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The Docks [Audiobook] download free by Bill Sharpsteen

The Docks Audiobook download free by Bill Sharpsteen
  • Listen audiobook: The Docks
  • Author: Bill Sharpsteen
  • Release date: 2011/10/1
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780520271357
  • Rating: 9.56 of 10
  • Votes: 714
  • Review by: Davina Baker
  • Review rating: 7.02 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/23
  • Duration: 4H9M18S in 256 kbps (65.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-30
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, FLAC, OPUS, MPEG4, WMA (compression TAR.7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, BZ2)
  • Total pages original book: 328
  • Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 25M10S (7 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 'The Docks' is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the people who have made this port, the largest in the country, one of the nation's most vital economic enterprises. Among others, we meet a pilot who parks ships, one of the first women longshoremen, union officials and employers at odds over almost everything, an environmental activist fighting air pollution in the 'diesel death zone,' and those with the nearly impossible job of enforcing security. Together these stories paint a compelling picture of a critical entryway for goods coming into the country - the Port of Los Angeles is part of a complex that brings in 40 per cent of all our waterborne cargo and 70 per cent of all Asian imports - yet one that is also extremely vulnerable. 'The Docks' is a rare look at a world within our world in which we find a microcosm of the labor, environmental, and security issues we collectively face.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Ships & Shipping, Maritime / Nautical Trades, Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works, History Of The Americas, Regional Studies, Conservation Of The Environment, Hydraulic Engineering, Urban Communities, Transport Industries
  • Download servers: FreakShare, 1337x, Hotfile, X Cloud, Dropbox, 4Shared, Microsoft OneDrive. Compressed in TAR.7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, BZ2
  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 32.10 USD
  • Dimensions: 152x229x21mm
  • Weight: 408g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Berkerley, United States

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