Pamphlet Architecture 26: Thirteen Projects for the Sheridan Expressway

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Conceived as a set of "Flexible Standards," this new addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series proposes a new way of thinking about roadways in cities. By reexamining the urban expressway as a political, physical, and mythic manifestation of American culture, this compelling pamphlet serves as a design manual for planners, a novel atlas for drivers, and a collection of proposals that reaffirm the role of architecture in urban planning.
The thirteen projects take as their subject a site of contested transportation infrastructure -- the Sheridan Expressway. By proposing new typologies for this site, these studies seek to mediate the spaces in the city where local and regional meet. Referencing the introduction of the modern parkway into the Bronx, the grading of the Central Park transverse roads, and other works that have redefined the relationship between parks and roads, author Jonathan Solomon suggests a system by which large projects might again be built in American cities.

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Description: I Only Want You To Love Me is the result of a six-month commission undertaken by Phil Collins in Brighton, England, as part of the first Brighton Photo Biennial. This first book by the artist brings together a diverse range of images, unfolding as an intimate, diaristic account of Collins' life and work, allowing the viewer to engage in the artist's ongoing ideas and production processes. Collins' sees a fundamental importance in photography's ability to bring people together: his artistic practice is in some ways incidental, a mechanism that allows him to establish relationships with others on the most basic level. His portraiture rests on delicate and intimate exchanges that arise in face of the ambiguous presence of the camera, and his photographs are at once beautiful, personal and contentious. Collins carefully records his relationships with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances--refugees, asylum seekers, support workers, close friends, and brief acquaintances--making poignant and personal connections between far-flung places, from Brighton, New York City, and Belfast to Kosovo, Palestine, and Serbia.

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Interest and attention to entrepreneurship has exploded in recent years. Yet, much of the research and scholarship has remained elusive to academics, policymakers and other researchers. This reflects two crucial aspects of the entrepreneurship literature. First has been the explosion of new findings and insights, both theoretically and empirically. Second, most of this scholarship has been rooted in traditional academic disciplines, spanning a broad spectrum of fields such as management, finance, economics, sociology and psychology. The purpose of the Handbook of Entrepreneurship is to bring together leading scholars from each of these disciplines to provide an overview of what the issues are for entrepreneurship when viewed through the lens provided by the academic disciplines as well as a synthesis about what has been learned and what questions should be high on the agenda for future research. Taken together, this Handbook will provide a roadmap to an emerging complex but intriguing field of entrepreneurship.

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This is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas. All youth ministry oriented ideas dealing with administration, publicity, and fundraising are thoroughly covered in this vital addition to your library.

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Great Ideas at a Good Price.......1999-02-06

A very good book for small churches that would like to expand their youth group. Gives good help on funding the youth group with little or no church support.

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Administration Publicity & Fundraising
Youth Specialties
Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OT1JD4

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Administration, Publicity, & Fundraising
Spring Arbor
Manufacturer: Spring Arbor Distributors
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0310000394

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The best-selling author of Super Nutrition for Menopause shows how parasites not only attack the digestive system, but can also disrupt the immune system.

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They Are Everywhere!.......2000-09-20

This is an excellent, concise guide that will help you figure out if you or a loved one has parasites. What is even better is the program for eliminating parasites from your body. I have been looking everywhere for help and this is the first place I have found hope that I can overcome my parasite problem. Anyone who has a chronic illness should carefully read this book and consider whether or not parasites could be the true cause of their disease.

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Tom Pike joined the Royal Air Force on 17 January 1924 as a Flight Cadet at Cranwell. During a long and varied career in peace and war he held a wide variety of RAF appointments around the world and when he eventually retired he had held the ultimate post in the RAF, that of Chief of Air Staff and also that of Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe.

This book, written by his son, is an account of his leadership of No 219 Night Fighter Squadron based at Tangmere in 1941. Then a Wing Commander and also CO of the squadron, Tom nevertheless found enough time to fly operationally and during his 10 months with 219 he and his crew shot down five night-raiding Luftwaffe aircraft and damaged several more. This book, based on his father's log books, notes and conversations, has allowed Richard Pike to describe in vivid detail, the game of cat and mouse that was played in the night-time skies over southern England and the English Channel in those early desperate wartime years.

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AN ENTERTAINING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK.......2004-01-30

I have read Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, An Illustrated History by Mr. McIver and thought that was a great book. But his newest one is even better! It is a fascinating story not only about the struggle between Walter Smith and Guy Bradley, but also about the plume trade and its major players, the Audubon Society's foundations, important people in South Florida's history who had their hands in the plume trade, and just interesting stories about "the way things were" in the late 1800s early 1900s.

He interviewed several significant historical people and their descendents, mostly in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he originally attempted to write this book. 25 years later, he has created a masterpiece. He has obtained an amazing amount of research information, and the reader will be very happy he spent time to read it.

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Death in the Everglades The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism
McIver Stuart B.
Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UETOKI

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