Athens of the Prairie
Author | : Robert Hudson |
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Robert Hudson |
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Philip Juras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578864587 |
The fifty-four paintings in this volume celebrate the natural beauty of the rare tallgrass prairie environments of Illinois and the remarkable legacy of conservation that sustains them. Artist and author Philip Juras's evocative canvases are based on extensive research, travel, and time in the field with prairie conservation experts. As a result, his luminous paintings, and his descriptions of them, are rich in ecological and historical detail. An accompanying essay by acclaimed conservationist Stephen Packard tells the story of how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem was, and is, being saved from extinction in Illinois by a series of remarkable individuals and initiatives-efforts that have inspired conservation practices well beyond the state's borders.Picturing the Prairie invites us to get to know these restored landscapes, both within these pages and in the corresponding 2021 exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. In them we can experience the magnificence of this archetypal American grassland, both in its present nature, and as it was in the past.
Author | : Paul J. Hoffman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 162585871X |
"Columbus's Unscrupulous Past... Dubbed the 'Athens of the Prairie' for its array of stunning modern architecture, Columbus still endured its share of unsavory citizens, crime-ridden neighborhoods and tales of woe. Many residents avoided the infamous slums of Smoky Row and Death Valley, while others gave in to the allure of Lillian "Todie" Tull's famed house of ill repute on North Jackson Street. Two different father-and-son hoodlum partnerships, the McKinneys and the Bells, terrorized the area in the 1800s. And a brutal fistfight between a newspaper editor and the mayor sparked a scandal in 1877. Author Paul J. Hoffman guides the reader on a wild ride through the city's salacious side." -- back cover
Author | : American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : Illinois. Military and Naval Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Illinois |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Calhoun County (Mich.) |
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Author | : Xhenet Aliu |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0803271964 |
Just down the highway from Connecticut’s Gold Coast is the state’s rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu’s Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of immigrants who found boarded-up brass mills instead of the gilded streets of America; they’re the teenaged girls raised in the fluorescent glow of Greek diners, the middle-aged men with pump trucks and teratomas. These are people who have fled, or who should have. And if they are indeed familiar, it is because Aliu writes what is real, whether we ourselves, her readers, have seen it up close or not. And her stories make sense in a way that matters. A young mother buys into a real-estate investment seminar offered on an infomercial, only to be put back into her place by a bully in foreclosure. A closeted wrestler befriends a latchkey seven-year-old neighbor who harbors secrets of her own. A YMCA counselor tries to reclaim shoes stolen by a troubled young camper. What they share is a biting humor, an eye for the absurd, and fumbling attempts at human connection, all rendered irresistible—and as moving as they are amusing—by a writer whose work is at once edgy and endearing and prize winning for reasons any reader can appreciate.
Author | : Ashraf M.T. Elewa |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-12-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540759166 |
The present book combines three main aspects: five major mass extinctions; contributions on some other minor extinctions; and more importantly contributions on the current mass extinction. All three aspects are introduced through interesting studies of mass extinctions in diverse organisms ranging from small invertebrates to mammals and take account of the most accepted subjects discussing mass extinctions in insects, mammals, fishes, ostracods and molluscs.
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Hydrology |
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