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Book American Sunshine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Freund
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-04-16
  • ISBN : 0226262839
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book American Sunshine written by Daniel Freund and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.

Book U S  Geological Survey Water supply Paper

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Water supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937-11-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-11-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book LIFE

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937-10-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-10-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Beyond Reality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Reisman
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2010-10
  • ISBN : 1450261620
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Beyond Reality written by Michael Reisman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some things and events are plain and simple, just regular routine stuff. That of which we all know to be real. Then we have dreams and sometimes illusions which we know to be fantasy or fiction. Now for your pleasure, I will introduce to you stories of events which may fall into a new catagory. Free your mind and journey with me to the incredible world of "Beyond Reality"...This book is dedicated to my buddy Damien Perez, who has been advertising my books with great success.

Book Instant Math Storymats

Download or read book Instant Math Storymats written by Mary Beth Spann and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 18 reproducible Math Storymats, each one a refreshing addition to your early elementary math program. Each storymat is accompanied by two separate read-aloud story selections for you to present to your students. These stories guide children in using plastic disk-shaped markers to interact with mats in specific and open-ended ways. Together, the mats and the manipulative help children explore and practice math skills and concepts. As you observe your children manipulating markers on the mat, you gain insight into their ability to employ math strategies in performing activities or solving problems. Because the mats are versatile enough to use in an individual, small, or large group setting, there are lots of opportunities for you to engage in 'math talk' with your students.

Book Naked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Hoffman
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0814790542
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Naked written by Brian Hoffman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1937-11-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Native Americans   HIV

Download or read book Native Americans HIV written by Linda Burhansstipanov and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pirates and Farmers

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  • Author : Dave Hickey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781905464722
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Pirates and Farmers written by Dave Hickey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably one of Americas most unconventional art/cultural critics

Book LIFE

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1936-11-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1936-11-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Critical Thinking Skills  Finding Facts

Download or read book Critical Thinking Skills Finding Facts written by and published by Remedia Publications. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How You Played the Game

Download or read book How You Played the Game written by William Arthur Harper and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering around the life and times of the revered American sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880-1954), How You Played the Game takes us back to those magical days of sporting tales and mythic heroes. Through Rice's eyes we behold such sports as bicycle racing, boxing, golf, baseball, football, and tennis as they were played before 1950. We witness ups and downs in the careers of such legendary figures as Christy Mathewson, Jack Dempsey, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, Gene Tunney, and Babe Didrikson--all of whom Rice helped become household names. Grantland Rice was a remarkably gifted and honorable sportswriter. From his early days in Nashville and Atlanta, to his famed years in New York, Rice was acknowledged by all for his uncanny grasp of the ins and outs of a dozen sports, as well as his personal friendship with hundreds of sportsmen and sportswomen. As a pioneer in American sportswriting, Rice helped establish and dignify the profession, sitting shoulder to shoulder in press boxes around the nation with the likes of Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Heywood Broun, and Red Smith. Besides being a first-rate reporter, Rice was also a columnist, poet, magazine and book writer, film producer, family man, war veteran, fund-raiser, and skillful golfer. His personal accomplishments over a half century as an advocate for sports and good sportsmanship are astounding by any standard. What truly set Rice apart from so many of his peers, however, was the idea behind his sports reporting and writing. He believed that good sportsmanship was capable of lifting individuals, societies, and even nations to remarkable heights of moral and social action. More than just a biography of Grantland Rice, How You Played the Game is about the rise of American sports and the early days of those who created the art and craft of sportswriting. Exploring the life of a man who perfectly blended journalism and sporting culture, this book is sure to appeal to all, sports lovers or not.

Book Design for Inclusivity

Download or read book Design for Inclusivity written by Magda Mostafa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides new perspectives from leading experts examining the role of architects and urbanists in designing for inclusivity in our built environment. By focusing on themes of gender, race and ethnicity, ability, neurodiversity, age, poverty and socio-economy and the non-human, the book tackles the complex challenges that designers and scholars encounter and need to address in their works. The volume offers a diverse compilation of peer-reviewed papers related to architecture for inclusivity in various different formats, ranging from visual essays, argumentative papers and scholastic texts. It presents the notion of "availability", a concept which works to challenge the "othering" inherent in notions of inclusion and accessibility. In its introduction it presents a critical discourse around the challenges and potentials lying in the design for availability targeted towards a systemic change of our societies. The book is part of a series of six volumes that explore the agency of the built environment in relation to the SDGs through new research conducted by leading researchers. The series is led by editors Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Martin Tamke in collaboration with the theme editors: - Design for Climate Adaptation: Billie Faircloth and Maibritt Pedersen Zari - Design for Rethinking Resources: Carlo Ratti and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Eds.) - Design for Resilient Communities: Anna Rubbo and Juan Du (Eds.) - Design for Health: Arif Hasan and Christian Benimana (Eds.) - Design for Inclusivity: Magda Mostafa and Ruth Baumeister (Eds.) - Design for Partnerships for Change: Sandi Hilal and Merve Bedir (Eds.)

Book Insiders  Guide   to Jacksonville

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Jacksonville written by Sarah Reiss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Travel Destination. Your Home. Your Home-To-Be. Jacksonville A fast-growing Southern city. Historical landmarks aplenty. Family-style fare and fine cuisine. A robust business scene. World-class resorts. Sandy beaches galore. • A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike • Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, and accommodations • How to live & thrive in the area—from recreation to relocation • Countless details on shopping, arts & entertainment, and children’s activities

Book Urban Recreation and Crime Prevention

Download or read book Urban Recreation and Crime Prevention written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tampa Bay Magazine

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Tampa Bay Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.