Desolation Of A City

Author : Charles Phythian-Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521525008
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desolation of a City written by Charles Phythian-Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly documented case-study of urban crisis and decline in late-medieval England.

Author : John Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.RL/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Cities of the World in Their Glory and in Their Desolation, Embracing Cities of Europe, Asia, Africa and America written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Cities of the World, in Their Glory and in Their Desolation written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Peyton Nevius
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356425
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Refuge written by Marcus Peyton Nevius and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.

Author : Arkady Martine
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 125018648X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Desolation Called Peace written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Now a USA Today bestseller! Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2021 Amazon's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Bookpage's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Science Fiction Book of 2021 "[An] all around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, on A Memory Called Empire A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . . Also by Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Brent D. Ryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206584
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design After Decline written by Brent D. Ryan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban design vision will guide their future remain contentious and unknown. In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes. Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the cost of innovative urban design and planning. Ryan proposes that the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents.

Author : P. J. Tracy
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250830192
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desolation Canyon written by P. J. Tracy and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.J. Tracy “seems to have found her literary sweet spot” (New York Times Book Review) with her dazzling new series, and in Desolation Canyon, fans get a deeper look into the complex characters who call Los Angeles home. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic parents offer little support – they refuse to address anything difficult, and she’s afraid their relationship is eroding beyond the point of recovery. The days off are the hardest, because they give Margaret time to think. A moment of weakness leads to cocktails with a colleague—an attraction she knows could be dangerous —at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air bar. A stroll through the grounds leads to a grim discovery beneath the surface of Swan Lake: the body of a successful attorney who made his fortune in international trade. It initially appears to be death by misadventure, but the case is anything but straightforward. As a series of shocking revelations emerge, Nolan finds herself confronting a sinister cabal that just might destroy her and everyone she loves.

Author : Louis Edward Hills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Light on American Archaeology written by Louis Edward Hills and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Kuegele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZC/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Sermons. New Series written by Frederick Kuegele and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas O'Malley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819471X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Magnificent Desolation written by Thomas O'Malley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost on the open plains of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world - and his wounds run deep too. Thrown into this mysterious adult world, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio, from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home, and dreams of finding his real father. A heart-breaking, staggering, soaring novel, This Magnificent Desolation allows a child's perspective to illuminate a dark world, and explores the creeping devastation of war, the many facets of loneliness, the redemptive power of the imagination, and the possibility of a kind of grace.