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John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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McLean had always preferred consolidation to competition; had the U.S. government not blocked him, he would have acquired Sea-Land’s sole East Coast competitor, Seatrain Lines, in 1959, and its main competitor to Puerto Rico, Bull Line, in 1962. Now, on Sea-Land’s behalf, he committed $1.2 billion of R. J. Reynolds’s money to an audacious deal with
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
These two unrelated developments—the rise of New York, the neglect of Tampa and Mobile—revealed the economics that would affect seaports as container shipping grew. For ports, capturing container traffic was going to be expensive, requiring investments out of all proportion to what had come before. For ship lines, the days when vessels meandered al
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Some hoped for yet another rebirth of the Key West Extension, pointing to the fact that despite the devastation of much of the low-lying roadbed, Flagler’s mighty bridges had weathered the storm virtually unscathed. But already bankrupt and in the hands of a receiver, the FEC was in no position to rebuild anything, much less a project that Scientif
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Another important discovery was that sea level on both sides of the isthmus was the same. Until then it had been widely thought that for some mysterious reason the Pacific was as much as twenty feet higher than the Atlantic at Panama. It was a misunderstanding that had appeared frequently in print and still does. But as was found, the difference is
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
How were two million people going to live in a region that was sinking into oblivion? The losses were particularly acute, he noted, in their own backyard. The area around Plaquemines had already shrunk by some seven hundred square miles. “We’re in an uphill battle against sea-level rise and subsidence,” Barth said. CPRA would continue to drill and
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