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Tag Archives: civic awareness
Energy Myths and Realities
Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Debate© 2010 Vaclav Smil232 pages Nothing lasts forever, including coal and oil. Regardless of their environmental impact (as noxious fumes or released greenhouse gases), ultimately humanity will have to transition away … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged civic awareness, energy, Politics-CivicInterest
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Infrastructure: A Field Guide
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape© 1999, 2014 Brian Hayes544 pages Here at last is a book for those of us who constantly gaze out the car window at the fixtures on utility poles, or drums mounted in … Continue reading
Civics Literacy Test
Within the last few weeks I stumbled across a pdf labelled “1960s Alabama Literacy Test”. The host is a state university that has put it in a ‘jimcrow’ folder, so I assume it is presented as an example of the … Continue reading
Garbology
Garbology :Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash© 2012 Edward Humes288 pages Readers who are passionate about garbage — a description which includes sanitation workers, victims of SimCity, and ecologists, I assume — will find no shortage of books on the … Continue reading
The Twilight of the Presidency
The Twlight of the Presidency: An Examination of Power and Isolation in the White House© 1970, 1987200 pages In Twilight of the Presidency, George Reedy uses his personal experience as a Johnson aide, along with the study of other administrations … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, civic awareness, Hail to the Chief, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent © 2016 James Duane 152 pages “One of the Fifth amendment’s basic functions is to protect innocent men who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.” (Ohio v. Reiner) “People are inherently honest, … Continue reading
The Works
The Works: Anatomy of a City© 2005 Kate Ascher240 pages Cities are, for my money, mankind’s most astonishing invention. Their complexity is stupefying — system within system, handling tons of material at any given time, whether the subject is cars … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged cities, civic awareness, energy, history, infrastructure, NYC, Politics-CivicInterest, trains, transportation, waste
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The Road Taken
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure336 pages© 2016 Henry Petroski What, exactly, is The Road Taken? Its title declares it a history, which is mostly true. It does have a bounty of historic sketches on the … Continue reading
Divided Highways
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life© Tom Lewis 2007, 2013416 pages No engineering project in the United States is more impressive than the interstate system; dense with the connections of a street grid, it serves not blocks … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged Boston, cities, civic awareness, infrastructure, Politics-CivicInterest, transportation
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Glass Houses
Glass Houses: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World© 2011, 2013 Joel Brenner320 pages Glass Houses, originally titled America the Vulnerable, outlines some of the major ways that private citizens, corporations, and the government itself are exposed to … Continue reading
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