Glass City

Author : Jen Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996777940
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass City written by Jen Knox and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Prize Americana, Jen Knox's The Glass City and Other Stories employs weather as a mirror for the internal struggles of an indelible cast of characters. This shrewd yet playful collection of fabulist short fiction explores the dangers of extremes with subtle, elegant prose.

Author : Paul Beston
Publisher : Creators Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1949673448
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass City written by Paul Beston and published by Creators Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four-year-old newspaperman Ray Sargent is a hardened cynic in the ways of the world: he’s lost his parents and brothers, served in the Marines in France, survived the deadly flu pandemic of 1918, and written up everything from labor strikes to gambling dens. And he has a way with women—or so he supposes. But he’s never met a woman like Marian Newhouse, the beautiful, brilliant reporter with a mysterious past who shows up in Toledo, Ohio, just as the Midwest’s “glass city” is getting ready to host the biggest sports event in the world—a heavyweight championship fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard. It’s a time when everything seems up for grabs in the United States, when a midsize manufacturing city becomes the locus of national attention, and when a man who thought he had life figured out finds himself surprised by the oldest surprise of all. As a suffocating heat wave descends and Toledo’s streets fill with out-of-town visitors, Ray befriends both boxers. On July 4, with the sun beating down on thousands in an open-air arena, a bell rings to settle the issue between Dempsey and Willard—but can Ray win Marian’s heart before she marries a man she barely knows?

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781553653592
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Glass written by Douglas Coupland and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This irresistible little book offers a very different take on Vancouver, one of the world's most beautiful cities. Douglas Coupland applies his unique sensibility to everything from the Grouse Grind to glass towers, First Nations to feng shui, Kitsilano to Cantonese. Cleverly designed to mimic an underground Japanese magazine, this edition is fully updated and revised with riffs on Vancouver as a neon city, a land of treehuggers, and more.

Author : Ken Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977068135
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Will Do Better in Toledo written by Ken Levin and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara L Floyd
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472120646
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass City written by Barbara L Floyd and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headline, “Where Glass is King,” emblazoned Toledo newspapers in early 1888, before factories in the Ohio city had even produced their first piece of glass. After years of struggling to find an industrial base, Toledo had attracted Edward Drummond Libbey and his struggling New England Glass Company to the shores of the Maumee River, and many felt Toledo’s potential as “The Future Great City of the World” would at last be realized. The move was successful—though not on the level some boosters envisioned—and since 1888, Toledo glass factories have employed thousands of workers who created the city’s middle class and developed technical innovations that impacted the glass industry worldwide. But as has occurred in other cities dominated by single industries—from Detroit to Pittsburgh to Youngstown—changes to the industry it built have had a devastating impact on Toledo. Today, 45 percent of all glass is manufactured in China. Well-researched yet accessible, this new book explores how the economic, cultural, and social development of the Glass City intertwined with its namesake industry and examines Toledo’s efforts to reinvent itself amidst the Midwest’s declining manufacturing sector.

Author : U S Coast Guard
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160871177
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light List, 2011, V. 7, Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River Above the St. Regis River written by U S Coast Guard and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation.

Author : U S Coast Guard
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160916328
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light List, 2013, V. 7, Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River Above the St. Regis River written by U S Coast Guard and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. This publication contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Light List is published in seven volumes and contains lists of lights and other aids to navigation that are maintained by or under the authority of the U.S. Coast Guard and located in the waters surrounding the United States and its Territories. Each volume corresponds to a different regional area and contains more complete information on each aid to navigation than can be conveniently shown on charts. This publication and the data contained within it are maintained and published by the USCG. Related products: Transportatopm & Navigation resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/transportation-navigation "

Author : P.D. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196763
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City written by P.D. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated tribute to city dwelling surveys thousands of years of history and traces urban languages, customs, and economies, while providing mini essays on such topics as the Tower of Babel and SimCity.

Author : Transportation Department
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160897559
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light List written by Transportation Department and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Light List is published in seven volumes and contains lists of lights and other aids to navigation that are maintained by or under the authority of the U.S. Coast Guard and located in the waters surrounding the United States and its Territories. Each volume corresponds to a different regional area and contains more complete information on each aid to navigation than can be conveniently shown on charts. This publication and the data contained within it are maintained and published by the USCG.

Author : Susan Buck-Morss
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521642
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialectics of Seeing written by Susan Buck-Morss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of philosophical truth. The Paris Arcades that so fascinated Benjamin (as they did the Surrealists whose "materialist metaphysics" he admired) were the prototype, the 19th century "ur-form" of the modern shopping mall. Benjamin's dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time—from air balloons to women's fashions, from Baudelaire's poetry to Grandville's cartoons—as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a radical political critique. Buck-Morss plots Benjamin's intellectual orientation on axes running east and west, north and south—Moscow Paris, Berlin-Naples—and shows how such thinking in coordinates can explain his understanding of "dialectics at a standstill." She argues for the continuing relevance of Benjamin's insights but then allows a set of "afterimages" to have the last word.