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Mary Barton (Penguin Classics)»rank: 173683by: Elizabeth Gaskell
: :Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the 'hungry forties' as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell's great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular ... |
The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards»rank: 441388by: Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, Yodan RofĂ©
: :Winner, Silver Award for Architecture ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the classic multiway boulevard has been in decline for many years, victim of a narrowly focused approach to street design that views unencumbered vehicular traffic flow as the highest priority. The American preoccupation with destination and speed has made multiway boulevards increasingly rare as artifacts of the urban landscape. This book reintroduces the boulevard, tree-lined and with separate realms for through traffic and for slow-paced vehicular-pedestrian movement, as an important and often crucial feature of both historic and contemporary cities. It presents more ... |
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Sir Gibbie»rank: 4861835by: George MacDonald
: :In nineteenth-century Scotland, Gibbie, recently orphaned by his father's sudden death, witnesses a violent murder and flees to the countryside where he finds a new life and experiences many adventures. |
The Urban Design Reader (Routledge Urban Readers)»rank: 113567by: Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald
: :The Urban Design Reader brings together some of the most influential writing on the historical development and contemporary practice of urban design. Emerging as a distinct field of environmental design practice in the late 1950s, urban design bridges the fields of architecture, planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, urban development, and social science - with a focus on physical form and the social use of space. Among university programs, the design professions, interest groups and city governments around the world, the practice of urban design is recognized as a means of addressing 21st Century urban challenges. As planning and development processes have become more participatory in recent years, the number of ... |
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The Family Book of Best Loved Poems: Love, Faith and Inspiration, America, Home and Fireside, Children, Nature, Contemplation, Adventure on Land and Sea, Legend and Fantasy, Humor and Satire, Frontier Days, Old Story Poems: 162 Famous Poets (1952 Hardcover Printing)»rank: 228317by: James Russell Lowell, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Roy Croft, Francis W. Bourdillon, Ben Jonson, Bayard Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Sandburg
: :The Family Book of Best Loved Poems: Love, Faith and Inspiration, America, Home and Fireside, Children, Nature, Contemplation, Adventure on Land and Sea, Legend and Fantasy, Humor and Satire, Frontier Days, Old Story Poems: 162 Famous Poets (1952 Hardcover Printing). 520 Pages. Limited Collector's Edition. Rare Book. |
Mike's Kite»rank: 2155925by: Elizabeth MacDonald
: :On a windy day, Mike's kite blows away, pulling him and all the many people who try to help him. |
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Carnival on Wall Street: Global Financial Markets in the 1990s»rank: 866121by: Jane Elizabeth Hughes, Scott B. MacDonald
: :Traces key themes throughout the 1990s on global financial markets. Presents a view of the liberalization of the global capital markets and the interrelated boom on Wall Street, which developed into a global carnival, pulling players around the world into the game. * Spans a time period from George Soros' attack on the pound sterling in 1991-92 to the events of September 11, tracing key themes throughout the decade. * Focuses on foreign exchange markets, globalization versus anti-globalization, Asian earthquakes, and more. |
Lilith: A Variorum Edition (George MacDonald Original Works)»rank: 892108by: George MacDonald
: :Traces key themes throughout the 1990s on global financial markets. Presents a view of the liberalization of the global capital markets and the interrelated boom on Wall Street, which developed into a global carnival, pulling players around the world into the game. * Spans a time period from George Soros' attack on the pound sterling in 1991-92 to the events of September 11, tracing key themes throughout the decade. * Focuses on foreign exchange markets, globalization versus anti-globalization, Asian earthquakes, and more. |
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The Empty Copper Sea / Street of the Five Moons / Vortex (The Detective Book Club)»rank: 1100568by: John D. MacDonald, Elizabeth Peters, Jon Cleary
: :Traces key themes throughout the 1990s on global financial markets. Presents a view of the liberalization of the global capital markets and the interrelated boom on Wall Street, which developed into a global carnival, pulling players around the world into the game. * Spans a time period from George Soros' attack on the pound sterling in 1991-92 to the events of September 11, tracing key themes throughout the decade. * Focuses on foreign exchange markets, globalization versus anti-globalization, Asian earthquakes, and more. |
Watch for the Morning»rank: 5913349by: Elizabeth MacDonald
: :This engrossing family saga brings to life two indomitable women. Kate, the young wife of Burns Hamilton, a Mormon missionary, is deeply in love with her husband, but is hurt and humiliated when he takes a second and then a third wife.As the years pass, Kate becomes the matriarchal figure in the multiple household with her children bringing her both pain and pleasure.Watch for the Morning is a richly conceived novel, a moving love story, a vivid picture of the Mormon settlement in Utah and of the hardships and indignities imposed upon its women. Readers will find it unforgettable. |