Download or read book Legacy Cities written by J. Rosie Tighe and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that thrived during the first half of the 20th century. In the second half of the century, these cities declined in economic power and population leaving a legacy of housing stock, warehouse districts, and infrastructure that is ripe for revitalization. This volume explores not only the commonalities across legacy cities in terms of industrial heritage and population decline, but also their differences. Legacy Cities poses the questions: What are the legacies of legacy cities? How do these legacies drive contemporary urban policy, planning and decision-making? And, what are the prospects for the future of these cities? Contributors primarily focus on Cleveland, Ohio, but all Rust Belt cities are discussed.

Download or read book Shattered Legacy Book 9 written by Ryan Attard and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hunt Begins...Our hero is back and this time he is faced with an impossible task: find and retrieve three godly magical items which unlock an age-old cage.A cage with a monster slumbering for a thousand years - until now!Now Erik must team up with his arch-nemesis, all the while evading an army of angels chasing after him and his twin sister... who has mysteriously gone missing.Get ready for the most pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat adventure yet as the Legacy Series continues!

Download or read book ZIMBABWE THE END OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC written by Jacob W. Chikuhwa and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supported by well researched historical narrative and economic data, Zimbabwe: the end of the first republic examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project leading to the adoption of a home-grown constitution and the July 31, 2013 elections"--Cover.

Download or read book Death Of A Raven Part 1 written by Aditya Khari and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Avya's move to RavenCliff, California, thrusts her into a nightmare that's been brewing since 1757. The town is cursed after the brutal burning of Eliza and Philip, and now, the horrors of the past have returned with a vengeance. As Avya tries to navigate her new life, she's ensnared in a web of terror: serial killers, cannibals, and demonic entities prey upon the town's inhabitants. Murders happen nightly, and chaos reigns as the town teeters on the brink of extinction. The phoenix tree, a grotesque symbol of the curse, continuously burns and regenerates, embodying the endless cycle of death. With her mother, Ekta, struggling as the mayor amidst dark conspiracies, Avya must confront the growing darkness and uncover the truth before RavenCliff is consumed by the malevolent forces. Will she find a way to break the curse, or will she succumb to the city's nightmarish fate?

Download or read book The Fabric of Space written by Matthew Gandy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Tracing the evolving relationships among modernity, nature, and the urban imagination, from different vantage points and through different periods, Gandy uses water as a lens through which to observe both the ambiguities and the limits of nature as conventionally understood. Gandy begins with the Parisian sewers of the nineteenth century, captured in the photographs of Nadar, and the reconstruction of subterranean Paris. He moves on to Weimar-era Berlin and its protection of public access to lakes for swimming, the culmination of efforts to reconnect the city with nature. He considers the threat of malaria in Lagos, where changing geopolitical circumstances led to large-scale swamp drainage in the 1940s. He shows how the dysfunctional water infrastructure of Mumbai offers a vivid expression of persistent social inequality in a postcolonial city. He explores the incongruous concrete landscapes of the Los Angeles River. Finally, Gandy uses the fictional scenario of a partially submerged London as the starting point for an investigation of the actual hydrological threats facing that city.

Download or read book The Limits of Westernization written by Jon Davidann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ideas. This book re-evaluates the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century and gives greater voice to East Asians in the construction of their own ideas of modernity.

Download or read book The Parent Care Conversation written by Daniel Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical handbook for those caring for elderly parents explains how to develop an effective, workable plan of action that takes into consideration the parents' feelings and wishes, as well as such practical and financial components as health care, retirement, long-term care, and more. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Download or read book The Fantasy Role Playing Game written by Daniel Mackay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one can imagine and the referee allows. The players don't exactly compete; instead, they interact with each other and with the fantasy setting. The game is played orally with no game board, and although the referee usually has a storyline planned for a game, much of the action is impromptu. Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art--especially in terms of aesthetics--of role-playing games. The book also serves as a contribution to the beginnings of a body of criticism, theory, and aesthetics analysis of a mostly unrecognized and newly developing art form. There are four parts: the cultural structure, the extent to which the game relates to outside cultural elements; the formal structure, or the rules of the game; the social structure, which encompasses the degree and quality of social interaction among players; and the aesthetic structure, concerned with the emergence of role-playing as an art form.

Download or read book Stars On Fire written by Sky Gold and published by Eden Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Sky Gold's Stars on Fire: "5 stars. A scintillating gem of an escape." "A mesmerising and enchanting novel that seamlessly blends romance, fantasy and science fiction." "The electric tension between the strong and resolute heroine and the seductive anti-hero is so alluring." "A soaring sci-fi romance that takes to the stars and is pure escapism, with a fantastic happy-ever-after conclusion! I loved it, and I can't wait to read the rest of the series!" Kainan is a lethal, wraith-like warrior who lives in the twilight … he’s the hidden inferno amongst the stars. He has spent decades waiting to exact revenge on his enemies who imprisoned him, tortured and experimented with his body and mind … Selene leads a planet's rebellion, and when she reaches out to Kainan to help stop a war, he leaps on her cause as a chance to end his nemesis forever. However … he finds that she is driven, smart, and unrelenting, with an allure that forces him from the shadows. She confounds him even as she fights the temptation glinting in his sapphire wildfire eyes. War is stirring in the skies and stars above Eden II ... Between empires in ascension and realms in decline. Kainan and Selene find themselves caught up in the maelstrom. Together, they’ll light the stars on fire, even as darkness beyond their control seeks to turn their destiny - and their forever - to ashes. Packed with intrigue, steamy heat, fast-moving action, and happy-ever-after paranormal romance ‘Stars on Fire’ is the rip-roaring spearhead of The Sable Riders series, ‘an exotic and interstellar affair boasting decadent descriptive language, patient storytelling and immersive world-building (The International Review of Books).

Download or read book Shattered Legacy written by S. G. Virtus and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Star Trek Destiny written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Borg launch a surprise campaign to exterminate the Federation, three Starfleet captains must work desperately to avoid annihilation.

Download or read book Shattered Web written by K.J.Heritage and published by Sygasm. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped on an insane Company bioship with a dead crew, murderous survivors and heading for certain destruction…just another day at the office for Vatic. Experimental Company bioship, the CSS Ariadne, has cut all communications and launched herself into hyperspace—heading towards enemy territory and certain destruction if she cannot be stopped. The crew managed to send out an SOS before the Ariadne disappeared. Someone was murdered… but who? Vatic, a Skilled empath in the reluctant employ of the Company, is drugged and forced to board the rogue ship. He arrives to find the vessel full of corpses, a small band of suspicious survivors, and no explanations. Our hero soon realises that not everyone who survived is as they seem. There is an imposter aboard, but who is it, and what are their motives? Vatic must use all his talents if he and the ship are going to survive. But survival is what the Skilled do best... isn't it? BUY ARIADNE VATIC BOOK TWO NOW!

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Download or read book For God and Kaiser written by Richard Bassett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of Austria's multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's For God and Kaiser is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, time and again, was a decisive factor in the story of Europe, the balance of international power, and the defense of Christendom. Moreover it was the first pan-European army made up of different nationalities and faiths, counting among its soldiers not only Christians but also Muslims and Jews. Bassett tours some of the most important campaigns and battles in modern European military history, from the seventeenth century through World War I. He details technical and social developments that coincided with the army's story and provides fascinating portraits of the great military leaders as well as noteworthy figures of lesser renown. Departing from conventional assessments of the Habsburg army as ineffective, outdated, and repeatedly inadequate, the author argues that it was a uniquely cohesive and formidable fighting force, in many respects one of the glories of the old Europe.

Download or read book A Shuddering Dawn written by Ira Chernus and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the symbolic meanings of the Bomb, this book excavates the "depth dimension" of the nuclear age. Rather than adding to the many ethical commentaries asking whether or not there should be nuclear weapons, the authors ask why there are nuclear weapons and a continuing arms race. They also address the kinds of symbolic changes that must occur in order to reverse the build-up of nuclear weapons. The authors approach these questions from the perspective of academic research, not from particular faith commitments, asking the reader to envision different human responses to this technology, human stances that can be illuminated by the creative insight of religious studies.

Download or read book THE BLESSING OF ISLAM written by Muhammad Ali Alkhuli and published by Al Manhal. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a book including Arabic selections of Prophet Muhammad's sayings and their translation into English plus explanatory comments. Descriptor(s): ISLAM | FAITH | WORSHIP | TRANSACTIONS (ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE) | FAMILY | LEGISLATION | WOMEN | DEATH

Download or read book Dawnsong written by Askia M. Touré and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry using the landscape of Egypt, ancient gods and goddess, historical events, heroes and queens.