The End Of Sunless Cities

Author : Martha F. Neba-Mbandi, PhD
Publisher : HopeRise Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780997040807

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Today’s technologically empowered youths, even those stuck in poverty, are the most informed and potentially the most powerful youths in human history. This current power revolution presents an enormous and unprecedented opportunity for us to end global poverty sustainably by the middle of this century. The financially handicapped youths of today are not looking for handouts; they are looking for opportunities to pull themselves out of poverty. But they need a broader educational foundation because the rapid growth in technology has reoriented the trajectory of economic growth from agro-based to production-based development, which requires skills that cannot be acquired in elementary school. Consequently, in the current technologically driven global economy, no nation has pulled itself out of poverty sustainably without acquiring a critical mass of at least 80% secondary school enrollment rate. Yet the average secondary school enrollment rate for low-income countries is 55.16% and in sub-Saharan Africa the rate is 49.55%; some countries have rates as low as 17.41% (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2014). In 2011, UNESCO announced that the inadequate funding of secondary school education in many low-income nations constitutes the greatest obstacle to progress in global education. Teach For Hope (TFH) is an education system designed by this author to dislodge the above obstacle, universalize secondary-to-community college education for all, empower youths with the skills that they need to enhance their entrepreneurship and employability, promote access to institutional financing, and facilitate youth’s inclusion in the global market. TFH is financed by SEPSE, a self-financing system that does not require perpetual financial aid or parental financing or government funding.

Author : Paige Chapel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Community development, Urban
ISBN : UIUC:30112121976911

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The City Greenhouse Book by Paige Chapel Pdf

Author : Milo Hastings
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365831843

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City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings Pdf

1920 Dystopian Science Fiction, Alternative History ""He can talk it,"" said my playmates who attended the public schools where all teaching of the language of the outcast nation was prohibited. They invariably elected me to be ""the Germans,"" and locked me up in the old garage while they rained a stock of sun-dried clay bombs upon the roof and then came with a rush to ""batter down the walls of Berlin"" by breaking in the door, while I, muttering strange guttural oaths, would be led forth to be ""exterminated."" On rainy days I would sometimes take my favoured playmates into my uncle's library where five great maps hung in ordered sequence on the panelled wall.... The fourth map was the most fascinating and terrible. Again the black of autocracy appeared, obliterating the red of the Brotherhood of Man, spreading across half of Eurasia and thrusting a broad black shadow to the Yellow Sea and a lesser one to the Persian Gulf... and lines of dotted white retreated in concentric waves till...

Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781861895813

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Projected Cities by Stephen Barber Pdf

In this illuminating and provocative survey, Stephen Barber examines the historical relationship between film and the urban landscape. Projected Cities looks with particular focus at the cinema of Europe and Japan, two closely linked cinematic cultures which have been foremost in the use of urban imagery, to reveal elements of culture, architecture and history. By examining this imagery, especially at moments of turmoil and experimentation, the author reveals how cinema has used images of cities to influence our perception of everything from history to the human body, and how cinematic images of cities have been fundamental to the ways in which the city has been imagined, formulated and remembered. The book goes on to assess the impact of media culture on the status of film and cinema spaces, and concludes by considering digital renderings of the modern city. Projected Cities will appeal to all readers engaged with the city, film and contemporary culture.

Author : Robert Wardhaugh
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780887553882

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Toward Defining the Prairies by Robert Wardhaugh Pdf

New ways of thinking about literature and history have radically changed how we think about or even "define" a region like the Prairie West. In fact, the very concept of "defining" has come into question by new theoretical approaches and it may now seem a hopeless endeavour. But the process of defining can be just as important as the actual production of a definition.Toward Defining the Prairies highlights recent approaches to thinking about the Prairie West. Bounded by pieces from well-known historian Gerald Friesen and Governor-General's Award-winning writer Robert Kroetsch, these 13 essays are as diverse as the region itself. In their examination of different aspects of Prairie history, literature, climate, society, culture, and identity, they help to provide a new understanding of this place and of the complexities of its definition.

Author : Elana Gomel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134519637

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Narrative Space and Time by Elana Gomel Pdf

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity have passed into culture at large. This book examines whether narrative can be used to represent these "impossible" spaces. Impossible topologies abound in ancient mythologies, from the Australian Aborigines’ "dream-time" to the multiple-layer universe of the Sumerians. More recently, from Alice’s adventures in Wonderland to contemporary science fiction’s obsession with black holes and quantum paradoxes, counter-intuitive spaces are a prominent feature of modern and postmodern narrative. With the rise and popularization of science fiction, the inventiveness and variety of impossible narrative spaces explodes. The author analyses the narrative techniques used to represent such spaces alongside their cultural significance. Each chapter connects narrative deformation of space with historical problematic of time, and demonstrates the cognitive and perceptual primacy of narrative in representing, imagining and apprehending new forms of space and time. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the connection between narratology, cultural theory, science fiction, and studies of place.

Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 1845456874

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Terror from the Sky by Igor Primoratz Pdf

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II. The contributors address the decision to embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issues raised by the bombing, and the main stages of the campaign and its effects on German civilians as well as on Germany's war effort. The book places the bombing campaign within the context of the history of air warfare, presenting the bombing as the first stage of the particular type of state terrorism that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and brought about the Cold War era "balance of terror." In doing so, it makes an important contribution to current debates about terrorism. It also analyzes the public debate in Germany about the historical, moral, and political significance of the deliberate killing of up to 600,000 German civilians by the British and American air forces. This pioneering collaboration provides a platform for a wide range of views--some of which are controversial--on a highly topical, painful, and morally challenging subject.

Author : Ann Jacobus
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466870505

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Romancing the Dark in the City of Light by Ann Jacobus Pdf

Haunting and beautifully written, with a sharp and distinctive voice that could belong only to this character, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light is an unforgettable young adult novel. Summer Barnes just moved to Paris to repeat her senior year of high school. After being kicked out of four boarding schools, she has to get on the right track or she risks losing her hefty inheritance. Summer is convinced that meeting the right guy will solve everything. She meets two. Moony, a classmate, is recovering against all odds from a serious car accident, and he encourages Summer to embrace life despite how hard it can be to make it through even one day. But when Summer meets Kurt, a hot, mysterious older man who she just can't shake, he leads her through the creepy underbelly of the city-and way out of her depth. When Summer's behavior manage to alienate everyone, even Moony, she's forced to decide if a life so difficult is worth living. With an ending that'll surprise even the most seasoned reader, Ann Jacobus' Romancing the Dark in the City of Light is an unputdownable and utterly compelling novel.

Author : Philip Reeve
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407135830

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Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex by Philip Reeve Pdf

In a terrifying and brutal future world, cities are mounted on giant wheels. They hunt each other to the death. Cataclysmic wars and stalking robotic hunters are revisted in a stunning relaunch of one of the greatest post-apocalyptic adventure series ever written. All four installments of Philip Reeve's internationally bestselling quartet are now available as a single ebook, featuring exclusive bonus material - the previously unpublished THE TRACTION CODEX.

Author : Earl R. Beck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813143705

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Under the Bombs by Earl R. Beck Pdf

“A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky and to the sacrifices the Nazis imposed on their people.” —History Under the Bombs tells the story of the civilian population of German cities devastated by Allied bombing in World War II. These people went to work, tried to keep a home (though in many cases it was just a pile of rubble where a house once stood), and attempted to live life as normally as possible amid the chaos of war. Earl Beck also looks at the food and fuel rationing the German people endured and the problems of trying to make a public complaint while living in a totalitarian state. “An easily accessible ‘impressionistic description’ of life in Germany under Allied aerial bombardment . . . this evocative study captures the horror of war for a trapped population.” —Library Journal “The most vivid account available of what it was actually like to live under the bombings.” —Historian “Challenges the contention of Allied commanders that airpower was the ultimate key to victory and that it could have defeated the enemy by itself.” —America “A powerful study.” —American Historical Review “An enlightening, highly readable account of life in the war-ravaged Third Reich.” —Pineville Sun “A description of what it was like to live, work, suffer, and die in wartime Germany.” —The Historian

Author : P. G. Downes
Publisher : Heron Dance Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Northwest, Canadian
ISBN : 9780975564943

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Sleeping Island by P. G. Downes Pdf

Account of journeys west of Hudson Bay in summer of 1939 to Nueltin Lake.

Author : Claudie Arseneault
Publisher : The Kraken Collective
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775312932

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City of Betrayal by Claudie Arseneault Pdf

The whole city is searching for Hasryan. Lord Allastam wants to take bloody, ruthless revenge for the murder of his wife. Inspector Sora Sharpe wants to bring him to justice for his crimes against the city. Yet no one knows where to find him except Lord Arathiel Brasten, who vanished 130 years ago only to magically return. While the city’s eyes are turned to these two, no one is willing to help Lord Diel Dathirii free Isandor from the influence of the Myrian Enclave and their vengeful leader, Avenazar. High Priest Varden Daramond could help Diel, except Varden has been imprisoned. Lord Dathirii’s only hope of rescuing Varden is Arathiel. An alliance with him, however, would invoke the wrath of the Golden Table… and Lord Allastam himself. With enemies gathering around him, Diel is left without allies in Isandor’s upper spheres and must place his fate in Lower City residents. But little does he know, the city he’s trying to save might well save him in return.

Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199675524

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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination by Richard Jenkyns Pdf

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city. Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.

Author : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547108764

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Montreal: Seaport and City by Stephen Butler Leacock Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Montreal: Seaport and City" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Milo M. Hastings
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465511119

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City of Endless Night by Milo M. Hastings Pdf