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Author : Philemon Sturges
Release : 2001-04-24
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 007/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis I Love Trains! by : Philemon Sturges
Download or read book I Love Trains! written by Philemon Sturges. This book was released on 2001-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the successful I Love Trucks!, this rhymed picture book introduces the preschool set to trains and the jobs they do.
Author : Rush Loving
Release : 2006-05-21
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 645/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Men Who Loved Trains by : Rush Loving
Download or read book The Men Who Loved Trains written by Rush Loving. This book was released on 2006-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: “This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride.” —Chicago Tribune A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America’s railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who have run the railroads, both those who set about grabbing power and big salaries for themselves, and others who truly loved the industry. As a journalist and associate editor of Fortune magazine who covered the demise of Penn Central and the creation of Conrail, Rush Loving often had a front-row seat to the foibles and follies of this group of men. He uncovers intrigue, greed, lust for power, boardroom battles, and takeover wars and turns them into a page-turning story. He recounts how the chairman of CSX Corporation, who later became George W. Bush’s Treasury secretary, managed to make millions for himself while his company drifted in chaos. Yet there were also those who loved trains and railroading—and who played key roles in reshaping transportation in the northeastern United States. This book will delight not only the rail fan, but anyone interested in American business and history. Includes photographs
Author : Tony Judt
Release : 2008-11-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Burden of Responsibility by : Tony Judt
Download or read book The Burden of Responsibility written by Tony Judt. This book was released on 2008-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time. Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron, Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society—antisemitism and the dilemma of Jewish identity, political and moral idealism in public life, the Marxist moment in French thought, the traumas of decolonization, the disaffection of the intelligentsia, and the insidious quarrels rending Right and Left. Judt focuses particularly on Blum's leadership of the Popular Front and his stern defiance of the Vichy governments, on Camus's part in the Resistance and Algerian War, and on Aron's cultural commentary and opposition to the facile acceptance by many French intellectuals of communism's utopian promise. Severely maligned by powerful critics and rivals, each of these exemplary figures stood fast in their principles and eventually won some measure of personal and public redemption. Judt constructs a compelling portrait of modern French intellectual life and politics. He challenges the conventional account of the role of intellectuals precisely because they mattered in France, because they could shape public opinion and influence policy. In Blum, Camus, and Aron, Judt finds three very different men who did not simply play the role, but evinced a courage and a responsibility in public life that far outshone their contemporaries. "An eloquent and instructive study of intellectual courage in the face of what the author persuasively describes as intellectual irresponsibility."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Release : 2013-06-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trains and Lovers by : Alexander McCall Smith
Download or read book Trains and Lovers written by Alexander McCall Smith. This book was released on 2013-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rocking motion of the train as it speeds along, the sound of its wheels on the rails . . . There’s something special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation, which is just what happens to the four strangers who meet in Trains and Lovers. As they journey by rail from Edinburgh to London, the four travelers pass the time by sharing tales of trains that have changed their lives. A young, keen-eyed Scotsman recounts how he turned a friendship with a female coworker into a romance by spotting an anachronistic train in an eighteenth-century painting. An Australian woman shares how her parents fell in love and spent their life together running a railroad siding in the remote Australian Outback. A middle-aged American patron of the arts sees two young men saying goodbye in a train station and recalls his own youthful crush on another man. And a young Englishman describes how exiting his train at the wrong station allowed him to meet an intriguing woman whom he impulsively invited to dinner—and into his life. Here is Alexander McCall Smith at his most enchanting, exploring the nature of love—and trains—in a collection of romantic, intertwined stories. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Author : Deborah Harding
Release : 1989-03-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 119/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis All Aboard Trains by : Deborah Harding
Download or read book All Aboard Trains written by Deborah Harding. This book was released on 1989-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freight trains, passenger trains, and super-speed trains—they're all here in this colorful collection, filled with easy-to-read facts and realistic pictures, just right for young train lovers.
