This completely revised second edition of Seaside is the guide to the famous Florida resort town, complete with maps, walking tours, updated addresses, aerial views, and a look inside some of Seaside�s most beautifully decorated homes. For the first time, a complete list of every town structure and its designer is included.
Seaside: Views of a New Town is a 35-year photographic documentation, providing a unique record of how the new town of Seaside in the Florida Panhandle evolved from the visionary idea of founder Robert Davis to becoming ground zero for the New Urbanism movement, which advocates for a sensibility in town planning that had been lost but is now being employed throughout the country. Steven Brooke is an internationally recognized leader in the photography of architecture, landscape and design. Winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and the National Honor Award in Photography from the American Institute of Architects, he is the photographer of over 40 books on architecture and design. Steven is on the faculty of the University of Miami School of Architecture and hosts a popular youtube channel on architectural photography and composition.
Views of Jerusalem and the Holy Land is an essential and unique guide to the significant sites of Jewish, Christian and Muslim pilgrimage, such as the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dome of the Rock, and the Stations of the Cross. Its richly informed text, over 180 photographs and detailed captions make this book an invaluable reference as well as a meticulously crafted photographic record of late-twentieth-century Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Steven Brooke is an internationally recognized leader in the photography of architecture, landscape and design. Winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and a faculty member of the University of Miami School of Architecture, he has photographed over 40 books on architecture and design.
This handsome full-color guide provides an in-depth look at Washington, Arkansas, from events leading up to its founding in 1824 through its restoration and present-day operation.
Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke has produced a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Rome- the first collection of its kind in over 100 years. The book included 200 timeless images, historical engravings, and essays by leading art historians. Steven Brooke won the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and the National Honor Award in Photography from the American Institute of Architects. He is the photographer of over 40 books on architecture and design and is a faculty member of the University of Miami School of Architecture.
This volume takes the reader on a personal pilgrimage to the Jerusalem of Christ. It vividly depicts the most holy places of His last days on earth, culminating with the fourteen Stations of the Cross. This carefully researched, scholarly presentation brings the story of the Passion into vivid focus. For centuries, the Stations of the Cross have been a rich subject for scholars and a beloved cornerstone for the faithful. The stunning photographs in Sacred Journey present the ancient and timeless Old City of Jerusalem, and the sites of the fourteen Stations of the Cross with scholarly accuracy and artistic sensitivity. The evocative images of the streets, shrines, and chapels are accompanied by descriptive text providing insight into their history and the history of Christian pilgrimage. Let Sacred Journey take you on your own spiritual pilgrimage along this most holy path.
Stunning photos accentuate the charm of this Panhandle town. Seaside, the most successfully planned city of recent years, requires picket fences. Each must be of a different design.
In non-democratic regimes around the world, non-state organizations provide millions of citizens with medical care, schooling, childrearing, and other critical social services. Why would any authoritarian countenance this type of activism? Under what conditions does the private provision of social services generate political mobilization? And in those cases, what linkage does the provision of social services forge between the provider and recipient? In Winning Hearts and Votes, Steven Brooke argues that authoritarians often seek to manage moments of economic crisis by offloading social welfare responsibilities to non-state providers. But providers who serve poorer citizens, motivated by either charity of clientelism, will be constrained in their ability to mobilize voters because the poor depend on the state for many different goods. Organizations that serve paying customers, in contrast, may produce high quality, consistent, and effective services. This type of provision generates powerful, reputation-based linkages with a middle-class constituency more likely to support the provider on election day. Brooke backs up his novel argument with an in-depth examination of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the archetypal organization that combines social service provision with electoral success. With a fascinating array of historical, qualitative, spatial, and experimental data he traces the Brotherhood’s provision of medical services from its origins in the 1970s, through its maturation under the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, to its apogee during the country’s brief democratic interlude, 2011–2013. In addition to generating new insights into authoritarian regimes, party-voter linkages and clientelism, and the relationship between political parties and social movements, Winning Hearts and Votes details the history, operations, and political effects of the Muslim Brotherhood’s much discussed but little understood social service network.
This architectural tour of St. Augustine is filled with the history of the city embodied by buildings that for centuries were used as schools, like the Genoply School House; gracious family homes, including the Pena-Peck house; and stately houses of worship such as the Basilica Cathedral, built in the 1790s.
TWO WOMEN ONE RUN A story that left years of mystery and a chase that pulled two women apart, with one sitting at the other end of the publisher's desk trying to make sense of it all, when all was thought to be lost. This is Alexa's story "Hanging By A Wire." "A woman has a dying mother with a lot of wealth. The family asked her to take care of the mother. She went to her lawyer, explained the situation. The lawyer prepared a Trust Fund but when she left the bank later found out she was in a joint account. She met a man online, saw his picture and fell in love.After months of online moonlighting, he persuaded her to help him with some offshore businesses that never existed. She agreed and kept going to the bank and performing odd wire transfers unaware of funding terrorism until the FBI pulled her from boarding at an airport. During the representation of their client, a female paralegal decides to dig a little deeper; backtracking her client's steps and embarks on a few breadcrumbs through her emails showing that there's more behind the truth than a misleading accusation. This new found discovery threatens the fabric of two women; nowhere to turn to, . . . but this hellish chase is on!
In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. International thought leader Africa Brooke says there is another way: the Third Perspective. In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening our minds and being more self-questioning in difficult discussions. This book will help you figure out what you truly believe—as opposed to parroting or having knee-jerk reactions in conversation. You’ll learn to share your views, hear theirs, make a point you feel must be made, and try to find common ground without self-censorship or self-sabotage. This personal guide helps readers move away from rigid thinking, allowing them to enter any potentially difficult discussion about politics, work, personal responsibility, race, sex, gender, religion — whatever the subject — while maintaining integrity, authenticity, and openness, and successfully expressing opinions while listening to contrary points of view. Africa has built a successful business coaching an exclusive roster of high-profile clients seeking to handle themselves in the public eye. The tools offered in The Third Perspective have been honed over years of that experience: hers is a proven system that works. She offers readers a new path for communication, and because communication is everything, critical to building trust and fruitful relationships, a life transforming experience. Africa Brooke’s framework has three pillars—Awareness, Responsibility, and Expression—that ask: what is stopping you from speaking your mind, what do you stand for, what are you willing to risk?
The perfect keepsake of a trip to beautiful, historic Natchez, this delightful postcard book also allows a slice of the antebellum South to be sent to friends and family. Stanton Hall, the headquarters for the world-famous annual Natchez Pilgrimage, and Texada, a brick building that has served as everthing from a tavern to a town meeting hall, are but two of the architectural marvels presented.For visitors to Natchez, this postcard book will preserve many fond memories and will also allow them to send the essence of the Old South to friends and family unable to visit Natchez themselves.
Becca and her friends are staying at the castle on Ghost Island where the head scholar, Sir Leon, is only interested in dancing. He isnat the least bit concerned Paul and Amy Osteen may be running loose on his island. Steven is in real danger and time is running out. Mrs. Greenfield is no help. She can barely keep her eyes open this close to the Sensorsa hibernation season. Becca and Violet are left on their own to explore the many hidden passages beneath the castle. Will they be able to save Steven before itas too late? If you enjoyed The Diamond Traitors and The Shadow Diamond, find out whatas happening next in Beccaas third journey through the Mist.
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