americas undeclared war whats killing our cities and how

America's Undeclared War: What's Killing Our Cities and How

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lazare, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man," wrote Thomas Jefferson in , sounding a note that has echoed throughout American history. In this bracing reexamination, Daniel Lazare traces the progress of America's unwavering war on its cities and looks at the profound consequences. From Jefferson through Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt to the present, we have labored to wither our cities, simultaneously fouling our air and our landscape, depleting our energy resources to feed our automobiles and neglecting any form of community other than hollow, homogenous suburbs. And yet the average American has a smaller share of the country's wealth than the average European and less opportunity to improve his or her lot. Provocative and enlightening, America's Undeclared War exposes a prejudice both fundamental and destructive to American culture. With a mordant wit and a refreshing clarity, Lazare offers a vision that can re-invigorate us, our communities, and our future.

War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Virilio, Paul / Camillier, Patrick, PUBLISHER: Verso, A rich and suggestive analysis of military 'ways of seeing', and a disturbing account of how these have now permeated our culture.

Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schaffer, Ronald, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, World War II--"the good war"--is here viewed from a new angle of vision, one that sheds fresh light on how major decisions were reached. More than just a book on the strategy and outcome of American bombing in World War II, Wings of Judgment tells about choices in war, decisions that determined whether hundreds of thousands of people lived or died and whether famous cities and great monuments of civilization survived or were destroyed. It is about the bombing of Dresden and Berlin and of dozens of cities and towns all over Germany and about the preservation of Rome and Florence. It is about the incineration of Tokyo, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the sparing of one of Japan's most beautiful and holy places, the city of Kyoto. Describing U.S. air raids that terrified inhabitants of enemy nations and citizens of enemy-occupied countries, it raises serious questions about the military and moral effects of American bombing. It also tells of American efforts to avoid killing civilians needlessly. Taking us behind the scenes at military headquarters, Schaffer shows that even the toughest warriors occasionally found themselves offering moral arguments for their actions, arguing that they were made right by enemy atrocities, by the justness of the Allied cause, and by the numbers of lives of American servicemen that Allied bombing might save.

The Tao of Negotiation: How You Can Prevent, Resolve, and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Edelman, Joel / Crain, Mary Beth, PUBLISHER: Harper Paperbacks, This groundbreaking book views conflict as a mirror of our own lives and attitudes. Bringing East and West together in a "spiritually practical" approach to negotiation and conflict prevention, "The Tao of Negotiation "teaches us how to regain and maintain our sense of personal power in all forms of negotiation and how to use that power wisely and compassionately--with the aim of maximizing harmony and understanding in our business and personal lives. Readers can immediately use the techniques in "The Tao Negotiation "to improve communication skills, defuse potential conflicts, and pave the way for peaceful and rewarding interactions in their business and personal lives.

The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kouguell, Susan, PUBLISHER: TL Hoell Books, Reveals how scripts are rated, how to write a successful query and synopsis, how to negotiate contracts and development deals, and how to work with agents and entertainment attorneys.

War Against the Federal Government!: War Against the People!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Savage, Gerald Marcus, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, I wrote this book in the hopes that people everywhere, of all races, political groups, and religions would see and realize that our constitution and capitalist system are being destroyed and that if we (the american people) don, t wake up and stand up for what, s right our country will soon be los

The Power of Brokenness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nori, Don, Jr., PUBLISHER: Destiny Image Publishers, Accepting Brokenness is a must for becoming a tree vessel of the Lord, and is a stepping-stone to revival in our hearts, our homes, and our churches. Brokenness alone brings us to the wonderful revelation of how deep and great our Lord's mercy really is. Join this precious companion and discover the Power of Brokenness.

Cities and Civilizations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hibbert, Christopher, PUBLISHER: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, From Thebes, Jerusalem, and Athens to New York, London, Sydney, Amsterdam, Moscow, and Berlin, Cities and Civilizations explores the world's great cities and their golden ages. Famed historian Christopher Hibbert vividly brings each city to life -- its moments of power and prestige, of cultural ferment and political dominance -- providing a panoramic sweep encompassing almost four thousand years.

Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gallman, J. Matthew, PUBLISHER: Kent State University Press, Northerners at War brings together noted historian J. Matthew Gallman's most significant essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. Gallman tackles a range of Civil War home front topics--from urban violence and Gettysburg's wartime history to entrepreneurial endeavors and the war's economic impact. He also examines gender issues, with a fascinating review of the career of orator Anna E. Dickinson and an insightful examination of how northerners used gendered notions of masculinity in rhetoric to recruit African American soldiers. A noteworthy contribution to our understanding of the home front, Northerners at War is indispensible to those interested in the Civil War era.

Energy, the Environment, and Public Opinion

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Eric R. A. N., PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, This book explores the intricate relationship between public opinion and energy issues. Energy, the Environment, and Public Opinion sheds light on how much the public understands about energy policy, what the public wants officials to do about our energy problems, and how governments at various levels are likely to come to grips with energy shortages in the future. Visit our website for sample chapters

Sunburnt Cities: The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hollander, Justin B., PUBLISHER: Routledge, In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Until the first decade of the twenty-first century, decline was assumed to be an issue only for former industrial cities a " the so-called Rust Belt. But the sudden reversal in growth in the major cities of the American Sunbelt has shown that urban decline can be a much wider issue. Hollander addresses the reasons and statistics behind these "shrinking cities" with a positive outlook, arguing that growth for growtha (TM)s sake is not beneficial for communities, suggesting instead that urban development could be achieved through shrinkage. Case studies on Phoenix, Flint, Orlando and Fresno support the argument and Hollander delves into the numbers, literature and individual lives affected and how they have changed in response to the declining regions.

Growing a Better America: Smart, Strong and Sustainable

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Leavell, Chuck / Craig, J. Marshall, PUBLISHER: Mercer University Press, Since the arrival of European settlers in the sixteenth century, America's population has grown to more than 310 million people and is expected to reach 400 million around the mid-s. Her lands have seen the rise of tens of thousands of cities; millions of homes, office buildings, and skyscrapers have been constructed, and rail and interstate highway systems now sprawl across the country. Over eighty thousand planes fly through her skies every day; her soils have been plowed repeatedly, and she has suffered from dust bowls, erosion, polluted air and water, and declining ecosystems. She is resilient, yet how much more can she take? In his fourth book, Growing a Better America, commonsense environmentalist Chuck Leavell helps us understand how we can repair some of the damage we've done and how, in the future, we can balance our need for growth with our need for natural lands, green spaces, clean air and water, and a healthy lifestyle.

The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Statham, Pamela, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This comprehensive survey aims to answer two questions. First, why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and second, how they were established. Pairs of chapters on each of the state capitals--Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane--are accompanied by studies of Canberra as federal capital and Darwin as territorial capital.

The Butterfly Dreams

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kline, Peter / Syril / Kline, Syril, PUBLISHER: Great River Books, A mystery, a love story and a searching inquiry into our deepest questions: the origin of consciousness, the fiction of matter, the truth of deraming, the eternal paradox at the cneter of being --- and ultimately: how to live on our benevolent, but fragile planet, in our vast and thinking universe. It's and illuminating glimpse of Divinity to which Science so eloquently points the way.

The Americas in the Modern Age

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Langley, Lester D., PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of the "two Americas" (Theodore Roosevelt's America and the contrasting America described by Cuban revolutionary, essayist, and poet Jose Marti) and culminating with recent controversial efforts to forge a united hemisphere. Tracing the interactions and influences among the nations of South, Central, and North America, including Canada, Langley departs from other accounts of the past 150 years. He argues that the seedtime for today's Americas was not the Cold War but the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also contends that it is not what the countries and people of the Americas have in common that binds them; instead, their cultural, political, and economic conflicts tie them together. Comprehensive and balanced, this history of the nations of the Americas offers new insights into both the past and the future of inter-American relations.

Victorian Cities

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Briggs, Asa / Lees, Lynn Hollen / Lees, Andrew, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, A comparative study in urban history, "Victorian Cities" examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well.

Food and Love

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smalley, Gary, PUBLISHER: Tyndale House Publishers, What we eat affects every aspect of our lives, from our physical health to our emotions to our ability to love. Trusted relationship expert Gary Smalley demonstrates the connection between healthy living and healthy relationships and the importance of safeguarding our health, not only for ourselves, but also for the good of our marriages and our other relationships.

Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moalem, Sharon / Prince, Jonathan, PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial, Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth. Through a fresh and engaging examination of our evolutionary history, Dr. Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But "Survival of the Sickest" doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives.

The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ford, Debbie, PUBLISHER: HarperOne, Debbie Ford continues and deepens the work she began in her blockbuster The Dark Side of the Light Chasers. In this new book she examines our shadow elements-- the negative attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors that block our progress toward happiness and success in our lives and relationships. Each of us has a shadow that whispers stories of our own fears to us-- that we aren' t good enough, that we are unworthy of being loved, that we will be deserted by those whom we care about. Ford guides us hear those stories and find the positive message within each of them. She shows how understanding our own shadow side can lead us to lives of tremendous fulfillment and peace. Using illuminating stories and practical real-life examples, this book shows how each story and each shadow holds within it the unique key to our true purpose.

The Clara Ann Burns Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Heidi Ann, PUBLISHER: Monkey Puzzle Press, Fiction. Poetry. THE CLARA ANN BURNS STORY is an expression of child abuse and neglect witnessed through a patchwork of short prose reflections, poems, one minute plays, scholarly studies, and photographs.Daring in both content and structure, THE CLARA ANN BURNS STORY explores multiple genres and is courageously self-reflective."Heidi Ann Smith's unflinching novel viscerally tracks the ways trauma can break our contract with language, how it can hybridize hearts and mouths, and how our tongues might, in the end, fork to speak it all: revelatory, plural, here. THE CLARA ANN BURNS STORY, through text and image, offers a map by which to read the geographic/familial underpinnings of our emotional and physical bodies so that we might articulate our own hermeneutic of triumph."--Selah Saterstrom

Eureka!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blin-Stoyle, R. J. / Blin-Stoyle, Roger, PUBLISHER: Institute of Physics Publishing (GB), This is an accessible introduction to the subject of physics, and how it underpins our understanding of the physical world today. Starting with an initial description of what physics represents from the micro- to the macroscopic, Roger Blin-Stoyle takes the reader on a tour of Newton's Laws, the nature of matter, explaining how the physical world works and how physics may affect our nature understanding.

Sport and Modern Social Theorists: Theorizing Homo Ludens

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Giulianotti, Richard, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, How does the work of Marx help us understand sport? What contribution might Goffman's thinking make to our analysis of sport? How might post-structuralist and postmodern positions be developed to explain this important sphere of social activity? In this innovative and exciting collection, the contributions of major social theorists towards our critical understanding of modern sport are brought together in a single volume.

Gender, Work, and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gottfried, Heidi, PUBLISHER: Polity Press, This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global economy, the book explores how economic transformations not only change the way we work, but how we live our lives. The full extent of changing patterns of employment and the current financial crisis cannot be fully understood in the confines of narrow conceptions of work and economy. Feminists address this shortcoming by developing both a theory and a political movement aimed at unveiling the power relations inherent in old and new forms of work. By providing an analysis of gender, work, and the economy, Heidi Gottfried brings to light the many faces of power from the bedroom to the boardroom. A discussion of globalization is threaded throughout the book to uncover the impact of increasing global interconnections, and vivid case studies are included, from industrialized countries such as the US and the global cities of New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as from developing countries and the emerging global cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Dubai. This comprehensive analysis of gender and work in a global economy, incorporating sociology, geography, and political economy perspectives, will be a valued companion to students in gender studies and across the social sciences more generally.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Williamson, Marianne, PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial, Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on "A Course in Miracles" and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace. Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children.

The Destruction of the Veil of Islam

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Garza, Larry, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Our entire civilization has become inundated with questions by the global war against Islamic Fundamentalism as a result of the heinous attack on September 11th in New York City. Much like the strike against Pearl Harbor in we were caught unprepared and uninformed in our conflict with an Oriental religion and culture. In October of Larry Garza was asked by his congressman to prepare a paper for The Foreign Relations Committee and the President. He was asked to clearly define the answer to the question, aIs Islam a religion of peace or war?a How He was qualified to answer that question is the amazing story of his life.

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