Bending The Arch

Author : Rose Marie Berger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532660022
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bending the Arch written by Rose Marie Berger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In answer to Seamus Heaney’s Station Island and Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Machu Picchu, Berger unmasks the worldview of westward expansion from architect Eero Saarinen’s arch in St. Louis to the Golden Gate in a way that subtly and mystically taps the unconsciousness of the intended audience. When she writes “We never entered the West on bended knee,” the impurity of language used in this epic creates tension between discourses and creates a charge or pressure on each sentence that pushes the reader toward declaring an allegiance. Drawing on historical documents, the Latin Mass, and multivalent voices, Berger moves through the anguish of unintended consequences and leads the reader through the “ghost dance” of feeling to the powerful Pacific Ocean, which enters human consciousness like a dream. Entangled historical memory, climate crisis, and inverse expansionism compress into a spiritual reckoning to face the world to come.

Author : Steve Breyman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438478763
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bending the Arc written by Steve Breyman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1990s the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region's premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Medea Benjamin, Blase Bonpane, Kathy Kelly, Bill Quigley, David Swanson, and Ann Wright, among others. Drawing from diverse philosophical and spiritual traditions, contributors share their experiences of working for peace and justice and discuss the obstacles to both. They address a wide range of contemporary problems, including the war on terror, killer drones, the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, mass surveillance, the human cost of war, political-economic impediments to peace, violent extremism, the role of women in peace-building, and the continued threat of nuclear weapons. With its stories of how peace activists found their calling and its exploration of why the world still needs peace activism, the book offers a vision rooted in human community and hope for the future.

Author : Engineering Foundation (U.S.). Committee on Arch Dam Investigation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arch Dam Investigation written by Engineering Foundation (U.S.). Committee on Arch Dam Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Abdunur
Publisher : Presses des Ponts
ISBN 13 : 9782859783471
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arch'01 written by C. Abdunur and published by Presses des Ponts. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les ponts en arc font actuellement face au double défi de protéger leur patrimoine et de rivaliser avec d'autres formes plus récentes de structures. La conservation des ponts en arc implique de multiples impératifs : une politique saine d'inspection et de suivi, des méthodes précises d'investigation, une évaluation fiable et un éventuel diagnostic, des moyens efficaces de maintenance, de réparation, de renforcement et d'élargissement. Pendant que des ouvrages existants sont réparés et revalorisés, de nouveaux ponts en arc, de -nies traditionnelles et à " l'échelle humaine ", continuent à se construire, en utilisant des matériaux et procédés améliorés et rentables, assurant longévité et respect de l'environnement. Au premier plan de cette continuité, les concepteurs des ponts en béton, dans les hémisphères Nord et Sud, s'efforcent avec succès de réaliser des portées en arc de plus en plus longues, frôlant les 400 mètres dans les années 1980. Récemment, sur d'autres sites spectaculaires, des records de portées ont été battus par trois ponts en arc respectivement en pierre, en béton, en tubes d'acier remplis de béton. Une telle avancée ne manquera pas d'inciter les ingénieurs à rechercher des formes d'arc encore plus audacieuses et élégantes. Sur le large éventail des thèmes proposés, de nombreux auteurs, de plus de vingt-cinq pays, ont apporté des contributions majeures rappelant que les ponts en arc n'ont rien perdu de leur actualité et que, malgré les leçons assimilées de leur prestigieux héritage, leur conception stimule toujours la créativité des ingénieurs et des architectes. Ces contributions sont réunies dans le présent volume édité à l'occasion de la Troisième Conférence internationale sur les Ponts en Arc, tenue à Paris en septembre 2001. Arch bridges face at present the double challenge of protecting their heritage and competing with other more recent structural forms. The conservation of the arch bridge heritage successively requires sound inspection and monitoring policies, accurate investigative methods, reliable assessment and eventual diagnosis, efficient means for maintenance, repair, strengthening and widening. While existing structures are being repaired and upgraded, new arch bridges, of traditional forms and on a "human scale", continue to be constructed, using improved and cost-effective materials and procedures, ensuring longevity and respect for the environment. In the forefront of this continuity, concrete bridge designers, in the northern and southern hemispheres, have successfully been striving for ever larger arch spans, closely approaching 400 m in the 1980's. Lately, at other spectacular sites, span records were beaten in three arch bridges respectively using stone, concrete and slender concrete-filled steel tubes. This breakthrough may encourage engineers to seek more daring and elegant forms of arch. On the broad spectrum of the suggested topics, numerous authors, from more than twenty-five countries, have recently offered major contributions, reminding that arch bridges have nothing lost of their appeal and that, for all the lessons learnt from their prestigious heritage, their design still simulates the creativity of engineers and architects. These contributions are put together in the present volume edited on the occasion of the Third International Arch Bridge Conference held in Paris in September 2001.

Author : António Arêde
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030292274
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of ARCH 2019 written by António Arêde and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains proceedings presented at the 9th International Conference on Arch Bridges held in Porto, Portugal on October 2 to 4, 2019. It is addressed to scientists, designers, technicians, stakeholders and contractors, seeking for an up-to-date view of the recent advances in the area of arch bridges.

Author : Thomas Randall Carson Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glued Laminated Wooden Arch written by Thomas Randall Carson Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical investigations: Bull.1. Trial load method of analyzing arch dams. Bull.2. Slab analogy experiments. Bull.3. Model tests of Boulder Dam. Bull.4. Stress studies for Boulder Dam. Bull.5. Penstock analysis and stiffener design. Bull.6. Model tests of arch and cantilever elements written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. D. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1568 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dental Cosmos written by J. D. White and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas A. Nettleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arch Bridges written by Douglas A. Nettleton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasis in this paper is on aspects of arch design which are not covered in many text books, such as wind stress analysis and deflection, stress amplification due to deflection, consideration of rib shortening moments, plate stiffening, and calculations for preliminary design.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.4L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design of Arch Dams written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: