Trees in the Urban Landscape: Site Assessment, Design, and Installation

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This hands-on guidebook provides practical, applied information on design considerations, site planning and understand-ing, plant selection, installation, and maintenance of trees in challenging urban environments.

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove offers a series of meditations on her remarkable family and the places where they have lived. She lovingly recalls her parents: her father, a black leader of the labor movement, and her mother, a white woman whose boundless generosity was always in conflict with the racial divisions of the world around her. "Place" is a major actor in her family story, and in the course of bringing the backgrounds of six generations into the foreground, Fullilove uncovers the many lives—her own included—that are rooted in those places.

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A truly insightful exploration of environment and place........1999-03-16

The author challenges the reader to understand how environment and place shape who we are. After reading this book you will never again take the places in your life for granted. The author's poignant essays will touch your spirit and inspire you to explore the places which make you who you are.

Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark (Decade of Behavior)

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Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark (Decade of Behavior)

Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1591471222

U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference

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U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference
Irene I. Blea
Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback
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ASIN: 0275956245

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Using her observations of the Fourth World Women's Conference held in China in 1995 as a foundation, the author examines the history and current situation of Latinas and attempts to place them in a global context. After examining the goals, objectives, and atmosphere of the Conference, she analyzes the Chicana feminist movement and its legacy and how Chicanas have struggled to relate to the Conference and its platform. She then profiles U.S. Latinas and presents data on their reality in today's world. The response to the Americanization process is then examined, as are U.S. expansionist policies. An important synthesis for students and researchers in Chicana and Women's Studies.

City of Frankfurt: New Building in a Historic Context

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City of Frankfurt: New Building in a Historic Context
Frankfurt am Main (City). Magistrat
Manufacturer: Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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ASIN: B000KW3PQ4

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City of Frankfurt: New Building in a Historic Context
City
Manufacturer: Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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ASIN: B000KV1UPI

Color & Context: The Architecture of Perry Dean Rogers & Partners

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Color & Context: The Architecture of Perry Dean Rogers & Partners
Michael J. Crosbie
Manufacturer: American Institute of Architects Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1558351361

Color and Context: The Architecture of Perry Dean Rodgers (Architecture Today)

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Color and Context: The Architecture of Perry Dean Rodgers (Architecture Today)
Michael J. Crosbie
Manufacturer: Aia Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community

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Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community

Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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ASIN: 0472086979

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Conservatives often condemn the poor, particularly African-Americans, for having children out of wedlock, joblessness, dropping out of school, or tolerating crime. Liberals counter that, with more economic opportunity, the poor differ little from the nonpoor in these areas. In answer to both, Coping with Poverty points to the survival strategies of the poor and their multiple roles as parents, neighbors, relatives, and workers. Their attempts to balance multiple obligations occur within a context of limited information, social support, and resources. Their decisions may not always be the wisest, but they "make sense" in context.

Contributors use qualitative research methods to explore the influence of community, workplace, and family upon strategies for dealing with poverty. Promising young scholars delve into poor black inner-city neighborhoods and suburbs and middle-income black urban communities, exploring experiences at all stages of life, including high-school students, young parents, employed older men, and unemployed mothers. Two chapters discuss the role of qualitative research in poverty studies, specifically examining how this research can be used to improve policymaking.

The volume's contribution is in the diversity of experiences it highlights and in how the general themes it illustrates are similar across different age/gender groups. The book also suggests an approach to policymaking that seeks to incorporate the experiences and the needs of the poor themselves, in the hope of creating more successful and more relevant poverty policy. It is especially useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, public policy, urban studies, and African-American Studies, as its scope makes it THE basic reader of qualitative studies of poverty.

Sheldon Danziger is Director of the Poverty Research and Tranining Center and Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan. Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan.

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Malcolm X: The Man in Context
Network of Black Organizers
Manufacturer: Africa World Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, Susie endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes that you will never forget.

Translated by James Skofield

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Fast Shipping.......2007-05-30

My daughter needed this in a matter of days for a project. As always Amazon came thru.

Another gem in Holocaust literature.......2007-03-29

I have read so many memoirs of the Holocaust, and this one is unique in the way it is written from a child's point of view. Susie Weksler was just eight years old when she experienced the persecution against the Jews and was forced to move into the Jewish ghetto in Vilna. She strikes us as an imaginative, and intelligent girl with a talent for writing poetry and singing. Her mother Raja, is a strong-willed woman, and very resourceful, two qualities that help her keep not only herself but her young daughter Susie alive through the Holocaust. The story of how Raja escapes the mass murder of Jews in Vilna, and rescues her young daughter from a similar fate is told in such gripping detail as to leave us breathless. Also, the accounts by Susie of how her mother keeps her going in the work camp [Kaiserwald] and protects her from the inevitable 'selections' [for death] is simply a remarkable testament to her mother's courage & love for her daughter. Susie has a remarkable eye for description, and at times the accounts are touching for their naivete...as in when Susie finds one of the camp inmates exchanging sex for cigarettes...Susie's innocence as a child makes her confused as she doesnt understand what the two adults are doing...altogether Susie Weksler's memoir of her mother's courage in keeping both of them alive throughout the war is a riveting read, and definitely provides a unique perspective of the Holocaust. If you like similar accounts in this vein, you may also like to read "A Jump for Life' by Ruth Altbeker Cyprys [a mother who jumps out of a death train with her two year old daughter and goes into hiding for the duration of the war].

Maternal Bond.......2007-02-23

Susie was just a child of eight when her large and wealthy Jewish family started being herded into a ghetto in her Polish town. Her family managed to stick together for a long time and survive many of the selections within the ghetto that lead to the deaths of many of their neighbors. By being in the right place at the right time and by taking advantage of any circumstance, they all stayed together and saved the lives of those too old or too young to survive on their own.

Then, however, the ghetto began to be liquidated. All of a sudden the family was fractured and sent in many different directions. Susie's mother became consumed with keeping herself and her daughter safe, even though Susie was only ten years old and not likely to survive the Nazi brutality.

This book is full of circumstances that seem impossibly bleak, but Susie's mother always found a way to keep herself and Susie safe. She disguised Susie as a sixteen-year-old. When they were sent to a work camp, she found work for herself and for Susie that would secure their survival and also bring them extra food rations. All throughout the war, she made sure that Susie was well taken care of, and actually managed, sometimes through sheer willpower, to keep them healthy and fed.

It is uplifting to read a true story of someone who has survived the Holocaust. The one problem with this story is that Susie writes this story from her own point of view, and she was just a child living through the concentration camp. She often writes that she didn't understand what was going on, and she does not go on to explain, from her adult point of view, what was happening. I found myslef confused more than once because of this.

Profound.......2006-04-27

This is a very profound and deeply personal account of a fight for survival and a search for meaning. This is a very intimate memoir and gives cause for many deep breathes,sighs,shock, shared grief, and triumph.

So well written with an honesty that is rare. The translation from German to English by my friend James Skofield, is exceptional and lends directly to the intimacy and loss one feels as the reader.

This is one of those books that I put back on my shelf once I read it;I can glance from a distance at its cover and I KNOW and remember.

PROFOUND.

Thanks to my Mother.......2005-11-18

Instead of saying I liked this book, I think it would be better to say that I thought it was interesting. There were places throughout the book that I started to forget that this happened and think that it was fiction, or exagerated. Then I would remember that this is the story of Susanne Weksler's life when she was a little girl. This book also gave me a better understanding of the Holocaust and what went on because before we started the unit in school, I didn't even know what it was. It also helped me understand just how much these people went through.

Lithuania Through the Wall: Diary of a Ten-Day Visit to My Native Land

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Lithuania Through the Wall: Diary of a Ten-Day Visit to My Native Land
Algimantas Kezys
Manufacturer: Loyola Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0829404791

Memories of My Life: A Personal History of a Lithuanian Shtetl

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my greatgrandmother
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Memories of My Life: A Personal History of a Lithuanian Shtetl
Bella Lown
Manufacturer: Pangloss Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0934710279

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my greatgrandmother.......2003-04-18

My Great Grandmother wrote this book. When she wrote it, she was already old, had witnessed the births and deaths of many loved ones. English is not her second language. It is her 7th. To write such a book was an enormous accomplishment. See, you have to understand my grandmother. She was a story teller. I get my storytelling abilities from her. She spoke with a flavor of Yiddish in all her words, and she was the real thing, from the Old Country, all that. She had a sadness in her eyes that I couldn't get near. I was only seven when she died, but I remember her so well. Her fragile hands, painting the stories she told in wide brushstrokes across the room. Her love, coming through in her aging voice. This book is not just a story. It is MY story. It is HER story. It is, somehow, the story of us all, of humanity really. It is about strength, and courage. It is about letting go of the things you love so that the people you love can start over, unburdened. Read this book and imagine it being told to you, being spun in the air.

Okay.......2000-04-08

this book was okay but not that great. than again i don't like these types of books. Read it, actually read every thing! you can probaly guess what's its about by the title so i won't tell you and ruin it.

No Time for Patience: My Road from Kaunas to Jerusalem : A Memoir of the Holocaust

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An inspiring man, a powerful story.

No Time for Patience: My Road from Kaunas to Jerusalem : A Memoir of the Holocaust
Zev Birger
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1557043868

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By the beloved director of the Jerusalem International Book Fair, this moving memoir follows the author's life from his Lithuanian childhood to the death camps in Dachau, and his years after the liberation, helping to build the State of Israel. Persuaded by a legion of adoring international book editors and publishers around the world to write his account of the Holocaust, Zev Birger describes in this riveting, ultimately uplifting story how his idyllic childhood in a Zionist family in Kovno, Lithuania, was destroyed-first by the Soviet invasion in 1940, then by the German occupation-and his subsequent deportation to the ghetto. In powerful, simple prose, he portrays his family's efforts to survive there, which ended in their discovery by the SS in a cellar hideaway as gunfire sounded from the approaching front. His family was separated and deported to the Dachau concentration camp, where Birger was forced into heavy labor in an underground arms factory. The only survivor in his family, he was brought to an American-run army hospital after the liberation, where he was so emaciated he was given up for dead. He rallied against all odds and went on to help Jews establish themselves in Israel, where he played an active role in the construction of the Israeli state, especially in building the book publishing and film production industries within the country, and bringing them recognition throughout the world. Originally published in Germany in 1997 by Luchterhand jointly with eight other German publishers, this is the first English-language edition.

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An inspiring man, a powerful story........1999-11-11

It's a short book, but Zev Birger's valuable memoir will not fail to move or impress. As a believer in humanity (despite tremendous suffering) and a champion of culture, he is a gift to the world.

Come into My Time: Lithuania in Prose Fiction, 1970-90

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Come into My Time: Lithuania in Prose Fiction, 1970-90

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 025206237X

About Stars - Four cycles of Jewish poetry in Russian: Exodus, To My Son, To Friends and Family, First Games (Soviet Russia, Lithuania, Israel) - 1946-2007

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About Stars - Four cycles of Jewish poetry in Russian: Exodus, To My Son, To Friends and Family, First Games (Soviet Russia, Lithuania, Israel) - 1946-2007
Victor Lirov
Manufacturer: Affinity Billing, Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0979610125

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Victor Lirov was born in 1927 in Moscow, Russia. He is a bibliographer by profession, a doctor of philology by education, and a poet by calling. This little book has four cycles of his poetry in Russian. Lirov began writing "Exodus," its first cycle, in 1958 in Vilnius, Lithuania, as he began to discover his Jewish identity at a time when the Soviet empire was relentless and seemed invincible in its efforts to finally solve "the Jewish problem." Those who bore witness to the arrests, deportations, and murders of Jewish leaders in the Soviet Union during the 1950s understand the enormous personal risk involved in writing Jewish nationalist verses in the spirit of Lirov's "Exodus." Yet these few, brave Zionist voices eventually prevailed and over the years created a powerful tide that culminated in the one million-strong Exodus to Israel. Two other cycles include Lirov's writings to his son, family, and friends, spanning the years he lived in Lithuania and his subsequent emigration to Israel and absorption into Israeli culture. The fourth cycle presents for the first time Lirov's poems composed in 1946 in Moscow.

Beginning With My Street: Essays & Recollections

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Beginning With My Street: Essays & Recollections
Czeslaw Milosz
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0374110107

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In this gathering of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel prize-winning Polish Poet traces a kind of informal autobiography against the street map of his home city of Wilno.

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Lithuania : Land of My Birth
Kariv. Avraham
Manufacturer: Herzl Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KDBCWW

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Lithuania, land of my birth
Avraham Kariv
Manufacturer: Herzel
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Lithuania: My Heritage
Vladas (editor) Vijeikis
Manufacturer: Teviskele
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K070I0

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Excellent, no-nonsense explanation of microeconomic policy

Applied Microeconomics for Public Policy Makers
Prajapati Trivedi
Manufacturer: Dr. Prajapati Trivedi
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8190014013

Book Description

This book is a guided tour through an economist's workshop, introducing readers to various microeconomic concepts and their utility in analyzing economic problems. However, unlike many textbooks, this book does not present microeconomics as just one thing after another. The choice of topics was guided by one over-riding criterion: Whether the concept included in the book is useful for understanding or analyzing economic policies, in general, and public policies in particular.

For every concept included, this book answers the following questions:

Why do we need the concept?

What is it all about?

How can it be used?

What are its limitations?

This book differs from other microeconomics texts in another more fundamental way. Each policy is analyzed primarily from the 'public' perspective rather than 'private' perspective. That is, it focuses on 'costs' and 'benefits' from the society's point of view rather than an individual's point of view. It does not, however supplant the private perspective, rather, it supplements it.

This book has emerged out of the author's lecture notes which have been used for more than two decades at Several Workshops (e.g., Public Enterprise Workshop and Budget Workshop) organized by the Harvard Institute for International Development and the J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. It has been used in training programs at the World Bank and in regular courses taught at leading universities in the United States, India and Singapore.

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Excellent, no-nonsense explanation of microeconomic policy.......2000-09-05

This book presents microeconomic concepts in such a clear, unpretentious manner that you'll find yourself wondering why economics seemed so difficult during your undergraduate studies!

A very easy-to-read, enjoyable textbook. Highly recommended!

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