Rich with archival research, The Once and Future New York documents the emergence of historic preservation in New York at the turn of the twentieth century. Between 1890 and 1920, preservationists saved and restored buildings, parks, and monuments throughout the city's five boroughs that represented continuity with the past.
This book is the result of the urgings of fellow Morgan State University Alumni to write an account of the life of my spouse, Carl Oliver Clark. Since he was the first in several areas to accomplish success and open the way for others to follow, it seemed appropriate to record these experiences for his children, his family members, and his friends to know and remember his journey.
In the Second Book there is much less emphasis on the personal communications between Mason and his wife than the First Book. It goes considerably beyond the first book -- to higher levels -- to include messages from ancient Greek philosophers to help us. It even takes us to ancient Egypt, with Rameses II, and to Atlantis. There are travels, in meditation, to several planets in the outer reaches of the Milky Way with Alma, Uris and Andrew. In the last section you will read about fascinating inter-dimensional exploring of planets in other universes. It ends with a welcome by Jesus to Alma and Jim to the Kingdom of God.
Everyone has a story to tell that only they know—their life story. This is my life story, a story of overcoming difficult, seemingly-impossible challenges, a love story, a story of victory, where victory seemed but just a dream. You will feel my pain as well as my joy as you read of the life of a small-town boy who grows up into the world where hate, greed, and sorrow are present everywhere . . . All these and more are defeated by the love of a wife, three children, their children, and their children’s children.
Pentecostalism came to the South following the post–Civil War holiness revival, a northern-born crusade that emphasized sinlessness and religious empowerment. With the growth of southern Pentecostal denominations and the rise of new, affluent congregants, the movement slipped cautiously into the evangelical mainstream.
There's more than one way to solve a problem, and this invaluable resource shows students how to find the solution using multiple strategies and a systematic approach that works! Designed to supplement any math textbook, the Teacher Sourcebooks and the blackline masters for each grade level provide skill-building activities that include one-step, multiple-step, and process math problems.
This book, Page of Roses, is the third book in a trilogy. Let Freedom Ring and The Last Grain Through the Hourglass are the first two. These books are a remarkable bit of American literature. The Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken, has inspired me to write Hour Glass. Finally, the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of the poem Let Freedom Ring. The last three lines of the Frost poem goes Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. I got the idea for Page of Roses from Hemingway, that if you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, it stays with you for rest of your life, for Paris is a movable feast.
In its first edition, Soils established itself as the leading textbook in the fields of pedology and soil geomorphology. Expanded and fully updated, this second edition maintains its highly organized and readable style. Suitable as a textbook and a research-grade reference, the book's introductory chapters in soil morphology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics and organisms prepare the reader for the more advanced treatment that follows. Unlike its competitors, this textbook devotes considerable space to discussions of soil parent materials and soil mixing, along with dating and paleoenvironmental reconstruction techniques applicable to soils. Although introductions to widely used soil classification systems are included, theory and processes of soil genesis and geomorphology form the backbone of the book. Replete with more than 550 high-quality figures and photos and a detailed glossary, this book will be invaluable for anyone studying soils, landforms and landscape change anywhere on the globe.
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