Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England. The work of Trésaguet, Telford and McAdam is examined. Asphalt and concrete slowly improved as paving materials in the second part of the 19th century. Major advances occurred in the 20th century with the availability of powerful machinery, pneumatic tyres and bitumen. The advances needed to bring pavements to their current development are explored, as are the tools for financing, constructing, managing and maintaining pavements. The book should appeal to those interested in road paving, and in the history of engineering and transport. It can also serve as a text for courses in engineering history.

Tells the surprising story of how road construction helped to pave the way to the modern American state. Shows how the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing population changed political order from local to state and ultimately to federal governance.

Definition of Topic: Middle and high school teachers note that all too many adolescent students are less than proficient in reading and writing - the "twin pillars of literacy." Teaching such students to meet today's tougher educational standards can be a challenge. Emphasizing the important connections between comprehension, communication and learning, this book offers teachers in all content areas a structured approach for enabling students to strengthen their reading and writing competency - and thus boast their potential for academic success. Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a teacher and teacher trainer as well as on relevant theory and research, the book presents an arsenal of instructional strategies aimed at improving comprehension and written expression in all types of students. The approach is motivational as well as practical and features extensive tools and techniques for helping students overcome their reading and writing fears, persist in their practice, build on their success, and finally to share what they've learned. The book features many dozens of teacher-tested activities, lessons, and exercises that can be adapted in any classroom and is abundantly illustrated with examples of student work. Lessons involving literary as well as informational texts are included as are visualization and interpretive exercises aimed at appealing to the less verbally-oriented students. The book also provides extensive guidance and tools for helping students improve their vocabulary, grammar, spelling and other language skills as well as their ability to conduct research and access on-line resources. In addition, a special reference section of the book featuresextensivelistings of web-based instructional tools and curricular resources for teachers to use in planning lessons, activities and assignments. This book will serve as an indispensable resource for teachers seeking to build student skills in comprehension, communication, and learning. Selling Points: 1) Presents a proven instructional framework as well

When the first woman president moves into the White House, she will not only be indebted to the tireless campaign workers, staff, press, family, friends, and, of course, the voters who got her there, but Madam President will also have her sisters to thank for paving the way. Among these women are Margaret Chase Smith, the stalwart Republican senator from Maine who made a bid for the presidency in 1964; Shirley Chisholm, the fiery New York congresswoman who described herself as 'unbought and unbossed' in 1972; Patricia Schroeder, the silvery-tongued and brilliant former Colorado congresswoman who briefly ran in 1988; Elizabeth Dole, a North Carolina senator who made an impressive showing as a presidential candidate in 2000; and the articulate one-term Illinois senator, Carol Moseley Braun, who ran in 2004. This book chronicles the lives, communication styles, and presidential bids of these five remarkable women while also addressing the obstacles and opportunities for women as presidential contenders.