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Along the Valley Line

Max R. Miller

Along the Valley Line

<P>The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the&#160;Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that run on a portion of the line between Essex and Chester. Until now the history of this popular tourist attraction has been the stuff of local lore and legend. This book, written by railroad...

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Max R. Miller

Why Do Contractors Lie?

J.O.A.Maurice

Why Do Contractors Lie?

Helps real estate investors find a contractor they can trust Shows real estate investors spot when contractors start to lie Teaches real estate investors how to make sure their project gets completed perfectly on time Shows how to avoid end-of-contract arguments or lawsuits Explains how to never again lose another investment because of terrible contractors

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J.O.A.Maurice

Profesjonalny kod T-SQL 2019

Elizabeth Noble

Profesjonalny kod T-SQL 2019

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Elizabeth Noble

Komercyjne i przemysłowe aplikacje...

Ioana Culic Alexandru Radovici Cristian Rusu

Komercyjne i przemysłowe aplikacje Internetu rzeczy na Raspberry Pi

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Ioana Culic Alexandru Radovici Cristian Rusu

Organic Gardening Techniques

Nick Hamilton

Organic Gardening Techniques

Handbook of organic gardening techniques, full of practical information on sowing and growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other plants. Covers everything from soil preparation and selecting the right tools to propagation, crop rotation, growing on supports, training greenhouse crops, watering, weed control, and more. Comprehensive practical advice on protecting crops from pests and diseases. Well illustrated with new photos and clear diagrams. Thorough reference guide for every...

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Nick Hamilton

The Earth, the City, and the Hidden...

Carl C. Anthony

The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race

In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes this within American urbanism and human origins, making profoundly personal both African American and American urban histories as well as planetary origins and environmental issues, to not...

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Carl C. Anthony

Homelessness in New York City

Thomas J. Main

Homelessness in New York City

Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America’s largest city has struggled for more than thirty years to meet the crisis of modern homelessness through the landmark development, since the initiation of the Callahan v Carey litigation in 1979, of a...

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Thomas J. Main

Placemaking with Children and Youth

Victoria Derr

Placemaking with Children and Youth

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Victoria Derr

Urban Alchemy

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Urban Alchemy

What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other?Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore and identify ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart...

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Priced Out

Rachael A. Woldoff

Priced Out

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Rachael A. Woldoff

Root Shock

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Root Shock

Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of an assault. Vibrant city blocks?places rich in culture?were torn apart by freeways and other invasive development, devastating the lives of poor...

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for U...

Joseph J. Varga

Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space

Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studiedneighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the WestSide’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attractedthe focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers.Now, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell’s Kitchenwith an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and,particularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contestedby...

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Joseph J. Varga

It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary M...

Susan Ware

It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride

One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899—1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry Truman and Frank Lloyd Wright to Rachel Carson and Zora Neale Hurston. This is her story.Five decades after their broadcast, her shows remain remarkably fresh and interesting. And yet...

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Susan Ware

Rebels on the Air

Jesse Walker

Rebels on the Air

Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull? Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived....

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Jesse Walker

Beyond Zuccotti Park

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Beyond Zuccotti Park

In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planers and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly. The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the definition, use, role, and importance of public space for the exercise of our democratic rights to free...

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Market Cities, People Cities

Michael Oluf Emerson

Market Cities, People Cities

An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen [b][/b]How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley argue that western cities have diverged into two specific and different types: market cities and people cities. Market cities are focused on wealth, jobs, individualism, and...

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Michael Oluf Emerson

How East New York Became a Ghetto

Walter Thabit

How East New York Became a Ghetto

In response to the riots of the mid-‘60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York’s dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a...

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Walter Thabit

Ecology Against Capitalism

John Bellamy Foster

Ecology Against Capitalism

In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of reference in ecological debates. This historical and philosophical focus is now supplemented by more directly political engagement in his new book,...

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John Bellamy Foster

Gardening for Geeks

Christy Wilhelmi

Gardening for Geeks

• A great resource for beginners to learn all the basics of gardening, even in urban areas. • Explains the science behind how plants work, how soil lives, and how bugs help. • Progresses into bigger concepts for a wide scope of gardening techniques and strategies. • Advice ranging from planning to pest control, including recommendations and step-by-step directions. • Founder of Gardenerd (www.gardenerd.com), Christy Wilhelmi specializes in small-space, organic vegetable garden design...

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Christy Wilhelmi

Netflix Nations

Ramon Lobato

Netflix Nations

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Ramon Lobato

Into the Abyss

Rod MacDonald

Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod’s long and varied diving career. It follows his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving era and on to trimix diving in the 1990s where divers began to use commercial mixed breathing gases as the sport of technical diving was born. This opened up vast, previously inaccessible, swathes of the seabed, ushering in a great era of...

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Rod MacDonald

Slingshots & Key Hooks

Charlie Whinney

Slingshots & Key Hooks

Practical introduction to the craft of bending wood with steam.13 projects for coathangers, trivets, chairs, lampshades, and more.Step-by-step instructions and inspiring photography.Author is a leading expert on the topic.

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Charlie Whinney

Building Services Engineering

Neil Packer

Building Services Engineering

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Neil Packer

Carpentry Made Easy - The Science a...

William E. Bell

Carpentry Made Easy - The Science and Art of Framing - With Specific Instructions for Building Balloon Frames, Barn Frames, Mill Frames, Warehouses, Church Spires

Framing is an element of construction that refers to the fitting together of pieces of wood or metal to give a structure support and shape. This vintage book contains a complete introductory guide to the subject, offering instructions and information pertaining to the construction and installation of frames for barns, mills, warehouses, church spires, etc. This volume is highly recommended for woodworkers with an interest in framing, as well as others involved in the construction of wooden...

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William E. Bell

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