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The complete guide to home plumbing. by Karre, Andrew (EDT); Black & Decker Corporation (Towson, Md.)(CARDINAL)434000; Creative Publishing International.(CARDINAL)651462;
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Plumbing; Dwellings;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The complete guide to landscape construction : 60 step-by-step projects for creating a perfect landscape. by Black & Decker Corporation (Towson, Md.)(CARDINAL)434000;
"Includes projects ranging from basic earthmoving and yard shaping to creating privacy fences, pathways and watercourses. Features the latest in tools, techniques, products and materials, including vinyl fencing, tumbled retaining wall block and outdoor fireplaces"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Landscape construction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Singing for equality : musicians of the Civil Rights era / by Taylor, Diane C.,author.(CARDINAL)739847;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movement. Part of a new series on the Civil Rights Era for ages 12 to 15 from Nomad Press. Singing for Equality: Musicians of the Civil Rights Era introduces readers aged 12 to 15 to the history of the Civil Rights Movement and explores the vital role that music played in the tumultuous period of American history of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. As protests, demonstrations, rallies, and new laws characterized the Civil Rights Movement and brought about change to the socially unjust systems of racial and gender oppression, music provided a soundtrack. In this book, hands-on projects and research activities alongside essential questions, links to online resources, and text-to-world connections promote a profound understanding of history and offer opportunities for social-emotional learning.1000L
Subjects: Biographies.; Civil rights movements; Antislavery movements; Political ballads and songs; Musicians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas / by Rutkow, Eric,author.(CARDINAL)400380;
Includes bibliographical references.From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century's worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway's history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway-the United States' other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project-has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the "American Century." The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow's narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn't the Americas have become a single region that "is" and not two near irreconcilable halves that "are"' Whether you're fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you've dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
Subjects: Pan American Highway System.; Roads;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Using historical data to measure transportation infrastructure constraints on land use / by Miller, John S.(John Sanders)(CARDINAL)314720; Demetsky, Michael J.(CARDINAL)313581; Virginia.Department of Transportation.(CARDINAL)291718; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-59).Final report.Conventional practice for developing transportation forecasts is to calibrate a model for base year conditions and then apply the model to identify future deficiencies. These models typically begin with an assumed land use and then project future traffic volumes. To determine limitations on land development as a function of the capability of the transportation system, this research effort reversed that direction, beginning with transportation system characteristics as the independent variable and calculating employment and population as dependent variables. To evaluate this process, a case study area was selected for which transportation planning data were available at three points in time over a 25-year period. This area is Charlottesville, Virginia, with imperfect snapshots of transportation and land use characteristics from 1967, 1979, and 1990. A five-component modeling process was developed and applied to the Charlottesville area for the 1967 base year. This initial approach made intuitive sense, was built from models suggested by the literature, and worked reasonably well on a small theoretical network. The performance of one component, however, was extremely weak and led the authors to develop a direct estimation model instead. This revised technique directly estimates zonal trip ends based on transportation system variables that are influenced by link volumes, roadway types, travel distances, and the geographical position of the zone. Additionally, the authors regressed retail employment, non-retail employment, and population to zonal trip ends. Lessons learned with 1967 data were used to calibrate the model for the 1979 base year and apply it for the 1990 forecast year. For individual zones, errors on the order of 50% were obtained, with larger values for retail employment and smaller values for non-retail employment and population. For the aggregate study area, errors between 6% and 21% were obtained. Suggestions about how this model formulation might be interpreted to yield land use limits as a function of traffic volumes are discussed. A simple finding for achieving convergence with the iterative entropy maximization method is stated. Recommendations for using historical data to predict the present, ensuring that these planning data are available for future efforts, and conducting a longitudinal study are presented. Issues associated with linking data from different time periods are explained.Sponsored by Virginia Department of Transportation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, under contract no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Land use; Real estate development; Transportation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Generations : the WPA ex-slave narrative genealogical resource database. [videorecording] / by Rose, James M.,compiler.(CARDINAL)149928; United States.Work Projects Administration,sponsoring body.(CARDINAL)152244;
Includes bibliographical references."Between 1937 and 1938, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) conducted thousands of interviews with former African-American slaves. While historians have known about these oral histories for some time, few, if any researchers have exploited the genealogical potential of these African-American sources--until now! For the first time, the DVD series Generations presents these ex-slave narratives with critical genealogical evidence pertaining to each interviewee. While varying from one ex-slave to another, Generations' genealogical content includes census record extracts, death certificates, probate records, plantation records, pictures of plantations, and biographical information on slave owners. When available, pictures of the ex-slaves--such as the two depicted on the cover of this DVD--are also included. By linking these sources with the recollections of hundreds of former slaves, Generations affords African-American genealogists the rare opportunity to surmount the brick wall of the 1870 U.S. census, the first federal census to identify all blacks by their full names. The inaugural volume in this series discusses ex-slaves who were either born in Virginia or who had parents or grandparents born in Virginia. While a minority of these freedmen continued to reside there, by 1937-38 most of the individuals found on this DVD had migrated to one of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, or Texas. In each case, Dr. Rose and his collaborators trace the former slave to his/her origins in the Cavalier State. The appendixes to Generations: Volume I, moreover, include an article by and video commentary with one of the ex-slave's descendants. Finally, the appendixes to the DVD contain genealogical findings on former slaves living in Alabama and Georgia who did not have Virginia origins"--The publisher.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader and Windows Media Player.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Enslaved persons; Freed persons;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Exploring Raspberry Pi : interfacing to the real world with embedded Linux / by Molloy, Derek,1973-author.(CARDINAL)701555;
Includes index."Expand Raspberry Pi capabilities with fundamental engineering principles Exploring Raspberry Pi is the innovators guide to bringing Raspberry Pi to life. This book favors engineering principles over a 'recipe' approach to give you the skills you need to design and build your own projects. You'll understand the fundamental principles in a way that transfers to any type of electronics, electronic modules, or external peripherals, using a "learning by doing" approach that caters to both beginners and experts. The book begins with basic Linux and programming skills, and helps you stock your inventory with common parts and supplies. Next, you'll learn how to make parts work together to achieve the goals of your project, no matter what type of components you use. The companion website provides a full repository that structures all of the code and scripts, along with links to video tutorials and supplementary content that takes you deeper into your project. The Raspberry Pi's most famous feature is its adaptability. It can be used for thousands of electronic applications, and using the Linux OS expands the functionality even more. This book helps you get the most from your Raspberry Pi, but it also gives you the fundamental engineering skills you need to incorporate any electronics into any project. Develop the Linux and programming skills you need to build basic applications Build your inventory of parts so you can always "make it work" Understand interfacing, controlling, and communicating with almost any component Explore advanced applications with video, audio, real-world interactions, and more Be free to adapt and create with Exploring Raspberry Pi." -- ONIX Annotation.
Subjects: Raspberry Pi (Computer); Raspberry Pi (Computer); Embedded computer systems;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Managing information technology : a handbook for systems librarians / by Ingersoll, Patricia.(CARDINAL)280881; Culshaw, John,1964-(CARDINAL)281214;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Academic libraries; Systems librarians; Academic libraries; Academic libraries;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Assessing soil and groundwater impacts of chemical mixture releases from hazardous materials transportation incidents / by Lewis, Richard G.(Chemical Engineer)(CARDINAL)309380; He, Ziqi.(CARDINAL)309379; United States.Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.(CARDINAL)297243; Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program.(CARDINAL)309378; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287;
Summary -- Contents of Contractor's Final Report for HMCRP Project 06 -- Appendix H Tool Design Process Example -- Appendix M User Operational Manual.TRB's Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Report 2: Assessing Soil and Groundwater Impacts of Chemical Mixture Releases from Hazardous Materials Transportation Incidents explores a tool to help assess, classify, predict, and quickly communicate fate and transport characteristics of chemical mixtures released into the soil and groundwater as a result of hazardous materials transportation incidents. The tool can also be used to determine whether shipping certain chemicals separately or in mixtures will have significantly higher costs if an incident occurs and to estimate relative costs and timeframes of cleanup after an incident occurs. The chemical mixture tool, a user guide, and the contractor's final report for the project that produced HMCRP Report 2 are available on a CD-ROM that is included with the printed publication. The CD-ROM included as part of HMCRP Report 2 is also available for download from TRB's website as an ISO image. Links to the ISO image and instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an ISO image are provided below."Research sponsored by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration."Performed under project no.System requirements for accompanying disc: IBM compatible PC; Adobe Acrobat reader; PC version of MS Excel; CD-ROM drive.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Soil pollution.; Groundwater; Hazardous substances;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Productivity and the highway network : a look at the economic benefits to industry from investment in the highway network / by United States.Federal Highway Administration.(CARDINAL)139839;
Summary of results -- Economic benefits of the highway network -- A new approach to measuring the contribution of the highway network -- Important to note -- Summary.A new study establishes a strong link between the highway network and national economic performance. Unique in the depth and breadth of its 35-industry analysis, this research sheds new light on the commercial benefits of highway infrastructure investments. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is pleased to present this research because it clearly documents the highway network's contribution to industry productivity growth, national economic performance, and international competitiveness. Although a comprehensive assessment of the social costs and benefits of the road system is beyond the scope of this research and would include a wide range of factors, such as the impacts on consumers as well as producers, employment effects of highway construction projects, and environmental and social effects of highway provision and use, this work provides important empirical evidence about the historic contribution of roads to the U.S. economy.
Subjects: Express highways; Infrastructure (Economics); Roads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/otps/060320b/index.htm -- View Report;
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