In Search Of A City
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Author | : Richard M. Gamble |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441162321 |
Download In Search of the City on a Hill Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.
Author | : Rosie Heywood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780746067741 |
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Packed with fascinating facts and up to 100 things to spot on every spread, helps children to develop reading, counting and identification skills. Ages 4+.
Author | : Katia Pizzi |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0567244970 |
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Poised between the Mediterranean and the Mitteleuropa, crossroads of civilizations and seat of vibrant cultural and literary life, Trieste is now acknowledged as enjoying unrivalled cultural status amongst Italian cities. This volume, the first comprehensive study of Triestine literature in English, originally reassesses TriesteÆs literary identity, paying particular attention to the period between 1918 and 1954 when local writing became intensely aware of its local specificity and some of its central motifs came prominently to the fore. TriesteÆs singular border identity, mirrored in a variegated literary output, emerges here as laden with complexities and ambiguities, such as the controversial notion of triestinita, the ambiguous relation with nationalism, specifically in its Fascist inflection, and the anxieties generated by repeated re-definitions of the areaÆs historical borders.
Author | : Lucy Menzies |
Publisher | : Ivy Kids |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 178240919X |
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Featuring 12 cities from around the world, this highly-illustrated search-and-find book rewards close inspection. Incredibly detailed illustrations by Tilly bring the vibrant city scenes to life and are sure to spark a child’s interest in the wider world around them. Each spread features explanatory text alongside a full-page artwork. First, comb through each cityscape and spot five of the most significant landmarks. Can you see the Eiffel Tower in Paris? Or how about Lady Liberty in NYC? Once you’ve discovered the landmarks, there are five cultural gems hidden to spot. Finally, answer the counting question in each scene. There’s always something new to spot in Cities Around the World, meaning children will want to read it again and again.
Author | : Margaret O'Mara |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691117164 |
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What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental market creations but "cities of knowledge"--planned communities of scientific production that were shaped and subsidized by the original venture capitalist, the Cold War defense complex. At the heart of the story is the American research university, an institution enriched by Cold War spending and actively engaged in economic development. The story of the city of knowledge broadens our understanding of postwar urban history and of the relationship between civil society and the state in late twentieth-century America. It leads us to further redefine the American suburb as being much more than formless "sprawl," and shows how it is in fact the ultimate post-industrial city. Understanding this history and geography is essential to planning for the future of the high-tech economy, and this book is must reading for anyone interested in building the next Silicon Valley.
Author | : Mark Adams |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1101983930 |
Download Meet Me in Atlantis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The New York Times Bestselling Travel Memoir! The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the world’s most famous lost city. “Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed.”—Hampton Sides A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Far from alien conspiracy theories and other pop culture myths, everything we know about the legendary lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Stranger still: Adams learned there is an entire global sub-culture of amateur explorers who are still actively and obsessively searching for this sunken city, based entirely on Plato’s detailed clues. What Adams didn’t realize was that Atlantis is kind of like a virus—and he’d been exposed. In Meet Me in Atlantis, Adams racks up frequent-flier miles tracking down these Atlantis obsessives, trying to determine why they believe it's possible to find the world's most famous lost city—and whether any of their theories could prove or disprove its existence. The result is a classic quest that takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters; and a deep, often humorous look at the human longing to rediscover a lost world.
Author | : Arthur James Krim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Los Angeles (Calif.) |
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Author | : Des Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2024-01-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0571362230 |
Download The City of Today is a Dying Thing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
'Lively, irreverent and insightful.' Lauren Elkin 'Like Jon Ronson on town planners ... E ndlessly funny, s eriously smart.' John Grindrod Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks. So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there? Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in deepest Wales, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.
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Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Pompeii (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 9780749632793 |
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Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Download In Search of Lost Worlds/lost City of the Incas Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle