Unfathomable City
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Unfathomable City
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Unfathomable City written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with History categories.
Presents twenty-two color maps and accompanying essays providing details on the people, ecology, and culture of the city.
Infinite City
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-11-29
Infinite City written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-29 with History categories.
What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.
Nonstop Metropolis
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Nonstop Metropolis written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with Social Science categories.
This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.
The Faraway Nearby
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-06-13
The Faraway Nearby written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
Maximum City
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Author : Suketu Mehta
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-10-21
Maximum City written by Suketu Mehta and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-21 with Social Science categories.
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Hollow City
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Hollow City written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Social Science categories.
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
The City Of Tomorrow
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Author : Carlo Ratti
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-28
The City Of Tomorrow written by Carlo Ratti and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Science categories.
Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear—cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions of the many possibilities for tomorrow’s city. Pervasive digital systems that layer our cities are transforming urban life. The authors provide a front-row seat to this change. Their work at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory allows experimentation and implementation of a variety of urban initiatives and concepts, from assistive condition-monitoring bicycles to trash with embedded tracking sensors, from mobility to energy, from participation to production. They call for a new approach to envisioning cities: futurecraft, a symbiotic development of urban ideas by designers and the public. With such participation, we can collectively imagine, examine, choose, and shape the most desirable future of our cities.
Essays Of Schopenhauer
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2010-06-01
Essays Of Schopenhauer written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
"These essays are a valuable criticism of life by a man who had a wide experience of life, a man of the world, who possessed an almost inspired faculty of observation. Schopenhauer, of all men, unmistakably observed life at first hand. There is no academic echo in his utterances; he is not one of a school; his voice has no formal intonation; it is deep, full-chested, and rings out its words with all the poignancy of individual emphasis, without bluster, but with unfailing conviction. He was for his time, and for his country, an adept at literary form; but he used it only as a means. "
We Cast A Shadow
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Author : Maurice Carlos Ruffin
language : en
Publisher: One World
Release Date : 2019-01-29
We Cast A Shadow written by Maurice Carlos Ruffin and has been published by One World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-29 with Fiction categories.
“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white “Stunning and audacious . . . at once a pitch-black comedy, a chilling horror story and an endlessly perceptive novel about the possible future of race in America.”—NPR LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD, AND THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST “You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father, our narrator just wants the best for his son, Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? This electrifying, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov. We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.
Down In New Orleans
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Author : Billy Sothern
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-08-27
Down In New Orleans written by Billy Sothern and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-27 with History categories.
Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in New Orleans four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story.