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Appalachian Folkways

by John B. (Professor, University Of Tennessee) Rehder

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 With its broad scope and deep research, Appalachian Folkways accurately and evocatively chronicles a way of life that is fast disappearing.
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City Building On The Eastern Frontier - Sorting The New Nineteenth-Century City

by Diane (Assistant Professor Of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University) Shaw

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 Shaw's groundbreaking model of early nineteenth-century urban design and spatial culture is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the American city.
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Greenways For America

by Charles E. Little

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 A description of the citizen-led effort to get Americans out of their cars and into the landscape via greenways - linear open spaces that preserve and restore nature in cities, suburbs and rural areas. These can link parks and open spaces and provide corridors for wildlife migration.
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The Delaware Valley In The Early Republic - Architecture, Landscape, And Regional Identity

by Gabrielle M. (Assistant Professor, James Madison University) Lanier

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 The Delaware Valley emerges from this boldly interdisciplinary study as a mosaic of localities that reflects underlying tensions in the American experience.
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Building San Francisco'S Parks, 1850â€“1930

by Terence (Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Young

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 Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.
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Benton Mackaye - Conservationist, Planner, And Creator Of The Appalachian Trail

by Larry (University Of Georgia) Anderson

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 This book will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals in preservation, conservation, recreation, planning, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in these subjects.
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Suburban Landscapes - Culture And Politics In A New York Metropolitan Community

by Paul H. (New York University) Mattingly

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 Oral histories, census records, and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace not only the community's socially diverse history, but to show how residents viewed the growth and transformation of Leonia as well.
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John Nolen And Mariemont - Building A New Town In Ohio

by Millard F., Jr. Rogers

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 Regarded in the 1920s as an exemplar of planned communities, Mariemont remains one of America's most livable suburbs and has drawn great interest from the New Urbanism movement.
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Entrepreneurial Vernacular - Developers' Subdivisions In The 1920s

by Carolyn S. (Central Michigan University) Loeb

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 The author explores how the suburban tract house came to dominate American housing. Her discussion of the historical and structural forces that propelled these changes focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s and the realtors, architects and builders who realized them.
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Silent Screens - The Decline And Transformation Of The American Movie Theater

by Michael (Photographer) Putnam

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 The single-screen movie theatres of small-town America's main streets are all but gone. In this volume, photographer Michael Putnam captures the cinemas in decline and transformation in portraits of abandoned movie houses. The pictures are accompanied by moviegoers' reminiscences.
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Petrolia - The Landscape Of America'S First Oil Boom

by Brian (Assistant Professor, Penn State Altoona) Black

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 Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.
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Hamilton Park - A Planned Black Community In Dallas

by William H. Wilson

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 Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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Beyond The First Amendment - The Politics Of Free Speech And Pluralism

by Samuel P. (Assistant Professor, University Of Toledo) Nelson

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 Advocating an approach grounded in value pluralism-which describes a wider variety of free speech claims than the First Amendment allows-Nelson pushes the debate beyond constitutional and legal questions.
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Curt Richter - A Life In The Laboratory

by Jay (Director, The American Congress Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists) Schulkin

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 For this book, Jay Schulkin mined six decades of Richter's archived research data, personal documents, and interviews to flesh out an engaging portrait of a "laboratory artisanin the context of his work.
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Uneasy Balance - Civil-Military Relations In Peacetime America Since 1783

by Thomas S. Langston

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 With the shocking events of September 11, 2001, clarifying the seriousness of the post-Cold War military policy, we may at last be moving toward a true realignment of civilian and military imperatives.
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The Los Angeles River - Its Life, Death, And Possible Rebirth

by Blake Gumprecht

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 The Los Angeles River offers the first comprehensive account of a river that helped give birth to one of the world's great cities, significantly shaped its history, and promises to play a key role in its future.
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Across This Land - A Regional Geography Of The United States And Canada

by John C. (Northwestern University) Hudson

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Religion And Violence - Philosophical Perspectives From Kant To Derrida

by Hent (Professor Of Humanities & Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University) De Vries

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 Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida's careful posing of such questions and rearticulations pioneers new modalities for systematic engagement with religion and philosophy alike.
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The Romantic Sublime - Studies In The Structure And Psychology Of Transcendence

by Thomas Weiskel

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 In working to demystify the sublime, Weiskel emphasizes the task of intelligence by assigning morality and intellect the value of mistrust in sublimation.
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Britain And China

by Evan Luard

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 The third part discusses what contemporary issues in British-Chinese relations were at the time the book was written.
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The English Landed Estate In The Nineteeth Century - Its Administration

by David Spring

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 Among these are Christopher Haedy, the Duke of Bedford's chief agent; James Loch, king of estate agents in nineteenth-century England; Henry Morton, the Earl of Durham's land agent; and William Blamire and James Caird, two of the Inclosure Commissioners.
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Jane Austen Among Women

by Deborah Kaplan

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 Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's culture that promoted female authority and achievement-a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but influenced her fiction.
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Legal Philosophy From Plato To Hegel

by Huntington Cairns

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 The inventory of philosophers that Cairns examines includes Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Hegel.
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Entrepreneurial Vernacular - Developers' Subdivisions In The 1920s

by Carolyn S. (Central Michigan University) Loeb

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 Decentralized and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurialvernacular.
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