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Dreaming gardens : landscape architecture and the making of modern Kenneth Helphand

Dreaming gardens : landscape architecture and the making of modern מאת Kenneth Helphand

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My Kind of Midwest: Omaha to Ohio (Center for American Places - My Kind of . . . series) מאת John A. Jakle “Will it play in Peoria?” That question—only half-joking—hovers over everything from politics to television, an acknowledgment that the Midwest is perhaps the most emblematic regions of the United States today. Stereotypes both good and bad abound about Midwesterners, but...

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The Way Out West (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) מאת Michelle Van Parys Legend and myth hover over the breathtaking landscape of the American West, and the region has inspired adventure-seekers and artists alike for centuries. Yet the modern sprawl of suburbia and office parks conflicts with our nostalgic imaginings of “cowboys and Indians.” With T...

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A Love of the Land: Selected Writings of John Fraser Hart (Center Books on American Places) מאת John Fraser Hart John Fraser Hart is one of America’s best known geographers and his prolific writings about the land and its variegated character are elegant and informed. In A Love of the Land, geographer John C. Hudson has gathered a collection of Hart’s seminal essays from the last fift...

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My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America מאת Darrin Nordahl In America’s car-dominated landscape, public transit has long played second fiddle, but rising gasoline prices and the global warming crisis point to a need for alternative means of transportation. Darrin Nordahl sets the stage for these efforts by proposing that the experience...

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Patapsco: Life along Maryland's Historic River Valley (Center Books on American Places) מאת Alison Kahn "This book is yet another expression of the careful social observations Walker Evans and James Agee offered in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Patapsco Valley, Maryland, thereby has joined the lucky company of Hale County, Alabama--both places that become, in the hands of an alert photographer ...

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The Great River: A Novel (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) מאת Charles Dee Sharp The Mississippi River is as much an American symbol as it is a river, carrying the hopes and despair of many in its timeless currents. It thus serves as an apt backdrop for the midlife crisis of Harry McNeil, a man who leaves the hard-hitting world ...

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Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Preservation (Center Books on Natural History) מאת John J. Berger Fragile kingdoms of innumerable organisms and rich beauty, forests today are both our most plentiful and our most endangered natural resource. Understanding their workings and how to sustain them is imperative to ensuring the future of humanity. John Berger urges us to learn what...

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Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) מאת Kim Stringfellow The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the histor...