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| Author | : Charles Phythian-Adams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2002-06-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521525008 |
A richly documented case-study of urban crisis and decline in late-medieval England.
| Author | : John Frost |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 1854 |
| Genre | : America |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Arkady Martine |
| Publisher | : Tor Books |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2021-03-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 125018648X |
WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Now a USA Today bestseller! Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2021 Amazon's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Bookpage's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Science Fiction Book of 2021 "[An] all around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, on A Memory Called Empire A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . . Also by Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
| Author | : Marcus Peyton Nevius |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) |
| ISBN | : 0820356425 |
City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
| Author | : Flame Tree Studio |
| Publisher | : Flame Tree Illustrated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-10-30 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781786645289 |
Ancient civilisations in Vietnam, the lost cities of the Amazon, the cities and towns of humankind have fought for space against the overwhelming power of nature. We think we’ve mastered it, but discoveries across the world show abandoned cities, their proud buildings now flooded, overtaken by the forests, nature taking back what once was its own, with the slow, relentlessness of time. But there are modern places too, towns built by corrupt local officials that were never occupied, amusement parks closed due to terrible tragedy, settlements sinking ineluctably into the mud, cities destroyed by radiation, these are the remnants of a generation, an entire society wiped from the earth, leaving only dismembered traces of memory. This exotic, powerful new book evokes the eerie, haunted places that retain small touches of humanity: a car with only one wheel, a battered doll, torn shirts on a washing line, a broken ferris wheel, all of them are shattered dreams that dwell now only in the imagination.
| Author | : John Ward |
| Publisher | : Montréal : Studio 9 |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Alchemy |
| ISBN | : 9781552070826 |
Jake and Helen and her dad, blasted into beyond by terrifying events at the conclusion of part two of the trilogy, find themselves alone in a strange land with no memory of what came before. In fact, they are in Hell, a new Hell run by grey-faced bureaucrats and a military clique.
| Author | : John Frost |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 558 |
| Release | : 1854 |
| Genre | : America |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Brent D. Ryan |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2012-05-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0812206584 |
Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban design vision will guide their future remain contentious and unknown. In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes. Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the cost of innovative urban design and planning. Ryan proposes that the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents.
| Author | : P. J. Tracy |
| Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2022-01-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250830192 |
P.J. Tracy “seems to have found her literary sweet spot” (New York Times Book Review) with her dazzling new series, and in Desolation Canyon, fans get a deeper look into the complex characters who call Los Angeles home. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic parents offer little support – they refuse to address anything difficult, and she’s afraid their relationship is eroding beyond the point of recovery. The days off are the hardest, because they give Margaret time to think. A moment of weakness leads to cocktails with a colleague—an attraction she knows could be dangerous —at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air bar. A stroll through the grounds leads to a grim discovery beneath the surface of Swan Lake: the body of a successful attorney who made his fortune in international trade. It initially appears to be death by misadventure, but the case is anything but straightforward. As a series of shocking revelations emerge, Nolan finds herself confronting a sinister cabal that just might destroy her and everyone she loves.
| Author | : Brandon Hobson |
| Publisher | : Civil Coping Mechanisms |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2015-08-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781937865481 |
LOST CHAPLIN FILMS DISCOVERED Los Angeles -A private collection of films involving the famous actor Charlie Chaplin was uncovered on Monday, according to numerous sources. A reel of Chaplin's private home films, including a sexual encounter containing over 30 minutes of footage, had been stored for many years in Switzerland in the basement of Anton Bon Scott, a former friend of Chaplin's. The acclaimed actor evidently kept private films of his sexual encounters throughout his life and asked Mr. Scott to preserve them after Chaplin's death. The private reel is the only film unseen by anyone other than Chaplin and perhaps a few others. "They're somewhere in the middle of nowhere," sources state. "They're in Texas, I think. They're not here in L.A." Film historians have described the discovery as "priceless."
