Author: James H. Billington
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: itself, search, russia
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-03-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801879760
ISBN-13: 9780801879760

In the turbulent decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conditions have worsened considerably for many Russians, and a wide-ranging debate has raged over the nature and destiny of their country. In Russia in Search of Itself, James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and a noted expert on Russia, examines the efforts of a proud but troubled nation to find a post-Soviet identity. The agenda has not been controlled from the top-down and center-out as in Russia’s past. Nor has it been set by any intellectual giant such as Sakharov or Solzhenitsyn. Billington describes

Author: James Billington
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: men, minds, fire
Number of Pages: 677
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0765804719
ISBN-13: 9780765804716

Author: Mike Billington
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: procedures, administrative, regulations, building, using
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-09-29
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0750662573
ISBN-13: 9780750662574

As the Building Regulations and Approved Documents have become more and more complex, they have become increasingly unfriendly for a professional user. Compliance is only possible by understanding a wide range of supporting documentation. Alternative approaches are implied, but not described or analysed.This series of books on individual Documents goes far beyond analysis of the Regulations and Documents themselves, and offers practical advice on using not just the traditional routes to compliance but also on the alternative approaches suggested but not explained in the Approved Documents. The

Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: bridges, maillart, robert
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1989-02-01
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0691024219
ISBN-13: 9780691024219

Author: Carin Billington
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Keywords: remember, grandma
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 1602471045
ISBN-13: 9781602471047

Authors:Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge,
Publisher: University of New Mexico Pre
Keywords: frontier, american, history, expansion, westward
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826319815
ISBN-13: 9780826319814

When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington’s Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book’s reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge’s fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier. Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an arc

Authors:David P. Billington, Donald C. Jackso,
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Pre
Keywords: engineering, politics, confluence, era, new, dams
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0806137959
ISBN-13: 9780806137957

The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public nee