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Book Surroundings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Etienne S. Benson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-05-15
  • ISBN : 022670629X
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Surroundings written by Etienne S. Benson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it’s easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings, we learn that the environmental past is much more complex than it seems at first glance. In this wide-ranging history of the concept, Etienne S. Benson uncovers the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken over the last two centuries and opens our eyes to the promising new varieties of environmentalism that are emerging today. Through a series of richly contextualized case studies, Benson shows us how and why particular groups of people—from naturalists in Napoleonic France in the 1790s to global climate change activists today—adopted the concept of environment and adapted it to their specific needs and challenges. Bold and deeply researched, Surroundings challenges much of what we think we know about what an environment is, why we should care about it, and how we can protect it.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1200 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summoned

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  • Author : Iddo Tavory
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-03-11
  • ISBN : 022632219X
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Summoned written by Iddo Tavory and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles’ traffic. Those who work “Jewish jobs”—teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis—will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of observance and sociality. In Summoned, Tavory takes readers to the heart of the exhilarating—at times exhausting—life of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community. Just blocks from West Hollywood’s nightlife, the Orthodox community thrives next to the impure sights, sounds, and smells they encounter every day. But to sustain this life, as Tavory shows, is not simply a moral decision they make. To be Orthodox is to be constantly called into being. People are reminded of who they are as they are called upon by organizations, prayer quorums, the nods of strangers, whiffs of unkosher food floating through the street, or the rarer Anti-Semitic remarks. Again and again, they find themselves summoned both into social life and into their identity as Orthodox Jews. At the close of Tavory’s fascinating ethnography, we come away with a better understanding of the dynamics of social worlds, identity, interaction and self—not only in Beverly-La Brea, but in society at large.

Book Motor Age

Download or read book Motor Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of Chicago

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Chicago written by James R. Grossman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago encompasses more than 1,400 entries on such topics as neighborhoods, ethnic groups, cultural institutions, and business history, and furnishes interpretive essays on the literary images of Chicago, the built environment, and the city's sports culture.

Book The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook

Download or read book The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook written by Martha Bayne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook is an intimate exploration of the Windy City's history and identity. "Required reading"-- The Chicago Tribune Officially,

Book National Neighborhood Policy Act

Download or read book National Neighborhood Policy Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning  Case studies

Download or read book Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning Case studies written by and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings document the second Conference on Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning to be held since the 1990 census. It is the fifth in a series of related conferences (1970, 1973, 1984, and 1994). Volume 1, contains the following: Introductory Remarks, C.L. Purvis; Summary and Recommendations, A.E. Pisarski; Opening Session presentations (3); Summary of Case Studies on Uses of 1990 Census Data (5); Plenary Sessions (3); Workshop Reports (2); an Appendix containing Facsimiles of the Journey-to-Work Questions; and a list of conference participants. Volume 2, contains most of the case studies, organized into the following areas: Large Metropolitan Areas; Transit; Private Sector; Small Metropolitan Areas; and State Departments of Transportation.

Book Government Check Cashing   Lifeline  Checking  and the Community Reinvestment Act

Download or read book Government Check Cashing Lifeline Checking and the Community Reinvestment Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Macho Men and Modern Women

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  • Author : Claudia Roesch
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-10-16
  • ISBN : 3110399458
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Macho Men and Modern Women written by Claudia Roesch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudia Roesch offers a study of Mexican American families and evolving notions of masculinity and motherhood in the context of American family history. The book focuses both on the negotiation of family norms in social expert studies and on measures taken by social workers and civil-rights activists for families. The work fills gaps in research regarding the history of the American family in the 20th century, the history of Mexican Americans, and the history of social sciences. Taking a long-term perspective from the first wave of Mexican mass immigration in the 1910s and 1920s until the new social movements of the 1970s, the study takes into account influences of the Americanization and eugenics movements, modernization theory, psychoanalysis, and the Chicano civil-rights movement. Thus, Claudia Roesch offers important new findings on the nexus between the scientization of social work and changing family values in the age of modernity.

Book Billboard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-08-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Machinists  Monthly Journal

Download or read book Machinists Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Labor Market and Employment Security

Download or read book Labor Market and Employment Security written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Chicago

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Chicago written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Chicago will lead you through the best attractions the city has to offer, including fully illustrated coverage of all the major sights from Lincoln Park Zoo to the Art Institute of Chicago. The fully updated guide includes unique illustrated cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the city's architecture, plus a pull-out city map clearly marked with attractions from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Chicago provides all the insider tips you need, whether you're shopping on Michigan Avenue, enjoying the rides at the Navy Pier funfair, taking in the view from the Sears Tower, or exploring the areas outside the city. Detailed listings will guide you to hotels, restaurants, bars, nightlife, and shopping for all budgets. Street maps to guide you through the city, with reliable information on getting around. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Chicago truly shows you this city as no one else can.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1406 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Changing American Neighborhood

Download or read book The Changing American Neighborhood written by Alan Mallach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing American Neighborhood argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities. Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the forces and factors influencing them, and the people and organizations trying to change them. Challenging conventional interpretations of neighborhoods and neighborhood change, Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom adopt a broad, inter-disciplinary perspective that shows how neighborhoods are messy, complex systems, in which change is driven by constant feedback loops that link social, economic and physical conditions, each within distinct spatial and political contexts. The Changing American Neighborhood seeks to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood change not only for their own importance, but for the insights they offer to help guide peoples' efforts sustaining good neighborhoods and rebuilding struggling ones.