Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Author: Mansel G. Blackford

Publisher: Trillium

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814253700

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Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change examines how a major midwestern city developed economically, spatially, and socially, and what the environmental consequences have been, from its founding in 1812 to near the present day. The book analyzes Columbus's evolution from an isolated frontier village to a modern metropolis, one of the few thriving cities in the Midwest. No single factor explains the history of Columbus, but the implementation of certain water-use and land-use policies, and interactions among those policies, reveal much about the success of the city. Precisely because they lived in a midsize, midwestern city, Columbus residents could learn from the earlier experiences of their counterparts in older, larger coastal metropolises, and then go beyond them. Not having large sunk costs in pre-existing water systems, Columbus residents could, for instance, develop new, world-class, state-of-the-art methods for treating water and sewage, steps essential for urban expansion. Columbus, Ohio explores how city residents approached urban challenges-especially economic and environmental ones-and how they solved them. Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change concludes that scholars and policy makers need to pay much more attention to environmental issues in the shaping of cities, and that they need to look more closely at what midwestern metropolises accomplished, as opposed to simply examining coastal cities.


Avanti Popolo

Avanti Popolo

Author: Italian-American Political Solidarity Club

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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"For many years, the Italian-American Political Solidarity Club has held an annual poetry reading on the holiday known as Columbus Day. Our purpose? To encourage our paesans to break with the legacy of Christopher Columbus and embrace a future based in human solidarity, not conquest, domination and war. Instead of conquest, we celebrate those who have stood up for justice. As Italian Americans, we honor our immigrant experiences as teachers, laborers, union organizers, and free speech advocates. By sailing away from Columbus, we start to break down the logic of conquest, which invariably leads to wars abroad and repression at home"--Page 4 of cover.


Beyond Edge Cities

Beyond Edge Cities

Author: Richard D. Bingham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1134826982

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In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city "is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores". He named these cores "edge cities" because they perform all of the city functions, but rise in places that were farmlands or villages only decades ago, far from the old downtowns. This new book expands and clarifies Garreau's pioneering concept as it develops a comprehensive theory of edge city growth and functions. The contributors draw on their expertise as geographers, political scientists, economics planners, and sociologists to offer a wide range of insights and analyses.


Glory Beyond the Horizon

Glory Beyond the Horizon

Author: George K. Ata-Baah

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13:

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Glory Beyond the Horizon: Dare to Dream, this remarkable book will motivate and inspire you to unleash your untapped potential and propel you to step out of your comfort zone to pursue your dream. You may never see anything beyond your horizon except a ubiquitous fog, but a person with a vision or dream can see what nobody sees because of the power of imagination. This book will inspire you to conquer your fears so that you can launch out of your comfort zone to pursue your God-given dream. Great dreams and ideas will never materialize until someone launches out in faith. Ordinary people have changed the course of history because they saw something beyond the horizon. Your insignificant idea, vision, or dream can change the course of history. It's your turn to launch out in faith. Your Promised Land is beyond the horizon of your Red Sea, and your Jericho is beyond the horizon of your Jordan River. Don't be afraid to attempt great things for God. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You were created in the image of God. You can do all things through the help of Christ. There is glory beyond the horizon. Dare to dream! George K. Ata-Baah is the founder and the presiding bishop of Gloryhouse International Church (USA) with affiliated churches/ministries in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Philippines. He is also the president/executive director of Seasons Chaplaincy, LLC. and Rethink Foundation, Inc. George is a missionary with a shepherd's heart, and preaches with passion, power, accuracy, and precision, bringing from his rich Pentecostal experience and missionary background a great wealth of insight to inspire his audience. He holds a Ph.D. in Christian Counseling, and degrees in Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Pastoral Studies. George makes his home in Minnesota, USA with his lovely wife, Florence. He is also the author of Show Me Your Glory: Developing Intimacy With God.


Beyond 1492

Beyond 1492

Author: James Axtell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992-09-17

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0190281979

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In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it was. The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful. Other essays describe native encounters with colonial traders--creating "the first consumer revolution"--and Jesuit missionaries in Canada and Mexico. Despite the tragedy of many of the encounters, Axtell also finds that there was much humor in Indian-European negotiations over peace, sex, and war. In the final section he conducts searching analyses of how college textbooks treat the initial century of American history, how America's human face changed from all brown in 1492 to predominantly white and black by 1792, and how we handled moral questions during the Quincentenary. He concludes with an extensive review of the Quincentenary scholarship--books, films, TV, and museum exhibits--and suggestions for how we can assimilate what we have learned.


Beyond the Known

Beyond the Known

Author: Andrew Rader

Publisher: Scribner

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1982123559

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From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader—an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager—an “engaging” (Tim Marshall, New York Times bestselling author) chronicle showcasing our human desire to continually explore new and uncharted territory, from civilization’s earliest days to interstellar travel. For the first time in history, the human species has the technology to destroy itself. But having developed that power, humans are also able to leave Earth and voyage into the vastness of space. After millions of years of evolution, we’ve arrived at the point where we can settle other worlds and begin the process of becoming multi-planetary. How did we get here? What does the future hold for us? Divided into four accessible sections, Beyond the Known examines major periods of discovery and rediscovery, from Classical Times, when Phoenicians, Persians, and Greeks ventured forth; to The Age of European Exploration, which saw colonies sprout on nearly every continent; to The Era of Scientific Inquiry, when researchers developed new tools for mapping and traveling farther; to Our Spacefaring Future, which unveils plans currently underway for settling other planets and, eventually, traveling to the stars. A Mission Manager at SpaceX with a lively voice, Andrew Rader is at the forefront of space exploration. As a gifted historian, Rader, who has won global acclaim for his stunning breadth of knowledge, is singularly positioned to reveal the story of human exploration that is also the story of scientific achievement. Told with an infectious zeal for traveling seeking new horizons, Beyond the Known is “an astute—and highly flattering—view of human aspirations” (Kirkus Reviews).


Augustine beyond the Book

Augustine beyond the Book

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-05-11

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9004228586

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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is arguably the most influential thinker and Latin author of the Early Christian period. His widespread legacy has been explored to date only in part, and largely with respect to his textual reception. This interdisciplinary volume attempts to redress this emphasis with a set of analyses of Augustine's impact in the visual arts, drama, devotional practices, music, the science-faith debate and psychotherapy. The included studies trace intricate and occasionally surprising instances of Augustine's ubiquitous presence in intellectual, spiritual and artistic terms. The result is a far more differentiated and dynamic picture of the mechanisms by which the legacy of an historical figure may be perpetuated, including the sometimes supra-rational and imaginative dimensions of transmission.


Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond

Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond

Author: Francesco Stella

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 9027247293

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The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.


Beyond the Bridge:

Beyond the Bridge:

Author: R. D. Lock

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-07-11

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1462016626

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Seeking a job as a first-year teacher, Robin Robertson heads for an interview at the Westminster Rural Agricultural Schools in the spring of 1956. Here, Robin could teach and also coach varsity basketball and counsel students. Amid the pressures of beginning a new career, he starts to wonder whether a big-city person like himself can adapt adequately to the lifestyle of small-town, rural America. This story pictures a way of life that has vanished in all too many places. Many readers will relate to the challenges, conflicts, and rewards between students and an untried but idealistic teacher. Others will recall athletic contests won and lost and perhaps will remember counseling that went way beyond arranging school schedules. The author draws upon forty-three years of educational experience in high school and community college -- focusing on that memorable first year in front of a classroom, being in charge of the community's "Winter Entertainment Committee" (basketball games), and creating a newly mandated school guidance program.