Vanishing Phoenix
Vanishing Phoenix

Author: Robert A. Melikian

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439639663

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Lord Darrell Duppa, along with his friend Jack Swilling, suggested the name Phoenix for the city he had cofounded because it described a city born from the ruins of a former civilization. Settled on the ancestral lands of the Hohokam Indians, Phoenix was thriving by the early 1920s when craftsmanship and attention to detail were the orders of the day. Buildings were designed to welcome residents and travelers alike. Today the Fox Theater, the Clark Churchill House, the Kon Tiki Hotel, and the Fleming Building exist only in photographs and in the memories of Phoenix residents. The National Register of Historic Places and the Phoenix Historic Property Register have heightened public awareness and appreciation for the communitys historic landmarks, but much has been lost already. Remembering these buildings and landmarks is essential to understanding this remarkable city.

Downtown Phoenix
Downtown Phoenix

Author: J. Seth Anderson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-01-02

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439649928

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On a bed of a primordial ocean floor and in a valley surrounded by jagged mountains, a city was founded atop the ruins of a vanished civilization. In 1867, former Confederate soldier Jack Swilling saw the remains of an ancient canal system and the potential for the area to blossom into a thriving agricultural center. Pioneers moved into the settlement searching for new opportunities, and on October 20, 1870, residents living in adobe structures that lined dirt streets adopted the name Phoenix, expressing the optimism of the frontier. For decades, downtown Phoenix was a dense urban core, the hub of agricultural fields, mining settlements, and military posts. Unfortunately, suburban sprawl and other social factors of the postWorld War II era led to the centers decline. With time, things changed, and now downtown Phoenix is uniquely positioned to rise again as a prominent 21st-century American city.

A Brief History of Phoenix
A Brief History of Phoenix

Author: Jon Talton

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467118443

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Though the new metropolis is one of America's largest, many are unaware of Phoenix's rich and compelling history. Built on land once occupied by the most advanced pre-Columbian irrigation society, Phoenix overcame its hostile desert surroundings to become a thriving agricultural center. After World War II, its population exploded with the mid-century mass migration to the Sun Belt. In times of rapid expansion or decline, Phoenicians proved themselves to be adaptable and optimistic. Phoenix's past is an engaging and surprising story of audacity, vision, greed and a never-ending fight to secure its future. Chronicling the challenges of growth and change, fourth-generation Arizonan Jon Talton tells the story of the city that remains one of American civilization's great accomplishments.

How Magicians Think
How Magicians Think

Author: Joshua Jay

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1523510919

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Professional magician Joshua Jay's (author of Magic: The Complete Course) brief and fascinating essays offer an inside look at how the very best magicians think about magic, how they practice and put together a show, what inspires them, and the psychology behind creating wonder and being tricked when we expect both, as well as why we seek magic in the first place.

Last on Earth Book 1: Vanishing
Last on Earth Book 1: Vanishing

Author: Marilyn Kaye

Publisher: HarperTeen

Published: 1998-10-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780380798322

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Twenty-five high school seniors emerge from their basement geometry class to an eerie silence in a deserted school. Outside, empty buildings, stores, restaurants, and abandoned cars line once crowded streets. Stunned disbelief is followed by alarm, curiosity, sorrow, and the horrifying realization that, for better or worse, they have inherited the Earth.

48 Hours: The Vanishing
48 Hours: The Vanishing

Author: Gabrielle Lord

Publisher: Scholastic Australia

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1760272353

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One kidnapping. One cold case. Two amateur investigators. Only 48 hours to solve the crime... Jazz’s best friend Anika has been kidnapped! She can’t call the cops, so Jazz forges a shaky truce with her brilliant nemesis, Phoenix, to help her investigate. Together, they uncover clues and crime scene evidence. Sneaking into a forensic lab, they test DNA, fingerprints and more, to piece the clues together. The results are shocking. Could it really lead to a twenty-year-old murder case?< In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 HOURS to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate’s location, or Anika will die. The clock is ticking...

48 Hours
48 Hours

Author: Gabrielle Lord

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781743629758

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One kidnapping. One cold case. Two amateur investigators. Only 48 hours to solve the crime . . . Jazz's best friend Anika has been kidnapped! She can't call the cops, so Jazz forges a shaky truce with her brilliant nemesis, Phoenix, to help her investigate. Together, they uncover clues and crime scene evidence. Sneaking into a forensic lab, they test DNA, fingerprints and more, to piece the clues together. The results are shocking. Could it really lead to a twenty-year-old murder case? In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 HOURS to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate's location, or Anika will die. The clock is ticking . . .

Vanishing America
Vanishing America

Author: Miles A. Powell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-11-14

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0674971566

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: A Nation's Park, Containing Man and Beast -- Chapter 1. Surviving Progress -- Chapter 2. Preserving the Frontier -- Chapter 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- Chapter 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- Chapter 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue: De-Extinction -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Glimpses of Phoenix
Glimpses of Phoenix

Author: David William Foster

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-04-19

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1476602212

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Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an enviable lifestyle, low taxes, and unfettered personal freedom and opportunity. Little of this is true. Phoenix has been described as one of the least sustainable cities in the country. This sixth largest urban area of the United States has an alarmingly superficial and tourism-oriented discourse among its leaders. This book examines a series of narrative works (novels, theater, chronicles, investigative reporting, personal accounts, editorial cartooning, even a children's television program) that question this discourse in a frequently stinging fashion. The works examined are anchored in a critical understanding of the dominant urban myths of Greater Phoenix, and an awareness of how all the newness, modernity and fun-in-the-sun mentality mask a uniquely dystopian human experience.