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Exploring the ''morphogenesis'' of the city in Western civilization, this new edition contains updated material, a new introduction, and additional illustrations.
In the early 18th century, the Dutch colony of Suriname was the envy of all others in the Americas. There, seven hundred Europeans lived off the labor of over four thousand enslaved Africans. Owned by men hell-bent for quick prosperity, the rich plantations on the Suriname river became known for their heights of planter comfort and opulence--and ......
A Parent-to-Parent Guide for Care of the Disabled Child (POD)
They called him Owen. Born on January 3, 1960, he was fair and blue-eyed, and he seemed as healthy as his four brothers and sisters. Today Owen lives in a school for the severely disabled near Frankfort, Kentucky. For his parents, Charles and Mary Callanan, the years ''since Owen'' have brought a continuing struggle to cope and an unending search ......
Entrepreneurs in Government, abridged edition (POD)
Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support inside and outside the bureaucracy, and implement innovative ideas-- even at risk to their own careers-- can have a significant impact on their ......
Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the Reagan legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? ''Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency'' offers the latest thinking of nineteen leading president-watchers. Edited by Larry Berman, the volume appraises the administration's ......
One of Americas greatest landscape designers and conservationists, Jensen used native plants to introduce the influential Prairie style of landscape architecture. In Siftings, Jensen shares his memories of 'wandering in many lands' and his life in the heart of Middle America. His recollections -- like his designs -- express a love of natural ......
Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his ''true profession.'' From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose ......
In 1961 Jean Gottmann published his pioneering study of urban sprawl along the Boston-Washington corridor. The book's title soon became a household word, and its author gained worldwide acclaim for his insights into the dimensions of urbanism. Since writing ''Megalopolis,'' Gottmann has published more than eighty articles on the urban scene. Now, ......
