Inventing Niagara
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Inventing Niagara
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Author : Ginger Strand
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-05-06
Inventing Niagara written by Ginger Strand and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-06 with History categories.
Strand reveals the hidden history of America's most iconic natural wonder, Niagara Falls, illuminating what it says about our history, our relationship with the environment, and ourselves.
The Yankee Road
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Author : James D. McNiven
language : en
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Release Date : 2015
The Yankee Road written by James D. McNiven and has been published by Wheatmark, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Animal City
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Author : Andrew A. Robichaud
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-17
Animal City written by Andrew A. Robichaud and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with History categories.
American urbanites once lived alongside livestock and beasts of burden. But as cities grew, human–animal relationships changed. The city became a place for pets, not slaughterhouses or working animals. Andrew Robichaud traces the far-reaching consequences of this shift—for urban landscapes, animal- and child-welfare laws, and environmental justice.
Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 To 1900 Reconstructing Their Architecture And Political Philosophy
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Author : Tessa Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 To 1900 Reconstructing Their Architecture And Political Philosophy written by Tessa Morrison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Architecture categories.
Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella’s Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy’s Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author’s political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht Dürer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts:
Yours Til Niagara Falls
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Author : Brenda Z. Guiberson
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Release Date : 2022-06-28
Yours Til Niagara Falls written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and has been published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A thrilling, fact-filled history of Niagara Falls, following its evolution from the age of dinosaurs to its future disintegration. Millions of years ago, Niagara Falls was not a waterfall. Back then, ocean covered the land. Eighteen thousand years ago, all that water was locked up in ice. Then 12,500 years ago, the ice melted! It gushed into lakes that flowed into a river that plunged over a steep cliff. Crash! Roar! Sploosh! That was the noisy beginning of one of the world’s most majestic waterfalls. Experience the incredible history of this misty, mystical cascade of water, told from the perspective of Niagara Falls itself. Godwin Books
Border Patrol Nation
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Author : Todd Miller
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Border Patrol Nation written by Todd Miller and has been published by City Lights Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of US Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for free society.
Book Lust To Go
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Author : Nancy Pearl
language : en
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Release Date : 2010-06-01
Book Lust To Go written by Nancy Pearl and has been published by Sasquatch Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.
The Age Of Edison
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Author : Ernest Freeberg
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-21
The Age Of Edison written by Ernest Freeberg and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
The Age Of Loneliness
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Author : Laura Marris
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2024-08-06
The Age Of Loneliness written by Laura Marris and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with Literary Collections categories.
In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closest to us? Filled with equal parts alienation and wonder, each essay immerses readers in a different strange landscape of the Eremocene. Among them are the Buffalo airport with its snowy owls and the purgatories of commuter flights, layovers, and long-distance relationships; a life-size model city built solely for self-driving cars; the coasts of New England and the ever-evolving relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs; and the Connecticut woods Marris revisits for the first time after her father’s death, where she participates in the annual Christmas Bird Count and encounters presence and absence in turn. Vivid, keenly observed, and driven by a lively and lyrical voice, The Age of Loneliness is a moving examination of the dangers of loneliness, the surprising histories of ecological loss, and the ways that community science—which relies on the embodied evidence of “ground truth”—can help us recognize, and maybe even recover, what we’ve learned to live without.
Utopia Drive
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Author : Erik Reece
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2024-09-04
Utopia Drive written by Erik Reece and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-04 with History categories.
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political crises--that for the first time in our history, we were being swept into a future that had no future. Where did we--here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows--go wrong? Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. What followed was a giant road trip and research adventure through the sites of America's utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic. What he uncovered was not just a series of lost histories and broken visionaries but also a continuing and vital but hidden idealistic tradition in American intellectual history. Utopia Drive is an important and definitive reconstruction of that tradition. It is also, perhaps, a new framework to help us find a genuinely sustainable way forward. " ... an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers." - Publishers Weekly