Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.

Download or read book The Written Image written by Miyeko Murase and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely catalog accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2002-2003. The exhibition features Japanese calligraphy and paintings and sculpture of Buddhist and Shinto themes. Full descriptive entries accompany the plates of each work. Three essays introduce the catalog: a history of the collection and an essay on viewing calligraphy by Barnet and Burto, and an introduction to the calligraphy in their collection by Murase (a consultant on Japanese art at the museum). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Tokyo written by Evie Carrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color your way around Tokyo with this coloring-book-meets-travel-journal featuring 30 expertly curated sites to learn about, color, and record so you can experience the city whether you’re already there, planning a trip, or dreaming about your next adventure. Grab your pen and colored pencils—and get ready to travel the world! Whether your flights are booked or you’ll only be traveling in your mind, Tokyo takes you on an interactive, colorful tour of Japan’s capital city. This travel journal features 30 sites in Tokyo to discover—from the bucket-list worthy must-sees like the Senso-ji Temple and the Imperial Palace to places to shop in the Ginza District and explore in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. Learn about each landmark with fascinating histories, fun facts, and travel tips. Accompanying the journal pages allow space to record, plan, or imagine your dream vacation. Plus, all 30 landmarks feature beautifully rendered coloring pages to shade in while taking in the sites. Tokyo is the perfect airplane take-along or gift for those dreaming about exploring Japan.

Download or read book Dal Tokyo written by Gary Panter and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a friend’s idea about “cultural and temporal collision” (The “Dal” is short for Dallas).Why Texan and Japanese? Panter says, “Because they are trapped in Texas, Texans are self-mythologizing. Because I was trapped in Texas at the time, I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future. Japanese, I’ll say, because of the exotic far-awayness of Japan from Texas, and because of the Japanese monster movies and woodblock prints that reached out to me in Texas. Japanese monster movies are part of the fabric of Texas.”In 1983, Panter finally got a chance to fully explore this world, and share it with an audience, when the L.A. Reader published the first 63 strips. A few years later, the Japanese reggae magazine Riddim picked up the strip, and Panter continued the saga of Dal Tokyo in monthly installments for over a decade.But none of these conceptual descriptions will prepare the reader for the confounding visual and verbal richness of Dal Tokyo, as Panter’s famous “ratty line” collides and colludes with near-Joycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesn't read Dal Tokyo; one is absorbed into it and spit out the other side.

Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Download or read book The Bells of Old Tokyo written by Anna Sherman and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman’s account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the lost bells of the city – the bells by which its inhabitants kept time before the Jesuits introduced them to clocks – to her personal friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, here is Tokyo in its bewildering variety. From the love hotels of Shinjuku to the appalling fire-storms of 1945 (in which many more thousands of people died than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki), from the death of Mishima to the impact of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011. For fans of The Lonely City, and Lost in Translation, The Bells of Old Tokyo is a beautiful and original portrait of Tokyo told through time.

Download or read book Adventures of Victorino Chang written by Alejandro Roque Glez and published by Alejandro's Libros. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chang family has given us a young nobleman, a dreamer able to fight and defeat while learning the value and experiences of the inevitable losses during our lifetime. The fiction goes and Victorino leaves his land burdened by personal issues that were asphyxiating him, grabbing the simple image of his daily environment; however, once walking into the outside world different events that happen make the young to become mature, later a grown man, and then with plenty of grey hair is no longer the humorous one who used to hold life between his hands. The pain of having to depart, sufferings he experiences in the meantime, and friends who appear in this story, made him to finally become a fighter who denounces the attacks and global plans of monopolies in detriment of nations' independence; but without ignoring his humanity to the point of being burlesque, as he is not perfect. Victorino leaves his homeland in the past, and returns to his natal nest in the future we have not lived yet.CONTENT:-Prologue.-Chapter I: The family of Victorino.-Chapter II: Victorino and Helenhelly Chang.-Chapter III: Genghis, the just and true one.-Chapter IV: Victorino takes refuge in Mount Ararat.-Chapter V: Victorino in Japan. The Tsunami and Fukushima.-Chapter VI: Utku escapes to Mount Athos-II.-Chapter VII: 'Monastery of the Beast'.-Chapter VII: Jerusalém: the return of Victorino Utku.-About the Author.Alejandro Roque was born in Havana City, Cuba. After being released from Castro's imprisonment, finally in 1994 he went to political exile in Miami, South Florida.He is a graduate from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) with a Master of Science (MS) and from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) with a Bachelor in Arts (BA), both in United States; and previously graduated as a jet military Air-Force-combat pilot and Tactical Command from Krasnodar High Military Aviation College of pilots A.K. Serov in the former USSR.For more of our e-books and the paperbacks, please visit our sites:- http://alejandroslibros.blogspot.com- http://alejandroselibros.blogspot.comThank you for taken the time to look at them here and there!

Download or read book K Book Trends Vol 74 written by K-Book Trends and published by Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea(KPIPA). This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K-Book Trends is a web magazine published by the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA). It offers Korea’s highly informative publishing content to those in the global publishing industry, helping the Korean publishing industry build global competitiveness. We produce professional data about promising Korean books for overseas markets and share success cases of Korean publications and copyright export. We also provide those in the global publishing industry with rich information collected from Korea’s major international book fair activities, as well as the latest news on bestselling books, and an overview of the Korean publishing industry. K-Book Trends can be easily read online anywhere in the world either on a PC or mobile device. Readers can also subscribe to receive email newsletters and download the issues in PDF format. K-Book Trends www.kbooktrends.com Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea always look forward to hearing opinions related to K-Book Trends from industry experts and readers.

Download or read book Philippine Tourism Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Japan Journals written by Donald Richie and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Richie should be designated a living national treasure.”—Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."—New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."—Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.

Download or read book Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Scripting Japan written by Wesley C. Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions of how language variants influence interpretation of language acts/users have focused on variation in speech. But it is important to remember that specific ways of representing a language are also often perceived as linked to specific social actors. Nowhere is this fact more relevant than in written Japanese, where a complex history has created a situation where authors can represent any sentence element in three distinct scripts. This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways Japanese authors and their readers engage with this potential for script variation as a social language practice, looking at how purely script-based language choices reflect social ideologies, become linked to language users, and influence the total meaning created by language acts. Throughout the text, analysis of data from multiple studies examines how Japanese language users' experiences with the script variation all around them influence how they engage with, produce, and understand both orthographic variation and major social divides, ultimately evidencing that even the avoidance of variation can become a socially significant act in Japan.

Download or read book Wait Till I m Dead written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I’m dead.—Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M. The first new Ginsberg collection in over fifteen years, Wait Till I’m Dead is a landmark publication, edited by renowned Ginsberg scholar Bill Morgan and introduced by award-winning poet and Ginsberg enthusiast Rachel Zucker. Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, often composing poetry on demand, and many of the poems collected in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications and unjustly forgotten. Wait Till I’m Dead, which spans the whole of Ginsberg’s long writing career, from the 1940s to the 1990s, is a testament to Ginsberg’s astonishing writing and singular aesthetics. Following the chronology of his life, Wait Till I’m Dead reproduces the poems together with extensive notes. Containing 104 previously uncollected poems and accompanied by original photographs, Wait Till I’m Dead is the final major contribution to Ginsberg’s sprawling oeuvre, a must-read for Ginsberg neophytes and longtime fans alike.

Download or read book In Godzilla s Footsteps written by W. Tsutsui and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.

Download or read book The Journal of Japanese Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary forrum for communicating new information, new interpretations, and recent research results concerning Japan to the English-reading world.

Download or read book Ink written by Amanda Sun and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ink is in their blood. On the heels of a family tragedy, Katie Greene must move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn't know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks and she can't seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building. When Katie meets aloof but gorgeous Tomohiro, the star of the school's kendo team, she is intrigued by him…and a little scared. His tough attitude seems meant to keep her at a distance, and when they're near each other, strange things happen. Pens explode. Ink drips from nowhere. And unless Katie is seeing things, drawings come to life. Somehow Tomo is connected to the kami, powerful ancient beings who once ruled Japan—and as feelings develop between Katie and Tomo, things begin to spiral out of control. The wrong people are starting to ask questions, and if they discover the truth, no one will be safe.