Download or read book Surviving City Hall written by Donna Macdonald and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With humour and humanity, Surviving City Hall reveals the workings of the municipal world based on author Donna Macdonald's nineteen years as a city councillor. Wrestling with ground squirrels, dealing with dogs and grappling with the Three Bears of Governance, Macdonald offers an insider's view into how things work at city hall in a call to citizens in communities of all shapes and sizes. From the table where council members make decisions—to lock out city workers, detoxify a workplace issue, permit high density development and ban dogs downtown—to the richness of community life, including meetings, memorials, meat banquets and rallies for the protection of endangered animals, this book is a big-hearted take on small-town politics. It's also a reflection on leadership and on democracy, and how we could do both better. Macdonald ponders women's participation in local governance, why it's critical and what the barriers are that can dissuade women from engaging more fully in the governance of their communities.
Download or read book America s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions written by John W. Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability. From the American Dream to globalization to the digital and information revolutions, we assume that humans have taken control of our collective destinies in spite of potholes in the road such as the Great Recession of 2007-2009. However, these attitudes were formed during a unique 100-year period of human history in which a large but finite supply of fossil fuels was tapped to feed our economic and innovation engine. Today, at the peak of the Oil Age, the horizon looks different. Cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas are situated where water and other vital ecological services are scarce, and the enormous flows of resources and energy that were needed to create the megalopolises of the 20th century will prove unsustainable. Climate change is a reality, and regional impacts will become increasingly severe. Economies such as Las Vegas, which are dependent on discretionary income and buffeted by climate change, are already suffering the fate of the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Finite resources will mean profound changes for society in general and the energy-intensive lifestyles of the US and Canada in particular. But not all regions are equally vulnerable to these 21st-century megatrends. Are you ready to look beyond “America’s Most Livable Cities” to the critical factors that will determine the sustainability of your municipality and region? Find out where your city or region ranks according to the forces that will impact our lives in the next years and decades. Find out how: ·resource availability and ecological services shaped the modern landscape ·emerging megatrends will make cities and regions more or less livable in the new century ·your city or region ranks on a “sustainability” map of the United States ·urban metabolism puts large cities at particular risk ·sustainability factors will favor economic solutions at a local, rather than global, level ·these principles apply to industrial economies and countries globally. This book should be cited as follows: J. Day, C. Hall, E. Roy, M. Moersbaecher, C. D'Elia, D. Pimentel, and A. Yanez. 2016. America's most sustainable cities and regions: Surviving the 21st century megatrends. Springer, New York. 348 p.
Download or read book Detroit Is No Dry Bones written by Camilo J. Vergara and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric
Download or read book City Survivors written by Anne Power and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration and public services.
Download or read book The Courage to Survive written by Dennis J. Kucinich and published by Phoenix Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of courage and faith transform this inspiring political autobiography of presidential candidate Kucinich into a compelling self-help book for those who are searching for the key to achieving their own dreams.
Download or read book Andersons Survive the Civil War Then Seal It With A Kiss written by Peggy Savage Baumgardner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andersons Survive the Civil Wartakes the reader on a fascinating journey of one Irish family's relocation from New York to New Orleans right as the Civil War was about to erupt. The Anderson family survived not only the long wagon ride south, but also the tense years of conflict that saw Union soldiers take over the city of New Orleans in hostile fashion. The book, thankfully, does not stop there. You will go up and down the Mississippi River ona riverboat with Michael Anderson, "The World's Greatest Magician," as he performs nightlyin the trade his parents taught him. You will also follow the paths of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and all of their children as theyspread across the country and make a good living in the careers they choose, or have chosen for them. You will also see how love can persist overmany years andthousands of miles, against all odds.
Download or read book How to Survive Your Promotion written by Edward J. Lopatin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Survive Your Promotion 85 Sure-Fire Ways to Prove They Were Right to Hire You!! If you are afraid of applying for that promotion because you think the job might be more than you can handle, you ought to read this book!! Edward Lopatin shares his own experiences of moving into a tough executive position that had swallowed-up some of his predecessors. Over time, Lopatin survived by following the advise of his mentors, by thinking out of the box, by learning from his mistakes, and by outsmarting his adversaries. Lopatin eloquently reveals his pathway to success, and shows you the importance of: Building a timetable for success Dressing for the job Behaving ethically, and asking for help when needed Taking bold, risky and innovative steps Admitting your shortcomings and mistakes Managing your time more effectively Using communication and interpersonal skills Using time to your advantage Hiring the best assistants money can buy
Download or read book Can You Survive the 1900 Galveston Hurricane written by Jessica Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2022 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In September 1900, the people of Galveston, Texas, knew a storm was coming. But they'd experienced storms before and didn't think much of it. However, the hurricane that hit on September 8 was more powerful and damaging than anybody expected. Will you find a way to survive the storm and write about the experience for the local newspaper? Can you find a way to save your family's business and the customers inside when the storm hits? Will you rescue a young woman who is floating by on the detached roof of a house in the middle of the storm? With dozens of possible choices, it's up to YOU to find a way to survive through one of the deadliest storms in history"--
Download or read book Fighting to Survive As the World Dies Book Two written by Rhiannon Frater and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins—finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them. Rhiannon Frater's Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award for Best Novel from Mail Order Zombie. The first book in the As the World Dies trilogy, The First Days also won the Dead Letter Award and was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner. Tor Books began bringing this series to a wider audience with the Spring 2011 publication of The First Days. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Are All Survivors written by Carl Lindahl and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ethnographic work? We Are All Survivors is a collection of essays exploring the role of folklore in the wake of disaster. Contributors include scholars from the United States and Japan who have long worked with disaster-stricken communities or are disaster survivors themselves; individual chapters address Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Maria, and two earthquakes in Japan, including the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011. Adapted from a 2017 special issue of Fabula (from the International Society for Folk Narrative Research), the book includes a revised introduction, an additional chapter with original illustrations, and a new conclusion considering how folklorists are documenting the COVID-19 pandemic. We Are All Survivors bears witness to survivors' expressions of remembrance, grieving, and healing.
Download or read book The Survivors written by RA Shannon and published by Russell Shannon. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 2017 in New York City. Nick Bergquist and his three friends make a lewd bet. Using just their hacker skills and geo-tagged photographs, they bet that they can seduce any woman who walks by the bench that they are sitting on in Central Park. They each bet $100 and have six months to complete the bet. The first one to complete the bet wins the cash. As they start to work towards identifying and meeting the women in their photographs, Nick and his friends find themselves drawn into a larger fight between a famous hacker with the moniker "Goldman" and a Montenegrin organized cybercrime figure who goes by the title "The Russian." After going dark for several years, spawning many rumors of his death, Goldman has resurfaced in Manhattan to take his revenge on The Russian for turning him in to the FBI several years previously. The Russian and his gang just want Goldman dead. Nick's target turns out to be Goldman's girlfriend, Andrea. Things come to a head when one of The Russian's crew throws a grenade into a meeting between Nick, Andrea, and Goldman at a local restaurant. Now, law enforcement is involved. To make matters worse, one of Nick's friends, Arnold, uses the situation to blackmail The Russian and ends up being kidnapped by the gang. What started as a bet between four lonely friends is now a national issue with federal, state, and local law enforcement investigating each of them. They must all somehow stay out of jail, find Arnold, and extract themselves from this bet!
Download or read book I Am a Survivor written by Jeannette Moreno and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 I met Ron; it was love at first sight, which later became a nightmare. My life was one of devastating choices in order to survive. My children and I were ensnared in a trap of brutality that was hauntingly real. The decision I made in order to live one more day under tortuous circumstances prevented him from killing me allowing my children and me to survive. With one bag of food at my door I fed my kids for a week, we were literally without a dime. My strength and willful confidence kept us going and my children believed in me, that was what kept us alive. Today I can honestly say- Ive come a long way.
Download or read book Charles Baillairg written by Christina Cameron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his career as an architect, he designed major public buildings such as the Quebec Music Hall, Laval University, Sainte-Marie de Beauce church, and Dufferin Terrace, and was supervising architect for the first Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. He was responsible for introducing Gothic and Greek Revival styles to Quebec city and fostered the use of contemporary materials in residential and commercial structures. Christina Cameron's biography of this remarkable man includes an analysis of innovations in architectural design and construction technology in Quebec City during the middle of the nineteenth century, and includes a discussion of the radical change in the role of the architect from the architect/artisan of the previous century to the professional man who no longer took any part in the actual construction. In this first full-scale study of Baillairgé, Cameron has provided a fascinating picture not only of the life of an important architect but of developments in Canadian architecture during this period.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norfolk 1 written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East and its companion, Norfolk 2: North-West and South, aim to provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive survey of the architectural treasures of Norfolk. Extensively revised and expanded, these new editions of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county which has some of the most attractive buildings in England. The gazetteer is enhanced by an introduction which provides a perceptive overview of the region's architectural inheritance, and is illustrated by numerous text figures, maps and 130 photographs (many specially commissioned). Pre-eminent in this volume is the city of Norwich, rich in major buildings of outstanding quality, from Norman cathedral and castle to twentieth-century city hall and university. Supreme among the ports described in this volume is the medieval walled town of Great Yarmouth, whose highly individual history and buildings are here examined in detail for the first time. There are also full descriptions of many appealing market towns, whilst the rest of the county is revealed through succinct accounts of its parish churches and less well-known buildings. Abbey ruins, brick eighteenth-century farmhouses and estate cottages in quiet inland villages contrast with coastal fishing settlements and resorts. Great barns testify to the significance of agriculture. Country houses range from the magnificent Jacobean Blickling Hall to seaside extravaganzas by Lutyens. Detailed indexes make this not only an essential reference book, but also a guide book for anyone interested in the rich region of Norfolk.
