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Creating a National Home

Author : Patrick J. Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674418820
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Creating a National Home written by Patrick J. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For tens of thousands of Union veterans, Patrick Kelly argues, the Civil War never ended. Many Federal soldiers returned to civilian life battling the lifelong effects of combat wounds or wartime disease. Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, war-disabled Union veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Established by Congress only weeks prior to the Confederate surrender, this network of federal institutions had assisted nearly 100,000 Union veterans by 1900. The National Home is the direct forebear of the Veterans Administration hospital system, today the largest provider of health care in the United States. Kelly places the origins of the National Home within the political culture of U.S. state formation. Creating a National Home examines Congress's decision to build a federal network of soldiers' homes. Kelly explores the efforts of the Home's managers to glean support for this institution by drawing upon the reassuring language of domesticity and "home." He also describes the manner in which the creators of the National Homes used building design, landscaping, and tourism to integrate each branch into the cultural and economic life of surrounding communities, and to promote a positive image of the U.S. state. Drawing upon several fields of American history--political, cultural, welfare, gender--Creating a National Home illustrates the lasting impact of war on U.S. state and society. The building of the National Home marks the permanent expansion of social benefits offered to citizen-veterans. The creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.

Creating a National Home

Author : Patrick J. Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674175600
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Creating a National Home written by Patrick J. Kelly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For tens of thousands of Union veterans, Patrick Kelly argues, the Civil War never ended. Many Federal soldiers returned to civilian life battling the lifelong effects of combat wounds or wartime disease. Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, war-disabled Union veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Established by Congress only weeks prior to the Confederate surrender, this network of federal institutions had assisted nearly 100,000 Union veterans by 1900. The National Home is the direct forebear of the Veterans Administration hospital system, today the largest provider of health care in the United States. Kelly places the origins of the National Home within the political culture of U.S. state formation. Creating a National Home examines Congress's decision to build a federal network of soldiers' homes. Kelly explores the efforts of the Home's managers to glean support for this institution by drawing upon the reassuring language of domesticity and "home." He also describes the manner in which the creators of the National Homes used building design, landscaping, and tourism to integrate each branch into the cultural and economic life of surrounding communities, and to promote a positive image of the U.S. state. Drawing upon several fields of American history--political, cultural, welfare, gender--Creating a National Home illustrates the lasting impact of war on U.S. state and society. The building of the National Home marks the permanent expansion of social benefits offered to citizen-veterans. The creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.

What Home Buyers Really Want, 2021 Edition

Author : Rose Quint
Publisher : Builderbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780867187830
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book What Home Buyers Really Want, 2021 Edition written by Rose Quint and published by Builderbooks. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource is the latest in NAHB's long commitment to home buyer preferences research. It provides the most current and accurate information on buyer preferences so that you can deliver the home (and community) that today's buyers want and are willing to pay for. In this latest study, the analysis shows not only what the typical, average buyer wants in terms of features, layout, technology or community amenities, but also how those preferences differ based on demographic factors, such as age, race/ethnicity, geographic location, income or price point.

Bringing Nature Home

Author : Douglas W. Tallamy
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604691468
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Nature Home written by Douglas W. Tallamy and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With the twinned calamities of climate change and mass extinction weighing heavier and heavier on my nature-besotted soul, here were concrete, affordable actions that I could take, that anyone could take, to help our wild neighbors thrive in the built human environment. And it all starts with nothing more than a seed. Bringing Nature Home is a miracle: a book that summons butterflies." —Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Luckily, there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.

New Rooms for Old Houses

Author : Frank Shirley
Publisher : Taunton
ISBN 13 : 9781561588855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book New Rooms for Old Houses written by Frank Shirley and published by Taunton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice for adding additions to older homes, considering balance, transition, public versus private space, and materials; and including photographs, floor plans, and illustrations.

The House That She Built

Author : Mollie Elkman
Publisher : Builderbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780867187854
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The House That She Built written by Mollie Elkman and published by Builderbooks. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House That She Built is inspired by and dedicated to the REAL women behind the home built exclusively by a team of women in construction, skilled tradeswomen, and women-owned companies. The House That She Built educates young readers about the people and skills that go into building a home. One by one, children learn about the architect, framer, roofer and many more as they contribute their individual skills needed to complete the collective project -- a new home. With illustrations that connect and empower and words that build upon each other with each page, this book will leave all kids (she, he, and they) excited about their own skills and interested in learning new ones.

What Home Buyers Really Want

Author : Nahb Economics & Housing Policy Group
Publisher : Builderbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780867187724
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book What Home Buyers Really Want written by Nahb Economics & Housing Policy Group and published by Builderbooks. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his resource is the latest in NAHB's long commitment to home buyer preferences research. It provides the most current and accurate information on buyer preferences so that you can deliver the home (and community) that today's buyers want and are willing to pay for. In this latest study, the analysis shows not only what the typical, average buyer wants in terms of features, layout, technology or community amenities, but also how those preferences differ based on demographic factors, such as age, race/ethnicity, geographic location, income or price point.

Social Media for Home Builders 2.0

Author : Carol M. Flammer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780867186758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Social Media for Home Builders 2.0 written by Carol M. Flammer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tweet.. .like ... friend ... connect: Your potential customers do it. Do you? Social media expert Carol Flammer explains how you can personalize the home-buying experience for your existing customers, build your brand, attract more prospects, and close more homes by integrating social media in your marketing mix. You'll learn how to create an online buzz that will compel prospective buyers to do more than just browse your website-instead, they will actually visit your community and present you the opportunity to sell homes. This book explains how to

Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics

Author : Stephen R Ortiz
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042542
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics written by Stephen R Ortiz and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing topic of interest, but to date most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry. Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics is the first multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. Stephen Ortiz has compiled some of the best work on the formation and impact of veterans' policies, the politics of veterans' issues, and veterans' political engagement over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. By examining the U.S. government's treatment of veterans vis-à-vis such topics as health care, disability, race, the GI Bill, and combat exposure, the contributors reveal how debates regarding veterans' policies inevitably turn into larger political battles over citizenship and the role of the federal government. With the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq now the longest military operations in U.S. history and the numbers of veterans returning from overseas deployment higher than they've been in a generation, this is a timely and necessary book.

No Direction Home

Author : Natasha Zaretsky
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807867802
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book No Direction Home written by Natasha Zaretsky and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic recession, Zaretsky explains. By exploring such themes as the controversy surrounding prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74, and debates about cultural narcissism, Zaretsky reveals that the 1970s marked a significant turning point in the history of American nationalism. After Vietnam, a wounded national identity--rooted in a collective sense of injury and fueled by images of family peril--exploded to the surface and helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. With an innovative analysis that integrates cultural, intellectual, and political history, No Direction Home explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.

Missing Middle Housing

Author : Daniel G. Parolek
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830542
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Missing Middle Housing written by Daniel G. Parolek and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.

Fixer-Upper

Author : Jenny Schuetz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 081573929X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Fixer-Upper written by Jenny Schuetz and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical ideas to provide affordable housing to more Americans Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation’s housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, stable homes in desirable communities. Millions of other Americans cannot. And this divide deepens other inequalities. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Unequal housing systems didn’t just emerge from natural economic and social forces. Public policies enacted by federal, state, and local governments helped create and reinforce the bad housing outcomes endured by too many people. Taxes, zoning, institutional discrimination, and the location and quality of schools, roads, public transit, and other public services are among the policies that created inequalities in the nation’s housing patterns. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities. Fixing systemic problems that arose over decades won’t be easy, in large part because millions of middle-class Americans benefit from the current system and feel threatened by potential changes. But Fixer-Upper suggests ideas for building political coalitions among diverse groups that share common interests in putting better housing within reach for more Americans, building a more equitable and healthy country.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150524
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Paul Laurence Dunbar written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 150th anniversary of his birth, a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.

Home Staging

Author : Lori Matzke
Publisher : Center Stage Home
ISBN 13 : 9780975598702
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Home Staging written by Lori Matzke and published by Center Stage Home. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating the National Mosaic

Author : Miriam Verena Richter
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401200505
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Creating the National Mosaic written by Miriam Verena Richter and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- National Identity-Formation -- The Canadian Situation -- Canadian Cultural Policy with Regard to Children's Culture and Literature -- The Immigrant Experience as Depicted in Anglo-Canadian Youth Fiction 1950-1994 -- The Development of Canadian Multicultural Children's Literature Conclusion and Outlook for the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.

Buying National Security

Author : Gordon Adams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135172927
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Buying National Security written by Gordon Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the planning and budgeting processes of the United States. This title describes the planning and resource integration activities of the White House, reviews the adequacy of the structures and process and makes proposals for ways both might be reformed to fit the demands of the 21st century security environment.

Warranties for Builders and Remodelers

Author : David S. Jaffe
Publisher : Craftsman Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780867186123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Warranties for Builders and Remodelers written by David S. Jaffe and published by Craftsman Book Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profit from the legal wisdom of the National Association of Home Builders staff attorneys. They have researched hundreds of warranty issues for NAHB members and wrote Warranties for Builders and Remodelers to help inform and protect builders and remodelers. Learn how to properly use warranties to market your services while protecting yourself and your business from liabilities.