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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape....
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An expert on China’s global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow’s networks.
From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China’s surveillance state, rural America, and Africa’s megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China’s expanding digital footprint looks like on the...
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Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it, and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And, yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded, as minnows compared with their 'big...
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Utilisez l'obligation légale belge de manière optimale !
Concevoir, installer, contrler et entretenir une installation électrique impliquent le respect de règles strictes. Celles-ci sont dictées par le Règlement Général sur les Installations Électriques (RGIE). En outre, détenir un exemplaire du RGIE à jour constitue une obligation légale pour tout employeur ayant du personnel intervenant sur des installations électriques (art. 17, Code...
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Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in "sustainable development," which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to "go green," we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming.
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