Search Results
Showing
1 - 20
of 65
query time: 0.03s
Author:
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Jonathan Doerr, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how scientists from around the world are harnessing local ecology and innovative technology to protect the planet's cities from the effects of climate change. When it comes to nature, most people romanticize bucolic mountain scenery and verdant pine forests, but anyone who's ever lived in a city can tell you that nature has just as vital...
Author:
Publisher:
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Love Our Cities operates from a simple idea: come alongside those who want to make a difference in their cities so they can come alongside individuals in their communities to make things better. Founding members of the nonprofit organization Love Our Cities, Jeff Pishney and Eric Jung have seen how a city-wide volunteer day can catalyze community improvement—by engaging individuals with the city they inhabit. Each chapter of Love Our Cities...
Author:
Publisher:
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
The debut short story collection from the editor of the Mid-American Review. Michael Czyzniejewski's writing is both poignant and playful. The collection includes flash and longer fiction and is the antithesis of those collections complained about for having every story too similar to each other. Michael Czyzniejewski was born in Chicago and grew up in its south suburbs. He earned his MFA at Bowling Green State University and now teaches there while...
Author:
Publisher:
Abrams
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Boston is a unique sports city. Unlike New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, New Englanders' loyalties are not divided among competing franchises; in the four major American sports, the city has one team each: the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Bruins, and the Patriots. And, as any Boston fan will tell you, that loyalty runs deep. Sports just seem to mean more in New England. Over the last 20 years, those fans have been blessed with an extraordinary run of...
Author:
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on "the City." It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city-past, present, and future-ring out with urgency. These poems-in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave,...
10. Impact Our City
Author:
Publisher:
REKLBMinistries
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
God has called each of us to spread the gospel throughout all the world. There are various ways to impact your city. Prayer, tithing, discipleship, outreach, open worship services, online presence, worde of mouth by members, acts of kindness, and volunteering, are several methods that can be used.
Author:
Publisher:
Charisma House
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
You are in the middle of an invisible spiritual war! Explore strategies for faith and prayer that can win the battle! Just imagine for a moment--living in a community where children meet to pray, crime is almost nonexistent and people fill the churches. In Taking Our Cities for God, you will explore dynamic and life-changing strategies to help you tear down the strongholds that have held your community back from its full spiritual potential. Remove...
Author:
Publisher:
I.G
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
I have traveled all over United States and met, a lot of people in fifty years who have given their take on events to cause the things that are occurring now. I am a graduate of the school of hard knocks, also a four-year university. I have come to understand that our country started down that road of violence, death, and destruction during that horrible war in Vietnam, in which I lost, a lot of friends. The violence, death, and destruction exploded...
Author:
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. Goldsmith argues that America has...
Author:
Publisher:
Marlo Stanfield
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
It's a transformative guide that delves into the intricate dynamics between family members of victims and individuals who have committed felony acts. This book seeks to bridge the gap between these two groups, fostering understanding, healing, and community restoration. It emphasizes the importance of genuine self-expression of remorse, corrective actions, and the realization of the impact on victims and their families. AJ Pakpor presents a unique...
Author:
Publisher:
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
"American higher education is in crisis--costs continue to climb skyward while public funding is in decline. In response, university administrators have aimed to enrich their campuses and the surrounding areas with amenities to attract students and faculty, especially in urban areas where students can explore cities from the safety of the ivory tower. But what, then, becomes of the communities and cultures surrounding these campuses? In In the Shadow...
Author:
Publisher:
Pine Run Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Creating an Urban Ecovillage, a Model for Revitalizing Our Cities is a "how-to" book that presents ideas of ways others can develop an ecovillage in their existing urban neighborhood. Each chapter presents a particular aspect of Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage and is concluded with a story that exemplifies how it is being carried out by an individual or family in the ecovillage. The urban ecovillage combines community and ecological sustainability...
Author:
Publisher:
Annick Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
1070L
Language:
English
Description:
"Gripping narrative non-fiction with STEM and social justice themes that proves cities can be surprisingly wild places--and why understanding urban nature matters. What can city bees tell us about climate change? How are we changing coyote behavior? And what the heck is a science bike? Featuring the work of a diverse group of eleven scientists--herself included!--Dr. Cylita Guy shows how studying urban wildlife can help us make cities around the world...
Author:
Publisher:
Basic Books
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Richard Florida, one of the world's leading urbanists and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well. In The New Urban Crisis, Richard Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement, demonstrates how the...