Building The National Parks
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Building The National Parks
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Author : Linda Flint McClelland
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1998
Building The National Parks written by Linda Flint McClelland and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt, who realized the need to improve intelligence during wartime. A rigorous recruitment process enlisted agents from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specializing in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. At its peak in 1944, the number of men and women working in the service totaled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Presenting Nature
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Author : Linda Flint McClelland
language : en
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Release Date : 1993
Presenting Nature written by Linda Flint McClelland and has been published by U.S. Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Electronic government information categories.
Grand Teton
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Author : Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson (Firm)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Grand Teton written by Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson (Firm) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.). categories.
Writings by an architect, an architectural historian, a naturalist, and a photographer enrich this book of handsome photographs. Grand Teton National Park's rugged alpine landscape and stunning array of wildlife attracts over two million visitors every year, making it one of the most popular national parks. The new Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center at Jackson Hole, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson with exhibits by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, combines the National Park Service tradition of rusticity with an architecture that is distinctly modern. The entry sequence leads visitors through a spacious, meditative courtyard into an expansive view of the vast thrusting mountains. The roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the contour of the Teton Range. The transition from stillness to action brilliantly sets up an experience of the depths and drama of the natural world. ILLUSTRATIONS: 200 colour & 50 b/w photographs & 20 illustrations
Building The Nation
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Author : Heather S. Gregg
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-12
Building The Nation written by Heather S. Gregg and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12 with History categories.
Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to "nation-build" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries focused more on what should be called state-building, or how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to what might truly be called nation-building--the process of developing a sense of shared identity, purpose, and destiny among a population within a state's borders and popular support for the state and its government. According to Gregg, efforts to stabilize states in the modern world require two key factors largely overlooked in Iraq and Afghanistan: popular involvement in the process of rebuilding the state that gives the population ownership of the process and its results and efforts to foster and strengthen national unity. Gregg offers a hypothetical look at how the United States and its allies could have used a population-centric approach to build viable states in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on initiatives that would have given the population buy-in and agency. Moving forward, Gregg proposes a six-step program for state and nation-building in the twenty-first century, stressing that these efforts are as much about how state-building is done as they are about specific goals or programs.
Building The Nation
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Author : Steven Conn
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-01-18
Building The Nation written by Steven Conn and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-18 with History categories.
Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.
Wilderness By Design
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Author : Ethan Carr
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Wilderness By Design written by Ethan Carr and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Nature categories.
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
Building On America S Best Idea
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- )
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Building On America S Best Idea written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- ) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with National parks and reserves categories.
Spending Priorities And Missions Of The National Park Service And The President S Fy 2012 Budget Proposal
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- )
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Spending Priorities And Missions Of The National Park Service And The President S Fy 2012 Budget Proposal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (2007- ) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Political Science categories.
A Brief History Of The National Park Service
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Author : James F. Kieley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
A Brief History Of The National Park Service written by James F. Kieley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with categories.
Complete Guide To The National Park Lodges
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Author : Kay Scott
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-04-14
Complete Guide To The National Park Lodges written by Kay Scott and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-14 with Travel categories.
This book is an insider’s guide to finding the best lodges throughout the United States—and to securing a reservation well in advance to beat the crowds.