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Author : R. K. Baratan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788176622097
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Steep Steps to Nowhere written by R. K. Baratan and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. Whyte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220834X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book City written by William H. Whyte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.
Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809414
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Secret Stairs written by Charles Fleming and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.
Author : Matt Lake
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402766862
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania written by Matt Lake and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A illustrated collection of tales about weird places and folk traditions in Pennsylvania to be used as a travel guide.
Author : Simon Unwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136955054
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand written by Simon Unwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world’s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to ‘read’ the building and understand its starting point by analyzing its final form. Through the gradual revelations made by an understanding of the thinking behind the form, you learn a unique methodology which can be used every time you look at any building.
Author : Arthur H Barnes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595354793
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book written by Arthur H Barnes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years before the United States intelligent agencies woke up to the fact that a deadly terrorists' network was in the progress of destroying anything that represented the free world and other countries. The United States President became very concerned that he was not receiving important data and information that he should have from his own agencies, The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Intelligence Agency. Then Lt. Commander Brock was sought out by the President to be his sole officer without any restriction of how to do his task, to place a few discreet specialists in the Middle East. Brock enlists a Chief Radio specialist into his new organization, Art Fletcher. After a year of covert activity being an accountant in the State, Department and listening to different Embassy gossip, he hears of a mad man by the name of Osama bin Laden. Chief Fletcher gets absolutely no cooperation from any of the US intelligent agencies, the CIA and NSA. Chief Fletcher cooks up a most insane plan to try and locate bin Laden's training camps with hopes that together they can thwart the terrorists plans. Things really get exciting and frightening as Chief Fletcher goes "Beyond The Darkest Shadows" of Osama bin Laden's hate for the free world.
Author : Sandra Howard
Publisher : The Book Guild
ISBN 13 : 1915352835
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Love at War written by Sandra Howard and published by The Book Guild. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1940 Laura boards a troopship and travels through the torpedoed waters of the Mediterranean to chase after Harry whom she has fallen in love with.
Author : Jos Boys
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317197178
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader written by Jos Boys and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art history, disability studies and disability arts and cover personal, theoretical and innovative ideas and work. Richer approaches to disability – beyond regulation and design guidance – remain fragmented and difficult to find for architectural and built environment students, educators and professionals. By bringing together in one place some seminal texts and projects, as well as newly commissioned writings, readers can engage with disability in unexpected and exciting ways that can vibrantly inform their understandings of architecture and urban design. Most crucially, Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader opens up not just disability but also ability – dis/ability – as a means of refusing the normalisation of only particular kinds of bodies in the design of built space. It reveals how our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and spaces can be better understood through the lens of disability, and it suggests how thinking differently about dis/ability can enable innovative and new kinds of critical and creative architectural and urban design education and practice.
Author : Claire Askew
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473673097
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book What You Pay For written by Claire Askew and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF ALL THE HIDDEN TRUTHS, WHICH IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD AND WON THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE ''(a) meticulous and compelling novel about the aftermath of a major crime and its effect on the affected families and investigating officers both. Set in Edinburgh, too'' - Ian Rankin ''Askew asks intricate moral questions, while never ignoring the rigours of crime'' - Daily Mail DI Helen Birch faces a terrible choice - family or justice? - in the gripping second novel from the author of All the Hidden Truths DI Birch joined the police to find her little brother, who walked out of his life one day and was never seen again. She stayed to help others, determined to seek justice where she could. On the fourteenth anniversary of Charlie''s disappearance, Birch takes part in a raid on one of Scotland''s most feared criminal organisations. It''s a good day''s work - a chance to get a dangerous man off the streets. Two days later, Charlie comes back. It''s not a coincidence. When Birch finds out exactly what he''s been doing all those years, she faces a terrible choice: save the case, or save her brother. But how can you do the right thing when all the consequences are bad? As she interrogates Charlie, he tells his story: of how one wrong turn leads to a world in which the normal rules no longer apply, and you do what you must to survive. From one of the most acclaimed new voices in crime fiction, What You Pay For is a brilliantly tense and moving novel about the terrible disruption caused by violence and the lines people will cross to protect those they love..
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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595320279
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Westward Women written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. A. King
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1988301459
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Portal Prophecies Volume I written by C. A. King and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of events set Willow and her friends on a journey like no other, leading them to a new understanding of themselves, their feelings and their abilities. As they begin to unravel the past, they find themselves the sole opposition to a plot that could destroy all existence. Their only clue to survival comes in the form of a book filled with hundreds of predictions. Deciphering them however, will not be an easy task. Written by someone long ago, the pages are lined with riddle like poems. Even worse they appear to be in no particular order. Each book in the series is based on a different prophecy leading our heroes and heroines to new places and new friends, experiencing growing pains along the way. The entire series, delves deep into the understanding of magic and self-discovery, all the while questioning the right versus wrong equation on personal levels. Volume I contains books 1-3 in the series.
Author : Phil Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1848369751
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca written by Phil Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca is your ultimate travel guide to two of the Mediterranean's most beautiful islands, with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions. From Mallorca's wild and wonderful Serra de Tramuntana and the hustle and bustle of Palma, to Menorca's remote coves and fishing villages, discover the highlights these two islands have to offer inspired by dozens of colour photos. Find detailed historical coverage of the must-see sights and practical advice on travelling around whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants for all budgets. The Rough Guide to Mallorca and Menorca includes two full-colour sections on architecture and spectacular hiking and a crucial language section with basic, words, phrases and handy tips for pronunciation. You'll find up-to-date information on excursions including coastal walks from cove to cove, and riding the Palma-Soller train. Explore every corner of Mallorca and Menorca with expert background knowledge on everything from carob trees to fincas. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Mallorca and Menorca
Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101196564
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Nowhere to Run written by C. J. Box and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ A mountain patrol leads Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett into a dangerous situation in this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real—and all too deadly.
Author : Diane Pershing
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1426873727
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Whispers in the Night written by Diane Pershing and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When strange things began happening at her isolated home, lonely widow Kayla Thorne turned to handyman Paul Fitzgerald for protection. But was that a mistake? Because Paul was not only an ex-cop, he was an ex-convict--though he swore he'd been framed. Yet if he was so eager to prove his innocence, why was he spending time fixing her house, instead? Paul seemed intent on gaining her trust--and as the mysterious dangers escalated, Kayla needed someone to keep her safe. Paul was the perfect protector, because he needed nothing from her...or did he? Suddenly Kayla wondered just why Paul had come to her--and how close he meant to get....
Author : Simon Unwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317555031
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand written by Simon Unwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin’s Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings of architecture providing for the three aspects of learning: theory, examples and practice. Twenty-Five Buildings focusses on analysing examples using the methodology offered by Analysing Architecture, which operates primarily through the medium of drawing. In this second edition five further buildings have been added to the original twenty from an even wider geographical area, which now includes the USA, France, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Germany, Australia, Norway, Sweden, India and Japan. The underlying theme of Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is the relationship of architecture to the human being, how it frames our lives and orchestrates our experiences; how it can help us make sense of the world and contribute to our senses of identity and place. Exploring these dimensions through a wide range of case studies that illustrate the rich diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century architecture, this book is essential reading for every architect.
Author : ANTHONY HULSE
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 147161784X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)
Download or read book THE CULLING written by ANTHONY HULSE and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of child abductions are linked to Jules Devlin's touring circus. A team of CID detectives are deployed and attempt to unravel the mystery. The performers, including a clown, a lion-tamer, a fire-eater, a dwarf, and conjoined twins harbour a terrifying secret. Jimmy Crawford, an ex-CID detective turned private investigator is hired by the parents of a teenage girl, who believe her disappearance is linked to the circus. Crawford is aided in his task by a child psychologist and a priest. Through a handicapped boy, they discover that the circus is not what it seems. DS Jenny Stiles, believing that Devlin is the head of a paedophile ring, soon discovers something more sinister. Could the evil carnival be responsible for the burning of churches and their priests? The Culling is a supernatural thriller set in Whitby and Dartmoor. From Edinburgh, Cleveland and Lourdes in France, strange and unexplainable episodes occur, which leads Jenny to believe that Devlin is indeed evil.
Author : Jenny Ford
Publisher : Jenny Ford
ISBN 13 : 0992312981
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Squirrel written by Jenny Ford and published by Jenny Ford. This book was released on 2014 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (New Release) This is Book 5, the latest instalment in the Inspector Lord Pinhorn crime romance series. Inspector Pinhorn leaves Australia and flies to the other side of the world to visit Daisy in Canada... While picnicking at Lyn Canyon, two playful squirrels lead him to what appears to be a beautiful lady peacefully asleep under a tree near a rabbit burrow. His detective instincts kick in and tell him otherwise. On closer inspection he discovers Victim No. 1 - Gemma Ruby Mason but this is just the beginning.... His holiday quickly turns into a triple murder investigation involving both himself and the Canadian Mounties as he travels across the provinces of Canada and into Alaska while experiencing some of the most spectacular scenery he has ever seen. All the bodies were found near toxic Oleander and Fox Glove bushes and share a baffling common link. His love for Daisy deepens to new heights as he returns to Australia an engaged man planning his wedding from afar.
