1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452895103321

Autore

Foust Clifford M. <1928->

Titolo

John Frank Stevens [[electronic resource] ] : civil engineer / / Clifford Foust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-253-01069-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Railroads past and present

Disciplina

625.10092

B

Soggetti

Railroad engineers - United States

Railroad engineering - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A boy of West Gardiner -- Beginnings -- The Great Northern -- The Panama Canal : in -- The Panama Canal : out -- Interlude -- Railroading in Russia -- The final decades.

Sommario/riassunto

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the contro



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462370903321

Autore

Mansfield Stephen <1977->

Titolo

Australian patriography : how sons write fathers in contemporary life writing / / Stephen Mansfield [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-85728-340-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Australian humanities research series

Disciplina

820.9/994

Soggetti

Australian literature - History and criticism

Fathers in literature

Fathers and sons - Australia

Autobiography - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Challenging authority -- pt. II. Memorialising self-denial -- pt. III. Performing masculinity.

Sommario/riassunto

The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. [NP] This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142995503321

Titolo

British journal of biomedical science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Published for the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences by Royal Society of Medicine Services, , 1993-

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK : , : Taylor & Francis

Lausanne, Switzerland : , : Frontiers Media S.A.

ISSN

2474-0896

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Medical sciences

Medical technology

Anatomy, Pathological

Life sciences

Medical laboratory technology

Anatomie pathologique

Sciences de la santé

Technologie médicale

Sciences de la vie

Médecine - Laboratoires - Technique

biological sciences

Klinische chemie

Laboratoriumonderzoek

Biological Science Disciplines

Clinical Laboratory Techniques

Medical Laboratory Science

Pathology

Periodicals.

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

As of 2022, the journal will begin publishing under a Gold Open Access model.  All articles will be immediately, permanently, and freely available to read, download, and access for people everywhere. Authors



will retain copyright on all new articles published and the journal will be compliant with Plan S.

Refereed/Peer-reviewed