From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural AuthorityRowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 278 páginas This is Volume Two, the second of two volumes which describe techniques for the inspection of railroad track in the United States. Track inspection is described from the personal perspective of a retired railroad and Federal Railroad Administration track inspector. This volume covers rail flaws, crossties, continuous welded rail, and other structural conditions. Volume Two ends with a chapter on new automated inspection systems. The book is recommended for new and experienced railroad track inspectors and anyone interested in railroad track safety. |
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The Preferences of Eden | 17 |
Delivered to the Dream Emerson and the Path to Pragmatism | 41 |
Reading the Blooming Confusion William James and the Theology of Experience | 71 |
Diminished Things Literature and the Disenchantment of the World | 99 |
CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES | 125 |
Divining Lives | 127 |
Intentional Ironies | 153 |
The Truth Beyond Method Fiction at the Limits of Experience | 177 |
Conclusion | 195 |
Notes | 203 |
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| 255 | |
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