Unfamiliar Streets

Author : Katherine A. Bussard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300192266
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfamiliar Streets written by Katherine A. Bussard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divRevolutionizing the history of street photography, Unfamiliar Streets demonstrates an expanded understanding of the genre through the work of a fashion photographer, a photojournalist, a conceptual artist, and a contemporary artist. /DIV

Author : Ruth Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Goddess written by Ruth Cross and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick Strelan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110182002
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Acts written by Rick Strelan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines many of the strange events and actions in Acts in the context of the Hellenistic world and from that perspective. These events and actions include the ascension of Jesus, direction by the Spirit, visions, angelophanies, prison escapes and resuscitations of the dead. Many of these events are either avoided in scholarship or are investigated with an agenda other than to understand them for themselves. The book constructs an ancient audience to be one that has a close familiarity with the Septuagint and with other Greek and Latin writings. The culturally-strange events are then interpreted through the lens of these texts.

Author : Samuel I. Schwartz
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395654
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Smart written by Samuel I. Schwartz and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. “Gridlock Sam,” one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place. When Sam Schwartz was growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn—his block belonged to his community: the kids who played punchball and stickball & their parents, who'd regularly walk to the local businesses at which they also worked. He didn't realize it then, but Bensonhurst was already more like a museum of a long-forgotten way-of-life than a picture of America's future. Public transit traveled over and under city streets—New York's first subway line opened in 1904—but the streets themselves had been conquered by the internal combustion engine. America's dependency on the automobile began with the 1908 introduction of Henry Ford's car-for-everyone, the Model T. The “battle for right-of-way” in the 1920s saw the demise of streetcars and transformed America's streets from a multiuse resource for socializing, commerce, and public mobility into exclusive arteries for private automobiles. The subsequent destruction of urban transit systems and post WWII suburbanization of America enabled by the Interstate Highway System and the GI Bill forever changed the way Americans commuted. But today, for the first time in history, and after a hundred years of steady increase, automobile driving is in decline. Younger Americans increasingly prefer active transportation choices like walking or cycling and taking public transit, ride-shares or taxis. This isn't a consequence of higher gas prices, or even the economic downturn, but rather a collective decision to be a lot less dependent on cars—and if American cities want to keep their younger populations, they need to plan accordingly. In Street Smart, Sam Schwartz explains how. In this clear and erudite presentation of the principles of smart transportation and sustainable urban planning—from the simplest cobblestoned street to the brave new world of driverless cars and trains—Sam Schwartz combines rigorous historical scholarship with the personal and entertaining recollections of a man who has spent more than forty years working on planning intelligent transit networks in New York City. Street Smart is a book for everyone who wants to know more about the who, what, when, where, and why of human mobility.

Author : Charles Divine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Town written by Charles Divine and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zach Powers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525539271
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Cosmic Velocity written by Zach Powers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cold War, the Russian space program, and the amazing fraud that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world. It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never successfully brought one back to earth. To disguise this, they've used twins. But in a nation built on secrets and propaganda, the biggest lie of all is about to unravel. Because there are no more twins left. Combining history and fiction, the real and the mystical, First Cosmic Velocity is the story of Leonid, the last of the twins. Taken in 1950 from a life of poverty in Ukraine to the training grounds in Russia, the Leonids were given one name and one identity, but divergent fates. Now one Leonid has launched to certain death (or so one might think...), and the other is sent on a press tour under the watchful eye of Ignatius, the government agent who knows too much but gives away little. And while Leonid battles his increasing doubts about their deceitful project, the Chief Designer must scramble to perfect a working spacecraft, especially when Khrushchev nominates his high-strung, squirrel-like dog for the first canine mission. By turns grim and whimsical, fatalistic and deeply hopeful, First Cosmic Velocity is a sweeping novel of the heights of mankind's accomplishments, the depths of its folly, and the people--and canines--with whom we create family.

Author : Augustus Trew Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.YQ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ribbon Roads written by Augustus Trew Wood and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Lewis Hind
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's Lesser Moods written by Charles Lewis Hind and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Blake Pierce
Publisher : Blake Pierce
ISBN 13 : 1094303690
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If She Feared (A Kate Wise Mystery—Book 6) written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) IF SHE FEARED (A Kate Wise Mystery) is book #6 in a new psychological thriller series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone (Book #1) (a free download) has received over 1,000 five star reviews. When another woman is found dead in a vacant, suburban house, the FBI must call in brilliant FBI special agent Kate Wise, 55, and ask her to come out of retirement from her suburban life to find the psychotic killer. But why is the killer staging the bodies in empty houses in suburbia? What do the victims have in common? And can Kate, despite her age, stop him in time to save another woman’s life? An action-packed thriller with heart-pounding suspense, IF SHE FEARED is book #6 in a riveting new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night. Book #7--IF SHE HEARD--is also now available!

Author : Albert Ulmann
Publisher : New York : s.n.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Landmark History of New York written by Albert Ulmann and published by New York : s.n.. This book was released on 1901 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: