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Backcountry Adventures Utah

The Ultimate Guide to the Utah Backcountry for Anyone with a Sport Utility Vehicle

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

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Backcountry Adventures Utah

The Ultimate Guide to the Utah Backcountry for Anyone with a Sport Utility Vehicle

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

Backcountry Adventures: Utah provides detailed directions for 175 backcountry roads throughout Utah, all suitable for stock sport utility vehicles. All you need is an SUV, a sense of adventure, and your copy of Backcountry Adventures: Utah. Book jacket.

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Best Places to Raise Your Family

The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S.

By: Bert Sperling,Peter Sander

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Best Places to Raise Your Family

The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S.

By: Bert Sperling,Peter Sander

Best Places to Raise Your Family: Experts Choose 100 Top Communities That You Can Afford provides timely facts and expert in-depth analysis on 100 U.S. neighborhoods in an accessible and friendly format. Whether you're mulling over the idea of relocating your family, trying to decide where to live once you have a family, or just curious about how your hometown stacks up, you’ll be intrigued by Best Places to Raise Your Family. In addition to providing population statistics, each city is ranked on a number of essential factors such as: education, standard of living, health and safety, and lifestyle. Easy-to-use tables help you put this wealth of information to work to find the place that best suits your family's special needs and interests.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470044551

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Shopping Environments

By: Peter Coleman

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Shopping Environments

By: Peter Coleman

Shopping centers have become the most common of shopping environments and have influenced the make-up of cities around the world. However, in recent years, the enclosed "mall" has evolved and diversified with new types of retail environments that were developed to better suit their locale and meet public expectation. This design guide has over 600 illustrations that present the core values and considerations that make a successful retail center: location, catchment user needs, as well as access and layout. Covering everything from site master planning to the essentials of public facilities and the technical systems, this is essential reading for architects of contemporary shopping centers. A series of international examples showcasing different types of shopping environments are included to cover the wide range of designs that have occurred in recent years. From the "out of town" mall to retail parks and mixed use town center developments, the best of contemporary design is illustrated to provide both practical information and inspiration.

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1136366504

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Music in the British Provinces, 1690–1914

By: Peter Holman

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Music in the British Provinces, 1690–1914

By: Peter Holman

The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history. Much has been done recently to revise this view, though research still tends to focus on London as the commercial and cultural hub of the British Isles. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that by the mid-eighteenth century musical activity outside London was highly distinctive in terms of its reach, the way it was organized, and its size, richness, and quality. There was an extraordinary amount of musical activity of all sorts, in provincial theatres and halls, in the amateur orchestras and choirs that developed in most towns of any size, in taverns, and convivial clubs, in parish churches and dissenting chapels, and, of course, in the home. This is the first book to concentrate specifically on musical life in the provinces, bringing together new archival research and offering a fresh perspective on British music of the period. The essays brought together here testify to the vital role played by music in provincial culture, not only in socializing and networking, but in regional economies and rivalries, demographics and class dynamics, religion and identity, education and recreation, and community and the formation of tradition. Most important, perhaps, as our focus shifts from London to the regions, new light is shed on neglected figures and forgotten repertoires, all of them worthy of reconsideration.

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The Brave New World

A History of Early America

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

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The Brave New World

A History of Early America

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

A lively synthesis of early American history, now in its third edition. The Brave New World covers the entire span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans landed on North American shores to the Revolutionary War. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this comprehensive new edition of a classic textbook brings together the most recent scholarship on the colonial and revolutionary eras, Native Americans, slavery and the slave trade, politics, war, and the daily lives of ordinary people. In this edition, Peter Charles Hoffer incorporates the wealth of innovative work on early American history, including fresh material on • environmental history • the Dutch and French Caribbean • Indigenous societies • consumer goods • mapping • captivity tales • settler imperialism • power—who has it, who wants it, how it is expressed, and how it is opposed Emphasizing how diverse and entangled the early American imperial world was, this edition also greatly expands the geographical scope of the book. An updated bibliographic essay offering short descriptions of relevant books, articles, collections, and anthologies rounds out the volume. Wide-ranging and inclusive, The Brave New World continues to provide students, instructors, and historians with an engaging and accessible history of early North America.

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1421445433

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9781421445434

Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options

An Agenda for the 21st Century

By: Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim,Peter J. McGoldrick

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Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options

An Agenda for the 21st Century

By: Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim,Peter J. McGoldrick

In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas. Existing research on transport choices to shopping areas simply looks at travel time, travel cost or distance as a measure of the 'deterrence' of getting to a retail outlet and has concentrated on the attributes of the retail outlets, thus neglecting the transport attributes. Based on a substantial study incorporating both quantitative and qualitative research, this engaging volume takes a more balanced view of both retail outlet and transport attributes. It employs a multi-method, sequential design to examine the many dimensions salient to how people evaluate transport options for shopping purposes and unravels many important issues in transport mode and retail destination choices.

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Routledge

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1351900196

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Historical Dictionary of New England

By: Peter C. Holloran

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Historical Dictionary of New England

By: Peter C. Holloran

New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. First colonized by the French in 1604 and the British in 1607, the New England colonies were the first to secede from the British Empire and were among the first states admitted to the union. No region has claimed more presidents as native sons (seven) or produced more men and women of exceptional accomplishment and fame. Many Americans see New England as a touchstone for the founding ideas of the nation, and the region served as a source of inspiration for many artists and writers. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New England.

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1538102196

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Keeping a Sharp Eye

A Century of Cartoons on South Africa's International Relations 1910-2010

By: Peter Vale

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Keeping a Sharp Eye

A Century of Cartoons on South Africa's International Relations 1910-2010

By: Peter Vale

International relations are what a government does when nobody s looking. While this may well once have been true, the conduct of international relations in South Africa and elsewhere has come under increasing scrutiny by the public. This is partially the result of specialist expertise around the formal study of international relations and the making of foreign policy, enhanced by the development of International Relations as a separate academic field. Like the growth of institutes of international affairs (or the Council on Foreign Relations, in the case of America), the study of international relations commenced at the end of the First World War (1914 18) with the establishment at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, of the first academic chair in International Relations. It was called for Woodrow Wilson, America s twenty-eighth president, and funded by Welsh businessman and pacifist David Davis. In South Africa, the study of international relations commenced with the establishment of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), which met for the first time in the Senate Chamber of the University of Cape Town on 12 May 1934. Until then International Relations had been taught in various guises within History, Law, Economics and Politics courses, but it lacked a firm institutional base. In South Africa, International Relations was first taught as a separate academic discipline at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1963 although a professorship, called for Jan Smuts, was first filled in 1961. Long before this institutional setting, however, a more subversive and certainly more spicy variety of international relations understanding and critique was at work: this was, of course, the sharp eye on foreign policy and international relations, drawn in jest and sometimes in anger by cartoonists. Their interest in international relations predates the emergence of the powerful critical perspectives that have changed and almost redirected the field since the ending of the Cold War. This book is about how these other experts have looked at and commented on South Africa s relations with the world over the past century. It examines their interpretations of unfolding events and considers how these commentators and their work interacted with the more formal understandings of foreign policy and international relations that came to pass long after cartoons first appeared. A century of South Africa s engagement with the world is, understandably, a long and complex story. Cartoons on the country were done years before the 1910 Act of Union, as some well-known cartoons of the Anglo-Boer War suggest. However, by confining my choices to a hundred years of the South African state, I have chosen firm bookends for the collection. The choice of cartoons itself requires further clarification. There is a rather worrying recent notion in South Africa that nothing that happened in the country before the historic election of 1994 matters. In April 2009, at a conference, I heard an academic colleague say that what happened in the 1930s was illegitimate and of no real relevance to the present. This lack of interest in history is both short-sighted and intellectually lazy. South Africa s international relations today are determined as much by the cartoons drawn by Boonzaier in 1910 as they are by the cartoons drawn by Zapiro in 2010. I choose these two names not only because they conveniently cover almost the full range of the alphabet, but because they run from the founding of the South African state in 1910 to the present. Their names signal something else, too. I have only chosen drawings by cartoonists who worked in South Africa. As will be clear, many cartoonists were not South African born but brought the cartoonist s trade with them to this country. As such, they brought interpretations and understandings of the world that helped to shape South Africa s perspectives on international relations. Most of the artists in this boo

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"Music in the British Provinces, 1690?914 "

By: Peter Holman

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"Music in the British Provinces, 1690?914 "

By: Peter Holman

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1351557319

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Nevada Trails Western Region

By: Peter Massey,Angela Titus,Jeanne Welburn Wilson

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Nevada Trails Western Region

By: Peter Massey,Angela Titus,Jeanne Welburn Wilson

Find exciting scenic drives hiking trails, camping areas, ghost towns, fishing spots and more! This unique FULL COLOR addition to the Adler TRAILS SERIES contains meticulous details for hundreds of miles of scenic backroads and four wheel drive trails in western Nevada, near the towns of Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, Tonopah, and Hawthorne. Meticulous trail details instruct readers how to safely navigate hundreds of miles of the region's best scenic backroads and four-wheel trails. See ghost towns, numerous old mines and mill workings, and old railroad grades along the more than 35 routes. Directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, remoteness, and more. Descriptions highlight the ideal places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee. Histories recount the days of the Wild West. Hundreds of COLOR PHOTOS.

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1930193157

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Lonely Planet Greek Islands

By: Lonely Planet,Simon Richmond,Kate Armstrong,Stuart Butler,Peter Dragicevich,Trent Holden,Anna Kaminski,Vesna Maric,Kate Morgan,Leonid Ragozin,Kevin Raub,Andrea Schulte-Peevers,Isabella Noble,Greg Ward

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Lonely Planet Greek Islands

Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Greek Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Island-hop around the Cyclades, watch stunning sunsets in Santorini and hike the Samaria Gorge in Crete - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the Greek Islands and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Greek Islands: NEW pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transport info - all you need for a smooth journey from airport to hotel Improved planning tools for family travellers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids NEW Accommodation feature gathers all the information you need to plan your accommodation NEW Where to Stay in Athens map is your at-a-glance guide to accommodation options in each neighbourhood Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Covers Athens, Crete, the Ionian Islands, the Cyclades, Santorini, the Saronic Gulf Islands, Dodecanese, the Northeastern Aegean Islands, Evia, the Sporades, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Greek Islands is perfect for discovering both popular and off-the-beaten-path experiences. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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1788689917

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Urban Energy Transition

From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power

By: Peter Droege

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Urban Energy Transition

From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power

By: Peter Droege

This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: carbon emissions policy and practice; the role of embodied energy; urban thermal performance planning; building efficiency services; energy poverty alleviation efforts; renewable community support networks; aspects of household level bio-fuel markets; urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives; innovations in individual transport systems; global urban mobility trends; implications of intelligent energy networks and distributed energy supply and storage; and the case for new regional monetary systems and lifestyles. Presented are practical and principled aspects of technology, economics, design, culture and society, presenting perspectives that are both local and international in scope and relevance.

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0080560466

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Schroeppel

By: Peter W. Huntley

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Schroeppel

By: Peter W. Huntley

Carved out of the wilderness at the end of the Revolutionary War, Schroeppel is a central New York town located in the southern section of Oswego County. The town comprises the communities of Oak Orchard, Gilberts Mills, Pennellville, and Phoenix. Schroeppel presents the unique story of this town from the days of the Paleo Indians of eleven thousand years ago to the suburban growth that reached the town by the 1980s. With a selection of some two hundred photographs, the book portrays the daily life of farmers whose hard work built and sustained the town; the site of the first frame house in the town (that of George C. Schroeppel); Underground Railroad routes; and the place where tools and other implements of daily life were invented and perfected.

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0738513083

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Backcountry Adventures Southern California

The Ultimate Guide to the Backcountry for Anyone with a Sport Utility Vehicle

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

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Backcountry Adventures Southern California

The Ultimate Guide to the Backcountry for Anyone with a Sport Utility Vehicle

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,970 miles of routes that travel through the beautiful mountain regions of Big Sur, across the arid Mojave Desert, and straight into the heart of the aptly named Death Valley. Trail history comes alive through the accounts of Spanish Missionaries; eager prospectors looking to cash in during California's gold rush; and legends of lost mines. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 153 trails, 640 pages, and 645 photos.

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Adler Publishing

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1930193262

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9781930193260

Hagi - A Feudal Capital in Tokugawa Japan

By: Peter Armstrong

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Hagi - A Feudal Capital in Tokugawa Japan

By: Peter Armstrong

The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric. As such it is a major tourist destination for both Japanese and non-Japanese visitors. The city is also very important historically in that it was the capital of the feudal daimyo domain – Chōshū – which spearheaded the reform movement from the 1850s onwards which led to the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate and the foundation of Japan in its modern form. This book, rich in detail and very well illustrated, is both an urban and social history of this important town. It outlines the development of the layout of the city and its castle, relates this to the history of its lords, the Mōri family, and their place in Japanese history; and sets Hagi in the context of the wider Chōshū domain. The book includes a discussion of contemporary arrangements aimed at preserving Hagi’s historical heritage.

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Routledge

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1351105221

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In the Steps of the Black Prince

The Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356

By: Peter Hoskins

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In the Steps of the Black Prince

The Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356

By: Peter Hoskins

The author has retraced on foot the routes taken by the Black Prince during the French campaigns of 1355-1356, enabling him to provide an entirely new dimension to the events. In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux and embarked on two chevauchées (mounted military expeditions, generally characterised by the devastation of the surrounding towns and countryside), which culminated in hisdecisive victory over King Jean II of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the recorded itineraries as his starting point, the author of this book walked more than 1,300 miles across France, retracing the routes of the armies in search of a greater understanding of the Black Prince's expedition. He followed the 1355 chevauchée from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean and back, and that for 1356 from Aquitaine to the Loire, to the battlefield at Poitiers, and back again to Bordeaux. Drawing on his findings on the ground, a wide range of documentary sources, and the work of local historians, many of whom the author met on his travels, the book provides a unique perspective on the Black Prince's chevauchées of 1355 and 1356 and the battle of Poitiers, one of the greatest English triumphs of the Hundred Years War, demonstrating in particular the impact of the landscape on the campaigns. Peter Hoskins is a former Royal Air Force pilot, now living in France. He combines his interest in exploration of his adopted country with his research into the Hundred Years War.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843838745

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Industrial Archaeology

Principles and Practice

By: Marilyn Palmer,Peter Neaverson

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Industrial Archaeology

Principles and Practice

By: Marilyn Palmer,Peter Neaverson

Industrial Archaeology sets out a coherent methodology for the discipline which expands on and extends beyond the purely functional analysis of industrial landscapes, structures and artefacts to their cultural meaning.

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Psychology Press

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0415167698

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Cities of the World

A History in Maps

By: Peter Whitfield

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Cities of the World

A History in Maps

By: Peter Whitfield

Historical and contemporary maps and photographs trace the history of more than sixty of the world's largest and most influential cities.

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Univ of California Press

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0520247256

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Cities Ranked?& Rated

More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. and Canada

By: Bert Sperling,Peter Sander

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Cities Ranked?& Rated

More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. and Canada

By: Bert Sperling,Peter Sander

Cities Ranked & Rated: Your Guide to the Best Places to Live in the U.S. & Canada provides timely facts and unbiased information on over 400 U.S. and 30 Canadian cities in an easy-to-access format. Whether you're mulling over the idea of relocating, trying to decide where to start out, or just curious about how your hometown stacks up, you’ll be intrigued by Cities Ranked & Rated. In addition to providing population statistics, each city is ranked on a number of essential factors, many of which are of vital interest in today's economy. Categories include: economy and jobs, cost of living, climate, education, health and health care, crime, transportation, leisure, and arts and culture. Easy-to-use tables help you put this wealth of information to work to find the city that best suits your special needs and interests.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764568698

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Hot Towns

The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America

By: Peter Wolf

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Hot Towns

The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America

By: Peter Wolf

Hot Towns is about the vast national relocation of one million Americans a year. Successful, well-financed people are moving to communities they view as choice -- places distinguished by fine climate, physical beauty, abundant natural recreation resources, and minimal social problems and low crime.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813530431

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Reading the Market

Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America

By: Peter Knight

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Reading the Market

Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America

By: Peter Knight

America’s fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age. Winner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American Studies Americans pay famously close attention to “the market,” obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers’ newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He also introduces readers to fiction featuring financial tricksters, which was characterized by themes of personal trust and insider information. The book reveals how the popular culture of the period shaped the very idea of the market as a self-regulating mechanism by making the impersonal abstractions of high finance personal and concrete. From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance—and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.

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1421420619

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Super Minds American English Level 5 Student's Book with DVD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Günter Gerngross,Peter Lewis-Jones

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Super Minds American English Level 5 Student's Book with DVD-ROM

By: Herbert Puchta,Günter Gerngross,Peter Lewis-Jones

Super Minds American English is a seven-level course for young learners. Written by a highly experienced author team, Super Minds enhances your students' thinking skills, improving their memory along with their language skills. This Level 5 Student's Book includes activities to develop language creatively, functional language practice through communicative exercises, and stories and cross-curriculum sections that explore social values. The fabulous DVD-ROM features documentaries, interactive games, lively songs with karaoke versions, and fun videokes that allow students to record themselves and play different roles. Class Audio CDs, including audio from the Student's Book and Workbook, are sold separately.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107604400

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Streets of Hope

The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

By: Peter Medoff,Holly Sklar

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Streets of Hope

The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

By: Peter Medoff,Holly Sklar

Using the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston's most impoverished neighborhood as a case stuudy, the authors show how effective organizing reinforces neighborhood leadership, encourages grassroots power and leads to successful public-private partnerships and comprehensive community development.--Prof. Norman Krumholz

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South End Press

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0896084825

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Conservation and the City

By: Peter Larkham

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Conservation and the City

By: Peter Larkham

It is a widely held belief that cities must change, or they will wither and die. One of the key problems of urbanization is how to cope with these changes while retaining the structures constructed and maintained by previous generations. Conservation and the City is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs and even tiny villages - and how the activites of conservation interact with the planning system. Using detailed case studies from Britain and the Westernized world, the author examines some of the key social, economic and psychological ideas which support conservation, as well as studying the urban landscape and the agents of change. Conservation and the City seeks to understand urban conservation, and in doing so presents possible solutions for managing change in the built environment of the future.

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1134896603

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Jan van der Heyden

By: Peter C. Sutton,Jonathan Bikker,Rijksmuseum (Netherlands),Bruce Museum of Arts and Science (Greenwich, Estados Unidos)

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Jan van der Heyden

By: Peter C. Sutton,Jonathan Bikker,Rijksmuseum (Netherlands),Bruce Museum of Arts and Science (Greenwich, Estados Unidos)

A remarkably versatile man, Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) was the preeminent painter of cityscapes in the Netherlands and the first artist to capture all the beauty of the urban scene. Notwithstanding his achievements as an artist, Van der Heyden was even more famous in his own time as an inventor and engineer: he invented firefighting equipment that set the standard throughout Europe for two centuries, and he perfected the streetlamp. This is the first book in English devoted to Van der Heyden. It includes recent discoveries about his fascinating life and offers an introduction to his ravishing art. The book includes a general discussion of Van der Heyden’s work, entries on 40 of his paintings, illustrations of about 100 of his paintings, as well as supplemental drawings and prints. Focusing mainly on the bustling city of Amsterdam, he also recorded other Dutch, Flemish, and German cities with a brilliant palette and exceptionally detailed technique. Often innovative in his composition, he was the first artist to create imaginary scenes by rearranging existing city views and known buildings.

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Yale University Press

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0300119704

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9780300119701

Building for a Changing Climate

The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy

By: Peter F. Smith

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Building for a Changing Climate

The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy

By: Peter F. Smith

There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming increasingly clear that a large part of our resources will have to be directed towards adapting to new climatic conditions, with talk of survivability replacing sustainability as the new and most pressing priority. Nowhere is this more evident than in the built environment -- the stage on which our most important interactions with climatic conditions are played out.

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Earthscan

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1849774390

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9781849774390

The Hidden Places of England

By: Peter Long

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The Hidden Places of England

By: Peter Long

England's landscape is as diverse as its culture. It is a country with magnificent landscapes. This guide looks at the more established places of interest throughout the country, but it also focuses on the more secluded and little known visitor attractions and places to stay, eat and drink.

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Travel Publishing Ltd

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1904434126

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9781904434122

Backcountry Adventures Arizona

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

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Backcountry Adventures Arizona

By: Peter Massey,Jeanne Wilson

Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,671 miles of the state's most remote and scenic back roads ? from the lowlands of the Yuma Desert to the high plains of the Kaibab Plateau. Trail history is colorized through the accounts of Indian warriors like Cochise and Geronimo; trail blazers; and the famous lawman Wyatt Earp. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 157 trails, 576 pages, and 524 photos (both color and historic).

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Adler Publishing

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1930193289

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9781930193284

The New Kingdom Royal City

By: Peter Lacovara

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The New Kingdom Royal City

By: Peter Lacovara

Comparing other sites along the Nile with Tell el-Amarna, which is generally accepted as the paradigm for Egyptian urban settlements, the assistant curator for ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston finds a mental template of urban structure in ancient Egypt. He compares both the overall community layout and forms of individual structures such as palaces, administration buildings, workers' villagers, and houses. Double spaced. Illustrated with line drawings. No index. Distributed in the US by Kegan. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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