Download or read book Boston Sites Insights written by Susan Wilson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're looking for a history of one of the city's world-class museums or for a fascinating story about Boston's popular North End, Susan Wilson covers it all in Boston Sites and Insights. Divided into six sections that reflect the diversity of people, activities, and landmarks within the city, this fascinating book leaves no stone unturned. With practical, up-to-date information in an "Essentials" section at the end of each chapter as well as fresh retellings of popular legends and lore, Wilson provides everything the modern visitor or current resident needs to know to enjoy the multicultural city of Boston, Massachusetts."
Download or read book Boston Sites and Insights written by Susan Carolyn Wilson and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Fenway Park to Boston's first school exclusively for black children, Boston Sites and Insights goes beyond standard guidebooks to tell the personal, political, religious, and architectural histories of more than fifty beloved Boston landmarks. 54 bandw photographs.
Download or read book Boston written by Jeffrey Hantover and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston is one of America's very first cities, wonderfully rich in history and culture. From the Arnold Arboretum to Faneuil Hall, Fenway Park to the Old North Church (made famous in Longfellow's poem 'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere'), see the town as it once was and as it is today.
Download or read book Insight Guides Explore Boston Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides Explore: pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of top international destinations. Experience the best of Boston with this indispensably practical Insight Guides Explore book. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like the Museum of Fine Arts, to discovering hidden gems, including Newbury Street in Back Bay, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will help you plan your trip, save you time, and enhance your exploration of this fascinating city. -Practical, pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this will make the ideal on-the-move companion to your trip to Boston -Enjoy over 16 irresistible Best Routes to walk, from Boston's Downtown to Plymouth -Features concise insider information about landscape, history, food and drink, and entertainment options -Invaluable maps: each Best Route is accompanied by a detailed full-colour map, while the large pull-out map provides an essential overview of the area -Discover your destination's must-see sights and hand-picked hidden gems -Directory section provides invaluable insight into top accommodation, restaurant and night life options by area, along with an overview of language, books and films About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
Download or read book Boston Firsts written by Lynda Morgenroth and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit. Boston-based journalist and essayist Lynda Morgenroth has written forty original essays on the city's long history of innovation, from the colonial era to the present. These lively takes on Boston's innovative history range from the first use of ether in publicly performed surgery to the first school desegregation court case to the one-and only-automatic bargain basement. Consider this: Ice cut from Boston ponds and shipped to hot climates became a worldwide industry. A controversial kidney transplant between twin brothers marked the start of organ transplantation. The glorious Massachusetts 54th Regiment was the first black army regiment in U.S. history. First newspaper, novel, subway, telephone, gay marriage-the beat goes on! Ranging from advances in science and engineering-the smallpox inoculation and the Boston Harbor cleanup-to innovations in culture and society-Fannie Farmer's cookbook and the YMCA-the collection investigates, celebrates, and integrates America's workshop of ideas. "Morgenroth colors this thrilling history with hip, current observations and makes you notice just how vast and varied our accomplishments and inventions are." -Mopsy Strange Kennedy, Improper Bostonian Lynda Morgenroth, author of Boston Neighborhoods: A Food Lover's Walking, Eating, and Shopping Guide to Ethnic Enclaves in and around Boston and longtime Boston Globe contributor, lives slightly northeast of Boston.
Download or read book Everyday Calculus written by Oscar E. Fernandez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun look at calculus in our everyday lives Calculus. For some of us, the word conjures up memories of ten-pound textbooks and visions of tedious abstract equations. And yet, in reality, calculus is fun and accessible, and surrounds us everywhere we go. In Everyday Calculus, Oscar Fernandez demonstrates that calculus can be used to explore practically any aspect of our lives, including the most effective number of hours to sleep and the fastest route to get to work. He also shows that calculus can be both useful—determining which seat at the theater leads to the best viewing experience, for instance—and fascinating—exploring topics such as time travel and the age of the universe. Throughout, Fernandez presents straightforward concepts, and no prior mathematical knowledge is required. For advanced math fans, the mathematical derivations are included in the appendixes. The book features a new preface that alerts readers to new interactive online content, including demonstrations linked to specific figures in the book as well as an online supplement. Whether you're new to mathematics or already a curious math enthusiast, Everyday Calculus will convince even die-hard skeptics to view this area of math in a whole new way.
Download or read book Site Sight Insight written by John Dixon Hunt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rhetorical methods of literary analysis, he addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space. Hunt questions our intellectual and aesthetic understanding of gardens and designed landscapes and asks how these sites affect us emotionally. Do gardens have meaning? When we visit a fine garden or designed landscape, we experience a unique work of great complexity in purpose, which has been executed over a number of years—a work that, occasionally, achieves beauty. While direct experience is fundamental, Hunt demonstrates how the ways in which gardens and landscapes are communicated in word and image can be equally important. He returns frequently to a cluster of key sites and writings on which he has based much of his thinking about garden-making and its role in landscape architecture: the gardens of Rousham in Oxfordshire; Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770); William Gilpin's dialogues on Stowe (1747); Alexander Pope's meditation on genius loci; the Désert de Retz; Paolo Burgi's Cardada; and the designs by Bernard Lassus and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Download or read book Liberty Tree written by Alfred F Young and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women and men (called, at the time, people out of doors) in shaping events during and after the Revolution, their impact on the Founding generation of the new American nation, and finally how this populist side of the Revolution has fared in public memory. Drawing on a wide range of sources, which include not only written documents but also material items like powder horns, and public rituals like parades and tarring and featherings, Young places ordinary Americans at the center of the Revolution. For example, in one essay he views the Constitution of 1787 as the result of an intentional accommodation by elites with non-elites, while another piece explores the process of ongoing negotiations would-be rulers conducted with the middling sort; women, enslaved African Americans, and Native Americans. Moreover, questions of history and modern memory are engaged by a compelling examination of icons of the Revolution, such as the pamphleteer Thomas Paine and Boston's Freedom Trail. For over forty years, history lovers, students, and scholars alike have been able to hear the voices and see the actions of ordinary people during the Revolutionary Era, thanks to Young's path-breaking work, which seamlessly blends sophisticated analysis with compelling and accessible prose. From his award-winning work on mechanics, or artisans, in the seaboard cities of the Northeast to the all but forgotten liberty tree, a major popular icon of the Revolution explored in depth for the first time, Young continues to astound readers as he forges new directions in the history of the American Revolution.
Download or read book Irish Boston written by Michael Quinlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Irish in Boston unfolds in this engagingly written history-cum-guidebook. Full of heroism and romance, politics and brawls, it tells the stories behind the well-known history and vividly portrays what life was like for the Harrigans, Gallaghers, Kelleys, Finnegans and others who made their home in Boston over the past three centuries. From the days of "No Irish Need Apply" in the 1850s to the inauguration in 1960 of the first Irish Catholic president, the Boston Irish have molded the history of the city--and the nation--in all areas of culture and society, and their spirited tale is told in these pages. The cast of characters includes such larger-than-life personalities as *Hugh O'Brien, Boston's first Irish Catholic mayor (1885) *John Singleton Copley, America's first great portrait painter *Louis Sullivan, the father of American Architecture, born in Boston's South End in 1856, *Brendan Connolly, the first top medalist in the modern Olympic Games (1896) *John L. Sullivan, world heavyweight boxing champion *Patrick Kennedy and Bridget Murphy, progenitors of the Kennedy political dynasty Those who want to do more than just read about the saga of the Irish in Boston will also find information on dozens of Irish-related historic and cultural sites, such as the Irish Famine Memorial, the Civil War Monument, St. Augustine's Cemetery, the Irish Cultural Centre, the JFK Library, and the pub where Seamus Heaney and his buddies frequently enjoyed a pint. Also included is a directory of Irish gift shops, annual events, genealogical resources, Irish organizations, and Irish-related academic courses. This one-of-a-kind guide is a complete source for the total Irish experience, both past and present.
Download or read book Insight Guides New England Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of New England, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Cape Cod National Seashore and the Freedom Trail, as well as hidden cultural gems. Insight Guide New England is ideal for travellers seeking immersive cultural experiences, from exploring the region's national parks, to discovering its finest museums In-depth on history and culture: enjoy special features on The Puritan Tradition, Literature and Sports and Outdoor activities, all written by local experts Includes innovative, unique extras to keep you up-to-date when you're on the move - this guide comes with a free eBook, and an app that highlights top attractions and regional information and is regularly updated with new hotel, bar, restaurant, shop and local event listings Invaluable maps, travel tips and practical information ensure effortless planning, and encourage venturing off the beaten track Inspirational colour photography throughout - Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy reading experience About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrasebooks, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
Download or read book The Shoemaker and the Tea Party written by Alfred F. Young and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.
Download or read book Boston written by APA Publications Staff and published by Insight Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact Guide Boston includes a chapter detailing Boston's history and culture, 6 tours and 4 excursions taking in sights ranging from the 8-mile Freedom Trail to richly historical Salem, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus detailed maps and many high quality photographs.
Download or read book Insight Guides USA on the Road written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan the perfect road trip with Insight Guide USA On The Road, an inspiring, full-colour travel guide to the ultimate American travel experience - taking to the open road across the USA:An inspirational Best of the United States section illustrates on-the-road highlights, making sure you don't miss anything these spectacular trips have to offer, from historical sites to best diners. With a longer and more in-depth history and culture section than its competitors, this guide is essential background reading for anyone who's ever dreamt of driving across the USA. The informative text, written by regional experts, is a pleasure to read and accompanied by stunning photography. Five routes covered in detail: the Atlantic Route (New York City to Florida Keys), The Northern Route (Boston to the Olympic Peninsula), the Central Route (Washington, DC to Los Angeles), the Southern Route (Atlanta to San Diego) and the Pacific Route (San Diego to Washington State). Special features on American Artists and the Road and the legendary Route 66. Lavish photo features illustrate how to make the most of your time in America's main cities. Selective listings hand-picked by our local writers for where to stay and eat; comprehensive advice to help you plan your trip: when to go, driving tips, and festivals and activities along the route.
Download or read book Insight Guides New England written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 1161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guide: New England will give you the best advice and inspiration for planning your perfect getaway. The beautiful full-colour photographs provide a unique visual guide to the state. Our detailed maps are cross-referenced to the text, so you'll always know what to look for, whether it's the latest spot to catch the colourful autumn leaves or the hippest nightclub in Boston. With a brand new Sports and Outdoor Activities chapter, this guide will leave you breathless as you explore the mountains of Vermont, the shores of Maine, and the islands of Massachusetts. Our independent hotel and restaurant listings selected by our local author guide you to the best the state has to offer. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers’ needs. Insight Guides’ unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. ‘Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.’ - Wanderlust Magazine
Download or read book Victorian Boston Today written by Mary Melvin Petronella and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries. Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips. From the South End's signature residential squares to the Black Heritage Trail to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The guidebook will fascinate Boston residents, tourists, and historians, and it will provide inspiration for the active preservation of the city's magnificent buildings and neighborhoods.
Download or read book Insight Guides Explore New England Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of topinternational destinations. Now with free eBook. Experiencethe best of New England withthis indispensably practical Insight Guides Explore book. From making sure you don't miss out on must-seeattractions like Norman Rockwell Museum to discovering hidden gems, including Maine'sAcadia National Park the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will helpyou plan your trip, save you time, and enhance your exploration of thisfascinating region. · Practical,pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this will makethe ideal on-the-move companion for your trip to New England · Enjoy over 16irresistible Best Routes to walk, from Boston to East Maine · Features conciseinsider information about landscape, history, food and drink, and entertainmentoptions · Invaluablemaps: each Best Route is accompanied by a detailed full-colour map, while thelarge pull-out map provides an essential overview of the area · Discover yourdestination's must-see sights and hand-picked hidden gems · Directorysection provides invaluable insight into top accommodation, restaurant andnightlife options by area, along with an overview of language, books and films · Includes an innovativeextra that's unique in the market - all Explore Guidescome with a free eBook · Inspirationalcolour photography throughout About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer offull-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishinghigh-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. Weproduce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrasebooks, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs.Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus onhistory and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool toinspire your next adventure.
