Robert A. Bellezza, "Missions of Central California"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0738596809 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 59.7 mb
After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or "The Royal Road." The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de AlcalГЎ, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. JunГ­pero Serra, the legendary mission presidente and founding father of nine missions, traveled along a worn path lined today by symbolic bell markers leading to many remarkable, modern cities. After 1772, settlements were spread to California's central coast region, filling with native neophytes who became the residents and builders of all mission settlements. The Spanish missions had brought dramatic changes to California's landscape and forged the underpinnings of its earliest history, founded serendipitously with the American Revolution and birth of the United States.

George M. Siouris, "Missile Guidance and Control Systems"
English | 2004 | pages: 680 | ISBN: 0387007261, 1441918353 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Airborne Vehicle Guidance and Control Systems is a broad and wide- angled engineering and technological area for research, and continues to be important not only in military defense systems but also in industrial process control and in commercial transportation networks such as various Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The book fills a long-standing gap in the literature. The author is retired from the Air Force Institute and received the Air Force's Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award.

epub | 1.44 MB | English | Isbn:B0841FD6Y6 | Author: Sawyer North | Year: 2020

epub | 2.01 MB | English | Isbn:9780307554635 | Author: Bertrice Small | Year: 1998

Microbial Exopolysaccharides as Novel and Significant Biomaterials
by Ashok Kumar Nadda, Sajna K. V.
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030752887 | 348 Pages | True PDF | 5.92 MB

Donald F. Norris, "Metropolitan Governance in America"
English | ISBN: 1138573272 | 2017 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local government, and in particular local government autonomy, have produced a highly fragmented governmental landscape throughout America. It argues that in order for 'governance' to occur in metropolitan areas (or anywhere else, for that matter), there has to be some form of an actual governmental institution that possesses the power and ability to compel compliance. Everything else is just some form of cooperation, and while cooperation is not trivial, it does not enable metropolitan areas to address the really tough and controversial issues that divide rather than unite governments in those areas. The book examines the principal factors that prevent the development of either metropolitan government or metropolitan governance in the USA. Norris looks at several examples where some form of metropolitan government or governance can be said to exist, from voluntary cooperation (the weakest) to government (the strongest). He also examines each type of arrangement for its ability to address metropolitan-wide problems and whether each type is or is not in use in the USA. In sum, the book uncovers the extent of metropolitan government and governance, the possibility for its existence, what attempts (if any) have been made in the past, and the problems and issues that have arisen due to the lack of adequate metropolitan governance.