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INSIDE GLASS TOWERS

Author : Jackie Lynaugh
Publisher : Southern Soul Novels
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book INSIDE GLASS TOWERS written by Jackie Lynaugh and published by Southern Soul Novels. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of luxury on a captivating private island in Palm Beach, Florida. A place with deep pockets and gorgeous views. Eve had always been the attention-getter. The big sister who was ahead of her time, and never just the girl next door. Gab, the little sister, always felt she had to catch up with Eve to find her way until she graduated from college. Life caught up with both sisters. Will secrets derail their chance to find love? Danger lurks nearby, and it forever changed their life when Alva McGyver, a Navy SEAL alpha male, enters their lives. ***** "A heart-wrenching and riveting story. I was hooked from the very first page." Read to Getaway “INSIDE GLASS TOWERS will take you deep into other people's homes and lives. You will become captivated by their darkest secrets. Along the way, you applaud for the antagonist to live, and transfixed in who wins in a love triangle." — NiaJDaniels "Amazing journey, many light bulb moments throughout the book, that reached beyond the pages. Family comes first and the story takes you through trauma, survival, and love at all cost." Highly Recommend "What a great book from cover to cover! Once you start reading it, you can't put it down. I experienced a lot of emotions throughout the book. It is a story that should definitely be made into a movie. Every character is interesting and unforgettable. The author does a phenomenal job in writing and with explicit details. I saw everything that she wrote. I felt like I was living there with them. I had an amazing journey which won't be forgotten for years to come." Anne

Glass Towers

Author : Adler Holt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481844369
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Glass Towers written by Adler Holt and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful small-town interior decorator Danielle Austen-Pyne has finally rid herself of her charismatic two-timing husband Bradley Pyne. While she has sworn off men, Danielle secretly retains her romantic ideals about love and marriage.HARRISON TOWERS, an enigmatic mega mogul, however, has turned his own romantic loss into a coldly cynical attitude about relationships and women. This sexual master has vowed to keep his relationships strictly physical with no strings attached.This powerful business tycoon is about to break all of Danielle's rules and his own, as they embark on an intensely erotic and passionate, no-strings attached relationship.As Danielle gets closer to Harrison Towers, she quickly learns being in Harrison's world is not all glamour when power, lust, money, greed and danger present themselves at every angle and threatens to tear them apart.

Tower of Dawn

Author : Sarah J. Maas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1681195801
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Tower of Dawn written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious empire. A desperate quest. An ancient secret. The search for allies extends to a new land in the sixth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent, whose vast armies are Erilea's last hope. But they have also come to Antica for another purpose: to seek healing at the famed Torre Cesme for the wounds Chaol received in Rifthold. After enduring unspeakable horrors as a child at the hands of Adarlanian soldiers, Yrene Towers has no desire to help the young lord from Adarlan, let alone heal him. Yet she has sworn an oath to assist those in need, and she will honor it. But Lord Westfall carries his own dark past, and Yrene soon realizes that those shadows could engulf them both. Chaol, Nesryn, and Yrene will have to draw on every scrap of their resilience to overcome the danger that surrounds them. But while they become entangled in the political webs of the khaganate, long-awaited answers slumber deep in the mountains, where warriors soar on legendary ruks. Answers that might offer their world a chance at survival . . . or doom them all. The final battle looms in this sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.

Vancouverism

Author : Larry Beasley
Publisher : On Point Press
ISBN 13 : 0774890339
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Vancouverism written by Larry Beasley and published by On Point Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But after the city hosted Expo 86, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable urban centre was transformed into an inspiring world-class city celebrated for its livability, sustainability, and competitiveness. This book tells the story of the urban planning phenomenon called “Vancouverism” and the philosophy and practice behind it. Writing from an insider’s perspective, Larry Beasley, a former chief planner of Vancouver, traces the principles that inspired Vancouverism and the policy framework developed to implement it. A prologue, written by Frances Bula, outlines the political and urban history of Vancouver up until the 1980s. The text is also beautifully illustrated by the author with 200 colour photographs depicting not only the city’s vibrancy but also the principles of Vancouverism in action.

The Dark Tower IV

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501143557
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Tower IV written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Roland the Gunslinger and his companions leap between worlds, he relates his experiences with the elusive, powerful emotion of love in a journey into his own past.

The Los Angeles Watts Towers

Author : Bud Goldstone
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892364916
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book The Los Angeles Watts Towers written by Bud Goldstone and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia are one of the unique treasures of Los Angeles and the product of one man's obsession. Rodia, a poor Italian immigrant, settled in a sleepy railway junction south of downtown in 1921 and spent the next thirty-four years single-handedly assembling a frenzy of shapes and color. Rising to one hundred feet, the towers were built without machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds - or plans!" "Bud Goldstone, who knew Rodia personally, and Arloa Paquin Goldstone have worked to preserve the towers since 1959. They tell the exciting story of how the towers were first rescued from demolition by the City of Los Angeles itself and then saved from natural and man-made disasters. They present new biographical information about Rodia and his innovative techniques and discuss the towers as art, as architecture, and as a singular expression of urban culture in Southern California."--Page 4 of cover.

From Ivory Tower to Glass House

Author : Andrew Policano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997336207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book From Ivory Tower to Glass House written by Andrew Policano and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education is facing unprecedented stress. The combined effects of rising tuition, growing student debt and a challenging job market are raising serious concerns about the value of a college degree. At the same time, global competition and technological innovations are disrupting traditional educational models. Universities are under intense scrutiny as students, parents and legislators demand a more efficient, lower cost educational platform. No longer can universities expect to receive support with little accountability. Indeed, the insular ivory tower existence long cherished by universities is rapidly disappearing. This environment requires a radically different strategy, one that is guided by multifaceted leaders who not only understand academic culture but who also have a keen sense of business acumen. The purpose of this book is to both identify and analyze current challenges facing higher education and then to develop the requisite skill set for academic leaders to address them.Today's university requires leaders who not only understand and appreciate academic values, but who are also well versed in strategy, finance, human resources, external relations and fundraising. Some universities are looking outside academia to find leaders who possess the required background and experience. Faculty members strongly resist this external intervention but who among them is capable and willing to assume a leadership role? Most faculty members do not have the training, experience or even empathy to take on a leadership role, especially one confounded by the current mounting pressures. The discussion analyzes the tradeoffs facing a faculty member who is considering a leadership path and examines the strategies required to succeed in this rapidly changing environment.

Eco-Towers

Author : K. Al-Kodmany
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784660175
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Towers written by K. Al-Kodmany and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-Towers introduces readers to groundbreaking designs, most progressive projects, and innovative ways of thinking about a new generation of green skyscrapers that could provide solutions to crises the world faces today including climate change, depleting resources, deteriorating ecology, population increase, decreasing food supply, urban heat island effect, pollution, deforestation, and more. The book suggests that the eco-tower culminates the cultural and technological evolutions of the 21st century by building and improving on the experiences of earlier designs of skyscrapers and philosophies particularly green, sustainable, and ecological. It argues that the true green skyscraper is the one that engages successfully with its larger urban context by establishing symbiotic relationships with the social, economic, and environmental aspects. Since tall buildings are becoming larger and taller, serving greater number of people, and exerting higher demand on the environment and existing infrastructure, any improvements in their design and construction will significantly enhance urban conditions. The book elucidates how green skyscrapers better serve tenants, mitigate environmental impacts, and improve integration with the city infrastructure. It explains how skyscrapers’ long life cycle offers the greatest justifications for recycling precious resources, and makes it a worthwhile to employ green features in constructing new skyscrapers and retrofitting existing ones. Subsequently, the book explores new designs that are employing cutting-edge green technologies at a grand scale including water-saving technologies, solar panels, helical wind turbines, sunlight-sensing LED lights, rainwater catchment systems, graywater and blackwater recycling systems, seawater-powered air conditioning, and the like. In the future, new building materials and smart technologies will continue to offer innovative design approaches to sustainable tall buildings with new aesthetics, referred to as “eco-iconic” skyscrapers.

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers

Author : Rachael Johnstone
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774869275
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers written by Rachael Johnstone and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as Canadian universities suggest their gender issues have largely been resolved, many women in academia tell a different story. Systemic discrimination, the underrepresentation of women in more senior and lucrative roles, and the belief that gender-related concerns will simply self-correct with greater representation add up to a serious gender problem. Although these issues are widely acknowledged, reliable data is elusive. Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers fills this research gap with a cross-disciplinary, data-driven investigation of gender inequality in Canadian universities. Research presented in this book reveals, for example, that women are more likely to hold sessional teaching positions and to face difficulties obtaining funding. They are also poorly represented at the upper echelons of the professoriate and must contend with a gender pay gap that widens as they move up the ranks. Contributors consider the daily grind of academic life, social, structural, and systemic challenges, and the gendered dynamics of university leadership, all with an eye to laying the groundwork for practical and meaningful institutional change.

Chihuly Chandeliers & Towers

Author : Dale Chihuly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781576841747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Chihuly Chandeliers & Towers written by Dale Chihuly and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twin Towers in Film

Author : Randy Laist
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678855
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Twin Towers in Film written by Randy Laist and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty years, the twin towers of the World Trade Center soared above the New York City skyline, eventually becoming one of the most conspicuous symbolic structures in the world. They appeared in hundreds of films, from Godspell and Death Wish to Trading Places, Ghostbusters and The Usual Suspects. The politicians, architects and engineers who developed the towers sought to imbue them with a powerful visual presence. The resulting buildings provided filmmakers with imposing set pieces capable of conveying a range of moods and associations, from the sublime and triumphal to the sinister and paranoid. While they stood, they captured the imagination of the world with their enigmatic symbolism. In their dramatic destruction, they became icons of a history that is still being written. Here viewed in the context of popular cinema, the twin towers are emblematic of how architecture, film and narrative interact to express cultural aspirations and anxieties.

Boy Underground

Author : Catherine Ryan Hyde
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781542021555
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Boy Underground written by Catherine Ryan Hyde and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During WWII, a teenage boy finds his voice, the courage of his convictions, and friends for life in an emotional and uplifting novel by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author. 1941. Steven Katz is the son of prosperous landowners in rural California. Although his parents don't approve, he's found true friends in Nick, Suki, and Ollie, sons of field workers. The group is inseparable. But Steven is in turmoil. He's beginning to acknowledge that his feelings for Nick amount to more than friendship. When the bombing of Pearl Harbor draws the US into World War II, Suki and his family are forced to leave their home for the internment camp at Manzanar. Ollie enlists in the army and ships out. And Nick must flee. Betrayed by his own father and accused of a crime he didn't commit, he turns to Steven for help. Hiding Nick in a root cellar on his family's farm, Steven acts as Nick's protector and lifeline to the outside world. As the war escalates, bonds deepen and the fear of being different falls away. But after Nick unexpectedly disappears one day, Steven's life focus is to find him. On the way, Steven finds a place he belongs and a lesson about love that will last him his lifetime.

Harrison Towers, Memoirs of a Mogul

Author : Adler
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781491211755
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Harrison Towers, Memoirs of a Mogul written by Adler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the prequel to the Glass Towers Trilogy. It is meant to be read as an insight to Harrison Towers, and those he has loved and lost. Book can be read as a stand alone as well as before or after the trilogy. From the Glass Towers Trilogy, The enigmatic Harrison Towers is back, sexier than ever, and ready to tell his story, in his perspective. A life changing event and an opportunity to share his story, prompts this mogul to divulge all of his most intimate and private memories that span over twenty-years of his life, beginning with his college graduation. After a journalist contacts him to chronicle his road to success, it quickly becomes clear that this is actually a memoir of a man on a journey. In this tell all, Harrison reveals his darkest moments and the moments that brought him to his knees. When he thought there would never be a reason to smile again, in walks fate giving him a second chance. Hear how Harrison finds his own way in life despite being torn by his family obligations and the undeniable force that pulls him toward his future- a love so strong that the even the ghosts of his past cannot hold him back. Many of the characters you loved and hated from the Glass Towers Trilogy return for an action packed story that is scandalous, tragic, full of love, loss and of course steamy love affairs.

From Broken Glass

Author : Steve Ross
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316513083
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book From Broken Glass written by Steve Ross and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year. Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.

Building the Skyline

Author : Jason M. Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199344388
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Building the Skyline written by Jason M. Barr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.

Towers on the Wane

Author : Lee J.M. da Rocha
Publisher : Wickedly Fiendish Press
ISBN 13 : 1739584732
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Towers on the Wane written by Lee J.M. da Rocha and published by Wickedly Fiendish Press. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book summary Two attack squads; each led by Amelia Harris and Ben Vargas. Club SOHO; the target of their desires. What they find inside while on the hunt for a person of interest puts them on a whirlwind of fatalities and bloodshed. A descending babel follows their mission, the Balmore Twin Towers Fort is adrift without the leadership of her father but Amelia has taken his place. Upon discovering her late father’s arcane notes of ‘Project Life Tanker’, she and Ben see where it may lead to... All the limited clues and all the pieces she and Ben know of lead to a rescue undertaking of Emilio Javier Vargas from Eldreth the Departer’s inhuman grasp—back to where the few remnants of the Penn Commune narrowly escaped from. The old Steward may be the one man to be to save the fort from eating itself and provide the final piece to Project Life Tanker. Seeing the recklessness grow within his old friend, Dante Rossi involves himself in Amelia’s scheme to observe Ben. Within the Balmore fort itself, Avery Whitfield feels herself fracture from under the immense weight of the mental wounds of her assault and the guilt, as well as from the social isolation and resentment from the young Brit she looks up to. In their absence, she only feels herself falling deeper in despair but begins to find a slither of solace in a local Balmore resident taking interest in her... From the back cover A GHETTO IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. OUTSIDERS WITH A MOST DANGEROUS SECRET. A PERILOUS JOURNEY. The power vacuum extingueshed in the Balmore Twin Towers Fort—Garret O’Conner imprisoned—Amelia Harris reigns in her late father’s place. She and Ben Vargas incite a bold undertaking; rescue the Steward from Eldreth the Departer’s captivity in his glass tower ... with high chance of a hefty body count. Reeling from the toll his past inaction has brought, Dante Rossi is embroiled in their relentless pursuit and sees how it’s affecting Ben. The hectic stay in the fort weighs in on them all—especially on Avery Whitfield’s already troubled mind—as the distrust and disarray boils behind every wall of every floor.

Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings

Author : H.R. Viswanath
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482272040
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Multi-purpose High-rise Towers and Tall Buildings written by H.R. Viswanath and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest continues to develop in the design and construction of high-rise towers and tall buildings, structures with heights ranging from 75m to 500m and even more. This volume presents the papers from the third in a series of international conferences on the subject, organised by the International Federation of High-rise Structures. The papers hav