Download or read book The City Beautiful written by Aden Polydoros and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire, grief, and the inexorable scars of the past." —Katy Rose Pool, author of There Will Come A Darkness Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he’ll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter’s best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, his dream begins to slip away. While the rest of the city is busy celebrating the World’s Fair, Alter is now living a nightmare: possessed by Yakov’s dybbuk, he is plunged into a world of corruption and deceit, and thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. A boy who means more to Alter than anyone knows. Now, with only days to spare until the dybbuk takes over Alter’s body completely, the two boys must race to track down the killer—before the killer claims them next. "Chillingly sinister, warmly familiar, and breathtakingly transportive, The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams."—Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021

Download or read book Beautiful City written by David Roochnik and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the vast literature on Plato's Republic comes a new interpretation. In Beautiful City, David Roochnik argues convincingly that Plato's masterpiece is misunderstood by modern readers. The work must, he explains, be read dialectically, its parts understood as forming a unified whole. Approached in this way, the text no longer appears to defend an authoritarian and monolithic political system, but rather supplies a qualified defense of democracy and the values of diversity. Writing in clear and straightforward prose, Roochnik demonstrates how Plato's treatment of the city and the soul evolves throughout the dialogue and can be appreciated only by considering the Republic in its entirety. He shows that the views expressed in the early parts of the text do not represent Plato's final judgment on these subjects but are in fact dialectical "moments" intended to be both partial and provisional. Books 5-7 of the Republic are, he maintains, meant to revise and improve upon books 2-4. Similarly, he sees the usually neglected books 8-10 as advancing beyond the thoughts presented in the previous books. Paying particular attention to these later books, Roochnik details, for instance, how the stories of the "mistaken" regimes, which are often seen as unimportant, are actually crucial in Plato's account of the soul. Beautiful City is certain to be controversial, as the author's insights and opinions will engage and challenge philosophers, classicists, and political theorists.

Download or read book This Beautiful City written by Michael Friedman (Composer) and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY investigates the growth of the evangelical movement in Colorado Springs. While The Civilians were conducting interviews with people involved with or affected by the mega-church movement and the battle raging over gay

Download or read book My Beautiful City Austin written by David Heymann and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Beautiful City Austin David Heymann crafts seven masterful tales of a young architect who fails again and again to dissuade his clients from their bad decisions. So the houses he designs aid and abet the ongoing erasure of Austin's ambrosial charm. Each of these sharp and humorous stories centers around the design of a house, and in each the narrator struggles to understand why his clients want what they want -- a retiring couple needing an immense home in the middle of nature, a young family wanting a castle, a lawyer seeking to piss off his ex-wife -- and why they might want those things here. Collectively the stories serve as a portrait of a beloved place gone strangely wrong. Fueled by the dubious intentions of its inhabitants, Austin is a town growing madly while ignoring the pain of a thousand small cuts. But the book is equally about a young person trying to take fraught first steps into a career, and a place in the world. Architects aren't inherently powerful. They can only affect the world because they work at the center of a web of others whose value decisions -- strange and yet real -- actually drive change.Because the humor in the stories arises from the narrator's inability to alter absurd circumstances, the stories are immediately accessible to a broad readership, including adults of all ages, readers interested in Austin (a source of fascination as one of the most desirable cities in America), those interested in Texas and Texas literature, and readers interested in architecture and design.

Download or read book Bridge to the Beautiful City written by Ben Armacost and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if your life could be different? Do you sometimes feel like youre missing out on something more exciting and fulfilling? From time to time, these thoughts cross our minds and leave us wondering if theres more to life than just the drudgery of daily routines. Bridge to the Beautiful City is the story of a man who is asking these very same questions. He is a man with an impossible dream and an undying passion to discover whether that dream is fact or fantasyand hes willing to put his life on the line to achieve it. Follow this traveler as he pursues the adventure of a lifetime! Ben Armacost offers a pill that The Matrix doesnt. True, you may prefer a blue pill that numbs you into contentmentbut enslaves to an attractive but inauthentic reality of your own invention. You may prefer a red pill that awakens you to the ugly truth of authentic reality, but leaves you in pain. Armacost offers another pillthe pill of your dreamsa bridge to the beautiful truth of authentic reality that will one day be pain-free. That is Bridge to the Beautiful City. Dare to dream, and cross the bridge. Drew Parlee, Strategy Trainer, Greater Europe Mission

Download or read book Principles of Beautiful City Sister City Citt Gemella Roma Ankara written by Mehmet TUNÇER and published by Akademisyen Kitabevi. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Most Beautiful City la Bellisima Ciudad written by Walter Blair and published by Quippy Quill LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the (2015-2016) school year, Walter had the unique and fortunate opportunity to teach in a first grade, dual language program at Hunt Club Elementary School. After reading one of his first grade anchor-text entitled, Señorita Runfio from the new Ready-Gen series, he felt inspired to write his own children's book. Walter has always felt the passion to write whenever he is motivated and encouraged to tell a story in unusual and "extreme circumstances". During his entire teaching career, he has used the strategy of Daily Interactive Journal Writing as an effective learning tool to meet the social and emotional needs of all the learners that he has taught. In times of leisure and pleasure, he enjoys travelling with his wife, Marg on getaways, watching Chicago Cubs and Bears sport teams, conducting seminars, workshops, attending Church and Bible studies, and last but not least, sharing The Good News of the Gospel as an interactive minister of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. He is a huge believer and doer of an old proverb that says," Good, better, best will never let you rest, until the good gets better and the better gets best. Practice makes us all better!"

Download or read book Plato s Beautiful City and the Essence of Politics written by Scott John Hammond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry attempts to probe the essence of politics in-itself, something that has been singularly discerned by Plato in Republic, grounded in his theory of universal forms and gradually but fully developed through a consideration of the elements of the City in Speech. Those elements, and the ideal city itself as envisioned in Republic, are immanent within the Second Best City of the Laws, even though presented in a modified way. Plato's Statesman will also be discussed as a means to further illustrate Plato's commitment to the principles conveyed in Republic. This project rests on the premise that Plato's intelligible city is genuinely intended to convey Plato’s full understanding of the real essence of the polis, not simply the arena of political behavior and governance as we have come to know it, but the essence of what politics universally means and what a political community should objectively seek.

Download or read book The Beautiful City and the King of Glory written by Woodbury Davis and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cork Lyrics Or Scraps from the Beautiful City written by Daniel Casey and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building the City Beautiful written by David Bruce Brownlee and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The City Beautiful Movement written by William H. Wilson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

Download or read book Prettycitynewyork written by Siobhan Ferguson and published by Pretty Cities. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City is known for many things: its urban, high-rise landscape, the bustling atmosphere, and busy business and tourist spots. Pretty tree-lined avenues, cute shops, and serene getaways do not immediately come to mind for this cosmopolitan city, but they are there. Acclaimed Instagrammer Siobhan Ferguson, author of prettycitylondon, now turns her discerning eye to the Big Apple itself. Travel along with her as she uncovers the hidden gems--the sweet, secluded alleys, the fantastic markets, the artisan boutiques--that New York has to offer, and reveals the beautiful, the quaint, and the downright pretty scattered among the urban landscape of the world's most famous city. Stunning photographs alongside fantastic tips to take your own pictures and create a prettycitynewyork experience for yourself make this the perfect book for visitors on foot and armchair travelers alike.

Download or read book The City of Beautiful Nonsense written by Ernest Charles Temple Thurston and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Of course, the eighteenth of March--but it is out of the question to say upon which day of the week it fell. It was half-past seven in the evening. At half-past seven it is dark, the lamps are lighted, the houses huddle together in groups. They have secrets to tell as soon as it is dark. Ah! If you knew the secrets that houses are telling when the shadows draw them so close together! But you never will know. They close their eyes and they whisper. Around the fields of Lincoln's Inn it was as still as the grave. The footsteps of a lawyer's clerk hurrying late away from chambers vibrated through the intense quiet. You heard each step to the very last. So long as you could see him, you heard them plainly; then he vanished behind the curtain of shadows, the sounds became muffled, and at last the silence crept back into the Fields crept all round you, half eager, half reluctant, like sleepy children drawn from their beds to hear the end of a fairy story. There was a fairy story to be told, too. It began that night of the eighteenth of March the Eve of St. Joseph's day.

Download or read book Great City Parks written by Alan Tate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, this book is illustrated throughout with clear plans and professional photographs for each park. This book reflects a belief that well-planned, well-designed and well-managed parks remain invaluable components of liveable and hospitable cities.

Download or read book New York City written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ari and Tess are recruited by the Secret World Adventure Team for a mission in New York City, where they visit many well-known sights while trying to win a contest that may save an amazing roof-top skateboarding park.

Download or read book American Colonisation and the City Beautiful written by Ian Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 IPHS Koos Bosma Prize American Colonisation and the City Beautiful explores the history of city planning and the evolution of the built environment in the Philippines between 1916 and 1935. In so doing, it highlights the activities of the Bureau of Public Works’ Division of Architecture as part of Philippine national development and decolonisation. Morley provides new archival materials which deliver significant insight into the dynamics associated with both governance and city planning during the American colonial era in the Philippines, with links between prominent American university educators and Filipino architecture students. The book discusses the two cities of Tayabas and Iloilo which highlight the significant role in the urban design of places beyond the typical historiographical focus of Manila and Baguio. These examples will aid in further understanding the appearance and meaning of Philippine cities during an important era in the nation’s history. Including numerous black and white images, this book is essential for academics, researchers and students of city and urban planning, the history and development of Southeast Asia and those interested in colonial relations.