted to identify the aspects of the pedestrian's tasks that are difficult for older persons, including motor, sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and behavioral factors. Several activities were undertaken to identify specific problems experienced by older pedestrians that could be addressed by changes in design standards and operational practices. These activities included analysis of accident exposure data, a survey of older pedestrians, focus group discussions, and a survey of practitioners. It was determined that older pedestrians experience difficulties at signalized intersections and often do not have sufficient time to cross. A field study was conducted to determine the walking speed, startup time, and stride length of older pedestrians. More than 7,000 pedestrians in 4 cities were observed in order to measure these parameters. Specific recommendations for changes to highway design and operational practices are described.

Subjects: Pedestrian facilities design.; Older people.; Walking.; Pedestrians.;

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Walter John Bender: United States Army (transcript) [kit] / by Bender, Walter John.; Bender, Walter John.;

Editing assistant, Robert Davie.Interviewer, Bryan T. Smithey.

Subjects: Military; World War, 1939-1945;

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