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• Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Christopher Henke and B. Sims (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• Delivering the Goods: Public Works Technologies, Management, and Financing (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Construction and Materials Research and Development for the Nation's Public Works (1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The American System, by Andrew Stewart (page images at MOA)
• Proceedings of the Congressional Convention, Held in the City of St. Louis, on 13th, 14th and 15th days of May, 1873 (page images at MOA)

• Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance (1996), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Rebuilding the Foundations: A Special Report on State and Local Public Works Financing and Management (OTA-SET-447; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Annual Report, by United States Army Corps of Engineers (partial serial archives)
• The Military Engineer (partial serial archives)
• Professional Memoirs (Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large) (full serial archives)

• Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Christopher Henke and B. Sims (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• Infrastructure for the 21st Century: Framework for a Research Agenda, by National Research Council Committee on Infrastructure Innovation (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure (1984), ed. by Royce Hanson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastructure Security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Ryan Ellis (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Boston Under Snow: Resilience Lessons for the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2017), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance (1996), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Pay Now or Pay Later: Controlling Cost of Ownership from Design Throughout the Service Life of Public Buildings (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Pay Now or Pay Later: Controlling Cost of Ownership from Design Throughout the Service Life of Public Buildings (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Living Homes for Cultural Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums (c2006), ed. by Karen Coody Cooper and Nicolasa I. Sandoval (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• The Little Democracy: A Text-Book on Community Organization (New York: D. Appleton, 1918), by Ida Clyde Clarke, contrib. by P. P. Claxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Awakening Community (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Mary Mims and Georgia Williams Moritz, contrib. by Charles W. Pipkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by Kate Davy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Memorial Union Terrace: A Landscape History (2008), by Susan K. Olsen (page images at Wisconsin)

• Washing "The Great Unwashed": Public Baths in Urban America, 1840-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Marilyn T. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)

• Washing "The Great Unwashed": Public Baths in Urban America, 1840-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Marilyn T. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)

• Practical Illustrations of the Principles of School Architecture, by Henry Barnard (page images at MOA)
• School Architecture: or Contributions to the Improvement of School-Houses in the United States (fifth edition; New York: C. B. Norton, 1854), by Henry Barnard (page images at MOA)

• Caltech's Throop Hall (c1981), by Judith R. Goodstein and Alice Stone (PDF at Caltech)

• Report of the National School Shield Task Force (with appendixes; Washington: National Rifle Association, 2013), by National School Shield Task Force (PDF at nraschoolshield.com)

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Then Came the Fire: Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001 (Washington: Center of Military History, 2011), ed. by Stephen J. Lofgren (PDF at US Army CMH)

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (official government edition, 2004), by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (HTML and PDF files at 9-11commission.gov)
• Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001: Report of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Together With Additional Views (declassified version, December 2002), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 (2003), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Deborah Colson and Avi Cover (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Engineering and Organizational Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack (3 volumes), by Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (PDF files with commentary at buffalo.edu)
• Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11, ed. by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, contrib. by Anne Applebaum, Byron York, Daniel Pipes, Roger Kimball, James Bowman, John Podhoretz, and John Corry (PDF files at Hoover Institution)
• The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks, by United States Department of Justice (PDF at justice.gov)

• Who Cares? (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c2002), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers About the World, the U.S. and Themselves (Opladen and Farmington Hills, MI: B. Budrich, 2011), by Tobias Endler, contrib. by Benjamin R. Barber, John R. Bolton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Noam Chomsky, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Francis Fukuyama, Robert O. Keohane, James M. Lindsay, Michael Novak, Joseph S. Nye, Clyde V. Prestowitz, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Nancy E. Soderberg, Strobe Talbott, Michael Walzer, Cornel West, and Howard Zinn (PDF at OAPEN)
• Terror, Theory and the Humanities (2012), ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)

• Then Came the Fire: Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001 (Washington: Center of Military History, 2011), ed. by Stephen J. Lofgren (PDF at US Army CMH)

• "Will They Fly a Plane Into Our House?" How to Talk to Children About Terrorism (Norwalk, CT: Play2Grow; Plainview, NY: Childswork/Childsplay, c2001), by Lawrence E. Shapiro (PDF at lookstein.org)

• Seattle, State of Washington, the Leading, Largest and Liveliest City of the North Pacific Coast: The Necessity for a Public Building, Illustrated by Facts and Figures of Convincing Character (1890), by John Leary, Charles H. Kittinger, and Thomas Wickham Prosch (page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers, and some front matter may be missing)

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