Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway /
The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world''s greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The 1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports o...
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East Lansing, Mich. :
Michigan State University Press
©2009.
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Obsah:
- PROLOGUE: Death of an icon
- DOMINION: Conquering nature
- Vampires of the deep
- Salt in the wound
- Alewife invasion
- A king is born
- PLAGUE: Fatal error
- Dangerous cargo
- Reckoning
- Ruffe seas
- Smoke and mirrors
- Meltdown
- DREISSENA EFFECT: Something amuck
- Blue, green, and deadly
- Cruel hoax
- Caspian Sea diet
- Whitefish and green slime
- Paradox
- Fear this
- BETRAYAL: Dirty secrets
- Who's in charge?
- Mission impossible
- Seaway heretics
- Westward Ho!
- Saving paradise
- EPILOGUE: Hope amid the ruins.